VMUG Brisbane Meetup

Rubrik - Beyond the Backup: Architecting True Cyber Resiliency in Today's IT Environment

Michael Huynh - Sales Engineer Rubrik

Abstract

In the modern threat landscape, the question isn't if your VMware environment will be targeted by ransomware, but when. While traditional backups were designed for accidental deletions and hardware failures, today’s sophisticated cyber attacks specifically target the backup infrastructure itself to ensure you have no choice but to pay.

This session dives into why "backup" is no longer enough and why Cyber Resiliency is the new gold standard. We will explore how Rubrik integrates with VMware to move beyond simple data protection into a proactive defense posture.

Key takeaways include:

• Immutable Architecture: How to ensure your data is natively immutable and logically air-gapped from the production vSphere cluster.
• Zero Trust Data Security: Implementing granular RBAC and Multi-Person Authentication (MPA) to prevent rogue admins or compromised credentials from wiping your environment.
• Threat Hunting & Blast Radius: Using AI-driven insights to identify exactly which VMs were hit, when the encryption began, and how to avoid "re-infecting" your environment during recovery.
• Orchestrated Recovery: Moving from "recovery in days" to "recovery in minutes" using automated workflows that restore entire VMware vApps and clusters at scale.

VMware by Broadcom - Extending the life of your server fleet with VCF 9

Mark Foley - Staff Solution Engineer VMware

Abstract

There is a little over 18 months to go until end of support for vSphere 8, with the upcoming release of VCF 9.1 many organisations are now getting serious about planning for the adoption of VCF9. The availability and cost of compatible hardware has become one of the largest barriers to VCF 9 adoption, in this session we'll walk through some recent (and upcoming!) changes from Broadcom that may allow you to roll out VCF 9 on your existing hardware.