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Powerful combination of the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform and the Rubrik Security Cloud delivers visibility and context-rich insights needed to protect critical data

AUSTIN, Texas and PALO ALTO, Calif., March 27, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD) and Rubrik today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate data security transformation and stop breaches of critical information. By unifying rich, data-centric attack context from the Rubrik Security Cloud with the industry-leading AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® XDR platform, organizations can rapidly detect, investigate and stop attacks targeting sensitive data.

According to the 2024 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report, adversaries continue to target sensitive information to conduct data-theft extortion attacks. At the same time, research from Rubrik conducted by Wakefield Research shows that nearly every business (98%) is reporting struggles with data visibility due to complex technology stacks, creating gaps that adversaries can exploit. To stop breaches, security teams need to rapidly identify and prioritize response actions to threats targeting an organization’s most valuable data. The powerful combination of the Falcon Platform and the Rubrik Security Cloud unifies threat detection with data discovery and classification across cloud and IT infrastructure, designed to deliver the context security teams need to rapidly detect and respond to attacks on high-value data targets.

“CrowdStrike Falcon has become cybersecurity’s source of truth and platform of record. Our partnership with Rubrik strengthens CrowdStrike’s data gravity, unifying threat detection with data discovery, classification and backup,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. “Through this partnership, we’re delivering the visibility and context security teams need to prioritize and accelerate response actions required to stop breaches of sensitive information – all from a single platform.”

“Legacy backup tools are not designed for modern cyberattacks, and many organizations are now paying the price. The gap between threat detection, data discovery, and classification creates significant visibility challenges for security teams defending critical data,” said Anneka Gupta, chief product officer, Rubrik. “With CrowdStrike, we are helping our customers up the ante against cyber adversaries, allowing security teams to identify and defend against attacks swiftly – and ultimately boost cyber resilience.”

CrowdStrike generates the highest-fidelity security telemetry and enriches it with industry-leading adversary intelligence and human expertise to power every aspect of the Falcon platform. By unifying it with the rich, data-centric context from the Rubrik Security Cloud, organizations can gain context-rich insights, such as attack behaviors and critical data being targeted, that drive accelerated detection, investigation, and recovery. Organizations can optimize security and IT operations, reduce alert fatigue, and focus efforts on stopping data breaches.

Partner Quotes:
“With Rubrik’s data security intelligence, CANCOM’s focused solutions and services, and CrowdStrike’s cutting-edge cyber security solutions, we will fortify our offering with increased protection, faster recovery, and reduced data security risk. This partnership reflects our shared commitment to reinforcing cybersecurity measures and empowering organizations to navigate the complexities of the cyber landscape with confidence,” said Alexander Ernst, Director Competence Center – Network & Security at CANCOM.

“We believe the Rubrik and CrowdStrike partnership and the value of their integrations will bring our customers comprehensive cybersecurity solutions. With these two leaders coming together, World Wide Technology will now be able to empower our customers to safeguard their critical data, identify threats, and enable rapid recovery while also enabling business continuity in the face of evolving cyber threats,” said, Jordan Hildebrand, Global Cyber – Practice Director Security Operations at World Wide Technology.

Rubrik Security Cloud for Falcon Logscale is available today on the CrowdStrike Marketplace. To learn more, register for the upcoming webinar, taking place on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 2:00 pm ET.

About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.

Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.

Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.

CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.

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About Rubrik
Rubrik is on a mission to secure the world’s data. With Zero Trust Data Security™, we help 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. We help organizations uphold data integrity, deliver data availability that withstands adverse conditions, continuously monitor data risks and threats, and restore businesses with their data when infrastructure is attacked.

For more information please visit www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on X (formerly Twitter) and Rubrik on LinkedIn.

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT: Any unreleased services or features referenced in this document are not currently available and may not be made generally available on time or at all, as may be determined in our sole discretion. Any such referenced services or features do not represent promises to deliver, commitments, or obligations of Rubrik, Inc. and may not be incorporated into any contract. Customers should make their purchase decisions based upon services and features that are currently generally available.

Press Contact
For CrowdStrike:
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For Rubrik:
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – March 27, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — N2WS, a leading provider of data protection solutions for enterprise-grade production environments in the public cloud, proudly announces the appointment of Alon Maimoni as its new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). He brings a wealth of experience in revenue architecture, marketing, sales, and SaaS leadership, making him an invaluable asset to N2WS as it enters its next phase of growth.

In his new role, Maimoni will spearhead the establishment of a revenue organization within N2WS, encompassing marketing and sales, and the creation of a new customer success division. This strategic move underscores N2WS’ commitment to delivering exceptional value to its 1,000+ customers across multiple cloud platforms through its acclaimed backup and recovery solutions.

Alon’s track record in scaling tech organizations, along with his strategic vision and hands-on approach, align perfectly with N2WS’ mission to empower businesses with top-tier data protection”, said Ohad Kritz, CEO of N2WS. “His addition comes at an exciting time for N2WS, and we’re thrilled to welcome him aboard”.

In past roles, Maimoni has raised millions in venture capital funds and increased annual recurring revenue (ARR) by over seven times to more than $200 million. In his last role as vice president of marketing for Komodor, a Kubernetes Reliability platform, he helped the company grow by over 400 percent in under two years.

“I’m excited to join a company with a stellar reputation for innovation and customer-centric solutions”, he said. “I plan to build on N2WS’ strong foundation, leveraging our cross/multi-cloud capabilities and industry-leading backup recovery tools to propel the company into a new era of growth”.

N2WS has been at the forefront of data protection solutions since it was founded in 2012. As a cloud-native backup, disaster recovery, and archiving tool, N2WS protects data and cuts down on storage costs with customizable backup policies. It’s the premier backup solution for Fortune 500 companies and MSPs operating large-scale production environments on AWS and Azure.

About N2WS
Founded in 2012, N2WS provides data protection solutions tailored for enterprise-grade production environments in the public cloud. Built from the ground up, N2WS offers comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions for enterprises utilizing AWS and Azure infrastructures. Its solutions empower organizations to restore entire servers, instances, volumes, or files across different regions or cloud services, ensuring seamless transitions back to operational activities. To learn more, visit n2ws.com. Subscribe to the N2WS YouTube Channel, and follow the company on LinkedIn.

Media Contact:
Christopher Joseph (CJ) Arlotta
CJ Media Solutions for N2WS
C: 631-572-3019

Source: N2WS

 

 

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 26, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technologies and services, announced that Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans (MPI), a nonprofit organization that administers health and retirement benefits to the film industry, modernized its IT environment with Pure Storage to drive higher performance, greater efficiency, and business growth.

Customer Challenge:
Over 60,000 set designers, animators, and numerous other motion picture production workers across 30 film industry unions and guilds rely on MPI for their health and retirement benefits. Serving as a custodian for trust funds between industry unions and employers, MPI is dedicated to ensuring the welfare of participants, which includes robust measures to safeguard their personal data.

Faced with aging legacy systems and an escalating ransomware threat, MPI underwent a comprehensive overhaul of its IT operations to prioritize speed, scalability, and data protection.

Customer Impact:
MPI replaced its legacy systems with Pure Storage to achieve these goals, while also enhancing overall performance, efficiency, and recovery time. This transformation enables seamless support for a wide spectrum of tasks, ranging from pension payments to health eligibility and claims, reinforcing MPI’s commitment to providing reliable and secure services for its participants.

Benefits include:

  • Reduction in Data Center Footprint and Energy Costs: Always-on deduplication and compression make the most of MPI’s storage capacity despite continuous replication and multiple copies of MPI’s environment. A 13:1 compression rate and a resulting 95% reduction in storage racks – from 44 rack units to two – significantly reduced power and cooling costs and MPI’s overall data center footprint.
  • Efficient Backup and Faster Time to Recovery: MPI replaced all its tape archives with FlashBlade//S for rapid backups and near-instant data recovery. MPI calculated time-to-restore from a complete ransomware loss to be less than two days with FlashBlade, compared to more than 18 days trying to recover from tape. Ultimately, FlashBlade has proven to be 10 times faster than MPI’s previous system.
  • Enhanced System Performance and Scalability: MPI’s IT team supports its employees with their daily technology needs, ranging from a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to databases to application development. Performance and scalability to meet growing data volumes was a key factor in MPI’s purchasing decision of Pure Storage. Approximately 1,200 virtual machines, more than 200 VMware Horizon virtual desktops, and Microsoft SQL database workloads run on Pure Storage FlashArray.

Executive Insight:
“Embracing Pure Storage’s all-flash portfolio over legacy tape was a strategic slam dunk for our organization. It goes beyond a mere transaction; it’s a genuine partnership that has not only elevated our performance but also ensured the longevity of our critical IT systems. Pure Storage has become an integral part of our success story, providing a robust foundation that aligns with our goals for the long haul” – Andy Marosi, Sr. Manager, Infrastructure & Operations, MPI

Learn More:

About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) delivers the industry’s best platform to store, manage, and protect the world’s data. With a cloud experience across a unified storage operating environment, Pure Storage empowers every organization with the agility to meet evolving data requirements at speed and scale, while reducing total cost of ownership. Pure believes it can make a meaningful impact in reducing data center emissions worldwide by providing a storage platform that enables customers to significantly reduce their carbon and energy footprint. Pure is proud to be a customer-first organization, as evidenced by the highest Net Promoter Score in the industry. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.

Pure Storage, the Pure Storage P Logo, FlashBlade, and the marks on the Pure Storage Trademark List  are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. The Pure Storage Inc. Trademark List can be found at www.purestorage.com/legal/productenduserinfo.html

Press Contact
Kaylin Deutscher
Pure Storage
pr@purestorage.com

Source: Pure Storage

 

 

Former Pure Storage Executive Joins to Help Accelerate Growth by Strengthening Global Partner Ecosystem

BOSTON, MA – March 26, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Nasuni, a leading hybrid cloud storage solution, has expanded its leadership team by appointing Michael Sotnick to Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development. In this role, Michael assumes responsibility for Nasuni’s global partnerships including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud. He will also drive new strategic technology partnerships.

Michael Sotnick
Photo: Michael Sotnick

Sotnick brings more than 30 years of senior-level partnership experience across data infrastructure, security, management, and cloud. He joins Nasuni from Pure Storage where he served as the Vice President of Alliances and Business Development. While at Pure Storage, Sotnick helped architect the company’s growth from $400 million to $3 billion.

“Partners are core to Nasuni’s success. Michael’s long tenure at Pure Storage disrupting the legacy storage industry is very similar to our approach of disrupting legacy NAS with a cloud-based approach,” said David Grant, President at Nasuni. “He brings great experience, stemming from more than three decades in growth stage and large public companies, including a track record of building partnerships at scale. Nasuni achieved phenomenal growth in 2023 with a 46% increase in new customer bookings and a 30% increase in ARR year over year. With the addition of Michael to our leadership team, we are well positioned for our next major milestones.”

Before Pure Storage, Sotnick held leadership positions at VERITAS, SAP, Quest Software (acquired by Dell), Moovweb (acquired by Edgio), among others.

“I am thrilled to be joining Nasuni’s leadership team at this stage of the company’s growth,” said Michael Sotnick, Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development at Nasuni. “Nasuni is solving critical data challenges for its customers and is architecturally poised for deeper partner integration. Nasuni has a compelling and holistic approach to data – amplified by the rise of AI and data intelligence, which differentiates it from the competition. With the backdrop of great partnerships and integrations in place already, I look forward to enhancing the value we can bring to our shared customers.”

Nasuni’s recent strategic appointments are helping to drive its strong momentum, including the recent promotions of Russ Kennedy to Chief Evangelist and Nick Burling to Senior Vice President of Product. In addition, recently Nasuni revealed its FY23 results including 120+ new enterprise customers, Nasuni launched Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 to deliver high performance at the edge, and a key partnership with energy solutions provider Cegal, which drove 235% growth year over year for Nasuni in the energy sector.

For more information about Michael Sotnick’s appointment, read our blog here.

About Nasuni
Nasuni is a leading hybrid cloud storage solution that powers business growth with effortless scalability, built-in security, and fast edge performance using a unique cloud-native architecuere. The Nasuni File Data Platform delivers operational excellence by consolidating NAS and backup, eliminating data silos, and making management easy and flexible without changes to apps or workflows. Its built-in security offers proactive defense and rapid recovery, lowering organizations’ risk from the detrimental effects of ransomware attacks and other disasters. Synchronized access to file data everywhere ensures user productivity by supporting remote and hybrid work. By leveraging object storage, data is consolidated and optimized for content intelligence tools and AI workflows.

Organizations worldwide rely on Nasuni, including leaders in manufacturing, construction, energy, consumer goods, and public sectors. Nasuni’s corporate headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and the company delivers services to over 70 countries. For more information, visit www.nasuni.com.

Media Contacts
US: Jessica Luhrman
Waters Agency
Phone: (210) 273 0914
Email: nasunipr@watersagency.com

UK/Europe: Maria Loupa
Waters Agency
Phone: +44 (0)7591 004 738
Email: nasunipr@watersagency.com

Source: Nasuni

 

 

CAMBRIDGE, England – March 26, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — XenData, the provider of cutting-edge data storage solutions, announces the availability of Media Portal, software for its LTO and public cloud archive solutions. It provides a web interface that allows users to browse the archived file system, view previews of archived video and image files and then download selected content. It complements the existing ways to connect to a XenData archive that includes access via the local network and as object storage with an S3 interface.

The Media Portal for LTO is software that is added to a new or existing XenData on-premises LTO archive. It is available for systems with robotic LTO libraries and external LTO drives. The previews are created when video and image files are written to the system and the resultant preview files are stored on the archive’s managed disk volume. Authorized users can then view the previews via the Media Portal web interface, select the files that they need and download them via the portal.

