CTERA Data Intelligence Transforms Distributed File Storage into AI Knowledge With Full Privacy

NEW YORK, NY – October 8, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — CTERA, the leader in edge-to-cloud file services, today announced at Summit 2024, its annual customer event, a new offering designed to enable secure enterprise AI grounded with knowledge generated from distributed, unstructured data sources. With CTERA Data Intelligence, organizations can connect their file storage to their AI system of choice, providing it with real-time private context while enforcing file permissions, preventing data leakage, and ensuring complete data privacy.

As enterprises race towards wide-scale AI adoption, they face significant challenges in making it business-relevant and security-compliant. While AI services offer some methods for uploading files, these integrations fall short in their ability to handle live enterprise file storage, inflict extensive network and compute overhead, and expose organizations to sensitive data leakage to unauthorized internal and external users.

CTERA addresses these challenges by extending its hybrid cloud data platform to process, scan, and ingest unstructured data, transforming it into semantically indexed knowledge that can be used with any AI service, and can be deployed within the customer’s infrastructure of choice, ranging from public or hybrid to fully private cloud.

Key capabilities of CTERA Data Intelligence include:

• AI That Knows Your Data: A semantic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that uses the CTERA Notification API to constantly update its knowledge with live data sources.
• Identity-Based Enforcement: Restricts AI data visibility based on the granular file-level access permissions (ACLs) of the currently logged-in user.
• AI Experts: Customizable virtual assistants with predefined characters and domain-specific knowledge scope
• Fully Private: On-premises option for organizations that wish to keep their data and LLM 100% private.
• Distributed Ingestion: In-cloud and edge data processing using the CTERA Direct protocol, eliminating costly egress fees and eliminating latency impact.
• OpenAI and Microsoft Copilot Integration: Agentic extensions for popular AI services with SSO authentication.

“With CTERA Data Intelligence, we combine our expertise in secure file services, connecting distributed object and file data sources with automated AI data processing,” said Oded Nagel, CEO of CTERA. “We’re enabling AI that truly understands your data—delivering relevant, up-to-date insights grounded in the unique context of your enterprise, all while ensuring the highest levels of data privacy and security.”

“The success and progress of enterprise AI projects are very much linked to the data quality including classification, security, and data governance requirements,” said Camberley Bates, Chief Technology Advisor at The Futurum Group. “These issues are particularly challenging for large enterprises as they work to integrate solutions amidst a complex web of existing storage systems and access rights. By directly addressing these requirements, CTERA Data Intelligence has the potential to significantly accelerate AI adoption across the enterprise landscape.”

CTERA Data Intelligence is currently in early access. Organizations and partners interested in exploring its capabilities are invited to contact CTERA at sales@ctera.com.

CTERA’s social media resources include:

• CTERA Blog: https://www.ctera.com/company/blog/
• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CTERA
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ctera-networks/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CTERA/

About CTERA
CTERA is the global leader in secure edge-to-cloud file services, enabling enterprises to manage and protect their data across distributed environments. With a focus on security, scalability, and seamless integration, CTERA’s Hybrid Cloud Data Platform empowers organizations to unify their file services and AI data management strategies under a single, secure umbrella. For more information, visit www.ctera.com.

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Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery provides Google Workspace customers with comprehensive protection, multi-layered cyber resilience, and the simplicity of SaaS

LONDON, UK – COMMVAULT SHIFT – October 8, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced an expanded relationship with Google Cloud with the launch of Commvault^® Cloud Backup & Recovery for Google Workspace.

This new solution, which is targeted for availability by the end of the calendar year, will deliver comprehensive, end-to-end enterprise-grade protection for Gmail, Google Drive, and Shared Drives, helping to keep valuable data safe, compliant, and recoverable – all with the simplicity of SaaS. Commvault offers built-in Google Cloud Storage for Google Workspace protection while providing the broadest workload protection across SaaS, hybrid, and cloud native workloads.

Commvault’s Doubling Down on Google Cloud
With support for Google Workspace, Commvault will offer Google Cloud customers new opportunities to safeguard their critical data with enhanced security, streamlined recovery processes, and scalable cloud solutions.

Benefits include:

• Comprehensive protection: Google Workspace customers will be able to effortlessly discover active data, rapidly recover from inadvertent or malicious data deletion, and maintain a copy of valuable data in the Commvault Cloud for compliance mandates.

• Multi-layered cyber resilience: With stringent security standards, privacy protocols, and zero-trust access controls built-in, Google Workspace customers will benefit from the multi-layer data protection provided by Commvault Cloud – which can help minimize the impact of cyberattacks and combat today’s data loss threats.

• Simplicity of SaaS: Google Workspace customers will also enjoy the freedom Commvault Cloud provides. Commvault Cloud delivers cost-effective data protection with the simplicity of SaaS, avoiding infrastructure and management overheads with subscription-based licensing including unlimited long-term retention.

Cloud-First Cyber Resilience
Commvault is further expanding its Google Cloud capabilities with Cloud Rewind™, which integrates Appranix’s innovative application rebuild capabilities into the Commvault Cloud platform, providing Google Cloud customers with an automated, cloud-native rebuild solution to rapidly recover from cyber incidents. For more on the Cloud Rewind announcement, click here.

Earlier this year, Commvault announced support for object retention lock for Google Cloud Storage, providing customers with immutable cloud storage on Google Cloud’s infrastructure. Designed to be an unalterable object storage layer, this is another way that Commvault is offering customers a strong defense against ransomware.

Supporting Quotes

• “In today’s fast-paced, cloud-driven world, having seamless data protection is crucial for our operations,” said Michael Mathews, Vice President for Global Learning and Innovation, Oral Roberts University. “Commvault’s solution for Google Workspace will enable us to confidently manage our data across Gmail and Google Drive, knowing that we have enterprise-level protection and the ability to recover quickly in the event of an issue. This will empower us to focus on our business while Commvault keeps our data safe.”

• “As businesses increasingly rely on Google Workspace, safeguarding their critical data has never been more essential. With Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery, we’re delivering a purpose-built solution that not only simplifies data protection but also elevates security and compliance standards for Google Cloud customers,” said Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Chief Product Officer, Commvault. “By combining the simplicity of SaaS with enterprise-grade recovery, we’re helping organizations strengthen their cyber resilience across the hybrid cloud landscape.”

More Details

• Learn how Cloud Rewind is a game-changer in cyber resilience.
• Read about the new joint solution from Commvault and Pure Storage.
• Hear about the latest in cloud-first cyber resilience at SHIFT. Click here to register for the must-attend virtual conference.

About Commvault
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience, helping more than 100,000 organizations keep data safe and businesses resilient and moving forward. Today, Commvault offers the only cyber resilience platform that combines the best data security and rapid recovery at enterprise scale across any workload, anywhere—at the lowest TCO.

Media Contact:
Kevin Komiega
Commvault
978-834-6898
kkomiega@commvault.com

Investor Relations Contact:
Michael J. Melnyk, CFA
Commvault
646-522-6160
mmelnyk@commvault.com

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Solves the growing risk for IP-intensive businesses that rely upon cloud collaboration platforms

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Oct. 08, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Data protection and resilience leader CrashPlan announced today it has acquired Parablu, Inc., a leading provider of data security and resiliency solutions known for its market-leading offerings protecting Microsoft 365 (M365) data. The acquisition positions CrashPlan to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive backup and recovery capabilities for data stored on servers, on endpoint devices and in Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams to Azure, their cloud, or to CrashPlan’s proprietary cloud.

“Organizations of all sizes worldwide rely heavily upon Microsoft applications to store their most valued intellectual property,” said CrashPlan CEO John Becker. “Recent events like the UniSuper incident have reminded organizations that it is mission-critical to back up the valuable data stored on their platforms. In fact, the responsibility to regularly backup data is assigned to users by nearly every SaaS platform’s terms and conditions.”

The Parablu acquisition enables CrashPlan to offer a complete cyber-ready data resilience solution that protects intellectual property (IP) and other data from accidental data deletion, ransomware, and Microsoft service interruptions.

In addition to providing data protection and the ability to recover quickly from ransomware incidents, the combined technology can help customers store backup data with no additional costs by leveraging existing OneDrive and Azure infrastructure. Parablu earned a patent for its technology’s integration with Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive, allowing enterprises with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace subscriptions to use unused portions of their OneDrive for Business or Google Drive storage as secure backup repositories. Because CrashPlan has its own proprietary cloud infrastructure with data centers around the globe rather than relying on third-party cloud providers, customers can also take advantage of unlimited backup for endpoints and low-cost storage for servers and SaaS application backups.

“Customers frequently come up against storage limits and turn to Parablu for archiving to save money while retaining rich data access,” said Parablu CEO and President Anand Prahlad, who will now act as CTO for CrashPlan. “We have seen even higher demand for M365 and Google Workspace protection over the last year as businesses have come to understand their shared responsibility for data backup.”

“Idea workers” and the backup gap
M365 risk is just one dimension of a growing problem inside of intellectual property-intensive businesses: a backup gap. In these organizations, data is distributed, and dozens of ‘idea workers’ – media, researchers, designers, engineers, architects, even lawyers – are constantly iterating within a number of specialized applications. Their files are often multiversion and very large, making backup trickier and endpoints riskier. Backup tools originally built to be used by IT departments for Oracle and SAP databases just don’t meet their needs.

“Today’s idea workers create and store enormous value for their organizations – and without the right backup tools in place, weeks, even months of work can be lost in an instant,” added Becker. “At CrashPlan, we are building the first comprehensive cyber-ready data resiliency platform for organizations whose ideas power their revenue.”

About CrashPlan
CrashPlan® enables organizational resilience through secure, scalable, and straightforward data backup. With automatic backup and customizable file version retention, you can bounce back from any data calamity. What starts as backup and recovery becomes a solution for ransomware recovery, breaches, migrations, and legal holds. So, you can work fearlessly and grow confidently.

For more information, visit: https://www.crashplan.com/

Media Contact:
Maura Lafferty
Firebrand Communications

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Joint solution delivers cyber resiliency, operational readiness, and rapid recovery capabilities to address growing regulations

LONDON, UK – COMMVAULT SHIFT – October 8, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced a joint cyber readiness solution with Pure Storage that can play a key role in helping organizations comply with evolving and stringent regulations.

For example, the European Union’s (EU) Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), slated to take effect in January 2025, introduces a comprehensive framework focused on ensuring financial entities, including global banks, are not only prepared for unplanned events, but capable of recovering swiftly and effectively.

DORA requires organizations to report on cyber resiliency practices across a host of areas including, but not limited to risk management and operational resilience testing. Together, Commvault’s exceptional data protection and cyber resilience offerings and the innovative Pure Storage Platform help organizations address aspects of these regulations with an integrated solution that assists with compliance and keeps customers’ data secure in the face of cyber-attacks, bad actors, and rising ransomware threats.

Under risk management, DORA identifies several subcategories that financial entities should focus on as part of their strategy for securing customer data. Among them are protection and prevention, detection, and response and recovery. The joint Commvault and Pure Storage solution addresses these categories in the following ways:

• Protection – The Commvault and Pure Storage solution is built on zero-trust principles and includes advanced authentication, storage encryption, and compliance locks to safeguard critical backup data. In addition, the solution has multiple layers of software and hardware immutability, including Pure SafeMode™ Snapshots and S3 Object Locking on the Pure Storage Platform, for enhanced recoverability and additional protection against cyber threats.
• Detection – Commvault helps organizations easily detect and remediate risks, threats, and unusual activity. With proactive risk scanning, AI-assisted anomaly detection, and cyber deception technology that uses decoy devices to hunt threats, Commvault delivers early warning so organizations can coordinate response and accelerate recovery of clean data.
• Response and Recovery – For the most critical systems (e.g., payments), one of the best ways to meet stringent recovery time objectives required by regulations is to use storage-based snapshots. Commvault integrates with Pure Storage to provide rapid recovery of mission critical systems from Pure Storage Platform snapshots that leverage Pure SafeMode.

Commvault also integrates with a wide array of leading cybersecurity and threat intelligence solutions to enable better threat recognition and faster, more coordinated response and recovery.

To address DORA’s operational resilience testing requirements Commvault and Pure Storage deliver the ability to continuously test cyber recovery in secure, isolated environments, so organizations can enhance recovery processes and readiness for breaches or outages. Whether testing is conducted on-demand in cloud-isolated tenants via Commvault’s Cleanroom Recovery solution or within isolated recovery environments with Commvault’s offerings and the Pure Storage Platform, organizations can easily deliver rapid, frictionless recovery of clean data to isolated environments with the flexibility needed to meet operational and data sovereignty requirements.

Enabling organizations to advance resilience is not only applicable to DORA, but supports compliance under other cybersecurity and privacy regulations like the EU’s NIS2 Directive and e-mandates from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for recurring transactions.

“Commvault and Pure Storage are delivering a globally scalable solution for digital operational resilience,” said Alan Atkinson, Chief Partner Officer, Commvault. “Whether organizations are trying to comply with DORA or the multitude of new regulatory compliance requirements, we combine exceptional detection, forensics, and reporting capabilities with immutable and rapidly recoverable snapshots in one comprehensive solution.”

“The financial sector is under constant threat of cyberattacks that have the ability to undermine economies and consumer confidence. At the same time, cyber regulations are putting stretched IT and security teams to the test,” said Patrick Smith, Field CTO, EMEA, Pure Storage. “Through our partnership with Commvault, we are giving financial institutions critical tools that not only help comply with regulations like DORA but advance their cyber resilience to help ensure enterprise data remains secure, protected, and if necessary, recoverable.”

For more information about how Commvault and Pure Storage can help organizations ensure compliance, please visit the partner page.

More Details

• Learn how Cloud Rewind is a game-changer in cyber resilience.
• Read about how Commvault unlocks new levels of cyber resilience for AWS customers.
• Find out more about Commvault’s expanded support for Google Workspace.
• Hear about the latest in cloud-first cyber resilience at SHIFT. Click here to register for the must-attend virtual conference.

About Commvault
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience, helping more than 100,000 organizations keep data safe and businesses resilient and moving forward. Today, Commvault offers the only cyber resilience platform that combines the best data security and rapid recovery at enterprise scale across any workload, anywhere—at the lowest TCO.

Media Contact:
Kevin Komiega
Commvault
978-834-6898
kkomiega@commvault.com

Investor Relations Contact:
Michael J. Melnyk, CFA
Commvault
646-522-6160
mmelnyk@commvault.com

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ExaGrid Achieves 15 Consecutive Quarters of Free Cash Flow, EBITDA, and P&L Positive Operations

Marlborough, Mass., October 8, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — ExaGrid®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution with Retention Time-Lock that includes a non-network-facing tier (creating a tiered air gap), delayed deletes and immutability for ransomware recovery, today announced that it had its strongest third quarter (Q3) in the company’s history, for the quarter ending September 30, 2024 with double digit growth over the same quarter a year ago.

The company was Free Cash Flow (FCF) positive, P&L positive, and EBITDA positive for its 15^th consecutive quarter. ExaGrid added 150 new customers in the quarter with 48 that were six- and seven-figure deals. ExaGrid now has more than 4,400 active upper mid-market to large enterprise customers that use ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage to protect their data.

ExaGrid is a financially stable company generating positive cash each quarter and has zero debt of any kind.

Highlights of Q3 2024:

• Added 150 new customers
• 15^th consecutive quarter of Cash, EBITDA, and P&L positive operations
• Release of ExaGrid Version 7.0.0
• Announced support of Commvault Metallic
• Gained recognition in industry publications:
  • MES Computing, a brand of The Channel Company, recognized ExaGrid on its 2024 MES Midmarket 100 list
  • Enterprise Strategy Group by TechTarget (ESG) webinar on Successful Ransomware Preparedness in 2024

“We are pleased to announce that ExaGrid continues to profitably grow as it keeps us on our path to eventually becoming a billion-dollar company. We are the largest independent backup storage vendor and we’re very healthy, continuing to drive top-line growth while maintaining positive EBITDA, P&L and Free Cash Flow,” said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid. “We’ve hit 4,400 active customer installations worldwide. ExaGrid continues to have an over 70% competitive win rate replacing primary storage behind the backup application, as well as deduplication appliances such as Dell Data Domain and HPE StoreOnce.

