Why should all the Cloud and virtualization innovation be limited to primary compute? Bipul Sinha, cofounder and CEO of Rubrik, Inc., seeks to bring that level of change into the backup and recovery space. He spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media production team at the Nutanix .NEXT Conference 2015 to share his vision.

“One thing I’ve seen is that Nutanix is not a company; it’s a movement,” he said. “It’s a movement in changing the data infrastructure, changing the data center infrastructure, and really building a new way of bringing new technology to a part of the market that has not seen this kind of innovation before.”

Creating a whole new fabric for general compute

Combining compute and storage in a single tier in the primary environment created a whole new fabric for general compute, Sinha said. But backup and recovery haven’t followed suit. “We are still living in the past,” he stated. “We have technologies from late 90s and early 2000s, and all this new stuff around virtualization and Cloud … the space is completely untouched by it.”

Sinha continued: “We thought, why not create a single fabric, a scale-out fabric for backup and recovery. And when we thought about this idea of combining backup software functionality and globally duplicated storage functionality into a single software that scales on commodity hardware, we found the new disruption angle for the new data center that is emerging.”

How do Rubrik and Nutanix fit together?

“Nutanix is a single fabric on the primary side, and think of us as the archivalist storage … so that people can go back days, weeks, months, years, and they have compliance, governance requirements for doing that, applications fail and they need file data as of a month ago,” he said. “So we are in the archivalist space; Nutanix protection is more of a snapshot protection.”

Together, their complementary products promises new opportunities in the data storage market.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Nutanix .NEXT 2015.

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