XenData LTO archives manage an unlimited number of externalized tape cartridges allowing users to create a deep archive of unlimited capacity. In this case, the Media Portal provides previews of all the video and image content stored ‘on the shelf’, together with the cartridge barcode information which tells the user which LTO cartridges should be imported back into the library to be able to access the required content.

The Media Portal for Cloud runs on a physical or virtual Windows machine and includes a gateway to one or multiple public clouds, including AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage and Wasabi object storage. The portal displays previews of all video and image files written via the gateway, including files that are stored on inaccessible storage tiers such as AWS Glacier and the Azure Archive Tier.

Phil Storey, XenData CEO, commented, “The Media Portal provides an excellent way for a user to know what content they have in their media archive. It is not a Media Asset Management system, but it provides a simple interface that provides the functionality that many of our users want.”

The Media Portal is sold as a software subscription and pricing starts at $980 per annum. It will be available in May 2024.

About XenData
XenData is a global provider of professional data storage solutions optimized for video and other applications with high volumes of large files. It offers cutting edge hybrid cloud solutions and highly scalable on-premises active archive systems. XenData has customers in over 95 countries, including government organizations, global media companies and other large corporations.

For more information visit: www.xendata.com

XenData contact:
Alyssa A Pingul
Marketing Specialist
XenData
T. +1 925 464 2618
E. aadriano@xendata.com

Source: XenData

 

 

Empowering IT Administrator with a Powerful Solution to Combat Downtime and Disasters for Critical Enterprise Applications

SAN MATEO, CA – March 26, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — SIOS Technology Corp., an industry leader in application high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR), today announced the latest version of SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux featuring a new Web Management Console that simplifies the way IT administrators deploy and manage high availability clusters used to protect critical applications such as SAP, HANA, Oracle and others from downtime and disasters.

In today’s tech-driven landscape, organizations increasingly rely on enterprise-class applications, databases and ERPs such as SAP, HANA and Oracle. The demand for robust high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions has become paramount. However, many organizations lack in-house IT resources with the specialized skills necessary to manage complex scripting and manual interventions required by these environments. Even a momentary lapse in system functionality can result in significant financial costs and reputational damage. Consequently, companies are seeking innovative technologies that offer protection without requiring advanced IT expertise. The introduction of the SIOS LifeKeeper Web Management Console marks a pivotal moment in the pursuit of simpler, more comprehensive application HA/DR.

Masahiro Arai, Chief Operating Officer, SIOS Technology, emphasized the transformative potential of the latest LifeKeeper release, “The new SIOS LifeKeeper Web Management Console is the first step in realizing our vision of empowering IT administrators with simple, holistic application HA/DR. It lays the groundwork for future innovations that will dramatically improve the way companies implement and manage HA/DR.”

In a recent analysis, Futurum Group highlighted the risks posed by the lack of automation and the resultant troubleshooting inefficiencies in HA/DR environments. “The manual and variability of disaster recovery across cloud availability zones and regions poses a significant risk,” noted Camberley Bates, Vice President & Practice Lead, Futurum Group. “Troubleshooting inefficiencies exacerbate the situation, with the root cause of issues difficult to ascertain, making resolution challenging. Consequently, IT teams find themselves firefighting. SIOS’ design brings simplicity and automation to this environment, resulting in higher reliability and cost efficiency that drives measurable higher availability.”

SIOS’ automated approach promises to fundamentally change the landscape of HA/DR, offering unparalleled simplicity, reliability and cost efficiency. By empowering IT administrators with intuitive tools and cutting-edge technology, the SIOS LifeKeeper Web Management Console represents a significant step forward in safeguarding critical enterprise systems against downtime and disasters.

The new LifeKeeper Web Management Console (LKWMC) in SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux features:

  • Enhanced Ease-of-Use: System administrators gain simplified processes and intuitive interfaces save time and reduce errors in configuration and ongoing management, particularly in cloud environments;
  • Set up Progress Tracking: Enables administrators to monitor the installation process in real-time for seamless, error-free deployment;
  • Self-Help “Information Cues”: Intuitive cues offer self-help functionality for key system features, simplifying configuration and management;
  • Self-Contained Solution: A self-contained system simplifies the deployment process and reduces maintenance overhead; Eliminates the need for Java or X Window System installation on the server;
  • Language Localization: With support initially available in both Japanese and English, language localization caters to a diverse global user base;
  • Simplified Firewall Management: Requiring only 2 TCP ports, enhances security without compromising accessibility;
  • Responsive Design: Seamless access and functionality across a range of devices, including tablets and smartphones; and
  • Broader Support: Support for leading platforms, operating systems, and enhanced SAP integration, for unparalleled versatility and compatibility.

“Complex application environments are often designed and configured by IT architects with specialized skills, but it’s the generalist IT administrators who are left to handle the ongoing management and maintenance,” explained Margaret Hoagland, Vice President of Global Marketing, SIOS Technology. “By simplifying and enhancing high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions, SIOS is empowering these generalist IT administrators to effectively manage and maintain complex application environments, eliminating the need for IT architects with specialized, costly skills.”

SIOS is committed to offering support for a wide array of applications, platforms and environments, ensuring application availability across various systems. SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux version 9.8.1 adds:

Support for latest operating system releases:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3, 8.9
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) compatible OS
    • Oracle Linux 9.3, 9.2, 8.9, 8.8
    • Rocky Linux 9.3, 9.2, 9.1, 8.9, 8.8
    • Miracle Linux 9.2, 8.8

Support for additional Application / Database versions:

  • SAP S/4HANA 2023
  • WebSphere MQ v9.3.4, 9.3.3, 9.3.2
  • PostgreSQL v16
  • EnterpriseDB v15, v16
  • Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres v15, v15 SP1, v15 SP2
  • PowerGres V15
  • MariaDB v10.11, 10.3

Support operating system versions built for enhanced SAP support / SAP ARK:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3, 9.2, 9.1, 9.0, 8.9, 8.8, 8.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP5

New SIOS LifeKeeper SAP HANA Application Recovery Kit

  • Red Hat Linux 8.8

Availability:
SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux version 9.8.1 is immediately available. More information can be found here — https://us.sios.com/products/sios-lifekeeper-linux/

Supporting Resources:
Download a screen shot of SIOS LifeKeeper Web Management Console here. https://bit.ly/3Pr4nUr

About SIOS Technology Corp.
SIOS Technology Corp. high availability and disaster recovery solutions ensure availability and eliminate data loss for critical Windows and Linux applications operating across physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. SIOS clustering software is essential for any IT infrastructure with applications requiring a high degree of resiliency, ensuring uptime without sacrificing performance or data – protecting businesses from local failures and regional outages, planned and unplanned. Founded in 1999, SIOS Technology Corp. (https://us.sios.com) is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices worldwide.

SIOS, SIOS Technology, SIOS DataKeeper, SIOS LifeKeeper and associated logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of SIOS Technology Corp. and/or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Media Contact:
Beth Winkowski
Winkowski Public Relations, LLC for SIOS
978-649-7189
bethwinkowski@US.SIOS.com

Source: SIOS Technology

 

 

Enabling users to access data with lakehouse flexibility, scalability, and performance, all at a fraction of the cost compared to traditional data warehouses

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 26, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Dremio, the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics, today announced the general availability of Dremio Cloud on Microsoft Azure. This SaaS solution brings users closer to their data with lakehouse flexibility, scalability, and performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses. Dremio Cloud’s intuitive unified analytics, high-performance SQL query engine, and lakehouse management service for next-gen dataops let organizations shift left for a faster time to insight. Dremio Cloud enables companies to rapidly drive value from their data by delivering market-leading query performance with increased flexibility, while also decreasing costs.

“With Dremio Cloud on Azure, we have the ability to shift from just standard reporting to leveraging a data set as a product. Using Iceberg and Dremio’s Lakehouse Management capability, we can easily version our data sets and literally run them as a product,” said Tian De Klerk, director, data engineering and reporting, S&P Global.

Dremio Cloud on Azure’s next-generation architecture puts security and infrastructure flexibility at the forefront. By providing end-to-end TLS encryption, it delivers higher levels of data security and ensures that critical data is protected. The architecture ensures that customers can control their data within their own Azure tenant, in storage services such as Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). This model ensures that no customer data resides within the Dremio environment and reassures customers that they maintain control of their data and that it is always secure.

Dremio Cloud on Azure easily deals with a company’s rapidly changing business demands. By automatically and dynamically scaling resources based on a customer’s usage and concurrency, the next-generation flexible architecture optimizes resources to meet an organization’s analytical needs. There is no longer a need for administrators to worry whether there is enough capacity or too much, or whether they need to allocate or reduce resources based on usage. Dremio Cloud on Azure dynamically and automatically handles everything.

By eliminating time-consuming setup and management overhead, as well as long learning curves for administrators, Dremio Cloud on Azure delivers fast time to value and critical business insights. Dremio Cloud does away with the need for companies to spend time and effort on numerous traditional analytical software setup and management tasks. With Dremio Cloud, organizations do not need to worry about hardware acquisition, server configuration, software installation, software setup and configuration, or security setup and configuration. Management tasks such as infrastructure management, manual upgrades for infrastructure, creating and managing certificates, backup tasks, or even system tuning and configuration are all automated. Data teams no longer need to worry about setting up and managing their analytical environment; they can focus on querying data, gaining insights that drive value for the business.

Dremio Cloud on Azure delivers the data lakehouse management service that features “Git for Data,” automatic optimization of Apache Iceberg tables, and a commitment to open data standards. Dremio’s lakehouse management makes it easy for data teams to manage and maintain their data lakehouse while enabling high-performance analytics based on a consistent view of the data. The Iceberg-native data catalog enables easy management of multiple domains and gives data teams centralized security and governance. By utilizing the lakehouse management capabilities in Dremio Cloud on Azure, data teams can deliver an accurate and consistent view of their data lakehouse to all their data consumers and create zero-copy clones of production data in seconds for development, testing, data science, experimentation, and more.

“Dremio Cloud on Microsoft Azure is a game-changer for organizations seeking self-service analytics with flexibility in a SaaS environment. It provides market-leading SQL query performance coupled with unified data access and robust lakehouse management functionality. This empowers companies to efficiently unlock the value of their data, offering faster time to insights and cost-effective solutions. We’re thrilled to bring Dremio Cloud to Azure, enabling our customers to experience the future of data management,” said Tomer Shiran, founder and CPO of Dremio.

“Empowering our clients to unlock the full potential of their data is at the heart of our mission. Customers require a variety of tools and frameworks to use their data to its full potential. With Dremio’s model of an open architecture, customers can benefit from the simplicity of the Dremio Cloud on Microsoft Azure experience to build highly scalable and powerful lakehouse solutions over their data,” said Raji Easwaran, principal group program manager, ADLS, Microsoft.

To learn more, visit Dremio.com or sign-up to try Dremio Cloud.

About Dremio
Dremio is the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI, serving hundreds of global enterprises, including Maersk, Amazon, Regeneron, NetApp, and S&P Global. Customers rely on Dremio for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem lakehouses to power their data mesh, data warehouse migration, data virtualization, and unified data access use cases. Based on open source technologies, including Apache Iceberg and Apache Arrow, Dremio provides an open lakehouse architecture enabling the fastest time to insight and platform flexibility at a fraction of the cost. Learn more at www.dremio.com

Contact:
Elise Woodard
elise.woodard@dremio.com

Source: Dremio

 

 

Infosecurity leader with 25+ years of experience joins executive team to drive information security and IT risk management strategy

Minneapolis, MN — Code42 Software, Inc., the leader in data loss and insider threat protection, today announced the appointment of Dennis Dayman as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In the CISO role, Dayman is responsible for leading global risk and compliance, security operations, incident response, and external and internal threat management and investigations.


Photo: Dennis Dayman

“Our mission is to protect critical data from exfiltration and Dennis has proven experience in exactly this area,” said Joe Payne, President and CEO of Code42. “I’ve worked with Dennis before and know he’ll be invaluable in driving Code42’s strategic vision forward.”

Dennis Dayman brings more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, privacy, and data governance to his new role, including leadership experience at global organizations. He also serves on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee as Chair of the Policy Subcommittee – providing policy, operational, and technological advice on issues within DHS that relate to data integrity and data privacy-related matters. Before joining Code42, Dayman served as the Resident CISO for Proofpoint. Dayman previously held Chief Privacy and Security Officer positions at Maropost, Return Path, and Eloqua.

“I’m proud to be joining a company that puts people first – both in its internal culture and through its products and services,” said Dennis Dayman, CISO of Code42. “As CISO, I’m committed to not only training people to become better data stewards, but to also aid companies in safeguarding their assets. I look forward to working with this outstanding team to evolve and enhance our information security and IT risk management programs.”

Additional resources:

About Code42
Code42 is the leader in data loss and insider threat protection. Native to the cloud, Code42® Incydr™ data protection rapidly detects data exposure, loss, leak, and theft and speeds incident response – all without lengthy deployments, complex policy management, or disrupting employee productivity. The solution offers a complete range of response solutions, including automated microlearning modules for accidental non-malicious risk, case management for efficient investigation collaboration, and automated blocking for the highest-risk use cases. Code42’s IRM Program Launchpad helps organizations get up and running quickly to ensure success and return on investment.

With Code42, security professionals can protect corporate data and reduce data loss from insiders while fostering an open and collaborative culture for employees. Innovative organizations, including the fastest-growing security companies, rely on Code42 to safeguard their ideas. Code42’s data protection solution is FEDRAMP-authorized and can be configured for GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, and other compliance frameworks. Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and backed by Accel Partners, JMI Equity, NewView Capital, and Split Rock Partners. Code42 has played a defining role in developing a vision and requirements for the IRM category and is a founding member of the Insider Risk Community.