“ExaGrid prides itself on having a product that just works, is sized properly, is well-supported, and just gets the job done. We can back up these claims with our 95% net customer retention, NPS score of +81, and the fact that 94% of our customers have our Retention Time-Lock for Ransomware Recovery feature turned on, 92% of our customers report to our automated health reporting system, and 99% of our customers are on our yearly maintenance and support plan,” said Andrews.

About ExaGrid
ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository, scale-out architecture, and comprehensive security features. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. The Repository Tier offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture includes full appliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift upgrades and planned product obsolescence. ExaGrid offers the only two-tiered backup storage approach with a non-network-facing tier (tiered air gap), delayed deletes, and immutable objects to recover from ransomware attacks.

ExaGrid has physical sales and pre-sales systems engineers in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Benelux, Brazil, Canada, Chile, CIS, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nordics, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and other regions.

Visit us at exagrid.com or connect with us on LinkedIn. See what our customers have to say about their own ExaGrid experiences and learn why they now spend significantly less time on backup storage in our customer success stories. ExaGrid is proud of our +81 NPS score!

ExaGrid is a registered trademark of ExaGrid Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Media Contact:
Mary Domenichelli
ExaGrid
mdomenichelli@exagrid.com

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Commvault delivers the full Commvault Cloud cyber resilience platform on AWS, including Cleanroom Recovery, Commvault SaaS Offerings, Air Gap Protect, and Cloud Rewind

LONDON, UK – COMMVAULT SHIFT – October 8, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced that the Commvault^® Cloud cyber resilience platform will be available on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The Commvault Cloud platform, including its widely deployed SaaS offerings (formerly known as Metallic), will provide AWS customers with cutting-edge solutions for automating data protection, advancing cyber recovery, and simplifying the cloud application rebuild process following a cyberattack.

Today, more organizations are embracing a cloud-first approach where cyber resilience is key. In fact, 73% of all new data will be stored in the cloud¹. Commvault’s announcement provides organizations with even more options for building resilience on the secure AWS Cloud. Offerings that will be available to AWS customers include:

• Cloud Rewind: Based on Appranix technology, Cloud Rewind acts as an AWS time machine. This cloud-native offering lets organizations “rewind” to the last clean copy of their data, recover that data, and automate the cloud application rebuild process so that businesses can get back to normal in minutes versus hours, days, weeks, or months. To read about other new developments with Cloud Rewind, click here.

• Cyber Resilience for Amazon S3: Through its recent acquisition of Clumio, Commvault will be introducing new technology in the coming months that will also bring time machine capabilities to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) customers. In the event of an attack, this technology will allow Amazon S3 customers to revert rapidly back to a clean copy of data that has not been infiltrated with malware. At a time when many companies are storing very large datasets in Amazon S3, including AI and ML datasets, this advancement will represent an important opportunity to further cyber resilience in the AI era.

• Air Gap Protect: This critical last line of defense offering will provide AWS customers with immutable, isolated copies of data in a Commvault tenant, as a service. This offering joins Commvault’s current capabilities for backup and protection in customer-owned tenants. This gives AWS customers another way to keep their data safe and resilient.

• Cleanroom Recovery: Commvault is extending the power of Cleanroom Recovery to AWS. When attacked, this technology will allow organizations to automatically provision recovery infrastructure, allowing recovery to an isolated location in AWS and rapidly restore production workloads. Customers can also conduct forensics in this clean and safe location. The beauty of Cleanroom Recovery is that it also enables IT and security teams to frequently and fully test their cyber recovery plans in advance so that they know when they are hit, they can recover quickly. For more on Cleanroom Recovery, click here or watch this video.

Building on a Strong Foundation
Vast numbers of customers already utilize Commvault to protect data stored on AWS. In fact, in the last year alone, Commvault has backed up exabytes of data to AWS targets. And, with today’s announcements – including offering the full Commvault Cloud platform on AWS – Commvault expects that number to grow significantly.

Availability at Your Fingertips
Commvault’s suite of solutions for AWS will be generally available in the coming months. Following availability, joint customers will be able to access these solutions in AWS Marketplace.

Supporting Quotes

• “By utilizing Commvault in our AWS environment, we will be able to greatly enhance our data protection, resiliency, and recovery processes,” said Marek Duranik, Core Infrastructure & Data Storage and Protection Associate Director, Merck, Sharp & Dohme (MSD). “Commvault’s orchestration capabilities allow us to automate and streamline recovery in the event of a cyberattack and significantly decrease recovery time. Plus, we get the added benefit of having access to Commvault’s SaaS offerings with full support for both cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Our data and recovery environments will be secure, resilient, and prepared to face potential threats, decreasing our risk and enhancing our ability to quickly respond to cyberattacks.”

• “We are proud to extend the full power of the Commvault Cloud platform and cloud-native solutions to AWS,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Commvault. “We believe our game-changing technology will empower joint customers to recover faster, mitigate threats more effectively, and enhance their cyber resilience strategies.”

More Details

• Learn how Cloud Rewind is a game-changer in cyber resilience.
• Read about the new joint solution from Commvault and Pure Storage.
• Hear about the latest in cloud-first cyber resilience at SHIFT. Click here to register for the must-attend virtual conference.

¹IDC Global DataSphere and StorageSphere, 2022; BCG’s Future of Data, 2022 (N = 299); BCG analysis.

About Commvault
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience, helping more than 100,000 organizations keep data safe and businesses resilient and moving forward. Today, Commvault offers the only cyber resilience platform that combines the best data security and rapid recovery at enterprise scale across any workload, anywhere—at the lowest TCO.

Media Contact:
Kevin Komiega
Commvault
978-834-6898
kkomiega@commvault.com

Investor Relations Contact:
Michael J. Melnyk, CFA
Commvault
646-522-6160
mmelnyk@commvault.com

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JobR is available through the ServiceNow marketplace as a standalone solution and to existing Bocada Enterprise customers as an optional add-on

Seattle, WA – October 8th, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Bocada LLC, an award-winning IT automation company, has acquired JobR, a backup remediation automation solution, from AI software development company Biomni.

JobR is a certified ServiceNow application, enabling organizations that use ServiceNow for ITSM (IT Service Management) to keep more of their IT operations within ServiceNow. JobR leverages AI to automate key remediation activities, including restarting backup jobs, pinging servers, and creating incident tickets in ServiceNow.

ServiceNow is used by more than 8,000 customers globally, including 85% of the Fortune 500. ServiceNow’s role as “the AI platform for business transformation” – as described by ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott at Knowledge 2024 – perfectly aligns with Bocada’s vision for its AI-powered cyber resilience monitoring solutions.

JobR will give ServiceNow customers the flexibility to bring all their data protection monitoring into ServiceNow interfaces, enabling ServiceNow as a single pane of glass for all IT operations. With JobR, Bocada helps enterprise IT organizations further improve their performance against MTTR (mean time to resolve) and RPO (recovery point objective) standards, enhancing resilience against ransomware and other data loss risks.

“We have been listening to our customers and are excited to add remediation capabilities that leverage AI to the toolkit available to Bocada customers. This strategic acquisition fills a critical gap in Bocada’s product portfolio,” said Matthew Hall, CEO of Bocada. “Building on Bocada’s deep relationships with marquee customers, JobR will enable our customers to improve their cybersecurity stance with faster remediation of risks and more foresight of potential risks with AI.”

Bocada currently offers two editions of its category-leading backup monitoring software: Bocada Enterprise (installed) and Bocada Cloud (SaaS).

JobR is available through the ServiceNow marketplace as a standalone solution and to existing Bocada Enterprise customers as an optional add-on.

To learn more about JobR and how Bocada customers will benefit from this new solution, email us at sales@bocada.com or call +1-425-898-2400.

About Bocada
Bocada LLC, a global IT Automation leader, delivers data protection compliance and cyber resilience solutions that give enterprises and managed service providers complete visibility into their data protection performance. Bocada provides insight into complex backup environments, enabling IT organizations to improve cyber resilience, save time, automate ongoing reporting activities, and reduce costs. With the largest installed customer base in the Fortune 500, Bocada is the world’s leading provider of backup reporting automation. For more information, visit www.bocada.com

Press Contact
James Hsu
+1-425-898-2400
sales@bocada.com

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94% of financial services leaders say the cloud is the future of their IT operations, but data security remains a top concern

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 8, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Egnyte, a leader in cloud content collaboration and security, has published a market report compiling insights from leaders in banking and credit, wealth management, insurance, private equity, venture capital, and other financial services sectors. The report “Harnessing Technology: The 2024 Financial Services Market Report” examines the role of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud technology, and other digital tools in ensuring long-term success and customer retention while addressing data security and compliance concerns that may hinder broader adoption.

Key findings from the Egnyte report include:

• The Cloud is the Future of Information Technology (IT): 94% of financial services leaders say the cloud is the future of their IT operations, but concerns about data security (68%) and regulatory compliance (64%) are significant obstacles to migrating data to the cloud.
• Cost Savings from Cloud Migration: 83% of financial services organizations that have migrated to the cloud report significant cost savings. Centralizing data in the cloud is linked with improved operational efficiency, reduced IT costs, and better scalability and flexibility as organizations evolve.
• AI’s Role in Customer Service: 92% believe AI will play a key role in customer service in the future, bringing benefits for everything from faster response times to fraud detection.
• Customer Portals Benefit Both Sides of the House: 92% of organizations that have incorporated customer portals report higher customer satisfaction and over half (53%) saw better data security when using these portals.
• Data Breaches Remain a Top Threat: 44% of financial services organizations have experienced a data breach in the last year. Two-thirds of companies are reluctant to adopt new technology due to regulatory concerns, but antiquated technology and procedures can undermine data security efforts.
• AI is a Double-Edged Sword: 79% of respondents said AI is both a top threat and a top threat detection tool. The industry recognizes the inherent risks posed by AI, but its ability to improve fraud detection, enhance audits, and reduce human error makes it a valuable asset.

“Technology is reshaping the financial services industry landscape and offers tremendous opportunities to improve business functions and customer satisfaction,” said Ronen Vengosh, senior vice president of Industry Practices and Solutions at Egnyte. “There is a healthy skepticism from industry leaders about data security and regulatory concerns when choosing what technology to adopt, but this report emphasizes the importance of embracing technology to remain relevant and fight increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks.”

Egnyte’s report highlights technology’s dual role as a catalyst for growth and a source of risk. With the right balance of innovation and security, organizations can safeguard operations, elevate customer experience, and drive growth.

To download a free copy of the full report, click here.

About Egnyte
Egnyte combines the power of cloud content management, data security, and AI into one intelligent content platform. More than 22,000 customers trust Egnyte to improve employee productivity, automate business processes, and safeguard critical data, in addition to offering specialized content intelligence and automation solutions across industries, including architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), life sciences, and financial services. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com

Global Press & Media Contact
Brittany Carambio
Director of Corporate Marketing
Phone: 301-678-3412
Email: media@egnyte.com

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New discovery, reporting, recovery, and rebuild capabilities can help customers bounce back following an attack

LONDON, UK – COMMVAULT SHIFT – October 8, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced the availability of Cloud Rewind™ on the Commvault Cloud platform. This unique offering, which integrates cloud-native distributed application recovery and rebuild capabilities from the Appranix acquisition, gives cloud-first organizations a secret weapon to transform their cyber resilience capabilities.

Today, when organizations are attacked, restoring the data is only half the battle. The truly laborious task is actually restoring the distributed cloud applications, which are used to run and power that data.

Think of it like this: a typical enterprise organization may use as many as 371¹ cloud applications spanning various services like finance, HR, and operations. After an attack, organizations often can’t resume “business-as-usual” operations until many of those applications are rebuilt in a step-by-step, systematic, time-consuming way. The majority of enterprises report that it takes more than a week to return to normal operations, according to Commvault’s latest research. That’s too long. But, with Cloud Rewind, that’s all changing.

Cloud Rewind offers a truly unique approach that transforms and simplifies cloud cyber recoveries. It’s designed to quickly restore an organization’s entire cloud application and data environment – including all the necessary cloud infrastructure configurations – in a highly automated way. By combining data recovery – the sole focus of traditional data protection tools – with cloud-native application and infrastructure rebuild automation, Cloud Rewind helps customers get back to business within minutes after a cloud services outage or ransomware attack, akin to a “cloud time machine.”

Advanced Cloud Rewind Capabilities
Cloud Rewind introduces an advanced set of unique capabilities designed to help businesses bounce back from cyber incidents with exceptional speed and efficiency.

• Reduce organizational risk with resource discovery: automatically identifies and catalogs all cloud components in use, offering full visibility into what assets need protection and recovery. So that nothing critical is missed in the recovery process, even in complex, multi-cloud environments.
• Reduce operational confusion and toil with app-centric dependency mapping: analyzes and defines the intricate relationships between various cloud components. This feature accelerates the task of piecing these dependencies together after an incident, making the rebuild process much faster. So, when a system is restored, all connected resources and services are aligned, with little to no human involvement.
• Keep security teams in-sync with drift analysis: helps return restored systems to their correct state by identifying and correcting any deviations (or “drifts”) from the original configuration. This proactive capability keeps tabs so that restored systems are aligned with their secure and functional state after an incident.
• Automated cyber recovery testing with Recovery-as-Code: captures not only the data but also the full map of applications, infrastructure, and networking configurations. This means that systems can be restored with their complete operational blueprint intact, reducing guesswork for a thorough recovery.
• Avoid wasting cloud resources with on-demand cloud reconstruction: puts it all back together, helping customers swiftly rebuild both the data environment and its supporting infrastructure. This provides organizations with a secure and operational cloud environment, ready for immediate use following a disruption.
• Integrated application-centric cyber recovery and disaster recovery: Cloud Rewind integrates with Commvault Cloud data resilience capabilities to help organizations rapidly recover from short-term failures to debilitating cyber-attacks with a few clicks.

Cloud Rewind supports all major public and private cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure, for true customer cloud choice.

Cyber Resilience Dashboard
Complementing Commvault’s cloud-native rebuild technology is its new Cyber Resilience Dashboard. This dashboard provides continuous ransomware readiness assessments that make it easy for organizations to understand where they have gaps in their resilience plans. It also delivers actionable insights to improve resilience and recovery readiness. The dashboard provides a view across the entire data estate, assessing components such as testing frequency and success, and availability of immutable air-gapped copies of critical data. Leveraging that information, organizations receive a grade based on their readiness to recover and recommendations on improving it.

Supporting Quotes

• “Commvault’s Cloud Rewind enhances data management by covering every step of a data breach—protection, recovery, and rebuilding,” said Venkata Sudhakar Nagandla, SVP & Global Head-IT Infrastructure & Cloud, Allcargo Group Companies. “Additionally, we can achieve better RTO and RPO to meet our business needs without requiring a parallel hot standby IT infrastructure and with minimal manual effort.”

• “What we are doing with Cloud Rewind is unlike anything offered on the market today. In the ransomware era, recovering data is important, but it’s table stakes,” said Brian Brockway, CTO, Commvault. “We’re ushering in an entirely new chapter in cyber resilience that not only expedites data recovery, but recovery of cloud applications. This is the gold standard in recovery for a cloud-first world.”

• “With Cloud Rewind, Commvault helps organizations quickly recover in the case of a cybersecurity incident,” said Melinda Marks, Practice Director, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Its resource discovery, dependency mapping, drift analysis, and automated cloud reconstruction capabilities provide much-needed relief for teams to save them from the intricate and time-consuming process of rebuilding their applications. For enterprises managing hundreds of cloud services, this is a huge advantage for minimizing downtime after a breach.”

Cloud-First Cyber Resilience
Cloud Rewind and the Cyber Resilience Dashboard will be generally available in the coming months. For more information about the new Commvault Cloud offerings, please check out today’s blog or visit the product page.

More Details
Hear about the latest in cloud-first cyber resilience at SHIFT on October 9 and 10. Click here to register for the must-attend virtual conference.

To read the other announcements being made at SHIFT, please visit:

• Commvault Enables New Levels of Cyber Readiness for Cloud-First Enterprises on the AWS Cloud
• Commvault Expands Google Cloud Support with Advanced Cloud Backup and Cyber Recovery for Google Workspace
• Commvault and Pure Storage Collaborate to Help Financial Institutions Meet Stringent DORA Requirements

About Commvault
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience, helping more than 100,000 organizations keep data safe and businesses resilient and moving forward. Today, Commvault offers the only cyber resilience platform that combines the best data security and rapid recovery at enterprise scale across any workload, anywhere—at the lowest TCO.

