Cisco Rubrik Scale Foundation Edition Platform License
The Cisco Rubrik Scale Foundation Edition license provides essential data protection and management capabilities for your business infrastructure.
- Foundation Edition: Unlocks core data protection features for scalable data management.
- Per Petabyte Billing: Flexible licensing model that scales with your data storage needs.
- Premium Support: Ensures timely assistance and expert guidance for your Rubrik environment.
- Subscription Term: Provides access to software updates and ongoing feature enhancements.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco Rubrik Scale Foundation Edition is a software platform license designed to provide foundational data protection and management capabilities. This subscription-based license unlocks core features necessary for safeguarding business data, ensuring operational continuity, and simplifying data recovery processes.
This license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations who need a reliable and scalable solution for their data backup, recovery, and archival needs. It integrates into existing IT environments, providing a centralized platform for managing data across various sources.
- Core Data Protection: Enables essential backup, recovery, and archival functionalities.
- Scalable Capacity: Licensed per Petabyte (PB) to align costs with data growth.
- Premium Support Included: Access to expert technical support for issue resolution.
- Subscription Model: Provides continuous access to software updates and new features.
- Simplified Management: Offers a unified interface for managing data protection policies.
This Cisco Rubrik license offers SMB and mid-market teams a cost-effective way to implement robust data protection without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Enables
Enable Core Data Backup and Recovery
Enable teams to establish automated backup routines for critical business data, ensuring rapid recovery in case of hardware failure or accidental deletion. Streamline the restoration process to minimize operational downtime and data loss.
on-premises data centers, virtualized environments, cloud-adjacent storage
Simplify Data Archival and Compliance
Automate the archival of historical data to meet regulatory compliance mandates and internal retention policies. Streamline the process of retrieving archived data for audit or legal discovery purposes.
regulated industries, long-term data retention needs, compliance-driven IT strategies
Enhance Data Management Efficiency
Streamline the management of data protection policies across diverse data sources from a single, unified platform. Automate routine tasks and reporting to reduce administrative overhead for IT staff.
growing data volumes, multi-platform IT environments, IT teams with limited resources
Key Features
Per Petabyte (PB) Licensing
Provides a flexible and cost-effective licensing model that scales directly with your data storage requirements.
Foundation Edition Features
Unlocks essential data protection capabilities including backup, recovery, and archival for core business data.
Premium Support
Ensures access to expert technical assistance, helping to resolve issues quickly and maintain optimal system performance.
Subscription Billing
Offers predictable operational expenses and continuous access to software updates and feature enhancements.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust data protection and long-term data retention to meet strict regulatory compliance standards like SEC Rule 17a-4 and FINRA regulations.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA and HITECH regulations, necessitating secure, compliant, and readily accessible patient data for continuity and audits.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle sensitive client data and must maintain strict confidentiality and data integrity, often with long retention periods for case files.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on operational data for production, supply chain management, and quality control, requiring resilient data protection to prevent costly downtime and ensure business continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cisco Rubrik Scale Foundation Edition?
It is a software platform license from Cisco that provides foundational data protection and management capabilities. It is licensed on a per Petabyte (PB) basis and offered as a subscription.
What kind of support is included?
This edition includes Premium Support, which provides access to expert technical assistance to help resolve issues and maintain your Rubrik environment.
Who is this license intended for?
This license is designed for SMB and mid-market companies that need to protect and manage their own business data, managed by their internal IT teams.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.