The Company has several offices across the United States, and its clients include the most recognizable security, technology, manufacturing, and life sciences organizations, such as CrowdStrike, Okta, Lyft, BAYADA Home Health Care, Rakuten, Sumo Logic, MacDonald-Miller, MACOM, Ping Identity, Shape Technologies, and Snowflake.

© 2024 Code42 Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Code42 and Incydr are trademarks or registered trademarks of Code42 Software, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other marks are properties of their respective owners.

Media Contact
Offleash PR for Code42
Code42@offleashpr.com

Source: Code42

 

 

Sunnyvale, CA – March 26, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Cybersecurity experts often advocate for first-line measures aimed at helping organizations minimize the threat of being infected by ransomware. However strong these preventative measures may be, they remain inadequate in eliminating the threat entirely. To ensure recoverability from a ransomware event that evades even the most stringent defenses, businesses need to implement a last-line-of-defense data protection solution with features such as immutable snapshots, S3 object-locking or unbreakable backup, say experts at Nexsan®, the pioneer of highly reliable, cost-effective storage.

Organizations large and small face unique challenges when it comes to data protection. From data sprawl and multiple points of failure of larger companies to limited resources and budget constraints from smaller ones, having the right tools to safeguard business-critical information is often overwhelming. Cybersecurity software is frequently pitched as the best method of avoiding instances of ransomware but restoring files from backups is often the most effective approach to recovering from an attack.

Consider these sobering statistics found on the World Backup Day website:

  • 21 percent of people have never made a backup
  • 29 percent of data loss cases are caused by accident
  • 30 percent of all computers are already infected with malware

Organizations cannot recover their systems and data if they have not implemented good backup measures. Unfortunately, cybercriminals have evolved and have been targeting backups, basically eliminating any chance of recovery. If backups are compromised prior to a ransomware attack, there is little recourse other than paying the ransom.

A best-approach strategy for safeguarding valuable data involves implementing a modern approach that ensures the security of backups, prioritizing backup protection. Unlike traditional backup solutions, these modern solutions offer robust features such as immutable snapshots, S3 object-locking and unbreakable backup.

Immutable snapshots are point-in-time copies of data that are locked down and cannot be altered or deleted, providing a reliable recovery point in case of data corruption or loss. While some ransomware is designed to target snapshots for deletion or encryption, immutable snapshots are indestructible, preventing any intentional or accidental destruction. Immutable snapshots are a quick way to restore data, whether by making them available to applications or by rolling back to the desired snapshot.

S3 object-locking prevents the deletion or alteration of object versions for a specified period, enhancing data protection against ransomware and accidental changes. S3 object-locking safeguards objects in an S3-compatible storage system from alterations or deletions, with data stored in an immutable state of WORM. Implementing object locking requires careful planning to balance data accessibility with protection and compliance needs. S3 object-locking provides an additional layer of security for critical data, ensuring compliance and protection against cyber threats.

Backups need to be stored securely while remaining accessible to the organization. At the same time, these organizations need consistent copies of data to maintain business operations in the event of failure. Unbreakable backup storage solutions provide the highest level of data protection, ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance in use cases such as high-security environments, long-term archival and protecting sensitive information against theft, loss and tampering. Nexsan’s Unbreakable Backup storage solution, a combination of Unity™ and Assureon®, is a reliable way to manage backup and unstructured data for all applications. Ransomware recovery is streamlined with our robust immutable backup system, ensuring data integrity with efficient shortcuts for immediate file access.

“Ransomware is among the most devastating cybercriminal threats with nearly two-thirds of organizations being affected by it in 2023,” said Andy Hill, Executive Vice President of Nexsan.  “Anti-malware products are not infallible and traditional backup systems do not provide the immutability needed to keep data truly protected. Deploying an immutable solution or an Unbreakable Backup with built-in security, compliance and ransomware protection offers a more robust defense to any accidental or malicious alterations. The last line of defense is your backup. Don’t let that fail you.”

Nexsan systems meet the ongoing need to maintain large data stores in on-premises storage hardware—a need that persists despite the advent of cloud computing and now grows more pressing as organizations face increasing cloud costs. Nexsan channel partners excel at developing systems that address essential functions like high-performance data processing, bulletproof backup and archive, cybersecurity and digital video.

Additional information about how SMEs can leverage the data protection of backups using the capabilities and applications of immutable snapshots, S3 object-locking and Unbreakable Backup is available here.

About Nexsan®
Nexsan® is a global leader in enabling customers to securely store, protect, and manage data. Established in 1999, Nexsan has earned a reputation for delivering the most highly reliable, secure, and cost-effective storage while always remaining agile to continuously deliver purpose-built storage and data management solutions that meet complex and ever-changing IT, business, and budgetary requirements. Nexsan’s patented technology is ideal for a variety of use cases, including backup and recovery, content delivery and streaming, scientific lab data, virtualization, evidentiary data, digital video surveillance, regulatory compliance, and healthcare records. For further information, please visit www.nexsan.com.

Media Contact:
Mark Smith, JPR Communications
818-398-1424
marks@jprcom.com

Source: Nexsan

 

 

ExaGrid Reseller Partner Program chosen due to its commitment to nurturing strong, profitable, and successful channel partnerships

Marlborough, MA – March 26, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — ExaGrid®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution, today announced has been recognized by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, with a prestigious 5-Star Award in its 2024 Partner Program Guide. This annual guide provides essential information to solution providers exploring technology vendor partner programs that offer high value and align with their business needs and goals. ExaGrid sits behind 25+ backup applications and utilities as the backup storage and provides the highest performance for backup and recovery, the best scalability, the only non-network-facing tiered air gap for ransomware recovery, and includes data deduplication to reduce the storage footprint and cost.

The breadth and depth of support and resources technology vendors offer through their partner programs is a critical consideration for solution providers assessing which IT vendors, service providers, and distributors to team with in building world-class technology solutions. Program elements such as financial incentives, sales and marketing assistance, training and certification, technical support and more can set vendors apart and play a key role in boosting their partners’ long-term growth.

The 5-Star rating is awarded to the companies that have built their partner programs to go above and beyond in their commitment to nurturing strong, profitable, and successful channel partnerships.

For the 2024 Partner Program Guide, CRN evaluated vendors based on program requirements and offerings such as partner training and education, pre- and post-sales support, marketing programs and resources, technical support, and communication.

ExaGrid offers many innovations in its ExaGrid Reseller Partner Program, including:

  • No inventory required
  • No milestones or commitments required
  • Deal registration for resellers who bring opportunities to ExaGrid to protect margin
  • SPIF programs for reseller sales reps and solutions architects
  • Meeting Maker bonuses for customer prospect meetings
  • ExaGrid co-sells with its own sales force including technical field systems engineers
  • ExaGrid performs all customer support and the resellers gain all future orders for appliance and maintenance and support renewals

“We are honored that ExaGrid’s Reseller Partner Program has been awarded a 5-Star Rating in the CRN Partner Program Guide,” said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid. “ExaGrid has the strongest and most unique reseller program in the industry which has been designed to exceed our partners’ expectations. Backup storage is a huge market and it’s growing, and we look forward to working with new partners in 2024 and for continued success with our current partners worldwide. Our goal is to help our partners provide a product to their customers that solves problems that they face with backup storage and a product that just works and is incredibly well-supported. When we work together, everyone wins,” he said.

“Recognition on this list reflects the value of the spotlighted vendor partner programs and their commitment to evolving with solution providers and supporting IT channel success,” said Jennifer Follett, VP, U.S. Content and Executive Editor, CRN, at The Channel Company. “This recognition empowers solution providers to discover vendors that keep pace with the evolving requirements of their business and their clients. With CRN’s 2024 Partner Program Guide, solution providers can access deep insights into the unique strengths of each partner program and vendors who demonstrate dedication to their partner community.”

The 2024 Partner Program Guide will be featured in the April 2024 issue of CRN and online at www.CRN.com/PPG.

About ExaGrid
ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository, and scale-out architecture. 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 product obsolescence. ExaGrid offers the only two-tiered backup storage approach with a non-network-facing tier, 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.

ExaGrid Media Contact:
Mary Domenichelli
ExaGrid
mdomenichelli@exagrid.com

About The Channel Company
The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by nearly 40 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelcompany.com

Follow The Channel Company: Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

© 2024 The Channel Company, Inc. CRN is a registered trademark of The Channel Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Channel Company Contact:
Kristin DaSilva
The Channel Company
kdasilva@thechannelcompany.com

Source: ExaGrid

 

 

Expedient to Help Customers Modernize Infrastructure, Accelerate Innovation, and Improve Business Resiliency with Managed VMware Cloud Foundation Services

Pittsburgh, PA — March 25, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Expedient, a leading provider of secure and scalable cloud infrastructure solutions, is proud to announce that the company is now a VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) Pinnacle tier partner in the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program for North America. This underscores the company’s commitment to delivering innovative hybrid cloud solutions and managed services.

“Expedient has been delivering infrastructure solutions that leverage VMware for more than 17 years. As a result, we’ve accumulated expertise and achieved a track record of success helping our clients optimize their workloads,” says Jonathan Rosenson, Expedient President and Chief Operating Officer. “This recognition not only validates our history as a leading VMware solutions provider but also empowers us to provide unmatched value and support to our clients as they navigate the complexities of today’s hybrid cloud landscape.”

Expedient VMware Cloud Service Provider Offerings as a Pinnacle Partner
As a Pinnacle partner, Expedient is helping customers navigate the proliferation of options and complexity within a hybrid cloud environment. Through the years, Expedient has helped influence the VMware roadmap for cloud service provider partners through tight collaboration with VMware engineering teams, helping to keep clients at the forefront of technological innovation. Expedient leverages VMware as a foundational building block to provide a seamless and secure hybrid cloud experience.

Expedient offers a comprehensive suite of VMware cloud solutions to alleviate infrastructure management burdens for businesses. This encompasses delivering VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) capabilities, granting clients full control over their cloud environments, spanning CPU, GPU, memory, and storage resources. Expedient’s VCSP Pinnacle partner status also grants access to senior VMware engineers, reinforcing the company’s commitment and reputation as experts in cloud migration.

Additionally, Expedient is integrating the ??latest full stack VCF platform into its service portfolio to facilitate infrastructure modernization with an optimal total cost of ownership (TCO). This integration aims to leverage VCF’s new license portability feature, establishing a flexible hybrid cloud experience for clients. With 15 strategically positioned data centers offering colocation, Expedient guarantees reliable, secure, and low-latency connectivity. Through its unique Cloud Different™ methodology, the company equips organizations with flexibility to navigate inevitable shifts in technology and business trends.

“As a Pinnacle partner, Expedient’s expertise, experience and influence in the industry will play a crucial role in helping to lead our customers on their cloud journey,” says Ahmar Mohamed, Vice President, Partners, Managed Services, and Solutions GTM, VMware Cloud Foundation Division at Broadcom. “The VCSP Pinnacle tier is designed to build stronger relationships with our most valued VCSP partners to help customers implement a highly efficient cloud operating model that combines public cloud scale and agility with private cloud security and performance.”

Pinnacle is the highest program level in the Broadcom Advantage Partner program. Pinnacle partners are Broadcom’s most invested and strategic partners, boasting extensive certifications, a track record of significant sales and service achievements, and broad international coverage. Holding Pinnacle status signifies a partner’s deep technological know-how and proficiency in addressing the most intricate client issues. Broadcom works in close partnership with Pinnacle partners, including co-selling to mutual clients, to provide the foundational technology that drives the digital landscape.

To learn more about what Expedient is doing to support VMware clients through this transition, visit our blog.

About Expedient
Expedient is a Full-Stack Cloud Service Provider, helping companies transform their IT operations through award-winning hybrid cloud solutions and managed infrastructure services. These services range from cloud migration, disaster recovery, virtual desktop infrastructure, data center colocation, to edge computing, as well as enterprise AI, security, and compliance, among others.

The company’s Cloud Different™? approach provides clients with best of breed solutions backed by “white glove” services and support. Previously named VMware’s Americas Cloud Partner of the Year and acknowledged in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service, Expedient gives clients a flexible on-ramp to the cloud, supporting the optimization and delivery of all applications (both core essential and cloud native). Also, the company’s data centers comply with various regulatory mandates, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) service. For more information, visit?expedient.com.

Media Contact
Andre Fuochi
Andre.Fuochi@Expedient.com
+1-469-394-7274

Source: Expedient

 

 

Contract Addition Streamlines Procurement for Affordable Cloud Storage Solutions

SAN MATEO, Calif. and RESTON, Va., March 21, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the leading specialized storage cloud, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, announced today that Backblaze’s product portfolio has been added to Carahsoft’s National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) ValuePoint contract. The contract addition enables Carahsoft and Backblaze to provide the company’s cutting-edge cloud storage solutions to participating States, Local Governments and Educational Institutions. This certification is augmented by the recent addition of Backblaze to Carahsoft’s NYOGS- and OMNIA-approved vendor lists.

NASPO ValuePoint is a cooperative purchasing program facilitating public procurement solicitations and agreements using a lead-state model. The program provides the highest standard of excellence in public cooperative contracting. By leveraging the leadership and expertise of all states and the purchasing power of their public entities, NASPO ValuePoint delivers the highest valued, reliable and competitively sourced contracts, offering public entities outstanding pricing.

“We are continuously looking for ways to deliver more value and ease for our partners,” said Elton Carneiro, Senior Director, Partnerships at Backblaze. “Being a NASPO-approved vendor is a game changer for higher Educational institutions and Government agencies who need affordable and flexible data management and storage.”