¹ Productive. (2024, June 6). State of SaaS. https://productiv.com/state-of-saas

Media Contact:
Kevin Komiega
Commvault
978-834-6898
kkomiega@commvault.com

Investor Relations Contact:
Michael J. Melnyk, CFA
Commvault
646-522-6160
mmelnyk@commvault.com

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End-to-end service simplifies and accelerates asset migrations from legacy systems to modern, cost-effective archive infrastructures

BOULDER, Colo. – October 8, 2024 –- / BackupReview.info / — Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, today announced the launch of Rio Media Migration Services, a comprehensive professional service offering designed to seamlessly transition digital media assets from outdated media asset management systems to modern object-based archive infrastructures.

As media companies increasingly face the need to upgrade their infrastructures, Rio Media Migration Services provides an essential solution, eliminating expensive maintenance costs associated with legacy systems. This service allows organizations to maintain uninterrupted access to their content while reducing the risks commonly associated with data migration, such as workflow disruption, misplaced or lost assets, or a lack of skilled resources.

Proven Seven-Step Process:
Rio Media Migration Services delivers a seamless, fully automated migration experience built upon a proven seven-step process that ensures the success of each migration:

• Database Analysis: Identify all databases and assets for comprehensive migration coverage.
• Solution Design: Develop a tailored migration strategy based on the customer infrastructure and requirements.
• Project Scoping: Estimate the project timeline, resources, and budget, ensuring clear expectations and goals.
• Statement of Work: Finalize the project details with a formal statement of work.
• Installation & Validation: Install the necessary tools and validate system readiness for migration.
• Production: Seamlessly migrate data with minimal disruption to ongoing operations.
• Post-Migration Review: Conduct post-migration data integrity checks and wellness reviews to confirm successful completion.

Designed for media and video editors, producers, and system administrators looking to modernize their infrastructure, Rio Media Migration Services is ideally suited for studios, post-production houses, sports teams, news and cable networks, and corporate media departments.

Assets managed by legacy systems such as DIVA, Kumulate, and FlashNet can be migrated to a variety of Spectra® BlackPearl® object-based archive solutions or third-party storage systems, ensuring that organizations can avoid vendor lock-in and choose the best solution for their needs.

The service delivery leverages a set of purpose-built tools that integrate directly with Spectra RioBroker® software, a powerful data migration and management solution, ensuring fast and efficient transitions that streamline media production workflows. The Spectra Logic professional services team manages every aspect of the migration, from project planning and installation to production and support, guaranteeing predictable results within budget and on schedule.

“As media organizations are forced to move away from legacy systems, they need reliable solutions that can modernize their workflows without compromising efficiency,” said Hossein ZiaShakeri, senior vice president of business development and strategic alliances at Spectra Logic. “Rio Media Migration Services are designed to meet that need, offering a seamless and secure migration process that minimizes operational disruption while preparing our customers for the future.”

Key Benefits of Rio Media Migration Services:

• Eliminates the need to maintain costly, obsolete data management and archive products
• Accelerates migration and ensures consistency using proven tools and methodologies
• Overcomes in-house skills or training gaps by leveraging experienced Spectra professionals
• Maintains uninterrupted access to all assets throughout the migration process
• Establishes a modern object-based archive to preserve, grow and monetize media assets

Customer Success Stories:
AMC Networks: “Spectra Logic’s professional approach and active support throughout our project were invaluable. They made the migration of our Avid production assets to our new RioBroker media management and BlackPearl archive platform seamless and efficient. The project was delivered on time and exactly as planned, ultimately helping us lower our operational expenditure and annual support costs. We couldn’t be more pleased with the results.” – James Popowytsch, VP of Engineering, AMC Networks

SportsNet New York: “Spectra’s migration solution was simple to configure and use. With the help of their Professional Services and Support teams, we seamlessly transitioned from our legacy archive system to Spectra’s BlackPearl platform using modern software methods. This transition has significantly expanded our capabilities and improved our performance, enabling us to serve our users more reliably and efficiently.” – Randy Bishop, Systems Manager, SportsNet New York

For more information about Rio Media Migration Services and how it can modernize your media infrastructure, visit www.spectralogic.com/rio-media-migration-services

About Spectra Logic
Dedicated solely to data storage innovation for more than 40 years, Spectra Logic helps organizations modernize their IT infrastructures and protect and preserve their data with a broad portfolio of solutions that enable them to manage, migrate, store and preserve business data long term, along with features to make them ransomware resilient, whether on premises, in a single cloud, across multiple clouds, or in all locations at once. To learn more, visit www.spectralogic.com

BlackPearl, RioBroker, Spectra, and Spectra Logic are trademarks or registered trademarks of Spectra Logic Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Follow Spectra Logic on social media:
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PR Contact:
Lauren Mcauley
Account Executive
Smart Connections PR
lauren@smartconnectionspr.com

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LONDON, UK – October 07, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Soho Square Capital LLP, an investment firm focused on financing established and growing UK and European SMEs, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a legally binding agreement for the early realisation of its growth investment in Assured Data Protection (“Assured” or “the Company”), a managed service provider focused on backup and disaster recovery, whose services are powered by Rubrik software. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.

Soho Square backed Assured in 2023, with capital and its expertise, to support an acceleration of the company’s growth plans led by CEO Simon Chappell. In the last year, Assured has delivered extraordinary growth across its UK and US business. This transaction enables Soho Square to exit ahead of plan and crystallise significant returns for its investors, and the company takes on new equity investment from Oakley Capital at an exciting time in its growth plans.

Assured’s services are built around the industry leading Rubrik software to offer Backup, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Solutions to large SME’s and Enterprises, allowing organisations to install and use Rubik’s groundbreaking technology through flexible Capex / Opex models with a fully managed service that offers tailored 24/7 support.

Assured has built an enviable customer base in the mid-market (<$1bn revenue), including Shoosmiths, University of Birmingham, Ineos, City & Guilds and the Royal Opera House, as well as larger clients such as Disney, Elanco and Honda. Assured’s UK office is based near Leeds and its US office is in Herndon, VA.

Simon Chappell, CEO of Assured Data Protection, said:
“We chose the right partner in Soho Square to support us with capital and their expertise as we accelerated our growth plans, while retaining control of our business. We are thrilled with the growth we have achieved together, and now look forward to the next chapter for Assured.”

James Smallridge, Director at Soho Square, commented:
“Assured Data Protection is a high quality business and we are proud of the growth achieved, delivered well ahead of plan. We’re looking forward to backing more great UK and European businesses with Soho Square’s flexible capital solutions, designed to work perfectly for ambitious leaders. Our bespoke financing solution helps entrepreneurs like Simon and his co-founders to stay in control of the businesses they created, whilst securing capital and know-how to accelerate growth.”

Soho Square’s deal team was led by James Smallridge, supported by Joe Tebbutt. Shareholders were advised by Hogan Lovells (James Cross – legal), EY (Matt Eves – corporate finance), Grant Thornton (Michael Gilmore – tax), Stax (Florent Jarry – commercial due diligence), KPMG (Mark Alcroft – financial due diligence). Soho Square was advised by Grant Thornton (Lucy Orhnial & Sofie Morgan – tax). Assured Data Protection management received corporate finance advice from Momentum CF (Alastair Boorman).

About Soho Square Capital
Soho Square Capital is an investment firm focused on providing flexible capital solutions, typically in the form of senior or preferred capital with minority equity stakes, to established and growing UK and European SMEs. Headquartered in London, the firm is led by a highly experienced team that has been investing together for over 15 years, through many economic cycles and have the expertise and flexibility to invest up to £40 million in any given transaction, across the capital structure, from senior debt to equity. The team works closely with business owners and management teams to structure innovative, bespoke financing solutions and offer enhanced portfolio company support. www.soho-sq.com

About Assured Data Protection
Assured data Protection is the only exclusive Rubrik managed service provider globally, their knowledge set truly differentiates Assured Data Protection and sets them apart from other MSPs. Assured’s aim is to simplify data protection.

Assured teamed up with Rubrik to offer Backup, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Solutions to large SME and Enterprises. Assured believe that Rubrik has transformed the data protection industry. Bringing simplicity, speed and ease of use to the market space. Their service allows organisations to install and use Rubik’s groundbreaking technology through flexible Capex / Opex models with a fully managed service that offers tailored 24/7 support. https://assured-dp.com/

Contacts
If you would like to discuss future investment opportunities, please contact:
James Smallridge
+44 (0)79714 75582
jms@soho-sq.com

Media:
Kepler Communications
Charlotte Balbirnie
+44 (0)7989 528421
CBalbirnie@keplercomms.com

Caroline Villiers
+44 (0)7808 585184
CVilliers@keplercomms.com

Source: Soho Square

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• New Veeam Software survey reveals approximately 80% of businesses are confident in adhering to NIS2, yet 66% will miss the compliance deadline once it goes into effect October 18
• 90% of EMEA businesses faced cybersecurity incidents that NIS2 could have prevented
• Companies could face hefty fines or even suspensions of service in the European Union under strict new cybersecurity regulations that may be seen as the new global standard

SEATTLE, WA – Oct. 03, 2024 –- / BackupReview.info / — The European Union (EU) Network and Information Security Directive 2022/2555 (NIS2) which aims to strengthen cybersecurity, goes into effect on October 18 with administrative fines of up to EUR10 million or 2% of total annual worldwide turnover for those who fail to comply. A new survey from Censuswide, commissioned by Veeam® Software, the #1 market leader by market share in Data Resilience, revealed that only 43% of EMEA IT decision-makers believe NIS2 will significantly enhance EU cybersecurity. This is despite an overwhelming 90% of respondents reporting at least one security incident that the NIS2 directive could have prevented in the past 12 months. Alarmingly, 44% of respondents experienced more than three cyber incidents, with 65% of those categorized as “highly critical.”

The survey results, which encompass the views of 500+ IT decision-makers from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK, revealed the state of play less than a month before this directive takes effect on Oct. 18. Although nearly 80% of businesses are confident in their ability to eventually comply with NIS2 guidelines, up to two-thirds state they will miss this imminent deadline.

“Tackling the growing volume and complexity of cyber threats will take a coordinated approach across government, industry, and business. The NIS2 directive will both help to prevent critical incidents and raise the importance of good preparation to the boardroom. NIS2 will also set the new standard baseline of compliance for all enterprises around the world as we continue to battle this era of continuous cyber threats with data resilience in order to keep businesses running and secure,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam.

“While recognizing the importance of this directive, pressures of other business priorities along with IT challenges is hampering organizations’ ability to meet the October 18 deadline. Leaders in Europe will need to act swiftly to bridge these gaps and ensure compliance, not just for regulatory sake but to genuinely enhance organizational robustness and safeguard critical data,” Eswaran continued.

Barriers to NIS2 Compliance
Achieving NIS2 compliance requires businesses to implement essential measures, such as defining incident response plans, securing supply chains, assessing vulnerabilities, and evaluating overall security levels. This includes all affiliated organizations, partners, and supply chains. However, several barriers to compliance persist. Key challenges cited by IT decision-makers include technical debt (24%), lack of leadership understanding (23%), and insufficient budget/investments (21%). Notably, 40% of respondents reported decreased IT budgets since the political agreement for NIS2 was proclaimed effective in January 2023, despite its stringent penalties, which are comparable to those of the EU’s flagship data privacy legislation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 63% of respondents view the GDPR as strict, and 62% express the same sentiment about NIS2.

Competitive Pressures Amid Cyberthreats
The slow pace of NIS2 adoption is likely due to the multitude of competing priorities and business pressures that face these organizations. Respondents rank NIS2 lower in urgency than ten other issues, including the skills gap, profitability, and digital transformation. Worryingly, 42% of respondents who consider NIS2 insignificant for EU cybersecurity improvements attribute this to inadequate consequences of non-compliance, which has led to widespread apathy towards the directive.

Additional key findings from the survey include:

• 74% of respondents see NIS2 as beneficial, but 57% doubt it will have any substantial impact on overall EU cybersecurity posture.
• Sceptics cite additional concerns such as NIS2’s lack of comprehensiveness (35%), belief that compliance doesn’t guarantee security (34%), and overlap with existing regulations (25%).
• Other barriers include a lack of focus on NIS2 compliance (20%), tight timelines (19%), cybersecurity skills shortage (19%), directive complexity (19%), and organizational silos (19%).
• Despite conflicting views, most respondents perceive NIS2 positively in the context of their organization’s regulatory obligations, feeling optimistic (33%), confident (32%), and encouraged (27%).

To learn more about Veeam, visit https://www.veeam.com.

About the Veeam NIS2 Confidence Survey
Censuswide conducted this research on behalf of Veeam between Aug. 29 and Sept. 2, 2024. The survey included 500+ IT decision-makers from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. Although the UK is a non-EU member state, it was included due to its significant business ties with EU countries. An additional criterion ensured that UK respondents either currently do business within the EU or have plans to do so. To achieve balanced representation, quotas were established for each market: 50 respondents were from medium-sized companies (50-249 employees) and 50 were from large or enterprise-sized companies (250+ employees). Respondents were selected from industry verticals listed amongst the essential and important entities subject to the NIS2 directive. The study was nationally representative.

About Veeam Software
Veeam^®, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should be able to bounce forward after a disruption with the confidence and control of all their data whenever and wherever they need it. Veeam calls this radical resilience, and we’re obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve it.

Veeam solutions are purpose-built for powering data resilience by providing data backup, data recovery, data freedom, data security, and data intelligence. With Veeam, IT and security leaders rest easy knowing that their apps and data are protected and always available across their cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments.

Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 74% of the Global 2000, that trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

Veeam Contact:
Veeam Software
Director, Global Public Relations
Heidi Monroe Kroft, 614-339-8200 x8309

Source: Veeam

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October 01, 2024

The top 100 Cloud based online backup companies are grouped into 4 categories, namely:

1) Consumer – for the general consumers

2) Small Medium Business (SMB) – for small and medium businesses

3) Enterprise – for large enterprise corporations

4) Enablers – for enablers, channel, white label companies

The top 100 Cloud Backup Companies are determined based on specific criteria, and also take into consideration news releases companies publish in the preceding month, server stability, reports from our mystery shoppers, our own reviews, the company’s culture and ethics, users’ feedback, company corporate blogs, and more.

To read our official news release regarding our top 100 online cloud backup companies, please click here.

The Top 100 Cloud Backup Companies for October 2024

Unless otherwise indicated, all domains are “dot com” websites.

Note: Some companies might have products and/or services in 2 or more categories.

To learn more about the enabling companies and their respective categories, click here.

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* Storage and collaboration solution good for consumers, SMBs, as well as enterprises.

** Replication solution

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October 01, 2024

The growth of the cloud backup industry, over the last decade has been dramatic. The market has witnessed the rise and fall of many startups and stabilization of others. Interestingly, the companies that have gained a strong foothold in the industry are not all similar. There is a subtle distinction in the nature and types of services they offer. Some of these companies are pure enablers, while others combine enablement functions with direct-to-market services. Yet others, may license the software from enablers with or without re-branding options and service the cloud backup service needs of their clients.

Five distinct categories can be identified as under (click on links for details):
1/ Pure Enabler
2/ Enabler & Service Provider – Channel or Direct
3/ Service Provider – Channel Only
4/ Service Provider – Channel and Direct
5/ Service Provider – Direct Only (For complete list of companies, see our top monthly ranking list)

Based on a number of factors, such as technology, features, easy of use, dedication to MSPs, channel, revenue structure, reputation, support, price entry point, value, and corporate culture of the companies, we have summarized our rankings.

The companies are categorized in their respective columns. If we have made an error in the category or companies have changed their business plan and as a result need to be categorized in a different column, please let us know.

Top Online Cloud Backup Enablers

Note: Click on company names to read their profiles

For online backup companies that offer direct services to end users, please check out our top online backup monthly rankings. These 75 companies are listed in three columns – Consumer, SMBs and Enterprises.

I. Pure Enablers: These are companies that develop and own the online backup software. They license the product to their MSP partners. The MSPs can re-brand the product and sell services under their own banner and brand and are supported by the enabling company for deployment of the software. Pure enablers do not provide any cloud backup services themselves and do not own/host any vaults. No channel conflict. These companies may also partner with distributors and resellers for distribution or sale of licenses.

