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Converged data protection vendors, such as leaders Cohesity and Rubrik, are increasingly emphasizing the ways in which their platforms take advantage of the public cloud. While there is little question that the public cloud can greatly improve an organization's disaster recovery capabilities, data protection in the cloud is not right for all use cases.

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Cohesity's approach to data protection involves using a physical appliance both as a backup target and as a platform for hosting virtual machines when an instant recovery operation is required.

Cohesity is using the public cloud as a way to overcome the storage limitations that exist within a physical appliance. By allowing customers to expand their storage capacity to the cloud, Cohesity has enabled three very useful capabilities:

Rubrik is another leader in converged data protection, and the company has recently introduced cloud backup capabilities. Rubrik focuses on providing data protection to native cloud applications.

Rubrik's approach involves creating a backup fabric that spans both the on-premises environment and the public cloud. Standard backup and recovery functionality is available across the entire fabric, as are functions such as replication, search and archiving. While this approach allows for backup data to be replicated to the cloud, it also allows for protection of native cloud apps and data that resides natively in the cloud. Furthermore, Rubrik supports application-consistent backups of cloud instances of Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint, SQL Server, Active Directory and Oracle Database.

Converged data protection products, such as those offered by Cohesity and Rubrik, tend to work well for organizations that need to extend data protection in the cloud.

Overall, Rubrik's goal for data protection in the cloud seems to be simplicity. By including public cloud resources into the same backup fabric that serves the organization's on-premises resources, Rubrik can give its customers a single set of tools that are largely location-agnostic. The result is not just centralized management, but data portability.

Rubrik places significant emphasis on policy-based automation within the backup fabric. Custom policies can easily be mapped to an organization's service-level agreements or to its compliance requirements to achieve the required degree of protection.

There are a number of challenges to using converged data protection in the cloud:

Converged data protection products, such as those offered by Cohesity and Rubrik, tend to work well for organizations that need to extend data protection in the cloud. At the same time, issues such as vendor lock-in, cost and the impact on the organization's available bandwidth must be considered prior to implementation.

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