For Public Sector agencies, procurement processes can be overwhelmingly complex and time consuming. Yet these companies face some of the greatest challenges when it comes to affordably protecting and using their data given ransomware attacks and budget constraints. Carahsoft’s NASPO program cuts through complexity with cooperative purchasing, resulting in more favorable terms and conditions and competitive pricing. Previously, it was hard for many State, Local, Educational and Government institutions to benefit from the affordability and reliability that Backblaze provides. Now, Backblaze’s addition to Carahsoft’s NASPO contract streamlines procurement of B2 Cloud Storage and Backblaze Computer Backup—speeding up the acquisition timeline for Public Sector customers.

For Backblaze, the NASPO status enhances the company’s channel program by widening avenues for collaboration with Government-focused resellers, further broadening Backblaze’s robust partner network.

“The availability of the Backblaze portfolio to NASPO members strengthens our partnership by aligning with Government procurement processes and expanding Backblaze’s reach in the Public Sector market,” said John Rentz, MultiCloud Team Lead at Carahsoft. “It is critical we support the Government as they work to modernize their cloud data storage systems to meet the demands of an increasingly digital era. By collaborating with Backblaze and our reseller partners, we can continue to expand and improve agency access to the affordable, cutting-edge solutions they need to achieve mission success.”

Backblaze’s offerings are available through Carahsoft’s NASPO ValuePoint Master Agreement #AR2472 and OMNIA Partners Contract #R191902.

For more information, contact the Carahsoft team at (833) 597-5570 or Backblaze@carahsoft.com.

About Carahsoft
Carahsoft Technology Corp. is The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider, supporting Public Sector organizations across Federal, State and Local Government agencies and Education and Healthcare markets. As the Master Government Aggregator® for our vendor partners, we deliver solutions for MultiCloud, Cybersecurity, DevSecOps, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Customer Experience and Engagement, and more. Working with resellers, systems integrators and consultants, our sales and marketing teams provide industry leading IT products, services and training through hundreds of contract vehicles. Visit us at www.carahsoft.com

About Backblaze
Backblaze makes it astonishingly easy to store, use, and protect data. The Backblaze Storage Cloud provides a foundation for businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals to build applications, host content, manage media, back up and archive data, and more. With over three billion gigabytes of data storage under management, the company currently works with more than 500,000 customers in over 175 countries. Founded in 2007, the company is based in San Mateo, CA. For more information, please go to www.backblaze.com

Carahsoft Contact
Mary Lange
(703) 230-7434
pr@carahsoft.com

Backblaze Contact
Jeanette Foster
Communications Manager, Backblaze
jfoster@backblaze.com

Source: Backblaze

 

 

Latest release of all-in-one data protection solution features new malware detection, role-based access control and faster backup and recovery

SANTA CLARA, CA – March 21, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Veritas Technologies, the leader in secure multi-cloud data management, today announced enhancements to Veritas Backup Exec, the unified backup and recovery solution trusted by more than 45,000 small and midsize businesses (SMBs) worldwide. The latest updates include malware detection capabilities, role-based access control and additional optimizations for fast backup and recovery of business-critical data.

With ransomware attacks on the rise, data security is a growing concern for all businesses. Veritas research found that over the last two years, 65% of businesses had fallen victim to a ransomware attack in which bad actors infiltrated their systems. A majority also said data security risks are increasing. Small businesses can be especially vulnerable to ransomware attacks, without the in-house expertise to manage the complexities of data security. Many also forgo cyber insurance with a mistaken assumption that by virtue of their smaller size, they are more likely to fly under the radar of cybercriminals.

Simon Jelley, general manager for Backup Exec at Veritas, said: “Make no mistake, SMBs face the same danger as large enterprises. Hackers target smaller companies just as frequently and with more devastating consequences. Only one thing can guarantee recovery if attackers get in—having a reliable backup system. Veritas Backup Exec provides a simple-to-use, all-in-one solution for protecting SMBs’ critical data wherever it lives—in SaaS or specialized applications and workloads, on-premises or in the cloud.”

The unified design of Veritas Backup Exec eliminates the need for multiple point products and offers SMBs a powerful, cost-effective way to keep pace with the changing data and threat landscape. Customers can also manage their entire data estate from a single console. Veritas continuously strengthens the solution’s capabilities and defensive measures, adhering to a rapid development cycle.

The latest release of Veritas Backup Exec introduces several new features:

  • Malware detection – Equips SMBs with another line of defense against viruses propagating within their data environment. Veritas Backup Exec malware detection, powered by Microsoft Defender, can be used to scan both VMware and Hyper-V backup sets at any time or prior to recovery.
  • Role-based security – Limits access to data based on a user’s specific role. In the event an account is compromised, hackers can only corrupt the small volume of data associated with that specific user’s account.
  • Faster backup and recovery – Optimizes protection performance with forever incremental backup of VMware and Hyper-V. Protection of virtual machines is now faster with parallel backup of multiple virtual disks and the included ability to recover virtual machines instantly.

Steve Walcott, server administrator at WalCorp, said: “Ransomware attacks have become inevitable in today’s world. Veritas Backup Exec helps us stay prepared and ready to recover quickly. The all-in-one design is cost-effective and gives us everything we need to keep our data secure, making it simple to protect data across environments.”

Christophe Bertrand, practice director at Enterprise Strategy Group, said: “Whether they realize it or not, SMBs have a target on their backs. Hackers know they lack resources, and our research confirms that SMBs think ransomware is more complex than other attacks and are more likely to pay extortion demands. Veritas is aiming to ‘democratize’ cyber resilience through Backup Exec, giving SMBs data defense tools to help them detect and recover from ransomware attacks with full confidence.”

Veritas Backup Exec is available as a subscription service and can be installed in 10 minutes or less. Once installed, completing the first backup takes only five minutes. Find a Veritas-certified partner or sign up for the Veritas Backup Exec free 60-day trial. To learn more about how the solution helps SMBs, watch the webinar on pinpointing cyber threats and recovering quickly from ransomware attacks.

About Veritas
Veritas Technologies is the leader in secure multi-cloud data management. Over 80,000 customers—including 91% of the Fortune 100—rely on Veritas to help ensure the protection, recoverability and compliance of their data. Veritas has a reputation for reliability at scale, which delivers the resilience its customers need against the disruptions threatened by cyberattacks, like ransomware. No other vendor is able to match Veritas’ ability to execute, with support for 800+ data sources, 100+ operating systems and 1,400+ storage targets through a single, unified approach. Powered by Cloud Scale Technology, Veritas is delivering today on its strategy for Autonomous Data Management that reduces operational overhead while delivering greater value. Learn more at Veritas.com. Follow us on X at @VeritasTechLLC.

Veritas and the Veritas Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Veritas Technologies LLC or its affiliates in the US and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact:
VeritasPublicRelations@Veritas.com

Source: Veritas

 

 

Company to follow up on Total Economic Impact study with webinar “The ROI of ransomware recovery,” on March 26th; Registration open

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – March 20, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Keepit, a global provider of cloud backup and recovery solutions, today announced the results available to organizations leveraging Keepit SaaS data protection: The Keepit solution provides organizations the ability to restore and recover backed-up data after a ransomware attack in a quick, efficient and accurate manner. These findings stem from a recent study conducted by Forrester Consulting, commissioned by Keepit, which quantifies the value of the world’s sole vendor-independent cloud dedicated to SaaS data protection.

Keepit commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Keepit SaaS data protection. The purpose of this study was to provide a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Keepit SaaS data protection on end users. To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, Forrester interviewed four representatives with experience using Keepit. For the purposes of this study, Forrester aggregated the interviewees’ experiences and combined the results into a single composite organization that is represented as a manufacturing organization with $2 billion in annual revenue.

While ransomware attacks have become increasingly common and organizations face the risk of losing critical data, Keepit offers strong protection, providing a crucial lifeline for recovering user data after cyberattacks or other events. With Keepit, information technology (IT) administrators can quickly find, restore, and save data. Additionally, the study also shows that Keepit’s SaaS data protection solution helps prevent the negative effects of ransomware attacks and saves time and money for IT teams, resulting in smoother, more time-efficient SaaS backup operations.

Benefit worth $819,100
According to the study the Keepit solution limits the impact of a ransomware attack for the composite organization the study has based its calculations on “by allowing it to recover and restore data quickly, preventing data loss and reducing downtime. This benefit is worth $819,100.” And, the study finds, “the time needed to restore the tier-one users is 90% lower than the time the composite would spend restoring its data without Keepit, which has been identified by interviewees to be at least three weeks.”

“We can prove it’s possible to significantly lower downtime during recovery from a ransomware attack. Lowering downtime is a sure-fire way to maximize return on your investment in a backup solution. Because it’s not a question of if an attack will happen, the question is how to bounce back when it does,” says Paul Robichaux, Microsoft MVP and senior director of Product at Keepit.

Three quarters of security decision-makers suffered a breach in the last 12 months, and in the study, Forrester research recommends that “backups are the best insurance policy against an attack, but to be effective they need to be part of a planned and tested backup and recovery process.”

The study participants noted that their organizations planned for a disaster scenario in the event of a ransomware attack and were aware of the exposure risk and potential losses they could suffer as a result.

As a follow-up to the Forrester study, Keepit will be holding a webinar at 2 p.m. EDT on March 26, titled, “The ROI of Ransomware Recovery”. Hosted by Keepit’s Paul Robichaux, the webinar will feature guest speakers Brent Ellis, Forrester senior analyst, and Elia Gollini, Forrester associate consultant.

Key takeaways from the webinar will include:

  • Actionable insights and recommendations on how to address current gaps in disaster recovery planning.
  • Insight into best practices for ensuring business continuity during a ransomware attack.
  • Information about the return on investment (ROI) organizations have realized when deploying Keepit for ransomware recovery.

To register for the webinar, visit the sign-up pagehttps://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/20302/608347

Download the Forrester Total Economic Impact study herehttps://www.keepit.com/forrester-total-economic-impact/

To experience the ROI calculator Keepit developed and introduced after the study was completed, visit it here. The calculator is designed to provide users with tailored insights into the financial benefits of Keepit’s solutions for their specific organizational needs.

About Keepit
Keepit provides next-level SaaS data protection for companies with data stored in the cloud. Keepit’s vendor-independent cloud dedicated to SaaS data protection is based on a blockchain-verified solution. Keepit protects data in key business applications including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure AD, Google, and Salesforce. Headquartered in Copenhagen with offices and data centers globally, Keepit is trusted by thousands of companies worldwide to protect and manage their cloud data. For more information visit www.keepit.com or follow Keepit on Linkedin.

Contact:
RedIron Public Relations for Keepit
kari@redironpr.com

Source: Keepit

 

 

LONDON, UK – 19th March 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Console Connect, a leading network- as-a-service (NaaS) platform, and Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, have agreed to collaborate to help businesses deploy fast and secure cloud migration and multi-cloud provisioning worldwide.

The collaboration brings together the enhanced network security, performance and scalability of the Console Connect platform and Wasabi’s low-cost, fast and predictable cloud storage on-demand to support seamless on premise-to-cloud migration and cloud- to-cloud migration as well as instant multi-cloud provisioning.

With vast amounts of data being generated by AI, machine learning, data lakes and computer vision, the networking requirements of cloud migration projects are becoming increasingly complex for businesses.

The public Internet is no longer reliable or secure enough to manage the migration of large volumes of sensitive data, while private networking can be inflexible and costly. The relationship between Wasabi and Console Connect provides a cost-effective way for businesses to manage, store and move cloud data using a private, high-performance global network.

The collaboration takes advantage of Console Connect’s Layer 3 CloudRouter® multi- cloud on-demand solution, meaning businesses can connect seamlessly between Wasabi and other leading cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms. It gives businesses a full plug-and-play solution for their storage and cloud-based services that allows them to easily combine the offerings of multiple cloud providers with Wasabi’s on- demand storage.

Console Connect’s network is integrated with three key Wasabi Storage Regions in Europe, Asia and North America, enabling businesses to use simple point and click networking provisioning to access these locations. CloudRouter® can be accessed from devices, enterprise locations and data centres worldwide, broadening Wasabi’s reach to more businesses.

Console Connect operates a flexible pay-as-you-go model that allows businesses to take greater control over their cloud costs by only paying for the connectivity and storage they use. Furthermore, Wasabi’s high-performance storage is less expensive than traditional cloud providers with no fees for egress or API requests.

With lead times for migrating on-prem storage to the cloud typically being weeks or even months, Console Connect and Wasabi storage can be spun-up and available in a matter of minutes.

For businesses looking to switch from another cloud provider to Wasabi, CloudRouter® can be used to create a high-speed temporary link between both cloud providers, or it can be configured for back-up and redundancy connectivity between Wasabi and another cloud provider.

“Network performance and security are paramount to any cloud migration projects. The combination of Console Connect and Wasabi empowers businesses with more flexible cloud connectivity and storage, making it easier than ever before to manage the migration of sensitive cloud data and giving peace of mind to businesses throughout their cloud migration projects. Whether it’s from devices, enterprise buildings or data centres, Console Connect is bringing businesses closer to Wasabi cloud while ensuring they bypass the pitfalls of the public Internet,” said Michael Glynn, SVP, Digital Automated Innovation, Console Connect.

“Wasabi values important global partners like Console Connect who bring leading IT solutions to organisations, helping their cloud operations and driving business transformation,” said Laurie Mitchell, SVP of Global Marketing, Wasabi. “Businesses can now take advantage of Wasabi’s predictably priced, high-performance cloud storage easier than ever with Console Connect’s fully automated switching and routing. Console Connect users taking advantage of Wasabi cloud storage benefit from no fees for egress or API requests.”