II. Enablers & Service Providers – Channel or Direct: These are companies who go direct-to-market with online backup services using software developed and owned by them or licensed from other enablers. If they own the software or have the distribution rights for the software they may license the software to their MSP partners for extending the reach of the market. MSPs can only act as channels for the Enabler or use the software (without branding) for providing services to their clients.

III. Service Providers – Channel Only: These are companies who go direct-to-market with online backup services using software developed and owned by them or licensed from other enablers. They may own/host their vaults, but go-to-market ONLY through their wholesale resellers. If they own the software or have the distribution rights for the software, they may license the software to their MSP partners for extending the reach of the market. MSPs can only act as channels for the Enabler or use the software (without branding) for providing services to their clients. They do not sell cloud backup services directly to end-user customers. No channel conflict.

IV. Service Provider – Channel and Direct: These are companies who go direct-to-market with online backup services using software developed and owned by them or licensed from other enablers. These companies license software from enablers, and own/host their vaults, but go-to-market BOTH directly to end-user customers AND through their wholesale resellers. If they own the software or have the distribution rights for the software they may license the software to their MSP partners for extending the reach of the market. MSPs can only act as channels for the Enabler or use the software (without branding) for providing services to their clients. Potential for channel conflict.

V. Service Providers – Direct Only: These are companies who develop and own their own software or license it from an enabler and own/host their vaults, but go-to-market directly to end-user customers. for providing online backup services to their clients. They do not sell cloud backup services via resellers. No channel conflict.

Below are enablers’ ranking profiles:

1. Asigra – Based in Toronto, Canada, Asigra describes itself as a company that is devoted to furthering cloud Backup, Recovery and Restore (BURR) by offering its cloud solutions entirely through its Partner ecosystem. The company prides itself on its role as a cloud service enabler and focuses all its energies on architecting a cloud solution that is agentless; differentiated with a robust backup and recovery engine and a capacity based pricing model. With over thirty years of experience and 1,000,000 deployments globally, Asigra is distinguished by its innovation and efforts at educating the data protection marketplace and driving the demand for best-of-the-breed cloud-based services. The company assumes a non conflicting role and believes in creatively nurturing its Partner ecosystem by providing its partners with value beyond the software. Asigra is committed to providing its partners with effective marketing and sales tools to help them scale their cloud backup business and position themselves as leaders within the market. With an aggressive Partner Program, Asigra partners are able to deploy cost-effective public, hybrid and private cloud solutions to consumers, SMBs and Enterprises worldwide. Service Providers Powered by Asigra, including Terremark (a Verizon company), NTT America, Centre Technologies, Highstreet IT Solutions, INFINIT Consulting, Pulsant and Backup Technology, are actively helping define standards for the industry. In January 2022, Asigra appointed Eric Simmons, CEO; Val Silva, CTO; Pete Nourse, Chief Revenue Officer/Chief Marketing Officer; and Chris Gilkes, VP of Worldwide Sales. Former founder and CEO David Farajan had been at the helms of the company since 1986; and son, Eran Farajun, served the company as EVP since 1996. For more information, visit www.asigra.com

2. Veeam – Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 51,000+ ProPartners and 267,500+ customers with the highest customer satisfaction scores in the industry. It is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, with has offices in more than 30 countries. Veeam® recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™, a business that must operate 24.7.365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Availability Suite™, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication™, leverages virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help organizations save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs, while always supporting the current and future business goals of Veeam customers. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on Twitter @veeam.

3. Rubrik – Launched in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Rubrik is one of the latest companies to enter the data protection space. It has developed the world’s first Cloud Data Management platform for data protection, search, analytics, archival and copy data management for hybrid cloud enterprises. With its motto to “simplify how businesses around the World keep and use their data”, Rubrik builds beautifully simple products for businesses to meet their most challenging data management needs. Rubrik blends expertise from both consumer and enterprise worlds to pioneer a fresh approach to an old problem. It combines traditional backup with the ability to recover, manage, and secure data across public and private clouds. In its short existence, Rubrik has spread its wings in 5 continents and grown into a 600 employee corporation, and now has $150M run-rate in bookings in just 8 quarters of selling, and signed 500+ channel partners across the globe. It has received numerous industry awards including: #7 on LinkedIn’s Top Companies | Startups 2017 list, Gartner Visionary in 2017 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions, Gartner Cool Vendor, Forbes Cloud 100, Forbes Next Billion Dollar Companies, Business Insider’s 51 Enterprise Startups to Bet Your Career On, InformationWeek Top 25 Vendors to Watch, CFO.com Top 20 Companies to Watch, Best of VMworld, and CRN Emerging Vendors, among others. Fortune 500 companies use Rubrik to manage data at scale while realizing data-driven services anytime, anywhere. “All Your Apps. Instantly Available.” In late April 2024, Rubrik (RBRK) got listed on the stock market with a valuation of $5.6 Billion USD. For more information, please visit www.rubrik.com

4. HYCU, Inc.: HYCU is the fastest-growing leader in the multi-cloud backup and recovery as a service industry. By bringing true SaaS-based data backup to both on-premises and cloud-native environments, the company provides unparalleled data protection, migration and disaster recovery to more than 2,000 companies worldwide. HYCU’s award-winning, purpose-built solutions eliminate the complexity, risk and high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity in a hyper-connected, multi-cloud world. Customers experience frictionless, cost-effective data backup and recovery, no matter where their data resides. Based in Boston, Mass., the company employs 300 people across the globe. HYCU solutions are ideal for Service Providers, SIs and MSPs that can leverage an easy to deploy, manage and maintain a Backup as a Service and DR service offering. More information on becoming a Cloud Services Provider Partner are available at https://www.hycu.com/service-providers/. Or, learn more at www.hycu.com

5. NovaStor – NovaStor, a global company with offices in Switzerland, Germany and the U.S., markets its award-winning, Cloud, SMB and Enterprise backup and recovery products through MSPs, VARs, OEMs and System Retailers. It guarantees its Partners, Cloud, MSP, SMB and Enterprise customers personal account management, enticing discounts, extensive tailor-made product training, efficient lead generation, practical support for marketing and 24-7 local technical support. Further, it provides these Enterprise, Cloud and MSP Partners and customers with unlimited access to support forums, information portals and a variety of workshops, webinars and training sessions to promote the commercial interests of their partners. Partners and MSPs who sign up with NovaStor can expect to have the company’s full attention and support in building long-term, solid business relationships that are founded on transparency, simplicity and personal interaction. NovaStor proudly asserts on its website that its partner program constructs with all components required to to build successful companies that can capitalize on growth markets and create wealth for all stakeholders. The programs are designed to ensure that NovaStor and its partners, some of which include HP, General Mills, and Tieto, go to market with complete confidence that they will be successful together. For additional information, please visit www.novastor.com

6. OwnBackup, a leading cloud-to-cloud backup and restore vendor, provides secure, automated, daily backups of SaaS and PaaS data, as well as sophisticated data compare and restore tools for disaster recovery. Helping more than 1,000 businesses worldwide protect critical cloud data, OwnBackup covers data loss and corruption caused by human errors, malicious intent, integration errors and rogue applications. Built for security and privacy, OwnBackup exceeds the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements for backed-up data. Co-founded by seasoned data-recovery, data-protection and information-security experts, OwnBackup is a top-ranked backup and restore ISV on Salesforce AppExchange and was awarded the Salesforce Appy Award in 2018. Headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, with R&D, support and other functions in Tel Aviv and London, OwnBackup is the vendor of choice for some of the world’s largest users of SaaS applications.

OwnBackup is a team of passionate, creative, curious individuals from all over the globe, but we all share a common belief: No company operating in the cloud should ever lose data.OwnBackup believes that your data should be safe and accessible no matter where it is stored, so it built a platform that integrates with leading SaaS/PaaS solutions to keep you covered. OwnBackup’s system complements your vendor’s built-in data-protection mechanisms by protecting you from data loss & corruption, caused by accidental deletion, bad code, rogue integrations, and malicious employees. OwnBackup’s availability and downtime is tracked in real-time on a publicly available site for complete transparency into its service, click here to view OwnBackup’s historical availability on-demand — http://status.ownbackup.com/

OwnBackup is drawing on its experiences in data recovery, data protection, and information security to build a best-in-class company that’s prepared for rapid growth.Its belief that you should never lose data on the cloud is driving it to constantly refine and improve its platform. It is the top-ranked backup & restore ISV on the Salesforce.com AppExchange, and it was picked as a Gartner 2015 “Cool Vendor” in Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery. For more information, visit http://www.ownbackup.com

7. Arcserve – Arcserve, a top 5 data protection vendor and unified data resilience platform provider, offers the broadest set of best-in-class solutions to manage, protect, and recover all data workloads, from SMB to enterprise, regardless of location or complexity. Arcserve solutions eliminate complexity while bringing best-in-class, cost-effective, agile, and massively scalable data protection and certainty across all data environments. This includes on-prem, off-prem (including DRaaS, BaaS, and Cloud-to-Cloud), hyper-converged, and edge infrastructures. The company’s four decades of award-winning IP, plus a continuous focus on innovation, means that partners and customers, including MSPs, VARs, LARs, and end-users, are assured of the fastest route to next-generation data workloads and infrastructures. A 100% channel-centric organization, Arcserve has a presence in over 150 countries, with 19,000 channel partners helping to protect 235,000 customers’ critical data assets. Explore more at arcserve.com and follow @Arcserve on X.

8. Bacula Systems – Bacula Systems is Switzerland based leading Enterprise Open Core backup and restore software- Company, which combines Bacula’s enterprise-class open standards software with first-class support and professional services. Bacula Systems – a company known in the industry for its commitment to safe, secure and reliable backup solutions. It is a company that represents the disruptive force of open core in the industry, combined with professional development methodologies, support and accountability expected from enterprise software vendors. Leveraging the millions of downloads of the community project, Bacula Enterprise, is by far the most popular Open Core software solution for backup, data recovery and protection of computer data. Bacula software offers up to ten times lower total cost of ownership compared to proprietary solutions, higher reliability and proven performance in mission-critical enterprise environments. Bacula Systems provides world-class technical support, renowned training courses, and Bacula Enterprise Edition products via the Bacula Systems Subscriptions. Since early 2000, Kern Sibbald has been leading the Open Source community in the development of the Bacula project, which over recent years has built up a strong reputation, as a true enterprise-ready backup solution. Bacula Systems SA was founded in 2009 in order to provide full professional support services to the enterprise and via its network of Bacula Partners. For additional information, please visit www.baculasystems.com

9. Acronis – Headquartered in Burlington, MA and founded in 2002, Acronis a truly global provider of leading backup, disaster recovery, and secure file sharing and file access solutions. Acronis is a fast-growing international company with over 700 employees and over 900 partners in more than 145 countries worldwide. Acorns boasts well over 5,000,000 individual customers and over 500,000 business customers from various industries and has more than 50 patents under its name. Acronis’ award winning customer support centers offer 24/7 assistance to its customers worldwide. Acronis can help you securely migrate, protect and recover critical data wherever it resides in your physical, virtual or cloud environments. With a Unified Platform and new generation technology, its innovative solutions are designed to ease the management burden and reduce total cost of ownership, while improving your recovery time objectives. Acronis provides complete, efficient, and reliable backup solutions for desktop, server, virtual, and cloud environments, as well as leading file sharing and sync solutions for mobile devices. For more information, please visit www.acronis.com

10. Datto – Datto Inc. is an award-winning global vendor of backup, disaster recovery (BDR) and Intelligent Business Continuity (IBC) solutions, providing best-in-class technology and support to its 5,000+ channel Partners throughout North America and Europe. Datto is the only hybrid-cloud BDR/IBC vendor that provides instant on- and off-site virtualization, and screenshot backup verification, achieved through its Inverse Chain Technology(TM). Catering to the specific needs of the small to medium-size business market, the Datto product line is comprised of three families; Datto SIRIS 2 (SIRIS 2 Business, SIRIS 2 Professional, SIRIS 2 Enterprise), Datto ALTO 2 (ALTO 2, ALTO XL, ALTO XL Professional), and Datto NAS. Datto partners with the best technology providers in the industry to deliver the most robust and seamless BDR and business continuity solutions available, including: AutoTask, ConnectWise, Kaseya, Level Platforms, Servoyant and StorageCraft. Founded in 2007 by Austin McChord, Datto is privately held. Datto became a publicly traded company in October 2020. For more information, please visit www.datto.com

11. CommVault – Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions. A Gartner Leader in Data Center Backup and Recovery market for the sixth consecutive year, Commvault helps companies worldwide activate their data to drive more value and business insight and to transform modern data environments. With solutions and services delivered directly and through a worldwide network of partners and service providers, Commvault solutions comprise one of the industry’s leading portfolios in data protection and recovery, cloud, virtualisation, archive, file sync and share. Commvault has earned accolades from customers and third party influencers for its technology vision, innovation, and execution as an independent and trusted expert. Without the distraction of a hardware business or other business agenda, Commvault’s sole focus on data management has led to adoption by companies of all sizes, in all industries, and for solutions deployed on premise, across mobile platforms, to and from the cloud, and provided as-a-service. For additional information, please visit www.commvault.com

12. Dell EMC – Dell EMC, a part of Dell Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies. This provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions. Dell EMC services customers across 180 countries – including 98 percent of the Fortune 500 – with the industry’s most comprehensive and innovative portfolio from edge to core to cloud.

Products and Services:
Dell EMC Cloud Disaster Recovery: Cloud DR allows enterprises to copy protected VM’s from their on-prem Data Domain/ Integrated Data Protection Appliance to the public cloud, stored over object storage, then run orchestrated DR testing or Failover of those VMs copies to cloud instances and later automatically Failback those recovered cloud instances back to virtual machines on-premises. Cloud DR also allows customers to efficiently extend their on-premises data protection to VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS), by recovering the VMs copies stored over AWS S3 storage directly to new virtual machines over the VMC on AWS environment. The VMC on AWS environment is not required during on-going protection and can be obtained on-demand when recovery is needed. Customers that wish to use Data Domain replication from on-prem Data Domain to a DD VE instances in AWS to gain deduplication benefits, as well as Avamar’s agent-based application consistency, can use Cloud DR Advanced mode in order to enable orchestrated recovery of VMs and applications protected on-premises to EC2 instances in AWS and automated failback of those recovered instances back to on-premises virtual machines.

Data Domain Cloud Tier: Data Domain Cloud Tier provides best of breed technology that will allow businesses to gain the advantages of cloud while lowering overall TCO. With DD Cloud Tier, data is natively tiered to the public, private or hybrid cloud for long-term retention. Only unique data is sent directly from Data Domain to the cloud and data lands on the cloud object storage already deduplicated. With Dell EMC’s advanced deduplication, storage footprint is greatly reduced for cost-effective long-term retention in the cloud. A broad ecosystem of backup and enterprise applications and a variety of public and private clouds are supported with DD Cloud Tier. Data Domain’s pricing starts at sub $9K.

Data Protection Suite: Best-in-class Dell EMC Data Protection software solutions accelerate backups up to 20x and recovery up to 10x for mission-critical applications. Dell EMC software covers a broad range of applications, including everything from virtual machines to high IO/change rate OLTP, and VMware workloads running on AWS.

Dell EMC Data Domain has an open ecosystem strategy: It can serve as the target backup storage with both Dell EMC backup software as well as software from Dell EMC’s competitors, who incorporate Data Domain in their total solutions. Data Domain coupled with Dell EMC Data Protection Software gives customers the most out of their investment by providing them with a number of additional benefits.

Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA): Powerful data protection in a single appliance that is easy to deploy and manage — no matter where data resides. The integrated appliance brings together protection storage and software, search, and analytics, plus simplified management and cloud readiness. The clean, intuitive interface of the IDPA System Manager provides a comprehensive view of data protection infrastructure from a single dashboard.

