Four nonprofits doing critical work for child welfare and crisis response receive grants for $25,000

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – December 07, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX), the leading Content Cloud, today announced the grantees of the Box Impact Fund, which provides grants for digital transformation to nonprofit organizations doing critical work in the areas of child welfare and crisis response. The four grantees, including the African Community Center for Social Sustainability, Children’s Home Society of Minnesota, U.S. Digital Response, and Water Mission, each received grants for $25,000 – totaling $100,000.

Box Impact Fund — https://blog.box.com/introducing-box-impact-fund

“At Box, teaming up with and empowering nonprofit organizations world-wide is a reflection of who we are as company, which is why we are thrilled to support four incredible organizations today with digital transformation grants from the Box Impact Fund,” said Corrie Conrad, Executive Director of Box.org and VP, Communities and Impact at Box. “We’ve seen first-hand the impact of technology on driving productivity and efficiency gains for the more than 100,000 organizations that use our Content Cloud to collaborate securely every day. In child welfare and crisis response, the impact is incredibly tangible. It translates to more time for staff to spend with foster youth and faster processing of child support. It means streamlined resource deployment and operations that result in more immediate aid for people in the middle of disasters. We’re proud to be helping these organizations to achieve their missions and reach even more people in need.”

The Box Impact Fund Recipients

African Community Center for Social Sustainability (ACCESS): Located in Uganda, ACCESS is committed to working with vulnerable people in resource limited settings through provision of medical care, education and economic empowerment to create a long-lasting change that is owned by the entire community.

“The grant will enable ACCESS to set up an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data system that will be used to monitor the implementation of child welfare interventions in the community, integrate them and use the data to continuously address ongoing challenges. The grant will support the organization to improve health, education and livelihoods of orphans and vulnerable children in rural areas,” said Dr. Robert Kalyesubula, President ACCESS Uganda.

Children’s Home Society of Minnesota: With a mission to help children thrive, and to build, strengthen and sustain individual, family and community life, Children’s Home Society of Minnesota is committed to serving those in need through ethical, transparent and inclusive services throughout the lifelong foster care/adoption journey.

“The grant from Box Impact Fund will allow us to digitize thousands of adoption records. This will not only help our organization financially, but most importantly will allow adoptees, birth families and adoptive families quicker access to vital information,” said Heidi Wiste, President of Children’s Home Society of Minnesota.

U.S. Digital Response (USDR): A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, USDR places experienced, pro-bono technologists to work with government and organizations responding to moments of crisis, to quickly deliver critical services and infrastructure that support the needs of the public.

“These funds will allow USDR to grow our Rapid Response team and support our partners at the front lines of response, including the scaling of off-the-shelf solutions that we can repeatedly deploy to local governments. When people are in crisis, that’s when they need their governments and community organizations to show up for them the most. We’re honored to receive this grant from Box so that U.S. Digital Response can bring the best of technology to the people meeting the hardest challenges in our communities,” said Jessica Cole, CEO of U.S. Digital Response.

Water Mission: This nonprofit Christian engineering organization designs, builds, and implements safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions for people in developing countries and disaster areas. Since 2001, Water Mission has used innovative technology and engineering expertise to provide access to safe water for more than 7 million people in 57 countries.

“This digital transformation grant from Box helps us move from traditional paper-based data collection in East Africa to a fully digitized cloud-based operation. This will enable us to be more effective in processing and utilizing data to strategically mobilize critical resources to address the most urgent water, sanitation, and hygiene needs in the communities we serve. This primarily benefits women and children as they are the most impacted by the global water crisis,” said George C. Greene IV, PE, CEO and president of Water Mission.

Box Gives Back
Box provides nearly 10,000 nonprofit organizations with the capacity-building resources they need to innovate and fulfill their missions. In addition to offering donated or discounted access to Box’s Content Cloud, Box.org, Box’s philanthropic arm, builds nonprofit capacity through employee-led volunteering and giving programs, coalition building and good business practices. Box maintains a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) at Tides Foundation and the Box Impact Fund is funded through this DAF. 75% of Box employees engage in causes they care about throughout the year with Box nonprofit partners, like local CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) organizations, Think of Us, CareerVillage, and more.

To learn more visit the Box blog.