Further information:

Wasabi storage solutions are available to order via the Console Connect Marketplace, giving businesses the ability to provision and pay for both their cloud connectivity and storage via a single platform.

Console Connect has recently introduced Edge SIM to its CloudRouter® service, giving businesses the ability to connect devices directly to one or multiple cloud platforms. Edge SIM provides greater visibility, security and control over global IoT assets and gives businesses a direct path between their connected devices and Wasabi storage.

Wasabi is built for speed, leveraging leading hardware technology. Wasabi is faster than other public cloud object storage providers and provides a highly distributed architecture with exabyte-scale storage.

Wasabi is built for scale, durability, security and compliance. Wasabi features 11 x 9s data durability with exabyte scale and 99.99% availability SLA with multiple data centres. Wasabi also offers strong encryption, identity and access management and multi-factor authentication. Wasabi is compliant with many industry standards like GDPR, HIPAA, FERPA and CJIS.

About Console Connect
Console Connect is a platform for Software Defined Interconnection® of applications and infrastructures. It allows users to self-provision private, high-performance connections among a global ecosystem of enterprises, networks, clouds, SaaS providers, IoT providers, and applications providers.

Console Connect is the only digital platform that is underpinned by one of the world’s largest private networks and a Tier 1 global IP network that is ranked in the top 10 for IPv4 and IPv6 peering, delivering high levels of global network performance, speed, and security to meet the digital needs of today’s interconnected users and communities.

Accessible from 900+ data centres in 50+ countries worldwide, the platform is integrated with all major hyperscale cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud and more. Through the Console Connect portal or via its API, users can access a broad range of native and third-party solutions.

To learn more about Console Connect, please visit www.consoleconnect.com

About Wasabi Technologies
Wasabi provides simple and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data with no complex tiers or egress or API fees, delivering predictable costs that save money and industry leading security and performance businesses can count on. Trusted by customers worldwide, Wasabi has been recognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi is a privately held company based in Boston. Wasabi is a Proud Partner of the Boston Red Sox, and the Official Cloud Storage Partner of Liverpool Football Club and the Boston Bruins.

Follow and connect with Wasabi on Linkedin, X, Facebook, Instagram, and The Bucket.

To learn more about Wasabi Technologies, please visit www.wasabi.com

Media Contact:
Nicole Lo
Group Communications, HKT
Tel: +852 2883 2742
Email: nicole.cm.lo@pccw.com

Source: Console Connect

 

 

NAKIVO is among the first backup solution vendors to support data protection for Proxmox virtual environments

SPARKS, NV – March 19, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — NAKIVO, the leading backup and disaster recovery solution provider, delivers agent-based backup support for Proxmox virtual machine data to cater to the needs of its diverse customer base.

“More businesses are turning to Proxmox VE as a free and open-source alternative to traditional virtualization platforms,” says Bruce Talley, CEO of NAKIVO. “In fact, adding support for Proxmox VE has been a top request from our customers, and we’re proud to deliver. This move expands NAKIVO’s already extensive platform support and caters to the demand for flexible data protection options in the open-source virtualization space.”

This integration not only provides a way to back up and restore data, applications and operating systems of Proxmox VMs but also exemplifies NAKIVO’s commitment to platform-agnostic data protection.

Backup for Proxmox VM data
With Proxmox VE, NAKIVO Backup & Replication extends the list of supported virtualization platforms, encompassing industry leaders like VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and now Proxmox VE.

Customers can protect their Proxmox VM data using agent-based backup. This support comes with a set of capabilities, such as:

• Full and incremental, image-based backup of Proxmox VM data
• Backup copy to remote sites, public clouds, other S3-compatible platforms and tape
• Full VM data recovery
• Instant recovery of files and app objects to the original or a custom location

RESOURCES

  • Trial Download: https://www.nakivo.com/resources/download/trial-download/
  • Datasheet: https://www.nakivo.com/res/files/nakivo-backup-replication-datasheet.pdf
  • Success Stories: https://www.nakivo.com/customers/success-stories/

About NAKIVO
NAKIVO is a US-based corporation dedicated to delivering the ultimate backup, ransomware protection and disaster recovery solution for virtual, physical, cloud and SaaS environments. As one of the fastest-growing backup and ransomware recovery software vendors in the industry, NAKIVO boasts 24 consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, 5-star online community reviews, 98% customer satisfaction with support and a network of over 8,000 partners worldwide. Over 27,000 customers in 180 countries trust NAKIVO with protecting their data, including major companies like Honda, Cisco, Coca-Cola and Siemens.

Visit Nakivo at: www.nakivo.com
Follow on Twitter: @NAKIVO
Connect on Facebook: www.facebook.com/NakivoInc
Join on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/nakivo

PR Contact:
Sasha Tolkachova, PR Manager
sasha.tolkachova@nakivo.com
+1 416 845 3381
+380 667524448

Source: Nakivo

 

 

Use cases for Kubernetes cluster migration and replication include on-premises to cloud and cloud-to-cloud, test/dev environments, and storage and host OS upgrades for Kubernetes environments

Paramus, NJ – March 19, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — CloudCasa by Catalogic, a leader in multi-cloud application resilience and mobility for Kubernetes, today announced the newest version of its CloudCasa platform. This latest version adds new migration and replication workflows to simplify key Kubernetes use cases such as migrating on-premises clusters to cloud, migrating cloud to cloud, replicating production environments for test/dev and disaster recovery, and migrating locally between various Kubernetes configurations. Also released are new cloud integration and manageability features, extending and improving the backup, restore, and disaster recover capabilities of CloudCasa, as well as its ability to centrally manage Velero installations in large and complex environments.

Customers of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) can now use the new migration workflow to easily migrate AKS worker nodes to Azure Linux, migrate storage volumes from Azure Disk to Azure Container Storage, and migrate from other cloud managed Kubernetes services and from on-premises Kubernetes environments to AKS. CloudCasa is available today in the Azure Marketplace or in the Microsoft Azure portal.

CloudCasa protects Kubernetes environments and provides a cyber-resilient and cloud-integrated backup, disaster recovery and migration solution for cloud native applications. CloudCasa is the first “born in the cloud” backup service built with Kubernetes for Kubernetes environments. Available to use as SaaS or via a self-hosted option, CloudCasa supports workflows for multi-cluster, on premises and multi-cloud application resiliency and mobility, with granular recovery across accounts, regions and even across clouds. With support for major Kubernetes cloud services including AKS, Amazon EKS and Google GKE, and for popular Kubernetes distributions including Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher and VMware Tanzu, CloudCasa provides an any-to-any solution for Kubernetes data protection, disaster recovery, migration, and replication.

“We are excited to introduce CloudCasa support for Kubernetes migration and replication workflows as new use cases for backup and recovery. They include capturing cluster and cloud configuration along with persistent data with each backup, said Ryan Kaw, Global VP of Sales for Catalogic Software. “We worked with the Azure Linux team to test and validate CloudCasa’s ability to upgrade AKS worker nodes to Azure Linux with our new migration workflow, and we are pleased to be validated and included in the Azure Linux Partner Showcase with a partner solutions page in Azure docs.”

CloudCasa captures cluster and cloud configuration to make cross-cluster, cross-tenant, cross-region, and cross-cloud recovery, replications, and migration easy. Its cloud integration features allow movement of an entire cluster, along with its virtual networks, load balancers, add-ons, and more.

The CloudCasa team will be showcasing the new Kubernetes migration and replications workflows at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024. To meet with Ryan Kaw at KubeCon, please contact us.

About CloudCasa by Catalogic
CloudCasa by Catalogic is an award-winning Kubernetes backup solution providing innovative multi-cloud data protection, disaster recovery, replication, and migration for Kubernetes applications. As a SaaS or self-hosted application, CloudCasa enables multi-cluster and multi-cloud application resiliency and mobility with granular or cluster-level recovery across accounts, regions and even across clouds. CloudCasa is fully compatible with and complementary to Velero, the open-source Kubernetes backup tool that has been downloaded over 500 million times. Learn more at https://cloudcasa.io

PR Contact:
Dina Petrosky
Smart Connections
PR for CloudCasa by Catalogic
+1 (860) 495-5566
dina@smartconnectionspr.com

Source: CloudCasa by Catalogic

 

 

StorMagic®, solving the world’s edge data problems, today announced the immediate availability of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud integration with StorMagic SvSAN. The solution keeps data available, protected and recoverable while lowering costs for managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers. Together, Acronis and StorMagic provide a simple, flexible, highly available data protection solution that offers MSPs –and their customers– peace of mind at a fraction of the cost.

BRISTOL, England – March 19, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — StorMagic®, solving the world’s edge data problems, today announced the immediate availability of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud integration with StorMagic SvSAN. The solution keeps data available, protected and recoverable while lowering costs for managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers. Together, Acronis and StorMagic provide a simple, flexible, highly available data protection solution that offers MSPs –and their customers– peace of mind at a fraction of the cost.

StorMagic and Acronis also announced the availability of Acronis Cyber Protect integration with StorMagic SvSAN. This solution provides data availability and protection for organizations choosing to manage these requirements in-house, keeping data protected and secure while reducing costs.

“Acronis is excited to partner with StorMagic to deliver new integrated solutions that combine the highest availability to eliminate downtime alongside complete data protection, backup and recovery for our service provider customers and businesses,” said Pat Hurley, RVP, Acronis. “Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Integration with StorMagic SvSAN provides complete control and flexibility of an end-to-end high availability and data protection solution that comes at a very low cost.”

MSPs can now offer customers a simple hyperconverged solution that works with any two x86 servers and hypervisor – providing uptime while lowering costs, and allowing for easy expansion of, and integration with, customers’ existing solutions. The solutions feature active-active synchronous mirroring between two servers, data encryption, a lightweight remote witness, and native integration of cybersecurity, data protection and management. MSPs can opt to offer additional service agreements, including outsourced witness and key management for their customers.

“MSPs want to offer more storage solutions that are simple, flexible and reliable while offering HA and data protection, and customers are looking for easy-to-use solutions that meet their budgets,” said Bruce Kornfeld, chief marketing and product officer, StorMagic. “SvSAN delivers the HA while Acronis delivers the data protection piece – all in a single solution that can be delivered and managed by their preferred service provider or managed in-house.”

Availability
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Integration with StorMagic SvSAN and Acronis Cyber Protect Integration with StorMagic SvSAN are available immediately.

Additional Resources

About Acronis
Acronis unifies data protection and cybersecurity to deliver integrated, automated cyber protection that solves the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges of the modern digital world. With flexible deployment models that fit the demands of service providers and IT professionals, Acronis provides superior cyber protection for data, applications, and systems with innovative next-generation antivirus, backup, disaster recovery, and endpoint protection management solutions powered by AI. With advanced anti-malware powered by cutting-edge machine intelligence and blockchain based data authentication technologies, Acronis protects any environment – from cloud to hybrid to on premises – at a low and predictable cost.

Acronis is a Swiss company, founded in Singapore. Celebrating two decades of innovation, Acronis has 1,800+ employees in 45 locations. Acronis Cyber Protect solution is available in 26 languages in over 150 countries and is used by 20,000+ service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses.

About StorMagic
StorMagic is solving the world’s edge data problems. We help organizations store, protect and manage data at and from the edge. StorMagic’s solutions ensure data is always protected and available, no matter the type or location, to provide value anytime, anywhere. StorMagic’s storage and security products are simple, flexible, reliable and cost-effective, without sacrificing enterprise-class features, for organizations with one to thousands of sites. Visit www.stormagic.com

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All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

Media Contact
Matter Communications
1 781.307.5691
stormagic@matternow.com

Source: StorMagic

 

 

Industry leaders join forces to deliver new data protection solution for large data volumes stored on Scality S3 storage

Paris, France — March 19, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Atempo, a leading European software manufacturer of data protection and data management solutions, and Scality, a global leader in cyber-resilient storage for the AI era, today announced a powerful new joint solution built to deliver end-to-end data protection with Scality RING’s petabyte-scale S3 object storage software and Atempo’s Miria backup application.

Customers can now achieve a swift and efficient air-gapped backup process to tape for massive datasets that require protection at scale in large complex environments. The new solution accommodates high data change rates for billions of files and storage capacities ranging from a petabyte to hundreds of petabytes. The collaboration leverages Miria’s vast compatibility guide to seamlessly store any dataset to an offsite tape backup.

To accomplish the highly efficient backup process, Scality developed a new “Bucket Event Notification” mechanism, leveraged by Atempo. This innovative approach replaces the traditional time-consuming scan of the entire storage and instead provides a list of the newly uploaded or removed objects from the Scality S3 storage instance used by Atempo Miria to perform incremental backups.

“Our partnership with Atempo showcases Scality’s commitment to storage innovation and its vital role in cyber resiliency,” stated Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Scality. “Close integration with Miria, Atempo’s backup solution, and our S3-compatible storage offers businesses an unparalleled approach to data management. Together, we aim to provide customers with innovative tools for navigating the evolving data storage and management landscape, especially in light of new use cases such as AI.”

Together, we strive to offer customers innovative tools to navigate the evolving data storage and management landscape, especially in light of new applications like AI.

A solution born from customer demand
This exciting collaboration was initiated by a high-profile customer: a large defense agency managing 20 PB+ (potentially into exabytes) of confidential data on Scality RING, with a substantial daily change rate. Due to security constraints, cloud storage was not an option, making backup to an extensive tape library necessary. Utilizing the new bucket event notification feature, Miria enables fast and efficient daily incremental backups, seamlessly fitting into the agency’s backup windows.