Some of these benefits include:

• Higher average deduplication rate – and more savings from the resulting reduction in amount of backup capacity required
• Direct orchestration of long term retention/archiving to the Cloud with control of data movement policies
• Instant access and restores for VM workloads
• Cloud disaster recovery (replication and spin off of virtual machines in Amazon Web Service)

Key Features:
Efficient:

• Reduces storage requirements by 10 – 55x with variable-length deduplication
• Gain industry leading speed, scalability, and reliability

Comprehensive:

• Back directly from a wide range of enterprise apps or primary storage
• Deploy protection storage however you want it

Cloud-Enabled:

• DD Cloud Tier: Natively tier deduplicated data to the cloud for modern long-term retention
• DD Cloud DR: Copy backed-up VMs to the public cloud (AWS) for disaster recovery

13. Druva – Druva is the global leader in Cloud Data Protection and Management, delivering the industry’s first data management-as-a-service solution that aggregates data from endpoints, servers and cloud applications and leverages the public cloud to offer a single pane of glass to enable data protection, governance and intelligence–dramatically increasing the availability and visibility of business critical information, while reducing the risk, cost and complexity of managing and protecting it. Druva’s award-winning solutions intelligently collect data, and unify backup, disaster recovery, archival and governance capabilities onto a single, optimized data set. As the industry’s fastest growing data protection provider, Druva is trusted by over 4,000 global organizations, and protects over 40 PB of data. Learn more at www.druva.com and join the conversation at twitter.com/druvainc

14. Actifio – Actifio is the world’s leading Data-as-a-Service platform. It enables thousands of users around the world to deliver their data just as they deliver their applications and infrastructure… as a service available instantly, anywhere. An enterprise-class software platform powered by patented Virtual Data Pipeline™ technology, Actifio frees data from traditional infrastructure to accelerate adoption of hybrid cloud, build higher quality applications faster, and improve business resiliency and availability. Actifio comes with rapid incremental forever backup and scalable instant recovery for database, NAS and file workloads in VMs, physical machines, and the Cloud; and a high-performance, scalable database cloning and instant recovery solution that is purpose-built for Oracle, MS SQL and ERP applications. Enterprise customers use Actifio to build higher quality applications faster by making high fidelity test data instantly available to authorized developers, to improve business resiliency and availability by rendering traditional backup and disaster recovery point tools obsolete, and to accelerate adoption of hybrid cloud architectures in service to those and many other enterprise use cases. Actifio captures data at a block level in native format, according to customized SLA, allowing to manage a physical copy, moved once and stored anywhere. Actifio uses unlimited virtual copies for instant access and protection, reducing business risk by minimizing application downtime, drastically reducing backup windows, and delivering lower RTOs and RPOs, for any size dataset across a wide variety of enterprise applications. Actifio delivers maximum advantage with lower TCO by reducing license, infrastructure, and operational costs, and by eliminating multiple point tools, data sprawl and manual processes. Actifio is Agile, Resilient, Independent, Secure and Scalable. For more, visit www.actifio.com or follow us on Twitter @Actifio.

15. Barracuda (Intronis) – Barracuda (NYSE: CUDA) simplifies IT with cloud-enabled solutions that empower customers to protect their networks, applications, and data, regardless of where they reside. These powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solutions are trusted by more than 150,000 organizations worldwide and are delivered in appliance, virtual appliance, cloud and hybrid deployments. Barracuda’s customer-centric business model focuses on delivering high-value, subscription-based IT solutions that provide end-to-end network and data security. Barracuda’s data protection business includes Barracuda Backup, a solution designed for the cloud that provides the flexibility to easily back up data wherever it resides – on premises or in the cloud – and replicate data to a secure cloud or to a private location. Barracuda Backup can be deployed as a purpose-built backup appliance, in virtual environments, or for cloud-to-cloud backup. Barracuda Backup physical appliance combines software, local storage and offside replication in a single package. Barracuda Backup Vx is a software solution for virtual environments that leverages existing compute and storage infrastructures. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup replicates data from supported cloud environments into Barracuda’s Cloud Storage. For additional information, please visit www.barracuda.com

16. Vembu – Vembu is not a direct-to-customer sales Company. This, Chennai, India based company, takes its place in the cloud backup and recovery marketplace as a cost effective, hybrid data protection product developer, catering to the needs of small and medium businesses, through the agency of its partners. With over 2000 MSPs, VARs, resellers and distributors registered and marketing its product– StoreGrid–the company categorizes as a cloud enabler–a service provider’s service provider. Vembu’s award winning software StoreGrid–is built around a simple, pay as you go licensing model that integrates business automation and RMM platforms; supports backup of Disk Image, MS SQL, MS Exchange, MS Sharepoint, MySQL, VMWare and Oracle and the interfaces are completely customizable and brandable. The company nurtures its partners by constantly interacting with them at webinars and conferences and providing them with a range of marketing strategy tools. The company’s dynamic and interactive website provides partners and their customers with access to support forums, How-to videos, knowledge bases, FAQs and other systems. For additional information, please visit www.vembu.com

17. IBM Spectrum Protect – A solution by IBM, one of the leading technology companies, IBM Spectrum Protect™ (ISP) can simplify data protection where data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments. With ISP, you can choose the right software to manage and protect your data, while also simplifying backup administration, improving efficiencies, delivering scalable capacity and enabling advanced capabilities. ISP provides a single data protection platform and simplified administration for virtual and physical machines, using snapshots and backups. It is easy to use, provides policy-based multi-site replication, and flexible restore capabilities, allowing companies to scale and adapt quickly to changing business needs, without compromising security, privacy. It scales quickly and reduces backup infrastructure costs by more than half. ISP also feature: Automated deployment steps, Built-in cloud integration, Scalable performance, Multi-site replication, Optimized data protection, Reduced backup infrastructure costs, and Virtualized, software-defined infrastructures. For more information, visit: www.ibm.com

18. FalconStor – FalconStor (OTCQB: FALC) is a data protection company that enables enterprises to modernize their data backup and archival operations across sites and public clouds, delivering increased data security and providing the fastest recovery from a ransomware attack while driving down costs by up to 90 percent. A proven technology leader with more than 30 patents, FalconStor is trusted by more than 1,000 enterprise customers and an ecosystem of managed service providers and resellers worldwide. FalconStor enables secure backup and archival to the chosen cloud provider with no touch operations, making the entire process extremely easy. For more information, visit www.falconstor.com or call 1-866-NOW-FALC (866-669-3252).

19. Cobalt Iron – Cobalt Iron was founded in 2013 to bring about fundamental changes in the world’s approach to secure data protection, and today the company’s Compass® is the world’s leading SaaS-based enterprise data protection system. Through analytics and automation, Compass enables enterprises to transform and optimize legacy backup solutions into a simple cloud-based architecture with built-in cybersecurity. Processing more than 8 million jobs a month for customers in 44 countries, Compass delivers modern data protection for enterprise customers around the world. www.cobaltiron.com

20. Redstor (Attix5) – Founded in the UK in 1998, and headquartered in Reading, UK, Redstor is a well-respected and trusted global provider of cloud backup and disaster recovery software and services. Redstor is a fast growing, international, data management software as a service (SaaS) business. In the fall of 2015, Redstor acquired Attix5, a South African based cloud backup enabling company. For almost two decades, Redstor has been the Data Management & Security Company of choice for businesses and organisations looking for a trusted advisor to manage and secure their data. Redstor’s focus is on partner-enabled cloud backup as a service (BAAS), delivering these services either through its own storage platforms around the world, or by supplying its Backup Pro software to power its partners’ own service platforms. Redstor-powered services are currently available through hundreds of partners worldwide. As an ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified organisation, Redstor combines technical excellence with proven processes to deliver innovative, flexible and secure cloud services that reduce risks and cost to end users. Redstor platform currently addresses Backup, DR and Archiving and its journey is towards incorporating security, access and insight, all managed and controlled from one place. Restor gives its customers control over their most valuable asset — their data — wherever, whenever, all from a single console. For more information, visit www.redstor.com

21. Axcient – Axcient (founded in 2006 at Mountain View, California), is a privately held company backed by Allegis Capital, Peninsula Ventures and Thomvest. The Company provides cloud services through a network of MSPs, distributors and resellers. A dedicated management team is geared to develop its partner programs and provide continuous support with a variety of training options and co-marketing choices. Certification of at least one member of the staff as Axcient Support Technician is a precondition to partnership. The company does not encourage development or modification of Axcient’s appliances or request for phone based trainings. The frictionless partnership philosophy is extended to partner relations and indirectly to customer relations. The Axcient platform combines ease of use with unprecedented uptime guarantees to the small and medium business segment. Users can expect to enjoy cost savings with pay as you go service features, zero investment in infrastructure, license or software expenditures. The service integrates the best elements of on-premise data protection and online disaster recovery services to ensure customer satisfaction. For additional information, please visit www.axcient.com

22. CTERA Networks – CTERA Networks revolutionizes storage and data protection for SMBs and branch offices with Cloud Attached Storage®, a hybrid solution that combines secure cloud storage services with on-premises storage appliances for a seamless user experience. Current solutions for data storage and data protection – such as file servers and backup tape drives – are unnecessarily expensive and disparate. Since SMBs and branch offices are in short supply of IT staff and data management practices are often non-existent, there is a real need for a cost-effective, all-in-one solution for centralized storage and secure off-site data protection. Cloud Attached Storage by CTERA is the answer to the storage and data protection woes of SMBs and remote/branch offices (ROBO). Integrating reliable cloud storage with appliances that are integrated cloud storage gateways and network attached storage (NAS) devices, it provides much needed reliability and storage flexibility, bundled as an easy-to-use, remotely managed storage service. CTERA has designed its technology to cater to the needs of service providers, and is partnering with leading cloud service providers, MSPs and resellers to deliver managed storage, hybrid local/off-site backup and file sharing services to their customers. CTERA Networks is privately held and backed by Benchmark Capital. For additional information, please visit www.ctera.com

23. N2WS – Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, N2WS was founded in 2012 with the mission of providing enterprise-class data protection for production environments deployed in the public cloud. N2WS Backup & Recovery, Cloud Protection Manager (CPM), was designed and built from the ground up to meet all backup and DR requirements for enterprises on AWS and is now the leading enterprise-class backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solution specifically optimized for Amazon’s AWS EC2 infrastructure. Enterprises can recover complete servers/instances, specific volumes, or individual files in seconds to other AWS regions or even another AWS account, and be back up to production in only seconds. N2WS offers a 30-day free trial with no credit card needed. Interested parties can test-drive all features of our Enterprise edition so they will be able to see first hand how to efficiently and cost-effectively protect their EC2 instances, RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora databases, as well as Redshift clusters, utilize both cross-region and cross-account DR, as well as take advantage of all new and enhanced latest versions. N2WS was acquired by Veeam in January 2018 for $42.5 Million all cash. Veeam kept N2WS as a separate entity until November 2019, then volunteerly sold it back to the original founders for an undisclosed amount (rumoured to be sold at a huge discount from its original purchase price of $42.5M), after Veeam became the subject of investigation by the US government for its Russian operation. For more information, visit www.N2WS.com

24. Unitrends – Headquartered in Burlington, MA, Unitrends increases uptime, productivity and confidence in a world in which IT professionals must do more with less. Unitrends leverages high-availability hardware and software engineering, cloud economics, enterprise power with consumer-grade design, and customer-obsessed support to natively provide all-in-one enterprise backup and continuity. The result is a “one throat to choke” set of offerings that allow customers to focus on their business rather than backup. Unitrends eliminates backup complexity and stress with all-in-one enterprise backup and continuity. Unitrends provides simpler, better, and smarter IT solutions, allowing you to get more free time with all-in-one backup appliances powered by simplicity. Unitrends solutions are pre-integrated and optimized with high-speed performance, deduplication, and predictive analytics needed to protect diverse environments. Built-in ransomware detection and SLA Policy Automation save time and deliver complete confidence in recovery. Learn more by visiting www.unitrends.com or follow on Twitter @Unitrends and LinkedIn.

25. Infrascale – Infrascale is a parent company of SOS Online Backup (www.SOSOnlineBackup.com), a leading provider of cloud backup, recovery and archiving solutions for businesses and consumers, supporting more than 50,000 small businesses and individuals around the world. Infrascale provides the most powerful disaster recovery and cloud backup solutions in the world, and is recognized as a 2017 Gartner Leader for Disaster Recovery as a Service. Founded in 2011, the company aims to give every organization the ability to recover from a disaster — quickly, easily and affordably. Combining intelligent software with the power of the cloud, Infrascale cracks the disaster recovery cost barrier by removing the complexity and cost of standby infrastructure to restore operations in minutes with a push of a button. Infrascale equips businesses with the confidence to handle the unexpected by providing less downtime, greater security, and always-on availability.  Visit www.infrascale.com or follow us on Twitter at @Infrascale for more information.

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www.BackupReview.info releases ranking of the top 100 cloud backup companies, categorized into four sectors: Consumer, SMB, Enterprise, and Enablers; based on predefined standardized criteria, to help users select the appropriate cloud backup company.

October 01, 2024 – BackupReview.info publishes the October 2024 list of top ranking cloud backup companies, categorized into four sectors: Consumer, SMB, Enterprise, and Enablers. The list comprises of 25 companies under each category, for a total of 100 cloud backup solutions, based on standardized criteria defined on its site. This standardization of selection criteria goes a long way towards enabling users select the right cloud backup service for their specific needs.

“From 2005 to 2008, we ranked the top 25 companies on a monthly basis in one basket; and that was not easy to identify the solutions easily. Then in 2009, we added 50 more companies and started ranking the top 75 companies in three sectors – Consumer, SMB and Enterprise solutions. And beginning the October 2011 ranking, we have added a fourth column that identifies and ranks the top enablers”, said editor Ezra Brook. The top companies are presented in order of their rankings.

With hundreds of companies offering seemingly the same service, choosing the best cloud backup provider could be challenging. Users need a standard set of criteria on which to evaluate the different services and understand which one would suit them the best. Factors that generally play a role in selecting cloud backup service include service requirements such as: cost per GB, cost per PC or per account, security, speed (backup and restore), reliability, uptime, quality, customer service, accessibility and financial standing of the company.

The top 5 cloud backup companies, from each sector include:

• Consumer: Backblaze, IDrive, Carbonite Safe, Acronis, and SpiderOak
• SMB: Arcserve, IDrive Business, Backup-Everything, Keepit, and Carbonite Server
• Enterprise: Databarracks, Arcserve, Assured-DP, Cohesity, and HYCU
• Enablers: Asigra, Veeam, Rubrik, HYCU, and Novastor

The complete list of the top 100 cloud backup companies for October 2024 is found here.

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Founded in January 2024, Eon’s vision for the future of cloud backup posture management has attracted funding from Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks, and dozens of industry leaders

NEW YORK, NY – Oct. 1, 2024 — /BackupReview.info/ — Eon, a next-generation cloud backup solution, announced its launch from stealth, having raised a total of $127 million in funding. The first backup autopilot for the age of cloud infrastructure, Eon monitors cloud resource sprawl and brings cloud backup posture management (CBPM) to enterprises. Eon replaces legacy backup tools and generic snapshots, transforming backups into useful, easy-to-manage assets.

Eon was founded by Ofir Ehrlich, Gonen Stein, and Ron Kimchi, the team behind CloudEndure, which was acquired by Amazon in 2019, where they built and led the Disaster Recovery and Cloud Migration services at AWS. Their experience working with the biggest companies revealed a glaring hole in the cloud infrastructure backup and recovery market, leading to the creation of Eon.

Since its founding in January 2024, Eon has secured three rounds of funding; a $20 million Seed led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Vine Ventures, Meron Capital, and Eight Roads, a $30 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and participation from Sheva, and a $77 million Series B led by Greenoaks with participation from Quiet Ventures.

The global cloud infrastructure market is growing at an aggressive pace, expected to reach $838 billion by 2034, with enterprises estimating that 10-30% of their total cloud bill will be spent on backup storage and management. However, the scale and dynamic nature of the cloud have led to enterprises losing control over their backups. Current backup management methods require time-consuming, manual data classification and tagging processes, agents and appliances, face mounting prohibitive costs, and ultimately produce backups that are not accessible.

“Eon has reimagined what backups can be for enterprises by introducing a new era of cloud backup storage and management,” said Ofir Ehrlich, Co-Founder and CEO of Eon. “We are fortunate to have supportive funding partners who deeply understand the value of unlocking cloud backups to be truly automated, globally searchable, portable, and useful”.

Eon autonomously scans, maps, and classifies cloud resources continuously, providing backup recommendations based on business and compliance needs, and ensuring the appropriate backup policy is in use. Existing solutions rely on snapshots, which are non-searchable black boxes, that require full restores, and are vendor-locked. In contrast, Eon’s next-generation backup storage is fully managed, portable, and provides global search capabilities. This enables customers to find and restore individual files and run SQL queries on backed-up database snapshots seamlessly, without any resource provisioning.

