Special edition news round up from Rubrik FORWARD:
- Rubrik Annapurna v.Next. Rubrik released the next stage of Rubrik Annapurna, which offers a faster / optimized way of getting unstructured data estates ready for AI. Annapurna turns unstructured estates into AI-ready inputs for Data Intelligence platform workflows without moving source files. Operating on Rubrik Security Cloud, the unified management plane, it auto-discovers, scans, and indexes billions of files across NAS, S3, and object stores. In hours rather than weeks, Annapurna publishes a queryable catalog of file metadata directly into a lakehouse. Organizations pull only the precise subsets they need for training, fine-tuning, and inference, allowing pipeline costs to scale 1:1 with consumption. Available immediately … for some partners. Rubrik
- Rubrik Agent Cloud for Claude Code. Rubrik announced Rubrik Agent Cloud for Claude Code and Cowork, which adds security and governance controls to what Claude agents can do. Organizations can now deploy Claude-powered agents at scale with observability, control, and the industry’s only agent rewind to reverse unintended actions, and immutable codebase recovery when an incorrect action outruns version control. A new, additional layer of resilience for Claude agents backs up, monitors, and restores the configuration that governs how agents behave. Rubrik
- Partners for Agent Cloud. Multiple global system integrators can deliver the new Rubrik Agent Cloud to their enterprise customers, via a new initiative called Project Hourglass. GSI leaders, including Cognizant, Deloitte, LTM, HCLTech, NTT Data, and Wipro, are integrating Rubrik Agent Cloud (RAC) into their cybersecurity and digital transformation architectures. Project Hourglass addresses the critical security and operational risks associated with autonomous AI agents across the modern enterprise. Rubrik
- AI agent experience for Rubrik Security Cloud and Agent Cloud. Rubrik AI launched, which moves the Rubrik platform beyond its API-first roots to an interaction experience that is agent first. Rubrik AI: Patent pending design reasons, acts, and recovers at machine speed, and features: [1] Agentic Mode: One agent across RSC and RAC, reasoning over data, identity, and the agents customers deploy; [2] Agentic Guardrails: Built-in controls with RAC ensure every autonomous action is auditable, attributable, and reversible, preventing runaway AI risks; and [3] Orchestrated Workflows: Multi-step recovery sequences that once took human teams weeks now complete in minutes. Rubrik
- Autonomous Business Recovery for cloud applications. Rubrik unveiled a new cyber resilience solution that can rebuild an organization’s business applications at machine speed if required. Built with Rubrik’s Preemptive Recovery Engine as the foundation, ABR for Cloud Applications automatically discovers the full application stack, provides immutable protection, and orchestrates a sequenced rebuild from a pre-validated clean point. An organization’s MVB is completely restored during a cyber incident, which includes access to their compute, data, networking, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and configurations. Organizations can configure and validate full recovery during peace time, so they can instantaneously kick off recovery when an attack happens. Rubrik
- Acquisition of Strata.io. Rubrik announced its acquisition of Strata.io, for identity continuity even when an organization’s main IdP becomes unavailable. Rubrik acquired Strata, a company specializing in Identity Orchestration. Its core mission is to unify fragmented Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructures across multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments without forcing enterprises to rewrite their application code. Rubrik
- New identity roll forward capability. Rubrik developed a new identity resilience capability in-house, called Identity Roll Forward. Allows organizations to surgically reconstruct Active Directory. Identity Roll Forward uses Rubrik intelligence and third party signals to identify, isolate, and reverse unauthorized changes while keeping legitimate modifications completely intact. Rubrik
- To Catch a Thief (Season Two). Season Two of Rubrik’s documentary podcast – To Catch a Thief – was announced, with a focus on North Korea’s infiltration of global labor pipelines. In the new season, Perlroth pivots to the urgent security threats North Korea represents today. She takes listeners deep into their hidden network—from a rare, inside look at a North Korean IT worker on the job, to interviews with defectors who escaped it, to knocking on the doors of unknowing citizens hosting “laptop farms” on North Korea’s behalf. Rubrik