Benefits include:

  • Reduced data protection window
  • Air-gapped backup copy of data
  • Faster recovery time in case of a disaster (RTO)

Future collaborations include new tiering capability
The next milestone in the joint Atempo Scality development effort is to deliver a powerful tiered storage solution (ILM), combining RING’s new filesystem tiering capabilities with Miria’s data movement capabilities. This collaborative effort enables automated data transfer from the RING S3 storage to a cold archive. This mechanism in complex environments replaces the moved files with shortcuts (stubs), allowing users and applications to retrieve data from the cold tier transparently.

Availability of the joint solution
The integration of Scality’s petabyte-scale RING S3 compatible storage with Atempo Miria’s backup solution for massive datasets is now available for all customers. Development of the second milestone is anticipated for Summer 2024.

Atempo and Scality continue to push the boundaries of storage innovation, providing customers with advanced solutions to address evolving data management challenges.

“Our collaboration with Scality brings a significant enhancement to the market at a time where cyber-resiliency at scale is in critical demand. This strategic partnership underscores our dedication to deliver innovative data management solutions. Integrating Scality’s storage with Miria empowers businesses to seamlessly safeguard massive datasets, setting new standards for data protection and storage efficiency.” — Luc D’Urso, CEO, Atempo

About Scality
Scality solves organizations’ biggest data storage challenges — security, performance, and cost. Designed to provide the strongest form of immutability plus end-to-end cyber resilience, Scality solutions safeguard data at five core levels for unbreakable ransomware protection. Delivering utmost resilience, Scality makes storage infrastructures limitlessly scalable in all critical dimensions. The world’s most discerning companies trust Scality so they can grow faster and execute AI data-driven ideas quicker — while increasing efficiency and avoiding lock-in. Recognized as a leader by Gartner, Scality S3 object storage software is reliable, secure and sustainable. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. Visit www.scality.com and our blog.

About Atempo
Atempo is a leading independent European-based software vendor with an established global presence providing solutions to protect, store, move, and recover all mission-critical datasets for thousands of companies worldwide. With over 30 years of data protection and data management experience, Atempo offers a complete range of proven solutions for physical and virtual server backups, workstations, and migration between different storages of enormous data volumes. Atempo has been recognized by the top global research firms, including Gartner as Representative Vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Hybrid Cloud Storage 2022 (three consecutive years), by GigaOM in its 2022 Radar for Data Migration as a Challenger and Fast Mover moving into Leadership, and by Coldago Research as one of TOP 3 key players in the market in its 2022 Map for Unstructured Data Management. Learn more about Atempo by visiting www.atempo.com and subscribe to our blog.

Media Contact
Corey Eldridge
corey.eldridge@nadelphelan.com

Source: Scality

 

 

VIENNA, Austria – March 19, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the #1 leader by market share in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, today announced the winners of the 2023 Veeam ProPartner Awards in Austria. These annual awards celebrate the exceptional achievements and unwavering dedication of Veeam Value-Added Resellers (VAR) and Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners. As a partner-first company, Veeam takes immense pride in acknowledging these partners for their ability to prioritize customer support and leverage the unrivalled capabilities of Veeam’s products and related services. These award winners have successfully delivered radical resilience for their customers in today’s ever-changing IT landscape, ensuring the enhanced protection and recoverability of diverse workloads, data, and applications.

Mario Zimmermann, Regional Director Austria at Veeam, said: “Today every single organization runs on data. Protecting that data and ensuring it can be rapidly recovered if something bad happens is becoming a critical priority. According to the findings of the latest Veeam Data Protection Trends Report, 76% of organizations have suffered a cyberattack in the past twelve months. It’s a question of when, not if there’s an attack and that underscores the critical need for organizations to ensure they are cyber resilient, either through in-house efforts or with the assistance of specialized third-party support.”

“At Veeam, we firmly believe that cyber resilience is a collaborative endeavor. From the very beginning, the Veeam ProPartner Network has been meticulously designed as a mutually beneficial framework. It grants access to Veeam’s exceptional resources within our partner ecosystem, empowering partners to meet the data protection and recovery needs of customers while simultaneously fostering predictable and profitable business growth. We deeply value and appreciate our local ProPartner Network, whose contributions have been instrumental in our shared 2023 achievements. I congratulate this year´s winners who have surpassed themselves and whose commitment and partnership are truly exemplary and inspiring for the entire network.”

The following Veeam ProPartners were recognized for their outstanding performance:

  • Fastest Growth of the Year: SNS – Saturn Networking Solutions GmbH
  • Most Significant Project of the Year: ANEO Solutions GmbH
  • Best Subscription Reselling Partner: ACP IT Solutions GmbH
  • Best VCSP Partner of the Year: A1 Telekom Austria AG
  • Best Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365Resell Partner: Bechtle Austria GmbH
  • Best Enterprise Partner of the Year: CANCOM Austria AG
  • Best Hybrid Partner of the Year: MAIT Austria GmbH

Becoming a Partner with the Global Leader

Veeam’s ProPartner Network is a global community of individuals and organizations who share a passionate commitment to helping businesses become more cyber resilient. With comprehensive capabilities spanning the B2B technology landscape, partners are supported by the industry’s foremost data protection and ransomware recovery platform. In collaboration with our partners, Veeam empowers organizations with the tools and expertise needed to navigate the challenges of today’s digital landscape and ensures their utmost data protection and recovery capabilities.

To learn more about the Veeam ProPartner Network, please visit https://www.veeam.com/partner-with-veeam.

Registration open for VeeamON 2024
Registration is now open for the 10th annual VeeamON event, June 3 – 5, 2024, at the Diplomat Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Register now for a limited-time 10-year anniversary rate.

For more information, visit www.veeam.com.

About Veeam Software
Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, is on a mission to help every organization not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward. With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 74% of the Global 2000, who 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.

Contacts
Veeam Software, Public Relations Manager, Corporate & Americas
Heidi Monroe Kroft
614-339-8200 x8309
heidi.kroft@veeam.com

Source: Veeam

 

 

PROVO, UT – March 19, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — FileShadow™ today announced the launch of Person Detection and Custom Object Identification in images. This feature enhances users’ ability to identify people in photographs, making them searchable when organizing photos around an individual.

The Person Detection feature leverages advanced technology so users can tag faces in photographs. With this feature, users select a photo in FileShadow and click “Detect Faces.” The app then identifies faces with a red outline box. Users can click on one of the faces and assign a name/title to that face. The system will add that name/title as a tag for future searches and tagging.

“FileShadow extends AI-based object identification,” said Tyrone Pike, FileShadow’s president and CEO. “FileShadow now can identify and name people in photographs. Of course, everything is searchable, so finding people later will be easy. FileShadow also provides a way to create custom regions so objects in a photograph like horses, dogs or buildings can be named.”

Identifying people can help document a person in multiple photos, making it easy to find them later. The feature is especially helpful for creating collections of a person, such as 20 photos of grandma at her old house or pictures of a particular ancestor. It can also help photographers organize images of a photo shoot, group images associated with an event, and label names of buildings or animals. While the system can identify faces like portrait face identification in a camera, it does not perform facial recognition and search for photos of that face. Faces need to be tagged to create future searches, and for security reasons, face tags are available only for the account owner.

With FileShadow, users can post content through the FileShadow Website Collection Manager. Website Collections can be shared with anyone, regardless of where they are located or using FileShadow. Anyone inside or outside the FileShadow system can contribute files to Website Collections.

“FileShadow is also changing the way metadata is shared with other applications,” Pike said. “We recognize that historians, photographers and service professionals use several applications to get and stay organized. When they identify a person, add a description, or set a geolocation, that information is written to the file when downloaded and available for other applications.”

Over the past year, FileShadow has participated in the Family History Metadata Working Group (FHMWG), a cooperative effort among software companies, nonprofits and experts to enable the consistent capturing, sharing, interoperability and preservation of family history metadata in digital media. Together, the group has created the site SaveMetadata.org to document its efforts toward defining the minimum metadata required for family history purposes.

About FileShadow
The FileShadow service aggregates files from cloud storage accounts (Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe’s Lightroom solutions, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive and Slack); email (Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Gmail, iCloud Mail, Yahoo! Mail and IMAP servers); local storage (macOS and Windows Desktops); mobile devices (iOS and Android); and network and direct-attached storage (NAS/DAS) devices.

Using machine learning, FileShadow provides superior indexing and searching capabilities. With FileShadow, users can quickly find any file with advanced search features such as file content, OCR of PDFs, and GPS location and image searches. FileShadow is hosted on Google Cloud with storage provided by Wasabi’s Hot Cloud Storage, providing “11 nines” of durability for optimal file protection.

Visit FileShadow.com for more information.

FileShadow PR Contact:
SnappConner PR
Mark Fredrickson
mark@snappconner.com
801-806-0161

Source: FileShadow

 

 

Cohesity Gaia to Be Integrated with NVIDIA AI Enterprise — Powering Deep AI-Driven Insights for Customers

SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 18, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security and management, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to help organizations safely unlock the power of generative AI and data using the recently announced NVIDIA NIM microservices and by integrating NVIDIA AI Enterprise into the Cohesity Gaia platform.

Cohesity Gaia, the company’s comprehensive, patent-pending collection of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, will offer NVIDIA NIM and additional technologies as part of a hardened, enterprise-class, multicloud data platform, with ready-to-implement generative AI solutions.

Cohesity’s latest fundraising efforts also resulted in NVIDIA becoming a new investor.

The integration of Cohesity Gaia with NVIDIA AI Enterprise will benefit customers by providing direct access to the latest AI capabilities to drive more efficient operations, offering greater insight into security risks and creating more value from their data.

These capabilities will include:

  • The ability for customers and partners to create domain-specific and performant generative AI models based on the customers’ Cohesity-managed data, using NVIDIA NIM. With this powerful combination, Cohesity customers can fine-tune their large language models with their data and adapt them to fit their organization’s brand voice.
  • A tool for customers to query their data via a generative AI assistant to gain insights from their data, such as deployment and configuration information, security, and more.
  • The ability for Cohesity’s and NVIDIA’s developer and partner ecosystems to leverage Cohesity’s secondary data. This means that ecosystem partners can build generative AI apps that provide even deeper insights for their customers based on their data. Customers will be able to make the data securely available in an easy-to-consume way for partners and developers to build upon.

With NVIDIA NIM, customers with Cohesity Gaia will be able to add generative AI intelligence to data backups and archives. This will allow the companies to bring the power of NVIDIA-optimized generative AI to all Cohesity Data Cloud customers. Leveraging the power of performance-tuned and optimized NIM Cohesity Data Cloud customers will be able to obtain the power of data-driven insights from their data backups and archives, unleashing new levels of insight, efficiency, innovation, and growth.

Cohesity Gaia was developed to cater to the ever-changing needs of customers who seek to harness the power of AI to unlock valuable insights from their enterprise data in a safe, secure, compliant, and responsible manner. Cohesity has leveraged the power of AI/ML for years in various applications such as ransomware hunting, anomaly detection, threat intelligence, data classification, data entropy, and capacity prediction. With the advent of Cohesity Gaia, based on patent-pending Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology, new, exciting opportunities will open for customers to analyze and uncover insights from their data like never before.

“Our collaboration, and NVIDIA’s investment in our company, is a testament to the promise NVIDIA sees in Cohesity as a leader and innovator in generative AI as evidenced by Cohesity  Gaia,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, Cohesity. “Through this collaboration, technology and business executives will have a unique opportunity to leverage the power of generative AI, turning information into knowledge, while keeping their data both compliant and safe.”

“Generative AI is a computing platform shift that’s opened a floodgate of new productivity opportunities for enterprises,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “We’re working with Cohesity to enable businesses to gain greater value from their data without compromising security or management flexibility.”

Availability
Customers can learn more about Cohesity Gaia, which is now generally available and is expected to be followed by subsequent integration with NVIDIA AI Enterprise capabilities.

Additional Resources

About Cohesity
Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy 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 six of the Fortune 10 and 42 of the Fortune 100.

Media Contact:
Michael Thacker
michael.thacker@cohesity.com
+1 (458) 272-1701

Source: Cohesity

 

 

Free 60-minute interactive online session focuses on preparing MSPs to be disaster-ready

Burlington, MA – March 18, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — N-able, Inc. (NYSE: NABL), a global software company helping IT services providers deliver remote monitoring and management, data protection as-a-service, and security solutions, today announced Cove’s ‘Master of Disaster Recovery’ Class—a free online course aimed at supporting disaster preparedness for MSPs worldwide.

Offered free to MSPs, the Cove Class leverages Cove’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) capabilities to impart essential knowledge and skills to the MSP community in the event of a data breach. The classes will be conducted via GoToWebinar every two weeks on an ongoing basis. Upcoming 2024 sessions include March 19 and April 2.

Mastering Proactive DRaaS
In an era where cyber threats and unforeseen disasters are rising, Cove’s ‘Master of Disaster Recovery’ Class stands out as an invaluable resource. Unlike traditional, fee-based training programs that can consume days or even weeks of an MSP’s time, the Cove Class delivers fundamental insights into disaster recovery and how to best prepare for a cyber event in 60 minutes or less.

“The worst time to learn about disaster recovery is during a disaster, which is why we developed a free course to help MSPs better prepare for and play it smart when disaster strikes, and you have to respond quickly,” said Chris Groot, General Manager, Cove Data Protection at N-able. “Cove’s ‘Master of Disaster Recovery’ Class is a live, hands-on, and immersive learning experience designed to equip MSPs with the confidence and expertise they need to implement best practices including how to design and deliver proactive disaster recovery as a service.”