“In an industrywhere file restoration can take weeks, Eon’s novel backup solution pinpoints data instantly, saving time, money, and compliance headaches for customers,” said Shaun Maguire, Partner at Sequoia Capital. “With a world-class team led by cloud pioneers Ofir, Gonen, and Ron – Eon is bringing the next generation of cloud backup management to market.”

“Investing in the right company begins with investing in the right team, and with Eon we saw an exceptional team, uniquely skilled for the task at hand,” said Tal Morgenstern, Partner at Lightspeed. “Eon is addressing a critical need as enterprises accelerate their cloud adoption and face headwinds of data protection concerns. We are thrilled to support their mission.”

“Storage and backup are among the largest parts of the IT budget,” said Patrick Backhouse, Partner at Greenoaks. “Yet customers are stuck with frustrating, outdated options, leaving them with poorly optimized costs; incomplete data inventories; and shallow classification. Eon has the team, the expertise, and the ambition to develop an entirely new product that we believe will become the cognitive referent for cloud-native backup. We are proud to partner with Ofir and his team early in their journey, as they break the trade-off between price, performance, and transparency.”

About Eon
Eon is a next-generation cloud backup solution, introducing the first backup autopilot for the age of cloud infrastructure. It brings cloud backup posture management (CBPM) to enterprises and transforms traditional, hard-to-use cloud backups into useful, easy-to-manage assets. Founded in 2024 by Ofir Ehrlich, Gonen Stein, and Ron Kimchi, the team behind CloudEndure (acquired by Amazon), Eon is backed by leading venture capital firms including Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Lightspeed, as well as dozens of industry leaders. For more information and to learn more, please visit https://www.eon.io/

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 1, 2024— /BackupReview.info/–Egnyte, a leading provider of cloud-based content collaboration and governance solutions, today announced it has been granted five United States Utility Patents this year, reinforcing its commitment to innovation in data privacy and cloud storage management. These patents highlight Egnyte’s dedication to addressing complex data governance and compliance challenges, especially evolving data privacy regulations.

“These patents reflect our dedication to solving today’s critical data challenges,” stated Amrit Jassal, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Egnyte. “By innovating in hybrid collaboration, content analysis, and privacy compliance, we provide our customers with practical solutions to manage their data more effectively and securely in today’s complex digital environment.”

The new patents include:

• System and Method for Enhancing Content Collaboration by Conflict Detection and Resolution in a Hybrid Cloud Cache. This solution addresses challenges in hybrid cloud environments by managing file versions and preventing data loss due to conflicting uploads. This ensures that Egnyte customer’s version controls are always correct.
• Event-Based User State Synchronization in a Local Cloud of a Cloud Storage System. This patent enables synchronization of user definitions between remote and local cloud systems, allowing centralized control over user access and near real-time updates. It maintains a global user directory on a remote cloud server, which can be synchronized with local user directories on multiple local cloud servers. Egnyte customers now have centralized control and management of user accounts across the entire hybrid cloud system.
• System and Method for Sensitive Content Analysis Prioritization Based on File Metadata. This technology estimates the likelihood of sensitivity for file objects. The system gives Egnyte customers a more efficient, accurate, and customizable way to identify sensitive data across their storage systems, supporting better data governance and compliance efforts.
• Storage Agnostic Large Scale Permissions and Access Analytics. This solution simplifies and consolidates permission sets from multiple heterogeneous file storage systems. It outlines a process for Egnyte customers to convert diverse permissions into a unified format, streamlining access control and enhancing data security through effective analytics.
• System and Method for Serving Subject Access Requests. This patent details a method for efficiently handling SARs in compliance with data privacy regulations, like GDPR. It includes built-in safeguards to prevent accidental exposure of others’ personal data when responding to SARs, and applies named entity recognition to identify personal data and generate associations, ensuring compliance and enhancing the speed and accuracy of SAR responses.

The newly patented technologies build on Egnyte’s portfolio of over 45 granted patents. The company’s latest patents highlight its role as a pioneer in cloud storage and data privacy solutions. By continually innovating, Egnyte empowers organizations to manage data more efficiently and effectively while ensuring compliance with stringent privacy laws.

About Egnyte
Egnyte combines the power of cloud content management, data security, and AI into one intelligent content platform. More than 22,000 customers trust Egnyte to improve employee productivity, automate business processes, and safeguard critical data, in addition to offering specialized content intelligence and automation solutions across industries, including architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), life sciences, and financial services. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com

Global Press & Media Contact
Brittany Carambio
Director of Corporate Marketing
Phone: 301-678-3412
Email: media@egnyte.com

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Recovery Point Systems, a leader in cyber and business resilience services based in Germantown, today announced the addition of Rubrik Backup as a Service (BaaS), expanding its backup and cyber resiliency capabilities to include fully managed backup and threat hunting through Assured Data Protection

GERMANTOWN, Md. and HERNDON, Va., Oct. 1, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Recovery Point Systems, a leader in cyber and business resilience services based in Germantown, today announced the addition of Rubrik Backup as a Service (BaaS), expanding its backup and cyber resiliency capabilities to include fully managed backup and threat hunting.

Delivered from Recovery Point’s Uptime Institute Tier III data centers, the Rubrik BaaS solution is powered by Assured Data Protection (Assured) and offers secure infrastructure and certified assurance for x86 (physical and virtual) in an appliance-based solution with simple deployment. Cyber resiliency forms the foundation of Rubrik’s Zero Trust Security Solutions within the Rubrik BaaS offering, delivering data security and protection to customers of any size. The service is fully managed (24/7/365) by Assured.

“We chose to add Rubrik BaaS to our leading-edge DRaaS and cyber resiliency portfolio for several reasons, not the least of which are their proven, enterprise-class solution and their “Leader” standing in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions for multiple consecutive years,” said Jack Dziak, Executive Chairman and CEO of Recovery Point. “Leveraging Assured as the delivery arm for this service, we are thrilled to offer exceptional cyber resilience capabilities for x86 Rubrik backup and recovery with ransomware protection. This partnership provides us with a turnkey competitive solution, and we anticipate a successful collaboration as we continue to enhance our backup and recovery portfolio.”

Brian Dutton, Chief Revenue Officer for Americas, Assured, added, “We are delighted to partner with Recovery Point Systems to deliver the best-of-breed backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions as a service to its portfolio of solutions. Organizations need to enable cyber resilience in the face of the increasing cyber threat landscape, and we are committed to working with Recovery Point Systems to complement its existing security stack with backup and disaster recovery services to every business that needs it.”

Recovery Point’s Rubrik BaaS includes:

• MANAGED BACKUP: Backup, archiving, and recovery of Rubrik data in an appliance-based model for simplified deployment using ProtectView, Assured’s management portal.
• OFF-SITE REPLICATION: Copies of critical backup data saved to a secondary site in a secure Tier-III Recovery Point data center.
• DISASTER RECOVERY: Recovery of critical systems leveraging Assured’s cleanroom and runbook automation.
• CYBER RESILIENCY: Monitoring of business-critical data to prevent data loss from cyberattacks.
• THREAT HUNTING: Prevention of malware reinfection through data history analysis for indicators of compromise identifying the initial point, scope, and time of infection.

In addition to BaaS for Rubrik x86 environments, Recovery Point clients can uniquely protect heterogeneous environments with our DRaaS and cyber resiliency solutions. Our expertise spans all platforms, infrastructures, and services we support, including storage, network, mainframe, midrange, cloud, and x86 systems. With IBM-certified experts on staff, we provide specialized support for your iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries workloads.

To learn more about Recovery Point and the latest addition to our backup portfolio, visit https://recoverypoint.com/services/data-protection/backup/

About Recovery Point
Recovery Point is a pure play provider of true end-to-end recovery and continuity solutions. As an award-winning nationwide leader in data protection and business resilience services, we serve organizations ranging from the Fortune 500 to SMBs, as well as federal, state, and local governments. We have the experts, the technology, and the platform to ensure resiliency and recovery across changing cyber threats and technology environments. For more information about Recovery Point, visit http://www.recoverypoint.com

About Assured Data Protection
Assured Data Protection is a global data backup, disaster recovery, business continuity and extended detection and response managed service provider. With more than 200 years of combined industry experience, Assured Data Protection delivers scalable solutions and gained the distinction of being selected by Solutions Review Magazine as a Top 20 Vendor for data disaster recovery and CIO Review as a Top 20 Vendor for data backup. For more information, visit http://www.assured-dp.com

About Abry Partners
Abry Partners is one of the most experienced and successful sector-focused private equity investment firms in North America. Since its founding in 1989, the firm has completed over $90 billion of leveraged transactions and other private equity or preferred equity placements. Currently, the firm manages over $5.0 billion of capital across its active funds. For more information about Abry Partners, visit http://www.abry.com

Media Contact
Erin Steinmetz
Erin Steinmetz Point
240-632-7007
esteinmetz@recoverypoint.com
www.recoverypoint.com

Matthew Valleskey
Assured Data Protection
703-888-4783
matthew.valleskey@assured-dp.com
www.assured-dp.com

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New Veeam Recon Scanner proactively identifies cyber threats by leveraging patent-pending technology and the largest database of cyber incidents in the world

SEATTLE, WA – October 1, 2024 –- / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the #1 leader by market share in Data Resilience, today announced the addition of new Veeam Recon Scanner technology to Veeam Data Platform during the VeeamON Data Resilience Summit. This groundbreaking technology, developed by Coveware by Veeam, draws on years of experience in cyber-extortion incident response and the largest database of cyber incidents in the world. Veeam Recon Scanner is designed to proactively identify, triage, and prevent cyberattacks, revolutionizing threat assessment in the data protection market.

“Protecting your organization from a cyber-attack requires a coordinated strategy. It starts at the perimeter and requires thorough data backup and protection. However, there’s always the risk of a bad actor slipping through your defenses. Recon Scanner provides added peace of mind by identifying adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures before an attack,” said Dave Russell, Senior Vice President (SVP) of Strategy at Veeam. “By collecting and analyzing data proactively, Recon Scanner identifies unexpected network connections, unusual user behavior, suspicious file activity, data exfiltration attempts, and even potential brute force attacks. The unpredictability of dwell time —the period between compromise and attack—makes traditional threat detection and mitigation challenging. With proactive threat assessment capabilities integrated into Veeam Data Platform, our customers can identify and address potential attacks before they impact their organizations, enhancing data resilience and safeguarding critical information.”

Cybersecurity attacks, including ransomware, have become increasingly pervasive, targeting both production environments and backups. Recovering from such attacks is more challenging than ever, highlighting the need for comprehensive data protection solutions. As part of Veeam Data Platform Premium, Recon Scanner offers customers the ability to identify threats before they can cause damage. By regular scans, the Recon Scanner recognizes suspicious activity and adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), enabling organizations to take defensive and mitigation actions in advance. This proactive approach is a first in the industry, setting Veeam apart as the first and only data platform vendor to offer such advanced assessment technology, provided at no additional cost to Veeam Data Platform Premium customers.

Recon Scanner integrates exclusive proactive threat assessment technology derived from the extensive experience of Coveware by Veeam in handling thousands of ransomware incidents. It offers features such as automated scans, real-time alerts, and data analysis, empowering security teams to take preventive actions and improve the overall security posture of their organizations.

Veeam Data Platform v12.2, with Recon Scanner, reinforces Veeam’s commitment to data resilience, management, and security. The platform provides organizations with the ability to protect, recover, and securely manage data across their hybrid data estates. Adhering to ZeroTrust Data Resilience and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Secure By Design principles, Veeam continues to follow security best practices, ensuring that customers can confidently operate their businesses while safeguarding their valuable data.

Veeam Recon Scanner application will be available for download starting in November. To learn more about Veeam Data Platform with Recon Scanner, visit https://www.veeam.com

About Veeam Software
Veeam®, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should be able to bounce forward after a disruption with the confidence and control of all their data whenever and wherever they need it. Veeam calls this radical resilience, and we’re obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve it.

Veeam solutions are purpose-built for powering data resilience by providing data backup, data recovery, data freedom, data security, and data intelligence. With Veeam, IT and security leaders rest easy knowing that their apps and data are protected and always available across their cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments.

Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 74% of the Global 2000, that trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

Veeam Contact:
Veeam Software
Director, Global Public Relations
Heidi Monroe Kroft, 614-339-8200 x8309

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Michael Amsinck will be instrumental in turning Keepit’s vision into actionable plans, as the company continues to expand its global presence and lead innovation in the data protection space

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – October 01, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Keepit, the world’s only vendor-independent cloud-native data protection platform, is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Amsinck as its new CPO (Chief Product Officer). Michael Amsinck joins Keepit from Cision, where he held the position of Chief Product and Technology Officer. With a strong background in product development and leadership, Michael Amsinck brings a wealth of experience and insight to the Keepit team.

In the new role, Michael Amsinck will be instrumental in shaping and executing Keepit’s short and long-term product roadmap. As CPO, Michael Amsinck will play a crucial part in translating Keepit’s strategic vision into actionable plans, ensuring the company continues to deliver innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of its customers.

“We are thrilled to welcome Michael Amsinck to our leadership team,” said Morten Felsvang. CEO of Keepit. “With Michael’s extensive experience in product development and his proven track record of driving product strategy, we are confident that he will be a key driver in taking Keepit’s product offerings to the next level. This is a pivotal time for Keepit as we continue to expand our global presence and strengthen our position as the leading provider of SaaS data protection. Michael Amsinck’s expertise will be invaluable as we navigate the opportunities and challenges ahead.”

Michael Amsinck brings years of experience from previous leadership roles at Cision, Brandwatch, and Falcon.io, where he was responsible for overseeing large teams and ensuring alignment across sales, marketing, product, and engineering teams. His process-driven approach and focus on strategic communication will be critical in ensuring that Keepit’s product development efforts are fully aligned with the company’s overall business objectives.

Intelligent, future-proof data protection
“The opportunity is incredibly exciting: Keepit has already proven its ability to execute, and now it’s about building on that foundation and taking things to the next level,” said Michael Amsinck, highlighting the importance of the data protection market.

The new CPO noted that backup and recovery are evergreen challenges that will continue to grow in significance:

“Businesses are starting to realize that data protection is something they need to take seriously, and the market for these solutions is huge. In the months and years ahead, a key priority will be expanding our comprehensive ecosystem of workloads to meet the evolving SaaS data protection needs of the enterprise segment. We’ll also prioritize strengthening disaster recovery strategies and developing opinionated frameworks to guide and educate our customers, ensuring they have intelligent, forward-thinking data protection,” envisioned Michael Amsinck.

Alignment and expansion
With a background in leading large teams and a focus on strategic alignment, Michael Amsinck is well-equipped to help Keepit maintain its momentum and deliver on its promises. “We need to be clear about what we need to deliver in the upcoming months, and where we’re heading in the years to come,” Michael Amsinck said. “It’s about continuous development, and about not overextending, but performing. I’m confident in my ability to help Keepit align its efforts across sales, marketing, product, and engineering to ensure we’re all working towards the same goals.”

As Keepit continues to expand its global footprint and drive innovation in the data protection space, Michael Amsinck’s leadership will be key to ensuring that the company remains at the forefront of the industry.

About Michael Amsinck
With a strong background in product development and leadership, Michael Amsinck brings a wealth of experience and insight and years of experience from leadership roles at Cision, Brandwatch, and Falcon.io, with responsibility for overseeing large teams and ensuring alignment across sales, marketing, product, and engineering. A process-driven approach and focus on strategic communication are critical in ensuring that product development efforts are fully aligned with the company’s overall business objectives.

Find Michael Amsinck on LinkedIn

About Keepit
Keepit provides a next-level SaaS data protection platform purpose-built for the cloud. Securing data in a vendor-independent cloud safeguards essential business applications, boosts cyber resilience, and future-proofs data protection. Unique, separate, and immutable data storage with no sub-processors ensures compliance with local regulations and mitigates the impact of ransomware while guaranteeing continuous data access, business continuity, and fast and effective disaster recovery. Headquartered in Copenhagen with offices and data centers worldwide, over ten thousand companies trust Keepit for its ease of use and effortless backup and recovery of cloud data.

For more information visit www.keepit.com or follow Keepit on Linkedin.