About Box
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leading Content Cloud that enables organizations to accelerate business processes, power workplace collaboration, and protect their most valuable information, all while working with a best-of-breed enterprise IT stack. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading organizations globally, including AstraZeneca, General Electric, JLL, and Morgan Stanley. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. To learn more about Box, visit http://www.box.com. To learn more about how Box powers nonprofits to fulfill their missions, visit Box.org.

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Rachel Levine
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Users benefit from cost-effective, scalable, and simple storage and backup capabilities with immutability for cloud-native applications in Kubernetes

BOSTON, MA – December 8, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today announced that it has partnered with Kasten by Veeam®, the market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, to provide enterprise operations teams with an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility for Kubernetes. Purpose-built for Kubernetes, Kasten K10 data management platform combined with Wasabi’s hot cloud storage enables users to access data in milliseconds with industry-leading data protection and immutability against accidental or malicious backup corruption.

As more enterprises adopt microservice architecture and containers, Kubernetes has become the fastest-growing infrastructure software providing high availability and scalability of application services. However, these benefits do not extend to customer data, and therefore data and application protection are a critical priority for Kubernetes workloads as enterprises must extract data from the Kubernetes environment and store it securely. Whether accidental or malicious, preventing catastrophic data loss is increasingly challenging, especially when defending against ransomware attacks, mitigating the impact of human error or ensuring the chain of custody and regulatory compliance of data.

Now with Wasabi’s affordable, fast, and reliable hot cloud storage on-demand, Kasten customers can treat their data as hot data, shortening upload windows and quickly accessing their data for faster restore times. Wasabi is 80% less expensive than traditional cloud providers, and there are no fees for egress or API requests.

“As Kubernetes becomes the de facto application system for enterprises everywhere, data storage, backup and protection have never been more important,” said David Boland, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Wasabi. “By partnering with Kasten by Veeam, Kubernetes users everywhere will have instant access to their application data with industry-leading backup and immutability that provides a faster, affordable, more secure, and most importantly simple experience for users.”

Kasten streamlines application protection with the simplicity and portability that IT and Operations teams need to operate cloud-native applications that use multiple data services and are instantiated across multiple clusters, regions or clouds. K10 protects backups with end-to-end encryption and includes S3 Object Lock immutable storage support from Wasabi to add a new level of data protection, preventing malicious attacks like ransomware or accidental operations that can lead to significant data loss or alteration.

“Data protection is a top-of-mind concern for organizations across the globe as with the growth in cyber-attacks like ransomware,” said Gaurav Rishi, VP of Product, Kasten by Veeam. “Our partnership with Wasabi offers a solution with instantly accessible data and object-level immutability to deliver the simplicity, security and affordability our customers need to protect and optimize their Kubernetes investments.”

About Wasabi Technologies:
Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of 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 has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.

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Inkhouse for Wasabi
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Adoption Accelerates as Partners Look to Eliminate Supply Chain Constraints, Accelerate Time to Revenue, and Remove Costly Hardware for Customers through Managed Services Center

SUNNYVALE, Calif. ? December 8, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Druva Inc. today announced that Druva’s new Managed Service Provider (MSP) program, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), has experienced significant growth following its recent launch. Introduced in June 2021, Druva has tripled its MSP partners within the program as the demand for its resilient, simplified data protection service continues to surge across the global channel ecosystem. In response to this accelerated demand, Druva launched the Managed Services Center, which provides partners with additional resources to run their businesses more strategically.

As more businesses move to the cloud, there is an urgency to adopt new technologies that can improve cyber resiliency, streamline governance, and extract data insights at scale. This demand has created a vast market opportunity for MSPs, with research showing that the global MSP market size is expected to increase to $354.8 billion by 2026¹. However, global supply chain shortages are inflating prices and delaying deliveries as shipments from China to the US alone are taking 83 percent longer to arrive at their final destination compared to September 2019². As a result, partners are seeking alternative solutions which require minimal initial investment, can be rapidly deployed across the globe, and offer the ease of self-service.

