Arrow Quick Hit Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Rubrik Security Cloud

What is it?

The IT world is moving to the cloud and the cloud is built on containers managed with Kubernetes. We believe the next logical step combines Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Rubrik Security Cloud to deliver cyber resilient VM migration, backup and recovery on a modern Kubernetes platform. Organizations can run virtual machines and containers together while maintaining enterprise-grade data protection, security and operational simplicity.

How does it work?

Let's dive a little deeper into both solution components.

OpenShift Virtualization runs and manages VMs natively on Kubernetes
Rubrik automatically discovers and protects OpenShift virtual machines
Policy-driven backups enforce consistent protection and retention
Incremental-forever backups minimize performance impact
Granular recovery enables fast restores of VMs or individual files

Key features and capabilities of Rubrik Security Cloud:

Immutable, tamper-proof backups to protect against ransomware and insider threats
Multi-factor authentication and granular RBAC for Zero Trust Data Security
Automated cluster discovery and policy-driven protection at scale
Incremental and application-consistent backups for OpenShift VMs and containers
Unified management of OpenShift virtualized and container workloads
Granular and cross-cluster recovery options for testing, DR and rapid restore

Red Hat OpenShift Container Orchestration

Many popular cloud infrastructure projects use containers managed by Kubernetes. However, implementing Kubernetes can be a heavy lift, especially for organizations that cannot devote dedicated staff to becoming Kubernetes experts.

Red Hat OpenShift is a container application platform that provides a complete set of tools and technologies for building, deploying and managing containerized applications. It is based on the popular open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system and is developed and supported by Red Hat, a leading provider of enterprise open-source solutions.

Key features and capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift include:

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Container orchestration: OpenShift leverages Kubernetes to automate the deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications. It provides robust orchestration capabilities, including workload scheduling, service discovery and load balancing.

Developer productivity: OpenShift offers a streamlined developer experience with features like source-to-image (S2I), which simplifies the process of building and deploying applications from source code to containers. It also supports various programming languages, frameworks and development tools.

Scalability and high availability: OpenShift allows organizations to scale their applications horizontally and vertically to meet changing demands. It supports auto-scaling and load balancing mechanisms, ensuring applications can handle increased traffic. Additionally, it provides features for high availability, such as automated fail-over and rolling updates.

Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud support: OpenShift is designed to work across multiple cloud environments, including public, private and hybrid clouds. It offers consistent deployment and management capabilities, allowing organizations to easily move applications between different cloud platforms or on-premises infrastructure.

Application and lifecycle management: OpenShift provides tools and features for the entire application lifecycle, from development to deployment and ongoing management. It supports continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, enabling organizations to automate the build, test and deployment processes.

Security and compliance: OpenShift incorporates security features to protect containerized applications and infrastructure. It includes built-in security controls, access management and integration with external security tools. OpenShift also helps organizations maintain compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Operator Framework: OpenShift introduces the Operator Framework, an open-source toolkit for managing and automating complex applications on Kubernetes. It enables developers to create and distribute "operators," which are software extensions that encapsulate operational knowledge and automate application management tasks.

Integration ecosystems: OpenShift has a rich ecosystem of integrations with various developer tools, monitoring systems, logging solutions and third-party services. This allows organizations to leverage existing tools and services seamlessly within their OpenShift deployments.

Overall, Red Hat OpenShift provides a comprehensive platform for developing and managing containerized applications at scale. It offers developers productivity tools, ensures scalability and high availability, supports multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, emphasizes security and compliance and integrates with a wide range of tools and services.

Why should you care?

Running Red Hat OpenShift and Rubrik

Safely migrate and modernize legacy virtual machines
Protect VMs and containerized workloads with one platform
Improve cyber resilience against ransomware and data loss
Simplify operations across hybrid and multi-cloud environments

Differentiation in the marketplace

With this combined solution, your customer's get:

Unified protection for OpenShift VMs and containers
Immutable, air-gapped backups with zero trust security
Automated discovery and protection with minimal effort
Single management interface across environments
OpenShift provides orchestration to automate Kubernetes deployment and DevOps

How do you position and sell?

Common use cases

VM migration to OpenShift Virtualization
Ransomware recovery for OpenShift environments
Hybrid cloud data protection and disaster recovery
Application modernization with reduced risk
Unified cyber resilience platform spanning VMs and containers on OpenShift
Zero Trust Data Security with immutable backups and least-privilege access
Enterprise-scale automation and SLA-driven protection
Fast, granular recovery without operational complexity

Who to talk to and questions to ask

Target personas

Platform and cloud architects
Virtualization and infrastructure teams
DevOps and SRE teams
Security and compliance leaders

Keep in mind, the specific personas may vary depending on the organization's size, industry and specific requirements for data center infrastructure and cloud deployments.

Questions to ask

How are you protecting virtual machines today?
Are you planning to migrate VMs to OpenShift Virtualization?
What are your ransomware recovery requirements?
Do you need consistent protection across VMs and containers?

Understanding their requirements will enable you to showcase the benefits and capabilities of the Rubrik Security Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift integration that align with their needs.

How do I get a quote or more details?

For Rubrik related assistance (sales, technical and quoting), please contact Rubrik
For Red Hat related assistance (information and/or quotes), please contact Arrow's dedicated Red Hat team:
- Sales support
- Technical support

The bottom line

Rubrik and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization together provide a secure, scalable and highly automated platform for VM migration, back and recovery. This joint solution enables customers to modernize confidently while maintaining strong cyber resilience and operational efficiency.

The IT landscape is rapidly shifting to the cloud — and the cloud is running on containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. The next evolution is here: combining Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Rubrik Security Cloud to deliver cyber resilient VM migration, backup and recovery on a modern Kubernetes platform. With this integrated approach, your organization can run virtual machines and containers side by side while preserving enterprise grade data protection, strengthening security and simplifying day-to-day operations.

More information

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About the author

Darin Kojis

Presales Solutions Architect

Darin Kojis is an experienced Arrow solutions architect with the extraordinary ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical people. Darin has been very successful at matching virtualization products to customers’ business requirements. Darin has additionally picked up cloud technology and Red Hat as a specialty and is adept at Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization solutions. Darin is a trusted advisor who constantly looks over his customers, helping them to safeguard their IT environments now and into the future.