Contact:
RedIron PR for Keepit
Kari Ritacco
kari@redironpr.com

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Company Commits to Becoming One of the First MSP-Centric Platform Vendors to Achieve FedRAMP Authorization

Miami, FL – October 1, 2024 –- / BackupReview.info / — Kaseya, the leading global provider of AI-powered cybersecurity and IT management software, today announced its commitment to achieve FedRAMP authorizations across its tech stack to support MSPs with their CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) and other compliance certification requirements. The company kickstarted this process with the engagement of third-party assessor organization (3PAO) vendor SERA-BRYNN and the appointment of Jon DePerro as VP, FedRAMP and Compliance Solutions.

“We’ve made a multimillion-dollar commitment in pursuit of FedRAMP authorization across our IT Complete platform. This investment ensures that partners Powered by Kaseya will leverage this authorization not only to power their SMB customers without disruption, but also to grow their business – making them more profitable,” said Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola. “It will open massive opportunities for them as it’s estimated more than 80,000 organizations will need a CMMC Level 2 certification. We are early adopters in the MSP space for this and are fully committed to making sure our partners have the best chance to achieve the highest levels of success.”

Achieving FedRAMP authorization will enable Kaseya to address compliance among its MSPs working with the Department of Defense (DoD) and other agencies that will soon be using similar frameworks.

Kaseya is one of the first MSP-centric platform vendors to make a tangible commitment to achieving FedRAMP authorization. While many FedRAMP-authorized vendors support enterprise companies, Kaseya’s authorization will give small and medium-sized businesses that support at the price and scale that meets their needs.

To champion this initiative, Kaseya has brought in Jon DePerro as VP of FedRAMP and Compliance Solutions. With over 20 years of experience in compliance serving as a counterintelligence officer for the U.S. Army for 15 years and spending the last five years building compliance solutions for MSPs, DePerro will play an integral role in Kaseya’s quest to achieve FedRAMP authorization.

“Compliance is expanding into the MSP and IT industry as government agencies look to grapple with rampant cybercrime,” said Max Pruger, GM of Kaseya’s Audit and Compliance Suite.  “MSPs who embrace compliance services as part of their security stack are positioning themselves to take advantage of new and lucrative revenue opportunities while providing a higher level of security to their customers. Jon’s addition to our team brings an unparalleled level of compliance experience and will, ultimately, enable our customers to be ahead of the curve as early adopters of CMMC certifications and other pending regulatory requirements.”

For more information on Kaseya, visit the company’s website here.

About Kaseya
Kaseya is the leading global provider of AI-powered cybersecurity and IT management software for IT professionals in managed service providers (MSPs) and mid-market enterprises (MMEs). Through its customer-centric approach and renowned support, Kaseya delivers best-in-breed technologies that empower organizations to seamlessly manage IT infrastructure, secure networks, backup critical data, manage service operations, and grow their businesses. Kaseya offers a broad array of IT management solutions, including well-known names: Kaseya, Datto, IT Glue, RapidFire Tools, Unitrends, Spanning Cloud Apps, TruMethods, ID Agent, Graphus and RocketCyber. These innovative solutions fuel Kaseya’s IT Complete platform, which is designed to maximize efficiencies and enable businesses through a single pane of glass. IT Complete empowers IT professionals to centrally command hardware, software, security, data, compliance, operations and more from within a comprehensive, integrated, intelligent (AI utilization-optimized), and affordable platform. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Kaseya is privately held with a global presence in over 25 countries. To learn more, visit https://www.kaseya.com/.

Contact:
Taylor Odekirk
Walker Sands for Kaseya for Kaseya
319-883-9497
kaseyapr@walkersands.com

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ActiveScale 7.0 and ActiveScale Cold Storage Achieve Veeam Ready Qualification

SAN JOSE, Calif. – October 01, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), the pioneer in end-to-end data management solutions designed for the AI era, today announced its ActiveScale® object storage software has extended its Veeam® Ready qualifications. Veeam® Software is the #1 leader by market share in Data Resilience. Quantum’s new Veeam Ready qualifications now include the new ActiveScale 7.0 software that includes support for all-flash solutions for fast ransomware recovery and ActiveScale Cold Storage support of Veeam Archive Tier for low-cost, air-gapped retention of Veeam backups. These Veeam Ready solutions provide organizations unprecedented cyber resilience with multi-layered protection, high performance, simplicity, and efficiency to prepare, protect, and recover business-critical applications rapidly and with confidence.

ActiveScale object storage has long been recognized as a reliable Veeam Ready backup target, evolving alongside Veeam’s expanding object storage capabilities. Designed for fast recovery across multiple storage classes using flash, hard disk, and tape, ActiveScale flexibly meets demanding recovery service level agreements (SLAs) and economically addresses long-term retention of backups.

Recent advancements across the ActiveScale product portfolio strengthen its value within Veeam environments:

• The ActiveScale 7.0 release, which is now Veeam Ready, includes support for all-flash configurations offering impressive restore performance to provide rapid recovery of mission-critical data for fast response to ransomware attacks, rogue actors, and other data risks. Based on an all-flash, scale-out architecture, ActiveScale 7.0 seamlessly expands backup target resources (compute, networking and storage) for simple, scalable performance within a Veeam environment.
• The ActiveScale 7.0 Cold Storage feature is also now qualified as a Veeam Archive Tier, providing cost-effective access to all retained backups. Previous to Veeam Version 12.1, Archive Tiers were limited to public cloud storage services that are expensive to egress data, incur significant Internet and WAN costs, and are extremely slow. Restoring backups from ActiveScale Cold Storage is dramatically faster and up to 98% lower cost than public cloud offerings, extending the utility and value of the Veeam Archive Tier. Plus, with Veeam’s new Direct to Archive feature, backups can be sent directly from Performance Tier storage to the Archive Tier, further reducing overall costs and simplifying operations.

“With ActiveScale, organizations can feel at ease that all their data is immutable against cyber threats and recoverable in minutes and hours instead of days or weeks,” says Bruno Hald, vice president, secondary storage, Quantum. “ActiveScale 7.0 provides fast restore performance now and in the future with easy scale-out expansion over time. ActiveScale 7.0 all-flash solutions are an ideal platform for deploying our ActiveScale Cold Storage feature to economically store Veeam Archive Tier backups for secure, immutable long-term retention.”

“The ongoing threat of ransomware attacks underscores the importance of cyber resilience as part of an overall Data Resilience strategy,” said Andreas Neurfert, vice president of product management, alliances at Veeam. “The combination of Veeam Data Platform™ and Quantum ActiveScale delivers a unique, cyber-resilient solution for fast recovery, economic long-term retention, and peace-of-mind data immutability.”

ActiveScale 7.0 is Veeam Ready qualified and available from Quantum solution integrators and partners. Customers now have the flexibility of a capital purchase or Quantum GO, a newly released, pay-as-you-go subscription offering.

Click here for more information on ActiveScale in a Veeam environment — https://www.quantum.com/en/solutions/enterprise-backup-and-archive/veeam

About Quantum
Quantum delivers end-to-end data management solutions designed for the AI era. With over four decades of experience, our data platform has allowed customers to extract the maximum value from their unique, unstructured data. From high-performance ingest that powers AI applications and demanding data-intensive workloads, to massive, durable data lakes to fuel AI models, Quantum delivers the most comprehensive and cost-efficient solutions. Leading organizations in life sciences, government, media and entertainment, research, and industrial technology trust Quantum with their most valuable asset – their data. Quantum is listed on Nasdaq (QMCO). For more information visit www.quantum.com

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These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, including without limitation, the following: Quantum ActiveScale and the impact of these factors on our performance and outlook. See also other risks that are described in “Risk Factors” in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, and any subsequent reports filed with the SEC. We do not intend to update or alter these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law or regulation.

Contact:
Sara Beth Fahey
Matter Communications
quantum@matternow.com

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New Bocada cyber resilience reporting enables customer visibility into backup-level security

Seattle, WA – October 1st, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Bocada LLC, an award-winning IT monitoring and automation company, has announced new cyber resilience reports to enable customer visibility into backup-level immutability and encryption.

With 96% of ransomware attacks now targeting backup repositories (Source: 2024 Ransomware Trends Report, Veeam Insights), it has become essential for organizations to protect their backups with security features such as immutability and encryption.

When at least one backup copy is kept in immutable storage as prescribed by modern updates to the 3-2-1 backup rule, it becomes significantly harder for ransomware attackers to compromise an organization’s ability to recover quickly using its own backups. Similarly, backup-level encryption can safeguard data privacy even if backup repositories are compromised, reducing the risk that sensitive information will be exposed.

While many modern data protection providers such as Veeam, Cohesity, and Commvault already support and promote the use of immutability and encryption, visibility into whether these security features are being utilized has been a gap for many organizations — until now.

Bocada customers can now run a single report to identify backup jobs across multiple backup products that have immutability and/or encryption enabled, as well as those missing these attributes, thereby improving their cyber resilience against threats such as ransomware.

“These new reports are just one of the many steps Bocada is taking to ensure our customers meet the highest compliance standards and are protected against the modern threat of ransomware,” said Matt Hall, CEO of Bocada. “At Bocada, we are developing a future-proof monitoring platform that empowers not only backup and storage teams but also their cybersecurity counterparts to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats.”

Immutable backup and encrypted data reports are available immediately to Bocada Enterprise customers using version 24.3.09 or later. To learn more about Bocada’s latest cyber resilience capabilities, email sales@bocada.com or call +1-425-898-2400.

About Bocada
Bocada LLC, a global IT Automation leader, delivers data protection compliance and cyber resilience solutions that give enterprises and managed service providers complete visibility into their data protection performance. Bocada provides insight into complex backup environments, enabling IT organizations to improve cyber resilience, save time, automate ongoing reporting activities, and reduce costs. With the largest installed customer base in the Fortune 500, Bocada is the world’s leading provider of backup reporting automation. For more information, visit www.bocada.com

Press Contact
James Hsu
+1-425-898-2400
sales@bocada.com

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Reinforcing Commitment to Security and Quality in Data Protection

BOURNEMOUTH, UK – October 1, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — BackupVault, a leading provider of secure cloud backup solutions, is proud to announce that it has been awarded the prestigious ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications. These internationally recognized standards reflect the company’s dedication to maintaining the highest levels of information security and quality management.

ISO 27001 certification demonstrates BackupVault’s robust framework for protecting sensitive data, ensuring that customer information is handled with the utmost security. ISO 9001 certification highlights the company’s commitment to consistent quality and operational excellence across all areas of the business.

“Our customers rely on us to protect their most valuable asset—data. Achieving ISO 27001 and 9001 certifications underscores our ongoing commitment to providing the best data protection solutions, with security and quality at the forefront of everything we do,” said Rob Stevenson, Founder of BackupVault.

These certifications come at a pivotal time for organizations facing increasing cybersecurity threats. BackupVault’s solutions offer peace of mind to UK-based businesses by safeguarding critical data with stringent security protocols and top-tier quality standards.

For more information on BackupVault’s certifications and to learn more about their services, visit www.backupvault.co.uk

About BackupVault
BackupVault is a UK-based, vendor independent cloud backup provider specializing in secure data protection for businesses of all sizes, as well as the education sector.

Support for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, servers, virtual machines and desktop devices. With a focus on security, reliability, and simplicity, BackupVault helps organizations protect their data from cyber threats, accidental deletion, and disasters.

Contact
Ryan James
ryan@backupvault.co.uk

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The Majority of Consumers are Highly Critical of Ransom Payments and May Switch to the Competition if their Preferred Provider Fails to Protect their Data

SAN JOSE, Calif. – October 1, 2024 — /BackupReview.info/– New survey data from Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security, reveals that consumers surveyed worldwide are highly concerned about the information companies collect from them – especially when it`s used for artificial intelligence (AI). The overwhelming majority of respondents (73% in the UK, 81% in the US and 82% in Australia) criticized companies for collecting too much of their personal or financial data¹.  And 9 out of 10 consumers are concerned that AI will impact how companies keep customer data secure. Meeting customers’ growing expectations for better protection of their sensitive information is now a business imperative, with consumers prepared to punish companies by switching providers for any loss of trust.

The survey of 6,000+ consumers worldwide polled assessments of the digital industry’s data practices. Alongside the criticism around companies’ hunger for data, the findings also spell out an unmet expectation for greater diligence from organizations to protect consumers’ personal information once obtained – as identified by 73% of respondents in the UK, 86% in the US, and 87% in Australia¹.

Respondents aren’t just asking for a change – they are willing to change their preferred seller if they fall victim to a cyberattack and their data is compromised. A near consensus among users in all three countries (more than 90%) said they might stop doing business with a company if it were the victim of a cyberattack^2,3.

“Consumers clearly understand that companies have a lot of catching up to do in the area of ??data governance and security,” explains James Blake, Global Cyber ??Security Strategist, Cohesity. “The hunger for AI is causing some businesses to skip threat modeling and due diligence on how their data will be exposed. Companies looking to use AI in-house must invest in the security and hygiene of their data to maintain cyber resilience in order to satisfy these consumers that are willing to vote with their purchases. Those looking to leverage the AI capabilities of suppliers must adopt a strong and proactive approach to third-party risk. Consumer trust is quickly lost, and competitors are always just a click away, so ensuring AI strategies don’t introduce additional risk to customer data is crucial.”

Most common consumer fears surrounding unregulated AI data collection
Companies around the world expect miracles from AI, but large amounts of data must be collected for these AI models to learn from. Often, this need for data is prioritized over responsible data collection and handling. Private users are, in turn, concerned with the lack of transparency from companies regarding their AI practices:

• Nearly all consumers (87% in the UK, 92% in the US, and 93% in Australia) are concerned² that AI will make securing and managing their data much more challenging.
• Most even go a step further to classify AI as a risk to data protection and security (64% in the UK, 72% in the US, and 83% in Australia)¹.
• Worsening these fears about AI’s implications for their data, consumers (70% in the UK, 81% in the US, and 83% in Australia) are severely concerned with the unrestricted or unpoliced use of AI with their data, with the vast majority demanding greater transparency and regulation.
• At a minimum, private users (74% in the UK, 85% in the US, and 88% in Australia) want to be asked for permission before their personal or financial data is fed into AI models¹.

The expectation of greater transparency also applies to the common practice of sharing data with third-party providers:

• The vast majority of respondents (79% in the UK, 87% in the US, and 90% in Australia) want to know who their data is being shared with¹.
• Most respondents (77% in the UK, 85% in the US, and 90% in Australia) also call for companies to vet third-party providers’ data security and management practices with access to customer data¹.

Sanctions in the event consumer data is compromised
This clear call for more control, transparency, and protection around their data is largely motivated by respondents’ negative experiences. Unsurprisingly, most respondents are highly critical of buying access back to their compromised data – essentially fueling cyber criminals’ business model with fresh capital.

• Over half of those surveyed (46% in the UK, 75% in the US, and 62% in Australia) had been personally impacted by a cyberattack.
• More than half of those surveyed do not agree with the idea that companies should pay ransoms (56% in the UK, 52% in the US, and 58% in Australia), condemning the common practice of companies buying their way out of ransomware attacks.

“Paying a ransom rarely results in the recovery of all data. It brings its own logistical challenges and potential criminal liability for paying sanctioned entities – not to mention rewarding criminals”, explains James Blake, Global Cyber ??Security Strategist, Cohesity. “It’s time for companies to really focus on aligning themselves with the best cyber resiliency vendors and end the cycle. This is where Cohesity can help.”

About the research
The research included in this release was conducted by Censuswide, with 6002 Respondents in the UK, US, and Australia (Nat Rep) between 28.06.2024 – 05.07.2024. Censuswide abides by, and employs, members of the Market Research Society which is based on the ESOMAR principles.

¹”Strongly agree” and “Somewhat agree” answers combined
²“Highly likely,” “Somewhat likely,” and “Maybe, it depends” answers combined
³“Highly” and “Somewhat” answers combined
⁴“Somewhat disagree,” “Strongly disagree” and “Neither agree nor disagree” answers combined

About Cohesity
Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easier to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data – across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. Cohesity solutions can be delivered as a service, self-managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner. Cohesity is headquartered in San Jose, CA, and is trusted by the world’s largest enterprises, including 47 of the Fortune 100.

