Is Microsoft stealing backup vendors’ lunch with Microsoft 365 Backup?
Microsoft unveiled a new feature at its Inspire event a few weeks ago: Microsoft 365 Backup. This solution gives a quick backup implementation to prevent organizations from having to endure a long recovery phase after unforeseen data loss. It is expected to launch in early 2024.
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Commvault introduces Cloud Command and integrates with partners
Commvault is expanding the capabilities of its own security portfolio. In addition to a new Cloud Command interface, the backup specialist talks about ML-assisted risk analysis, automatic remediation capabilities and a threat advisor. It also comes with integrations with Microsoft and CyberArk.
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‘Microsoft-backed Rubrik prepping for a $750M IPO’
The data protection software startup has hired banks to prep the massive public offering, sources say.
This week Reuters reported that Rubrik, the US cybersecurity startup, has hired a group of banks to prepare for an initial public offering that could go as high as $750 million (€696 million)... Read more
Cohesity and Microsoft expand partnership: ChatGPT meets data security
Microsoft and Cohesity greatly expand collaboration. Deeper integrations between the two parties' portfolios, DMaaS solutions becoming available on Azure and the addition of OpenAI technology to Cohesity's platform allow backups to provide context and insight.
Cohesity made a pretty big announce... Read more
HPE brings GreenLake cloud experience to on-prem block and file storage
HPE Alletra Storage MP is the foundation for new services around file storage, block storage. Also new services for data protection.
The cloud experience is the norm today. Not only for things that originate in the cloud, other components have to go with it. HPE saw this development acutely year... Read more
Assume you have been or will be hacked to avoid the worst
In the security world, several experts recommend assuming that your company has been or will be hacked. This line of thinking makes an organization place a higher priority on making systems and business environments more secure. A company then takes more steps before a hack actually occurs, adaptin... Read more
Veeam Backup for Salesforce is generally available
Veeam launched Backup for Salesforce, a long-awaited backup solution for data and metadata in Salesforce.
Veeam entered the market in 2008. Its offering was initially limited to a backup solution for virtual machines. Over time, the organization launched solutions for multiple cloud platforms, ... Read more
Data protection is becoming more workload-specific (and software-defined)
Earlier today we brought you the news about some important updates to IBM Storage's portfolio that will enable data protection at the workload level. This should boost the cyber resilience of organizations. We spoke with Scott Baker, VP at IBM Storage for the company's Hybrid Cloud Portfolio, about... Read more
Veeam raises the bar with object storage and backup for Salesforce
Veeam is making its data protection platform more relevant to enterprise organizations. The platform that was initially built attracted mainly small and medium-sized business (SMBs). However, an increasing number of customers are of enormous size and have completely different needs than smaller com... Read more
QNAP launches NAS solution for virtualization
QNAP unveiled the TS-h1886XU-RP R2 NAS solution. According to QNAP, the release is especially suitable for virtualization and data-intensive apps.
The new NAS solution is aimed at businesses with proprietary data centers. TS-h1886XU-RP R2 helps handle increasingly common virtualized and data-int... Read more