Rubrik Polaris - A Canadian's First Impression
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[Music] hey how's it going Steve Townsend from the CTO Lavazza comm you're watching that little CTO doe so the game we're live at rubric in the archer room and know your eyes do not deceive you I do have a Canadian I know you can tell by looking just that he has that tony Horton's look to him Matt great Matt thanks for one bringing me the coffee crisp at the paper floor that's great I'm very Canadian in that regard so we've seen each other more or less
than we've been in the same circles for the past week we're coming off v-mon yep now we're at rubric camp where we've learned a lot about rubric and their platforms specifically you want to talk about Polaris yes so I'd be interested to know what was your what was your impression of Polaris before the kent and what's your impression of Polaris post camp so before the camp it was largely a matter of oh okay they're building in integrations to these other SAS platforms makes sense you know
considering rubrics known for the backups they won't have ties into these other SAS offerings right after sort of going through things today you know I have much better feel for it that it's not so much about gaining access for backup and recovery purposes but it's really about getting to that metadata that's being hosted on those SAS platforms getting it on to the rubric platform at which point you know you might be able do you know we've discussed that like ediscovery once you have all that metadata
you could really start gaining no access gaining insights into all the data across your organization regardless of where it is so we had I think we talked a lot of folks who talked to the CEO people we talked to the CMO we talked to the product teams we talked to the engineering the founding engineering teams and the message has been pretty consistent while backup has been a central see Mike of a feature of the platform like the selling point for me so far today has been
the value of the metadata and Polaris exposing that metadata to via API to the customers you know my mind goes all over the place about what we could do with that from API and data set what about you did you get any like like like non nothing to be non-intuitive but things that you're like you know what this would be an interesting platform to do X with well going back to the metadata being able to keep track of you know what type of data is it
where's it physically located obviously we're talking about GDP are a lot now so stuff like this might be a good way to say you know what we need to see where do we have this person's data located whether it be physically is it you know on-premises in AWS maybe you're able attract what physical data center you're in or you know it's a matter of everything's good there we have nothing on this particular you know search term that we're looking for we touched a little bit you
know on it'd be pretty cool as far as from analytics point of view and we'd start getting into that sort of stuff once again metadata is the real key for that so where I really see it's fitting in is rubrics saying know what give us access to your data and from there you know what people do pretty cool things with it in the future yeah unlike the one your first week's case the GDP are you says he gave you know is if I'm European citizen and
I say you know what I've left I worked for a rubric and I'll leave rubric and I want to ensure that all of my data that rubric isn't legally obligated to hold is deleted in administrators can go in a DDP are a benefit you can go on and say Keith Townsend I found out where in the world that data existed that reference to 2000 and maybe social security number your PIN equivalent the analytics piece are really I'm really intrigued by that the idea that you could
take maybe you can take the metadata that in awf which is all the metadata to all your data and provide that to AI in engine and get analytics from that or not even analytics but potentially machine learning so it seems pretty valid the possibilities pretty interested in it you know we're kind of you know poking and prodding them a little bit to find out what they were gonna release next versus what is available to the from the partner ecosystem so you know we're independent so from
me as you look out at the overall landscape are there any other companies that that kind of piqued your interest when it comes to this metadata approach to backup no not specifically on the metadata front a lot of backup companies I find in the area right now they tend focus very much on backup recovery data availability all very crucial stuff I mean cohesively is doing a little bit of stuff as far as getting some analytics and whatnot in there however I feel their approach is slightly
different to that right there they didn't choose to backup as a core part of their messaging their secondary stores are lately so that you do get some of the features but not all of the features of meta from metadata perspective we can talk to Rallis analogy there you go yeah so the working folks find out more about you of course I you blog we're getting found a blog yeah social media so I blog at 42 you see a Matt that IT guy on Twitter and that's
pellet yes that's the a the first time we've had about CA address on I feel honored there I'm the friendly Canadian that I think hopefully I'll get paid and more maple syrup until then we'll talk to you next CTO advisor CTO dose unifying the CTO dose on with CTO dose calm you can find the blog the CTO advisor calm and of course on Twitter at CTO advisor talk to you next CTO dose