Media Contact:
Michael Piontek
Director, Cohesity Corporate Communications, EMEA
michael.piontek@cohesity.com
+49 (0) 1523 460 27 25

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DPX 4.11 continues the march to add features to protect customers and ensure a rapid recovery so they can return to production as quickly as possible

Paramus, NJ, Oct. 01, 2024 — /BackupReview.info/ — Catalogic Software, a provider of secure data protection solutions for over 25 years, today announced the newest version of Catalogic DPX, the company’s enterprise data protection software. DPX 4.11 provides enhanced capabilities in data recovery and data security. With this new release, Catalogic DPX continues to increase its customers ability to avoid follow on security incidents, ensuring a fast return to production.

The latest version of DPX has features that offer:

Enhanced Data Security and Compliance
Data security is elevated by integrating built-in immutability through features like Deletion Lock, ensuring that data cannot be tampered with or deleted after it is written. This added layer of protection is seamlessly provided within the software-defined storage platform, without the need for additional hardware, making it more accessible and cost-effective for organizations. Additionally, DPX’s Cyber Resilient Recovery approach creates a “clean-room” environment during data restoration, ensuring that recovered systems are free from malicious code and vulnerabilities. This comprehensive solution not only protects sensitive data against ransomware and accidental deletions but also maintains compliance with stringent regulatory requirements.

Proactive Data Integrity and Security
With the integration of vStor Snapshot Explorer and vStor GuardMode, Catalogic DPX delivers a comprehensive approach to data recovery, enabling granular file recovery regardless of the catastrophe, including the loss of catalog information. These features ensure data integrity by scanning backups to verify they are free from ransomware, offering businesses peace of mind that restored data is clean, uncorrupted, and immediately accessible. This guarantees minimal downtime and seamless operational continuity, even in the most severe disaster scenarios.

“Today, organizations face more sophisticated and complex threats than ever before, making security, compliance, and business continuity increasingly challenging. With the latest updates to DPX, Catalogic is providing tools that help organizations meet compliance requirements and strengthen their security posture,” said Pawel Staniec, CTO, Catalogic Software. “DPX features a software-defined storage layer with built-in ransomware protection, offering a unique ‘out-of-the-box’ solution. Unlike other vendors that require assembling various components to achieve the same functionality, DPX delivers it all at a fraction of the cost.”

This newest version of DPX underscores Catalogic Software’s ongoing commitment to providing the most robust cost effective data protection solutions to meet the evolving needs of modern enterprises. For more details on Catalogic DPX and its newest features, please visit the DPX Product Page.

About Catalogic Software
Catalogic Software is a secure data protection company providing innovative backup and recovery solutions including its flagship DPX product, enabling IT organizations to protect, secure and leverage their data. Catalogic’s CloudCasa offers cloud data protection, backup and disaster recovery as a service for Kubernetes applications and cloud data services.

Learn more at www.catalogicsoftware.com and www.cloudcasa.io

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Reese Goldsmith
Account Executive
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Joanne Hogue
Smart Connections PR for Catalogic Software
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Assured Data Protection signs strategic distribution partnership with Mindware, a leading value-added distributor (VAD) in the Middle East and Africa

Herndon, VA, US and Leeds, UK – 30th September 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Assured Data Protection (Assured), the prominent IT managed services provider (MSP) for cloud data protection solutions, today announced the launch of its cyber recovery and fully managed backup services into the Middle East, backed by Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security™ Company. As part of the launch, Assured has signed a strategic distribution partnership across the Middle East region with Mindware, a leading value-added distributor (VAD) in the Middle East and Africa. The partnership will benefit partners and companies across the region, providing them with leading-edge backup and cyber recovery capabilities as a managed service, at an affordable price.

Assured works directly with customers, MSPs and the reseller community to ensure that businesses can protect and recover their critical data and operations in the event of outages, natural disasters, ransomware, and cyber-attacks. Assured customers and partners receive a fully managed Rubrik service from design and implementation through to recovery and daily proactive support. Rubrik’s Zero Trust Data Security™ helps organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Rubrik Security Cloud, powered by machine learning, secures data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS applications.

Rob Mackle, EMEA Managing Director, Assured Data Protection, said, “Rubrik offers an outstanding immutable cyber recovery technology, combined with our industry leading 24/7/365 managed service, we are the perfect partner to help organisations that need cyber resiliency in the face of the increasing cyber threat landscape. We’re excited to deliver our innovative disaster recovery solutions through Mindware’s channel partners to every business that needs it in the Middle East. We see Mindware as a great partner to help establish our brand in the region. Our launch into the Middle East is another important step forward in our ambitious growth plans for 2024 and beyond.”

The new partnership between Mindware and Assured also addresses the growing demand among Middle Eastern organizations for channel support in navigating complex data sovereignty and privacy regulations, along with their disaster recovery and immutable backup needs. This collaboration will establish local data centres to help clients manage data sovereignty issues and minimize latency in data transfer, enhancing operational efficiency and security.

Ehab Adel, Business Unit Manager, Mindware, said, “We are thrilled to partner with Assured, the first and largest global Rubrik MSP, to deliver an unparalleled 24/7/365 fully managed service that guarantees robust cyber resilience for our channel partners. This strategic alliance greatly strengthens our data protection and managed services portfolio, reinforcing our position as a key player in helping organizations swiftly recover from cyber threats, including ransomware. With Assured, we can now provide a more flexible and cost-effective approach to deploying Rubrik solutions for businesses of all sizes.”

Ghazal Asif, VP, Global Channels & Alliances, Rubrik said: “As a leading MSP of Rubrik technology, we are proud to support Assured’s new expansion into the Middle East and welcome its new partnership with Mindware. Having seen firsthand how strong a Rubrik and Assured proposition is for customers, organizations in the Middle East will now have the best of breed solutions to be cyber resilient in the face of an ever-evolving threat landscape.”

To book a meeting with the Assured Data Protection team, please contact us at info@assured-dp.com.

About Assured Data Protection
Assured Data Protection is a global data backup, disaster recovery, business continuity and extended detection and response managed service provider. With more than 200 years of combined industry experience, Assured Data Protection delivers scalable solutions and gained the distinction of being selected by Solutions Review Magazine as a Top 20 Vendor for data disaster recovery and CIO Review as a Top 20 Vendor for data backup. For more information, visit www.assured-dp.com

Media Contact:
Matthew Valleskey
Assured Data Protection
703-888-4783

Agency Contact:
Sylvie Picard
Waters Agency
Account Executive
+1-702-403-8694
sylvie@watersagency.com

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Approximately 80% of businesses are confident in adhering to NIS2, yet 66% will miss the compliance deadline

SEATTLE, WA – September 30, 2024 –- / BackupReview.info / — Organizations are navigating a landscape of mixed emotions as the Network and Information Security Directive 2022/2555 (NIS2) enforcement date approaches. NIS2, a regulation aimed at strengthening cybersecurity across the EU by expanding the scope and increasing the rigor of security requirements, goes into effect on 18 Oct. 2024. Veeam® Software, the #1 market leader by market share in Data Resilience, commissioned a new survey from Censuswide that revealed that only 43% of EMEA IT decision-makers believe NIS2 will significantly enhance EU cybersecurity. This is despite an overwhelming 90% of respondents reporting at least one security incident that the NIS2 directive could have prevented in the past 12 months. Alarmingly, 44% of respondents experienced more than three cyber incidents, with 65% of those categorized as “highly critical”.

The survey results, which encompass the views of 500+ IT decision-makers from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK, revealed the state of play less than a month before this directive takes effect on Oct. 18. Although nearly 80% of businesses are confident in their ability to eventually comply with NIS2 guidelines, up to two-thirds state they will miss this imminent deadline.

Barriers to NIS2 Compliance
Achieving NIS2 compliance requires businesses to implement essential measures, such as defining incident response plans, securing supply chains, assessing vulnerabilities, and evaluating overall security levels. This includes all affiliated organizations, partners, and supply chains. However, several barriers to compliance persist. Key challenges cited by IT decision-makers include technical debt (24%), lack of leadership understanding (23%), and insufficient budget/investments (21%). Notably, 40% of respondents reported decreased IT budgets since the political agreement for NIS2 was proclaimed effective in January 2023, despite its stringent penalties, which are comparable to those of the EU’s flagship data privacy legislation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 63% of respondents view the GDPR as strict, and 62% express the same sentiment about NIS2.

Competitive Pressures Amid Cyberthreats
The slow pace of NIS2 adoption is likely due to the multitude of competing priorities and business pressures that face these organizations. Respondents rank NIS2 lower in urgency than ten other issues, including the skills gap, profitability, and digital transformation. Worryingly, 42% of respondents who consider NIS2 insignificant for EU cybersecurity improvements attribute this to inadequate consequences of non-compliance, which has led to widespread apathy towards the directive.

Additional key findings from the survey include:

• 74% of respondents see NIS2 as beneficial, but 57% doubt it will have any substantial impact on overall EU cybersecurity posture.
• Sceptics cite additional concerns such as NIS2’s lack of comprehensiveness (35%), belief that compliance doesn’t guarantee security (34%), and overlap with existing regulations (25%).
• Other barriers include a lack of focus on NIS2 compliance (20%), tight timelines (19%), cybersecurity skills shortage (19%), directive complexity (19%), and organizational silos (19%).
• Despite conflicting views, most respondents perceive NIS2 positively in the context of their organization’s regulatory obligations, feeling optimistic (33%), confident (32%), and encouraged (27%).

Andre Troskie, EMEA Field CISO at Veeam, stated: “NIS2 brings responsibility for cybersecurity beyond IT teams into the boardroom. While many businesses recognize the importance of this directive, the struggle to comply found in the survey highlights significant systemic issues. The combined pressures of other business priorities and IT challenges can explain the delays, but this does not lessen the urgency. Given the rising frequency and severity of cyberthreats, the potential benefits of NIS2 in preventing critical incidents and bolstering data resilience can’t be overstated. Leadership teams must act swiftly to bridge these gaps and ensure compliance, not just for regulatory sake but to genuinely enhance organizational robustness and safeguard critical data.”

To learn more about Veeam, visit https://www.veeam.com.

About the Veeam NIS2 Confidence Survey
Censuswide conducted this research on behalf of Veeam between Aug. 29 and Sept. 2, 2024. The survey included 500+ IT decision-makers from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. Although the UK is a non-EU member state, it was included due to its significant business ties with EU countries. An additional criterion ensured that UK respondents either currently do business within the EU or have plans to do so. To achieve balanced representation, quotas were established for each market: 50 respondents were from medium-sized companies (50-249 employees) and 50 were from large or enterprise-sized companies (250+ employees). Respondents were selected from industry verticals listed amongst the essential and important entities subject to the NIS2 directive. The study was nationally representative.

About Veeam Software
Veeam^®, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should be able to bounce forward after a disruption with the confidence and control of all their data whenever and wherever they need it. Veeam calls this radical resilience, and we’re obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve it.

Veeam solutions are purpose-built for powering data resilience by providing data backup, data recovery, data freedom, data security, and data intelligence. With Veeam, IT and security leaders rest easy knowing that their apps and data are protected and always available across their cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments.

Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 74% of the Global 2000, that trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

Veeam Contact:
Veeam Software
Director, Global Public Relations
Heidi Monroe Kroft, 614-339-8200 x8309

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The company received awards for Happiest Employees, Perks and Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., September 30, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Egnyte, a leading provider of cloud-based content collaboration and governance solutions, today announced it has been recognized by Comparably, a leading workplace culture and corporate brand reputation platform, for three new awards, including Best Company Happiest Employees, Best Company Perks and Benefits, and Best Company Work-Life Balance. This marks seven earned Comparably Awards in the last 12 months and 23 in the past five years.

The company’s culture is driven by its core values of Invested Relationships, Fiscal Prudence, and Candid Conversations. It provides employees with growth opportunities and work-life balance to achieve their career goals. These recognitions highlight the impact of prioritizing the employee experience in building a thriving workplace.

“It’s an honor to be recognized for three additional Comparably Best Company Awards this year. At Egnyte, we believe that our people are our greatest asset, and these awards demonstrate our dedication to creating an environment where they can thrive,” stated Vineet Jain, co-founder and CEO of Egnyte. “We understand that a positive and supportive work environment is not just a ‘nice to have’; it’s essential for attracting and retaining top talent and driving innovation to achieve our business objectives.”

Comparably Awards are based on anonymous sentiment feedback from current employees who rated their employers on comparably.com between August 19, 2023, and August 19, 2024. Workers answered structured questions on various workplace topics, and the final data set was compiled from over 20 million ratings across 70,000 companies.

Ready to spark a new career? Egnyte is actively recruiting for various roles across the company. To learn more about open opportunities, please visit the Egnyte careers page here.

About Comparably
Comparably by ZoomInfo is a leading employee review and salary platform with 20 million anonymous employee ratings on 70,000 U.S. & Canadian-based companies. With the most comprehensive data on large and SMB organizations in nearly 20 workplace categories – based on gender, ethnicity, age, experience, industry, location, and education – it’s one of the most used SaaS platforms for employer branding and a trusted third party site for workplace culture and compensation. For more information on Comparably and its annual Best Places to Work series, visit comparably.com.

About Egnyte
Egnyte combines the power of cloud content management, data security, and AI into one intelligent content platform. More than 22,000 customers trust Egnyte to improve employee productivity, automate business processes, and safeguard critical data, in addition to offering specialized content intelligence and automation solutions across industries, including architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), life sciences, and financial services. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com

Global Press & Media Contact
Brittany Carambio
Director of Corporate Marketing
Phone: 301-678-3412
Email: media@egnyte.com

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SaaS Customer Experience Leader Joins Best in Industry Data Protection Provider to Accelerate Customer Journey for Maximum Business Objectives

Boston, MA, Sept. 30, 2024 — /BackupReview.info/– HYCU, Inc., a leader for modern data protection for on-prem, cloud services, and SaaS, and one of the fastest growing companies in the industry, today announced the appointment of Brian Babineau as HYCU’s Chief Customer Officer. Babineau brings more than two decades of experience leading results-oriented customer-focused services and support organizations. He joins HYCU from Barracuda where most recently he was Chief Customer Officer. Prior he was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of MSP Solutions growing the business year on year via organic innovation and multiple acquisitions. He joined Barracuda as Vice President of Product Marketing. A long-standing analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc., he joined ESG from EMC where he held a number of customer-facing positions. He joins a customer-centric leadership team that delivers value through protecting and securing critical enterprise data.

“Delighting customers has always been our focus at HYCU. With more than 4,200 customers worldwide and an industry-leading NPS score consistently above 90, to support our next phase of growth, we were looking for someone with a rich pedigree of data protection experience, along with a proven ability to help meet customers’ evolving purchasing habits with innovative solutions. We could not be more thrilled to have Brian join the team,” said Simon Taylor, Founder and CEO, HYCU. “Brian brings a rare balance of ensuring customers make the most from their technology investments while exceeding both success and support experience.”

While at Barracuda, Babineau led several initiatives to simplify customer experience from purchase through support. He spearheaded the concept of global customer success after delivering consistent retention metrics with the MSP Division. He was an integral part of Barracuda’s shift from an appliance to SaaS business model across several security solutions.

“I have admired HYCU’s journey to date as a leading SaaS and multi-cloud data protection platform provider,” said Babineau. “I’m excited to join HYCU as the company looks to expand its products and market reach. The team has very aggressive customer metrics which will translate into better business outcomes for them and us. As a passionate customer success executive and operator, I am impressed by the caliber of HYCU’s customer base and I am looking forward to spending time with our customers to ensure they maximize their investment in HYCU.”

To learn more about HYCU’s multicloud-native and SaaS data protection solutions, visit: www.hycu.com, follow us on X (formerly Twitter), connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

About HYCU
HYCU is the fastest-growing leader in the multi-cloud and SaaS data protection as a service industry. By bringing true SaaS-based data backup and recovery to on-premises, cloud-native, and SaaS IT environments, the company provides unrivaled data protection, migration, disaster recovery, and ransomware protection to thousands of companies worldwide. The company’s award-winning R-Cloud platform eliminates complexity, risk, and the high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity to make it the #1 SaaS Data Protection platform. With an industry leading NPS score of 91, HYCU has raised $140M in VC funding to date and is based in Boston, Mass. Learn more at www.hycu.com

Contact
Don Jennings
Senior Director, Global Communications and PR
(Cell) 617.791.1710
(Email) don.jennings@hycu.com
(Twitter) @djenningspr

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