Assured Data Protection named Rubrik's Global MSP Partner of the Year 2026. PR Newswire Award win reflects strength of relationship with Rubrik based on trust and collaboration HERNDON, Va. and LEEDS, United Kingdom, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Assured Data Protection (Assured), the global managed services provider specializing in data protection, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience, today announced it has been named the winner of Rubrik's Global MSP Partner of the Year 2026 award. The Rubrik Global Partner Awards highlight organizations that have demonstrated excellence in delivering Rubrik-led cyber resilience and AI operations. Assured works closely with Rubrik to help organizations strengthen cyber resilience through fully managed backup, cyber resiliency, and disaster recovery services. Customers and partners receive a Rubrik service from design and implementation through to recovery and daily proactive support. The team supports customers with the expertise and operational execution needed to reduce complexity, improve recovery readiness, and recover with confidence. "We are honored to be recognized as Rubrik's Global MSP Partner of the Year," said Simon Chappell, CEO and Co-Founder of Assured Data Protection. "This means a great deal to our team and reflects the strength of the relationship we have built with Rubrik over many years. Our partnership has always been based on trust, collaboration, and a shared commitment to helping organizations protect and recover their critical data. We look forward to continuing to work closely with Rubrik as resilience and recovery remain key priorities for organizations around the world." Winners of the Global Partner Awards were announced at the Partner Summit at Rubrik Forward in Las Vegas. The Summit brings together Rubrik leadership with its top partners to explore how organizations across a range of industries have implemented data security and cyber resilience to address cyberattacks and the ever-evolving threat landscape. "Rubrik delivers an exceptional platform, and Assured brings the managed expertise, processes, and operational support customers need to recover quickly and confidently when it matters most. Together, that partnership helps organizations turn resilience strategies into real recovery outcomes," said Alok Agrawal, Chief Solutions Officer, Rubrik. "As a long-standing global Rubrik managed service provider, we congratulate Assured on their award win and look forward to working together to help customers all over the world protect their data without any compromise."

Assured Data Protection has appointed Alvaro Gonzalez as Senior Vice President of Product and Go-to-Market, a newly created global role unifying product strategy, alliances and corporate marketing. The appointment aims to improve coordination across the managed services provider's go-to-market operations and support international growth. Gonzalez brings extensive experience in enterprise technology, cloud services, strategic alliances and channel ecosystems. His background spans sales engineering, product strategy and marketing functions across cloud, colocation and telecom environments. The move follows significant growth for Assured Data Protection, which specialises in data protection, disaster recovery and cyber resilience. The unified structure is designed to eliminate silos between product strategy, partner engagement and marketing execution whilst accelerating service development and strengthening partner alignment globally.

Office of the CTO Updates - may 2026. BY Stew Parkin Staying ahead in data protection means staying informed - and that's exactly what Assured Data Protection Limited is here to help you do. Assured Data Protection Limited is excited to introduce OCTO Updates, Assured Data Protection's new bi-monthly roundup designed to keep you in the loop with everything happening across its ecosystem. Led by its Global CTO, Stew Parkin, OCTO - short for the Office of the CTO - brings a strategic, expert-driven perspective to the latest developments shaping its solutions and services. From product enhancements and new feature releases to the latest updates within AssuredView, plus exclusive invitations to upcoming events, OCTO Updates brings everything together in one place. It's designed to give you clear visibility into what's new, what's improving, and what's coming next - straight from the team driving innovation at Assured. Whether you're looking to get more from your current solutions or stay ahead of what's on the horizon, this is your go-to source for timely insights and updates. After launching several new managed services in 2025 the team reflected on the motions that any IT team would go through in the event of a disaster impacting their business. While a lot of time and effort always goes into the protection of the servers and data there's often little reflection given to the network environment. Where it has been considered, the network management functions are often operated from and stored on the same infrastructure as the servers and data. This can lead to a chicken vs egg scenario where recovering the data is dependant on the network which is dependent the data... To address this, the team has launched the Assured Backup with Backbox solution. This provides the protection and off-site replication of network device configurations so that they can be instantly recovered independently of any server infrastructure. This means if the disaster IS a network device failure the recovery might not even be a full DR invocation. Modern software development is becoming increasingly reliant upon DevOps platforms as they continue to drive fast, reliable, and automated delivery for applications. Platforms such as Azure DevOps and GitHub now store business critical IP in the form of code repositories, pipelines, and artifacts. With growing dependency on these environments comes a greater risk of accidental deletions, malicious attacks, and compliance requirements demanding comprehensive data protection. To combat these challenges, Assured is pleased to introduce its DevOps Protection service, powered by Rubrik's industry-leading technology, designed to safeguard your development lifecycle without slowing down your teams. Its managed solution provides automated backup and recovery for repositories, work items, pipelines, and project configurations, ensuring your development assets are protected against data loss while maintaining the agility your business demands. Email, documents, calendars, and shared drives within Google Workspace are a crucial pillar of business operations, yet many organizations underestimate their vulnerability to data loss. From user errors and malicious deletions to account compromises and retention gap risks, your Google Workspace data needs protection beyond Google's native capabilities. Assured now offers a solution for comprehensive Google Workspace Protection, leveraging Rubrik's SaaS backup technology to deliver enterprise-grade resilience for Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Contacts, and Shared Drives. Assured's service bridges the critical protection gaps within Google's shared relationship model, such as data deleted by departing employees, items purged from Trash, or content affected by compromised accounts. Using Rubrik's advanced search and recovery capabilities, restore anything from a single email or document to an entire user account or Shared Drive. Whether you're responding to a security incident, addressing legal requirements, or simply recovering deleted files, its solution puts you in full control of your Google Workspace. Performance, Stability, and Scale Its development teams have continued to invest heavily in RecoverView, with a focus on delivering a faster, more resilient platform for managing recovery operations at scale. Recent enhancements have massively improved performance across core services and increased reliability during recovery execution. The result? A more responsive, dependable platform that enables quicker recoveries, smoother operations, and greater confidence when it matters most. Practical, scalable, and built with real world demands in mind. RV continues to evolve to meet the needs of modern disaster recovery. Reliable Recoveries, Simplified Ops Ongoing development across RecoverView has been centered on simplifying complex workflows while strengthening the underlying platform. From improvements in execution consistency to enhanced system responsiveness, these updates are designed to reduce friction and make recovery processes more intuitive for its disaster recovery engineers. By combining performance gains with a more streamlined experience, Assured Data Protection Limited is helping teams operate more efficiently, and to minimise downtime. Restoring critical services quickly and reliably.