Rubrik and Rackspace have formed a strategic partnership and will collaborate to deliver a fully managed isolated recovery service, Rackspace Cyber Recovery Cloud powered by Rubrik.
By combining Rubrik’s data protection and cyber recovery software with Rackspace’s hybrid cloud expertise and global data centre footprint, this partnership addresses immediate cyber recovery needs and empowers businesses to reduce their operational risk as a competitive advantage.
This matters because organisations face increasing ransomware threats, with attacks becoming more sophisticated, frequent, and devastating as 92% of victims experience data encryption and 60% suffer data theft.
Traditional backup and recovery solutions can take weeks or months to restore business operations.
Designed as an isolated on-demand or dedicated managed solution, the Rackspace Cyber Recovery Cloud powered by Rubrik gives enterprises access to an air-gapped platform to recover mission-critical workloads following a cyberattack.
The solution aims to provide enterprises with an orchestrated recovery approach designed to enable restoration in hours instead of days, weeks or months, thereby providing business continuity in a clean, isolated environment.
“The launch of Rackspace Cyber Recovery Cloud powered by Rubrik comes at a critical time as ransomware incidents and compliance risks continue to escalate, while traditional backup and disaster recovery solutions have become insufficient, cost-prohibitive, and technically challenging,”‘ said Rackspace Technology CEO Amar Maletira.
“This strategic partnership with Rubrik fills a recognised gap in the market and delivers something truly unique – the ability to recover data as well as rapidly restore operational capability in a clean, isolated environment in hours rather than days or weeks,” he added.
The new offering is designed to meet the operational continuity needs of organisations across non-regulated and highly regulated industries such as banking, financial services, insurance, and healthcare, where seamless operations and data integrity are vital.
Rackspace Cyber Recovery Cloud powered by Rubrik allows customers to replicate their validated backups, ensuring data remains secure and ready for rapid deployment. In the event of a cyberattack, Rubrik can quickly identify clean, safe backup data. At the same time, Rackspace can restore critical workloads within hours to an isolated recovery environment entirely separate from the customer’s production and disaster recovery systems all managed by Rackspace.
To prepare for a successful deployment of Rackspace Cyber Recovery Cloud powered by Rubrik, it is critical to conduct a complete cyber readiness assessment that identifies critical applications, maps dependencies, and prioritises workloads based on business impact. The result is a clear, actionable roadmap tailored to the organisation’s specific recovery goals.
Following the readiness assessment, this service is designed to ensure simple configuration and testing of Rackspace Cyber Recovery Cloud powered by Rubrik. This includes engineers configuring the isolated recovery environment, building recovery templates, testing real-world scenarios, and delivering a tailored business continuity plan that aligns with operational needs and the customer’s recovery targets.