Built entirely in the cloud, Druva helps MSPs accelerate time-to-revenue and reduce risk by delivering a more resilient, 100 percent software as a service (SaaS) platform without the burden of infrastructure. Since launching its MSP program and the Managed Service Center, Druva has seen an enormous demand for data protection services that simplify and automate traditionally complex processes. With customer demand rising, Druva’s MSP partners have been able to accelerate protection for SaaS applications, hybrid and cloud workloads, and edge devices. The addition of Druva’s Managed Services Center enables MSPs to seamlessly support new and existing tenants from a single interface, driving more efficiency and better management of all customers by service level agreements (SLAs), service plans, and workloads.

“MSPs are facing a multitude of challenges that are slowing down sales cycles and are increasingly in need of a modern solution that is free of supply chains or costly hardware and management,” said Robert Brower, Senior Vice President of Global Partners and Alliances, Druva. “By harnessing the global reach of AWS infrastructure, we are delivering a solution that relieves these pressures and enables MSPs to drive measurable outcomes with higher margins. The program’s growth since launch is a testament to how seamless the process has become, and with Druva’s Managed Services Center at the core of our program, MSPs are able to access best-of-breed resiliency, flexibility, and scale-on-demand.”

The Druva Data Resiliency Cloud empowers MSPs to effectively deliver on the potential of the cloud with an industry-leading solution that has helped advance thousands of organizations’ cyber, data, and operational resilience without any hardware, software, or associated complexity. Druva’s SaaS-based delivery model enables a self-service user experience that allows partners to accelerate customer deployments, meet new tenant workloads, and efficiently scale customer needs up or down. As further recognition, Druva’s program has been recognized as a finalist in the MSP/MSSP Platform category by the 2021 CRN Tech Innovator Awards, which highlights cutting-edge, purpose-built products and services for solution providers.

“The cloud allows partners and customers alike access to their data globally, adapting to the changing needs of business with a high degree of flexibility to scale with a pay-as-you-go model,” said Sabina Joseph, General Manager, Americas Technology Partners, AWS. “MSPs can easily deploy Druva, a trusted data resiliency solution built on AWS, and help customers protect data from malicious attacks, maintain compliance, and accelerate cloud transformations, without impacting costs or agility.”

“The Druva MSP program provides us with the tools to grow top-line revenue and ensure customer success through a simplified experience,” said Nicholas Barron, Chief Technology Officer, Harbor Solutions, a leading UK MSP. “Because Druva is built on AWS, we are confident our customers’ data is always safe, secure and available. With no infrastructure required, we no longer need to focus on data centers, servers or hardware and storage shipments in order to set up data protection solutions for our customers. Now, everyone in our organization, from sales to support, can focus on delivering more value to our customers.”

The Druva Managed Services Center is available now to MSPs in North America and EMEA.

Additional Information:

• Webpage: Learn more about Druva’s world-class MSP program here

• Partner Portal Application: Submit an application on the Druva partner portal here

• Video: Hear from Sabina Joseph, Nicholas Barron, and Robert Brower as they discuss the key benefits realized with Druva’s new program

¹ MarketsandMarkets, Managed Services Market worth $354.8 billion by 2026 – Exclusive Report by MarketsandMarkets™. Published 16, July 2021.

² Freightos, Shipping & Freight Cost Increases, Freight Capacity, and Shipping Container Shortage [2021]. Updated 10, October 2021.

About Druva
Druva enables cyber, data and operational resilience for every organization with the Data Resiliency Cloud, the industry’s first and only at-scale SaaS solution. Customers can radically simplify data protection, streamline data governance, and gain data visibility and insights as they accelerate cloud adoption. Druva pioneered a SaaS-based approach to eliminate complex infrastructure and related management costs, and deliver data resilience via a single platform spanning multiple geographies and clouds. Druva is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including 60 of the Fortune 500 to make data more resilient and accelerate their journey to cloud. Visit druva.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Media Contact:
Jesse Caputo
Director of Corporate Communications
Druva Inc.
+1.516.815.2836
jesse.caputo@druva.com

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Driven by massive data growth and ransomware threats public sector organizations like Chicago’s Field Museum trust Nasuni to manage and protect their critical information

BOSTON, MA – December 08, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Nasuni Corporation, a leading provider of cloud file storage, today announced strong growth within the state, local and education (SLED) markets with a 43% increase in data under management over the past 12 months. This growth across cities, counties, states and schools is being driven by accelerated cloud migrations, the growing need for advanced file sharing capabilities and the ability to recover quickly from cyber threats like ransomware.