Cove’s ‘Master of Disaster Recovery’ Class also helps MSPs establish a recovery environment in local Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, or in Microsoft Azure. This includes critical recovery prerequisites and cyber-recovery best practices, equipping MSPs with the knowledge to make crucial decisions before a disaster strikes. Additionally, the class covers how to avoid the most common errors and pitfalls that often lead to recovery problems.

Key Highlights of Cove’s ‘Master of Disaster Recovery’ Class include:

  • Educational Focus: Cove’s ‘Master of Disaster Recovery’ Class focuses on providing participants with the fundamentals of disaster recovery and gaining hands-on experience in setting up a recovery environment using Cove.
  • Convenience for Busy MSPs: Recognizing the time constraints of MSPs, the masterclass offers a swift and efficient learning experience. MSPs can learn the fundamentals of disaster recovery and how to set up a Cove recovery environment in less than an hour.
  • Demonstration with Cove: The masterclass leverages N-able’s Cove disaster recovery framework to demonstrate how data recovery can be performed in a local Hyper-V or VMware ESXi environment or in Microsoft Azure, showcasing the practical applicability of Cove’s capabilities.
  • Ransomware Readiness: With the continuous surge in ransomware attacks, the masterclass addresses the urgency for MSPs to be fully prepared. It provides an extra layer of recovery confidence and equips MSPs with the tools they need to face evolving threats.

To register for Cove’s ‘Master of Disaster Recovery’ Class visit: https://www.n-able.com/events/master-of-disaster-recovery.

About N-able
N-able fuels IT services providers with powerful software solutions to monitor, manage, and secure their customers’ systems, data, and networks. Built on a scalable platform, we offer secure infrastructure and tools to simplify complex ecosystems, as well as resources to navigate evolving IT needs. We help partners excel at every stage of growth, protect their customers, and expand their offerings with an ever-increasing, flexible portfolio of integrations from leading technology providers. n-able.com

© 2024 N-able Solutions ULC and N-able Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved.

The N-able trademarks, service marks, and logos are the exclusive property of N-able Solutions ULC and N-able Technologies Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contact:
Karla Walls
Karla.walls@n-able.com

Source: N-able

 

 

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 18, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced new validated reference architectures for running generative AI use cases, including a new NVIDIA OVX-ready validated reference architecture. As a leader in AI, Pure Storage, in collaboration with NVIDIA, is arming global customers with a proven framework to manage the high-performance data and compute requirements they need to drive successful AI deployments.

News Highlights:

Building on this collaboration with NVIDIA, Pure Storage delivers the latest technologies to meet the rapidly growing demand for AI across today’s enterprises. New validated designs and proofs of concept include:

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Pipeline for AI Inference: To improve the accuracy, currency, and relevance of Inference capabilities for large language models (LLMs), Pure Storage created a RAG pipeline leveraging NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices and NVIDIA GPUs and Pure Storage for all-flash enterprise storage. As a result, Pure Storage accelerates time to insight for enterprises using their own internal data for AI training, ensuring the use of their latest data and eliminating the need for constant retraining of LLMs.
  • Certified NVIDIA OVX Server Storage Reference Architecture: Pure Storage has achieved OVX Server Storage validation, providing enterprise customers and channel partners with flexible storage reference architectures, validated against key benchmarks to provide a strong infrastructure foundation for cost- and performance-optimized AI hardware and software solutions. This validation offers additional choice for AI customers and complements Pure Storage’s certification for NVIDIA DGX BasePOD announced last year.
  • Vertical RAG Development: To accelerate successful AI adoption across vertical industries, Pure Storage is creating vertical-specific RAGs in collaboration with NVIDIA. First, Pure Storage has created a financial services RAG solution to summarize and query massive datasets with higher accuracy than off-the-shelf LLMs. Financial services institutions can now gain faster insight using AI to create instant summaries and analysis from various financial documents and other sources. Additional RAGs for healthcare and public sector to be released.
  • Expanded Investment in AI Partner Ecosystem: Pure Storage is further investing in its AI partner ecosystem with NVIDIA, engaging in new partnerships with ISVs like Run.AI and Weights & Biases. While Run.AI optimizes GPU utilization through advanced orchestration and scheduling, the Weights & Biases AI Development platform enables ML teams to build, evaluate, and govern the model development lifecycle. Additionally, Pure Storage is working closely with AI-focused reseller and service partners including ePlus, Insight, WWT, and others to further operationalize joint customer AI deployments.

Executive Insight:

  • “Pure Storage recognized the rising demand for AI early on, delivering an efficient, reliable, and high-performance platform for the most advanced AI deployments. Embracing our long-standing collaboration with NVIDIA, the latest validated AI reference architectures and generative AI proofs of concept emerge as pivotal components for global enterprises in unraveling the complexities of the AI puzzle.” – Rob Lee, Chief Technology Officer, Pure Storage
  • “NVIDIA’s AI platform reference architectures are enhanced by Pure’s simple, efficient, and reliable data infrastructure, delivering comprehensive solutions for enterprises navigating the complexities of AI, data analytics, and advanced computing. Pure’s latest validated reference architectures and proofs of concept are helping drive AI innovation, providing businesses with the tools needed to unlock new possibilities and drive transformative outcomes.” – Bob Pette, Vice President of Enterprise Platforms, NVIDIA
  • “At WWT, technology innovation is at the core of delivering valuable services to our global clients. As the demand for AI grows, we couldn’t be more excited to continue partnering with two best-of-breed vendors in our AI Proving Ground. Pure Storage’s high-performance AI storage infrastructure and NVIDIA’s prowess in AI computing creates an impressive synergy, enabling our joint customers to seamlessly infuse artificial intelligence into their business operations while driving meaningful ROI.” – Ryan Avery, High-Performance Storage Architect, World Wide Technology
  • “Our mission at Run.AI is to be a driving force in the AI revolution, leading the charge for positive change across industries and enhancing the human experience. Focusing our efforts on providing the essential software layer that empowers AI infrastructure, we are thrilled to partner with Pure Storage and NVIDIA to help drive broader (and more successful) adoption of advanced enterprise AI initiatives.” – Yael Dor, VP, Global Sales and Partnerships, Run.AI
  • “At Weights & Biases, we’re dedicated to building the best tools for machine learning and generative AI — including automating experimentation and model artifact tracking, streamlining model and prompt evaluation, and enabling end-to-end governance and reproducibility of machine learning workloads. Our expanded collaboration with Pure Storage and NVIDIA further empowers AI developers on their journeys to building and deploying superior models with speed, reliability, and efficiency.” – Seann Gardiner, VP of Business Development, Weights & Biases
  • “Pure Storage’s NVIDIA-validated reference architectures and proofs of concept provide enterprises across industries a shortcut to AI success. Rather than investing valuable time and resources in building an AI architecture from scratch, Pure’s proven frameworks not only mitigate the risk of expensive project delays but also guarantee a high return on investment for AI team expenditures like GPUs.” – Mike Leone, Principal Analyst, ESG

Industry Significance:

Today, the majority of AI deployments are dispersed across fragmented data environments — from the cloud to ill-suited (often legacy) storage solutions. Yet these fragmented environments cannot support the performance and networking requirements to fuel AI data pipelines and unlock the full potential of enterprise data.

As enterprises further embrace AI to drive innovation, streamline operations, and gain a competitive edge, the demand for robust, high-performance, and efficient AI infrastructure has never been stronger.

Pioneering enterprise AI deployments, particularly among a rapidly growing set of Fortune 500 enterprise customers, Pure Storage provides a simple, reliable, and efficient storage platform for enterprises to fully leverage the potential of AI, while reducing the associated risk, cost, and energy consumption.

Learn More:

  • Blog Post: Optimize GenAI Applications with Retrieval-augmented Generation from Pure Storage and NVIDIA
  • Blog Post: Pure Data Storage Platform for AI Expands with NVIDIA OVX Server and Full-stack AI Solutions
  • Pure Storage AI Customer Momentum
  • Pure Storage AI Storage Solutions that Drive Efficiency

About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) delivers the industry’s best platform to store, manage, and protect the world’s data. With a cloud experience across a unified storage operating environment, Pure Storage empowers every organization with the agility to meet evolving data requirements at speed and scale, while reducing total cost of ownership. Pure believes it can make a meaningful impact in reducing data center emissions worldwide by providing a storage platform that enables customers to significantly reduce their carbon and energy footprint. Pure is proud to be a customer-first organization, as evidenced by the highest Net Promoter Score in the industry. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com

Pure Storage, the Pure Storage P Logo, and the marks on the Pure Storage Trademark List are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. The Trademark List can be found at purestorage.com/trademarks. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Analyst Recognition:

  • Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage
  • Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems & Object Storage

Connect with Pure

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LinkedIn
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Facebook

Press Contact
Kaylin Deutscher
Pure Storage
pr@purestorage.com

Source: Pure Storage

 

 

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – March 15, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the #1 leader by market share in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, today announced the winners of the 2023 Veeam ProPartner Awards in Africa. These annual awards celebrate the exceptional achievements and unwavering dedication of Veeam Value-Added Resellers (VAR) and Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners. As a partner-first company, Veeam takes immense pride in acknowledging these partners for their ability to prioritize customer support and leverage the unrivalled capabilities of Veeam’s products and related services. These award winners have successfully delivered radical resilience for their customers in today’s ever-changing IT landscape, ensuring the enhanced protection and recoverability of diverse workloads, data, and applications.

Lisa Strydom, Senior Manager Channel and Alliances Africa at Veeam, said: “Today every single organization runs on data. Protecting that data and ensuring it can be rapidly recovered if something bad happens is becoming a critical priority. According to the findings of the latest Veeam Data Protection Trends Report, 76% of organizations have suffered a cyberattack in the past twelve months. It’s a question of when, not if there’s an attack and that underscores the critical need for organizations to ensure they are cyber resilient, either through in-house efforts or with the assistance of specialized third-party support.”

“At Veeam, we firmly believe that cyber resilience is a collaborative endeavor. From the very beginning, the Veeam ProPartner Network has been meticulously designed as a mutually beneficial framework. It grants access to Veeam’s exceptional resources within our partner ecosystem, empowering partners to meet the data protection and recovery needs of customers while simultaneously fostering predictable and profitable business growth. We deeply value and appreciate our local ProPartner Network, whose contributions have been instrumental in our shared 2023 achievements. I congratulate this year´s winners who have surpassed themselves and whose commitment and partnership are truly exemplary and inspiring for the entire network.”

The following Veeam ProPartners were recognized for their outstanding performance:

South Africa

Rest of Africa

Sub Saharan Africa

  • Distributor & Aggregator of the Year: Axiz

Becoming a Partner with the Global Leader
Veeam’s ProPartner Network is a global community of individuals and organizations who share a passionate commitment to helping businesses become more cyber resilient. With comprehensive capabilities spanning the B2B technology landscape, partners are supported by the industry’s foremost data protection and ransomware recovery platform. In collaboration with our partners, Veeam empowers organizations with the tools and expertise needed to navigate the challenges of today’s digital landscape and ensures their utmost data protection and recovery capabilities.

To learn more about the Veeam ProPartner Network, please visit https://www.veeam.com/partner-with-veeam.

Registration open for VeeamON 2024
Registration is now open for the 10th annual VeeamON event, June 3 – 5, 2024, at the Diplomat Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Register now for a limited-time 10-year anniversary rate.

For more information, visit www.veeam.com.

About Veeam Software
Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, is on a mission to help every organization not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward. With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 74% of the Global 2000, who 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 x830

Agency Contact:
Ali Phair
Senior Account Executive
PAN Communications, for Veeam
Mobile 339.788.8741
aphair@pancomm.com

Source: Veeam

 

 

New Solution Unifies File and Object Storage, Extending Amazon S3 Compatible Storage to the Network Edge, Delivering Powerful Application Performance for AI and Other Data-Driven Processes

BOSTON, MA – March 14, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Nasuni, a leading hybrid cloud storage solution, announces the general availability of Nasuni Edge for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), a cloud-native, distributed solution that allows enterprises to accelerate data access and delivery times while ensuring low-latency access that is crucial for edge workloads, including cloud-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applications, all through a single, unified platform.

Amazon S3 is an object storage service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 supports petabyte-sized workloads and allows customers to run S3-compatible storage that supports select S3 APIs on AWS Outposts, AWS Local Zones, and customers’ on-premises environments. The unique Nasuni cloud-native architecture is designed to improve performance and accelerate business processes.

Immediate file access is essential across various industries, including manufacturing, real estate, engineering, construction, and healthcare, where remote facilities with limited bandwidth generate large volumes of data that must be quickly processed and ingested into Amazon S3. In addition, increasingly, customers are looking for a unified platform for both file and object data access and protection, enabling them to address small and large-scale projects with on-prem and cloud-centric workloads through a single offering.

“Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 provides us with the capability to seamlessly interact with Nasuni,” said Alex Serban, Senior Manager of Site Reliability and Operations at Electronic Arts. “This approach to engaging with Nasuni not only enhances our operational efficiency, but also establishes a standardized process. The potential of Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 becomes evident in its ability to boost performance, speeding software build distribution to teams around the globe. This improvement is instrumental in accelerating the delivery of games to the global market.”

With an influx of large volumes of data, simplified storage is a priority for any business looking to collect and quickly process data at the edge in 2024. Forrester Research expects 80 percent of new data pipelines in 2024 will be built for ingesting, processing, and storing unstructured data. Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 is specifically designed for IT professionals, infrastructure managers, IT architects, and ITOps teams who want to improve application performance and data-driven workflow processes. It enables application developers to read and write using the Amazon S3 API to a global namespace backed by an Amazon S3 bucket from multiple endpoints located within AWS Local Zones, AWS Outposts, and on-premises environments.

Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 enhances data access in the following ways:

  • Local performance at the edge: Customers can now deploy Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 wherever high performance with low latency is required, in AWS Local Zones, on AWS Outposts, or in customers’ self-managed on-premises environments. Local caching via Nasuni provides LAN-like performance to meet application owner and user expectations.
  • Multi-protocol read/write scenarios: Access to data often requires other protocols beyond Amazon S3, usually Server Message Block (SMB) or Network File System (NFS). Nasuni provides multi-protocol flexibility that facilitates a wide range of application access.
  • Support for more file metadata: Nasuni extends file management scenarios where classification and compliance are important by supporting an extended number of tags, the number of characters in tags, and the size of file metadata.

“Nasuni has been a long-time AWS partner, and this latest collaboration delivers the simplest solution for modernizing an enterprise’s existing file infrastructure. With Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3, enterprises can support legacy workloads and take advantage of modern Amazon S3-based applications,” said David Grant, President, Nasuni. “Nasuni Edge for Amazon S3 allows an organization to make unstructured data easily available to cloud-based AI services.”

In addition to providing fast access to a single, globally accessible namespace, the ability to ingest large amounts of data into a single location drives potential new opportunities for customer innovation and powerful new insights via integration with third-party AI services. Importantly, Nasuni’s multi-protocol support means these new data workloads are accessible from a vast range of existing applications without having to rewrite them.

About Nasuni
Nasuni is a leading hybrid cloud storage solution that powers business growth with effortless scalability, built-in security, and fast edge performance using a unique cloud-native architecture. The Nasuni File Data Platform delivers operational excellence by consolidating NAS and backup, eliminating data silos, and making management easy and flexible without changes to apps or workflows. Its built-in security offers proactive defense and rapid recovery, lowering organizations’ risk from the detrimental effects of ransomware attacks and other disasters. Synchronized access to file data everywhere ensures user productivity by supporting remote and hybrid work. By leveraging object storage, data is consolidated and optimized for content intelligence tools and AI workflows.

Organizations worldwide rely on Nasuni, including leaders in manufacturing, construction, energy, consumer goods, and public sectors. Nasuni’s corporate headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and the company delivers services to over 70 countries. For more information, visit www.nasuni.com.

Media Contacts
US:
Jessica Luhrman
Waters Agency
Phone: (210) 273 0914
Email: nasunipr@watersagency.com

UK/Europe:
Maria Loupa
Waters Agency
Phone: +44 (0)7591 004 738
Email: nasunipr@watersagency.com

Source: Nasuni

 

 

Annual DCIG Report Recognizes Panzura CloudFS for its Advanced Data Management Capabilities, Including Global Accessibility, Immutable Storage, Enhanced Security, and Superior Performance in Multi-site Environments.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 14, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Panzura LLC, a leading provider of hybrid multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced that leading analyst firm, Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG), has named Panzura CloudFS global file management system a “DCIG TOP 5 Enterprise Multi-site File Collaboration Solution” in the 2024-25 DCIG TOP 5 Enterprise Muti-site File Collaboration Solutions report.

Panzura CloudFS, the heart of the Panzura platform, has been recognized for its exceptional ability to protect and simplify access to data and files across complex enterprise environments. By leveraging patented cloud-native technology, Panzura CloudFS supports both on-premises and hybrid cloud use, offering a unified view of file resources through a global namespace. It enables organizations to rapidly modernize data infrastructure for hybrid or multi-cloud environments. This approach not only enhances collaboration and data accessibility, but also significantly improves disaster recovery and active archiving processes.

The annual DCIG report is an authoritative, independent guide that assists enterprise IT leaders in making informed decisions about technologies that support their strategic and operational needs. Panzura’s inclusion in this report is a testament to the robust capabilities of Panzura CloudFS, including its ability to empower teams to collaborate globally without latency or the risk of data corruption.

Key features that set Panzura CloudFS apart include:

  • Intelligent Caching and Synchronization: Ensuring fast file access and global file collaboration with the ability to scale beyond 100 nodes.
  • Low Latency Synchronization: Panzura CloudFS’s global synchronization at 60-second intervals ensures that new and changed data are consistently and securely updated across all nodes.
  • High Availability and Ransomware Resiliency: Enhanced data protection with options for local and global failover nodes, cloud mirroring, and AES-256 bit encryption.
  • Administration and Compliance Ease: With Panzura Data Services, CloudFS offers a market-leading unified view for comprehensive management, monitoring, and regulatory compliance.

“The sheer volume of data out there is staggering — keeping that data stored and safe, while trying to make sense of it all and use it effectively is one of the biggest challenges facing businesses today,” commented Raul Sanchez, Global Head of Sales Engineering, Panzura. “Solving that challenge for our customers is our number one objective; being recognized as a 2024-25 ‘DCIG TOP 5 Enterprise Multi-Site File Collaboration Solution’ is a testament to not only that commitment, but also our focus on innovation and customer success, enabling smarter file storage and access without giving an inch when it comes to security and compliance. Data is the most valuable asset that enterprise businesses possess, and we’re here to help our customers and partners guard it and use it in the most effective way possible.”

Panzura’s recognition in the DCIG report follows a year of significant growth, underscoring its position as a frontrunner in the cloud storage and data management industry. The company recently launched Panzura Edge, an extension to Panzura CloudFS which allows users to engage in file sharing and monitoring on mobile devices. Panzura was also named in the 2024-25 DCIG TOP 5 Enterprise Cloud-Based NAS Consolidation Solutions report, and recognized in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Storage and Data Protection Technologies, 2023.

About Panzura
Panzura, a leading innovator in global file systems and hybrid cloud data management, helps distributed organizations increase productivity by optimizing digital asset visibility, access, sharing, and storage cost. Its award-winning Panzura CloudFS platform enables IT infrastructure, operations, and security leaders to meet ever-changing demands including for ransomware resilience. With Panzura, the exponential growth of unstructured data reveals clear opportunities for diverse industries—Architecture, Engineering, and Construction; Healthcare Imaging; Legal; Manufacturing; Media & Entertainment; and others. Learn how Panzura solves your most critical data challenges at?www.panzura.com.

For Media & PR inquires contact:
Panzura
Lindsey Torres
Lindsey.Torres@Panzura.com

Source: Panzura

 

 

New leadership to drive rapid channel adoption and expansion into key target accounts

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 14, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Scality, a global leader in cyber-resilient storage software for the AI era, today announced the appointment of Joe Febel as sr. vice president of Americas sales. With a strategic emphasis on accelerating channel growth, Joe is swiftly scaling up channel managers in key geographies across the United States. The newly expanded, 100% channel-focused team is poised to strengthen distributor and VAR relationships to expedite the adoption of Scality ARTESCA for channel-friendly data protection solutions with leading backup providers like Veeam Software.

“I’m thrilled to join Scality at this pivotal moment. Object storage has firmly entered the mainstream, presenting an opportunity for significant growth, especially with our valued channel partners,” said Joe Febel. “It’s a rare opportunity to drive market share for a rapidly growing product line like ARTESCA, which has achieved an outstanding 5x growth rate in the last year. The expansion potential is immense, and with the support of our channel partners we are prepared to seize the opportunity.”

Joe has over 34 years of experience leading large-scale infrastructure and cloud deployments within Fortune 500 accounts for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 3PAR and Dell/EMC. His strong customer relationships will help drive increased adoption of Scality RING and ARTESCA within long-standing Scality enterprise and government accounts.

Joe’s sales focus will serve both Scality product lines: firstly, driving rapid adoption of ARTESCA for cyber-resilient backups with Veeam through channel partners; secondly, expanding petabyte-scale hybrid-cloud deployments for Scality RING in target accounts. While the channel strategy remains intact for both products, Joe has strategically placed experienced account executives and sales engineers within key accounts that deploy Scality RING for some of the largest and most sensitive data stores in the U.S. and the world.

Joe’s appointment as sr. vice president of Americas sales marks an exciting new chapter for Scality as we prioritize rapid channel adoption and expansion into key target accounts. His focus on channel expansion and extensive experience in leading large-scale infrastructure and cloud deployments within Fortune 500 accounts makes him an invaluable addition to our team. With Joe’s leadership, we are confident in our ability to strengthen our channel relationships and accelerate the adoption of Scality ARTESCA and RING solutions. His dual sales strategy will not only drive growth in the SMB market but also expand our footprint in large enterprise and government accounts.” — Peter Brennan, Chief revenue officer, Scality

About Scality
Scality solves organizations’ biggest data storage challenges — security, performance, and cost. Designed to provide the strongest form of immutability plus end-to-end cyber resilience, Scality solutions safeguard data at five core levels for unbreakable ransomware protection. Delivering utmost resilience, Scality makes storage infrastructures limitlessly scalable in all critical dimensions. The world’s most discerning companies trust Scality so they can grow faster and execute AI data-driven ideas quicker — while increasing efficiency and avoiding lock-in. Recognized as a leader by Gartner, Scality S3 object storage software is reliable, secure and sustainable. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. Visit www.scality.com and our blog.

Media Contact
Corey Eldridge
corey.eldridge@nadelphelan.com

Source: Scality

 

 

Company’s Strategic Focus on Cybersecurity, Cloud Services, and Managed IT Services Yields 196% Two-Year Revenue Increase

PITTSBURGH, PA – March 14, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Inc. magazine revealed that Magna5, a national provider of managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud-based services, is No. 90 on its fourth annual Inc. 5000 Regionals: Northeast list. This prestigious ranking recognizes the most successful companies within the Northeast economy’s most dynamic segment — its independent small businesses.

“Magna5 is honored to be recognized not only on the national stage with the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies, but now also amongst our peers in the Northeast,” said Bob Farina, CEO of Magna5. “The demand for cybersecurity, cloud services and managed IT services is growing rapidly and Magna5 continues to win new business by striving to understand our customers’ needs and investing in our team, technology and service processes to provide world class solutions to our clients.”

The companies on this list show a remarkable rate of growth across all industries in the Northeast region. Between 2020 and 2022, these 198 private companies had an average growth rate of 155.84 percent; by 2023, they’d also added 14,560 jobs and $15.7 billion to the region’s economy. Complete results of the Inc. 5000 Regionals: Northeast, including company profiles, can be found at inc.com/northeast.

“The honorees in our Inc. 5000 network are the Who’s Who of private companies. They’re energizing regional economies as they engineer the future of their industries. Learn who they are and what they do — they’ll be impacting things for a while,” said Eric Hagerman, Special Projects Editor at Inc. Media.

About Magna5
Magna5, a NewSpring Holdings platform, provides managed IT services, cybersecurity, private and public cloud hosting, backup and disaster recovery, and other advanced IT services to SMB, mid-market and enterprise customers, including leaders within the education, healthcare, government, financial services, manufacturing and other industry segments. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, Magna5 has customers nationally. For more information, visit www.magna5.com

More about Inc. and the Inc. 5000 Regionals

Methodology
The 2024 Inc. 5000 Regionals are ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2020 and 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2022. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2020 is $100,000; the minimum for 2022 is $1 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons.

About Inc. Media
The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent.

The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com

Contact:
Ryan Burns
Magna5
+1-469-409-0555
rburns@magna5global.com

Source: Magna5

 

 

Bocada’s new SaaS edition provides backup professionals with easy “pay-as-you-go” backup monitoring and reporting

SEATTLE, WA – March 13, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Bocada LLC has launched Bocada Cloud, the first-ever SaaS edition of Bocada’s category-leading backup monitoring software.

Built on the same data collection and normalization engine as Bocada Enterprise, Bocada’s flagship installed edition, Bocada Cloud extends enterprise-grade data protection monitoring to MSPs and businesses of all sizes via a “pay-as-you-go” software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model.

Users can sign up for a free account, connect their backup servers, and begin using Bocada Cloud’s single-pane dashboard and detailed reports in just minutes. Users who want to monitor more than 25 resources (e.g. servers, clients, virtual machines) can easily upgrade to the standard plan, whereupon they will begin to pay monthly for any resources above the free 25 resource tier.

Because of Bocada Cloud’s “pay-as-you-go” consumption-based model, there is no need for an annual contract, making it easy for data protection operators to get started.

At launch, Bocada Cloud supports more than 15 backup products, including Veeam B&R, Veeam for Office 365, AWS Backup, Azure Backup, Druva, Rubrik, Cohesity, Commvault, and NetBackup. (See the full list). More connectors are being added every month.

“We have seen how challenging it can be for MSPs and mid-sized companies to manage their data protection environments,” explains Matt Hall, CEO of Bocada. “Bocada Cloud can provide any organization with an immediate understanding of backup health across their environment, enabling optimal data protection and efficient SLA compliance reporting.

“As market disruption inevitably happens in the data protection space due to vendor consolidation or natural ebb and flow, our customers depend on Bocada to maintain future-proof control of their dynamic data protection environments. Bocada Cloud makes this attainable for many more organizations.”

In contrast to Bocada Enterprise, Bocada Cloud eschews some of its installed counterpart’s enterprise-focused capabilities (compare the editions), focusing instead on making essential backup monitoring and reporting automation easy for any organization. Bocada will continue to invest in both products to maintain category leadership in the enterprise market (with Bocada Enterprise) and build market leadership in new customer segments with Bocada Cloud.

Bocada Cloud is available immediately for new signups.

To learn more about Bocada Cloud, email us at sales@bocada.com or call +1-425-898-2400.

About Bocada
Bocada LLC, a global IT Automation leader, delivers backup reporting and monitoring solutions that give enterprises complete visibility into their backup performance. Bocada provides insight into complex backup environments, enabling IT organizations to 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
https://www.bocada.com/contact/

Source: Bocada

 

 

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