When Rubrik Inc. acquired Datos IO Inc. in February, both companies viewed the partnership as an opportunity to expand into enterprise markets with cloud-native applications and support for NoSQL database management. With the release of Rubrik’s Datos IO 3.0 this month, additional new features servicing multiple platforms demonstrate a strategy to capture significant market share in the enterprise cloud-native space.

“On-premises is still a big part of spending, but if you look at enterprises, they’re racing to the cloud,” said Tarun Thakur (pictured), general manager of Rubrik Inc. “If you look underneath that macro trend, it’s all this cloud-native space. This release is really our double down into cracking open the Global 2000 enterprises.”

Thakur spoke with John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at theCUBE’s studio in Palo Alto, California, to discuss key features of the latest release and how the integration of Datos IO and Rubrik will create simpler cloud deployments. (* Disclosure below.)

New support for containers

The latest release adds software container support to Datos IO, an increasingly important feature since the technology has become popular for deploying cloud applications. “Datos is now available as a Docker container,” Thakur said. “We can also protect your NoSQL applications that are Dockerized or containerized.”

New protection features are another element of the 3.0 release, along with expansion into additional public clouds. Datos IO is now compatible with Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Oracle Cloud, along with Amazon Web Services and Google.

“You’re buying a truly cloud-native software, not software that was built 20 years ago and shrink wrapped into a cloud,” Thakur said. “You’re adopting these new technologies. You don’t want to have to think about protection, management, disaster recovery, those critical business use cases.”

Datos IO 3.0 includes enhancements designed to facilitate simpler backups in deployments for MongoDB environments, another nod toward making life easier for users of NoSQL databases.

“Rubrik has been successful at the heart because of ease of use and simplicity,” Thakur said. “We wanted to bring that culture into not only the Datos team, but also our product.”

Watch the entire video interview with Thakur below, and check out more CUBE Conversations from SiliconANGLE and theCUBE. (* Disclosure: Rubrik Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Rubrik nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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