Dell updates data protection suite for Kubernetes with VMWare Tanzu
Dell has upgraded its PowerProtect family of software and appliances with performance enhancements and reduced energy consumption.
This week Dell introduced its Dell EMC PowerProtect DP series integrated appliances and PowerProtect Data Manager software advancements. The new features help c... Read more
AWS announces that EC2 Nitro Enclaves are now generally available
Amazon Web Services announced that it is making AWS Nitro Enclaves generally available. The capability allows users to process sensitive data with ease securely. Nitro Enclaves was first announced as one of three new security products from Amazon last December.
It offers customers the ability to... Read more
IT leaders do not think that GDPR goes far enough
Even though GDPR has caused many problems for companies that aren't doing data handling and protection properly, IT leaders worldwide do not think it is doing a good enough job. Snow Software released a new report where almost all IT employees and leaders say that GDPR is insufficient.
They all ... Read more
Pure Storage reveals Purity 3.0 for FlashBlade
Pure Storage launched a new version of Purity, the software that runs the all-flash storage systems FlashBlade. Version 3.0 adds a new data management functionality with a replication tool that simplifies the task of moving records.
Object data sets such as sensor readings and images can now be... Read more
Veeam updates VCSP partner programme
Data protection specialist Veeam has updated its Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partner programme, on the occasion of its tenth anniversary. Among other things, new tools have been made available to partners and the price plan has been tinkered with.
An important reason for the data protect... Read more
Commvault expands possibilities for various public clouds
Business backup specialist Commvault Systems has released a new release of its cloud-based data protection platform. In the latest edition a lot of functionality has been added for, among others, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, ServiceNow and Oracle.
Specifically, the now added cloud and on... Read more
Intel CPUs vulnerable to new ‘snoop’ attack
A software engineer from AWS found a new vulnerability in existing Intel CPUs that allows attackers to extract data from the cache. The attack, described as Snoop-assisted L1 Data Sampling (Snoop for short) would work on a significant set of processors of the American company.
Pawel Wieczorkiewi... Read more
‘Companies lose millions due to more cyber attacks and disruptions’
According to Dell, the number of cyber attacks and so-called "disruptive events" is steadily increasing, costing organisations millions. This is reflected in the company's Global Data Protection Index.
The study shows that on average, organisations are managing nearly 40 percent more data than t... Read more
Acronis introduces new approach for data protection
Acronis says it has abandoned traditional backup and data
protection methods with a new approach towards data protection. This new approach
has resulted in three data protection solutions.
According to Acronis, today's businesses are increasingly
dependent on data, which poses new challenges. Th... Read more
NetApp acquires Israeli data protection start-up Cognigo
NetApp has quietly taken over a startup called D.Day Labs, which does business as Cognigo. Cognigo has confirmed the news. NetApp paid about 70 million U.S. dollars (62.8 million euros) for the startup, know Silicon Angle.
Cognigo sells a data protection platform for companies that have to comply wi... Read more