Since the pandemic began, governments and universities have needed to support their workforces remotely. Data from the Center for Digital Government revealed that more than half of U.S. cities and counties planned to adopt or expand hybrid and multi-cloud usage in 2021, supporting Nasuni’s increased demand from customers within this sector. Since expanding into the public sector market Nasuni has experienced consistent revenue growth each quarter and a perfect customer retention rate of 100% from within the sector. Users benefit from file share access from anywhere, simplified management, automatic data protection with nearly instantaneous restoration and global file collaboration capabilities, in addition to significant cost savings over their legacy on-premises file storage infrastructures.

For example, the City of Dothan is Alabama’s eighth largest municipality and home to more than 67,000 people. Dothan migrated a specific workflow to AWS for increased saving and uses Nasuni to allow file sharing worldwide. “It’s dependability and auditing capabilities are very important to us to be able to maintain a chain of custody of the information,” said Davis Hart, senior systems analyst at the City of Dothan. “Its file-sharing capabilities via a web portal are huge to us.”

The public sector and educational institutions that Nasuni supports operate an average of eight locations, with the largest maintaining 42 sites that Nasuni unifies under a single file system in cloud object storage, while providing high-performance cached access to file shares at each site.

The Field Museum in Chicago is both a major public exhibit space and a nonprofit scientific research institution. With Nasuni, it achieved a 60% reduction in infrastructure costs, as well as vastly improved data protection. “We have the peace of mind of knowing that we can recover data at any point, at any time, in a way that we couldn’t before,” said Rob Zschernitz, chief technology officer at The Field Museum.

Located in Vermont, Saint Michael’s College is a selective college for the study of liberal arts and sciences. Most of the college’s IT resources directly support the needs of 3,200 staff members and students. When the school’s data volumes began to overwhelm their backup systems and users needing restored files were left waiting for days, they selected Nasuni to eliminate those issues. “Our previous file backup system was relatively complex and had a lot of moving parts to it – we weren’t comfortable with the quality of backups we were getting and it was becoming increasingly difficult to manage,” said Shawn Umansky, network engineer at Saint Michael’s College. “We needed a system that was more streamlined, stable and reliable.”

To further help public sector and higher education organizations in the ongoing fight against ransomware, last month Nasuni, along with AWS announced three Ransomware “First Aid Kits” for Public Sector Files in AWS. These limited-time, bundled offerings are designed to deliver extremely fast file recovery in the event of a ransomware attack, as well as built-in backup and disaster recovery, all at a reduced price. In the event of a local or regional disaster, accidental file deletion or cyber-attack, Nasuni can help organizations quickly restore access to affected file data in just minutes. Nasuni is an Advanced Technology Partner for AWS in the public sector industry.

To learn more about how Nasuni helps the public sector, higher educational institutions and global enterprises address file sharing and data protection needs with a cloud-based solution, please read our case studies.

Social media links

• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/nasuni
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nasuni
• Blog: https://www.nasuni.com/blog

About Nasuni
Nasuni provides modern, cloud file storage, powered by the leading cloud-first global file system. Nasuni is a cloud replacement for traditional network attached storage (NAS) and file server silos. Nasuni consolidates file data, with instantly expandable cloud storage at half the cost. Eliminating the need and complexity for legacy backup and disaster recovery infrastructure, Nasuni dramatically simplifies IT administration. Workers from leading global companies rely on Nasuni to easily access and share files globally from the office, home or on the road. Sectors served by Nasuni include manufacturing, construction, creative services, technology, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, oil and gas, financial services, and public sector agencies. Nasuni’s corporate headquarters is based in Boston, Massachusetts, delivering services in over 70 countries around the globe. For more information, visit www.nasuni.com

Media Contacts:
North America
JaeMi Pennington
Metis Communications
nasuni@metiscomm.com

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

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Egnyte’s Quality Training application ensures regulated documents remain audit-ready, with native workflows to assign and track user training

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – December 08, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Egnyte, a leader in cloud content security and governance, today announced the release of its purpose-built application for employee training on standard processes and procedures. The Egnyte for Life Sciences Quality: Training application enables companies to assign, track, automate, and report user training for greater GxP compliance and audit readiness.

“Due to the highly regulated nature of the industry, the need has never been greater for solutions that reduce administrative burden and minimize errors in the documentation and review of training procedures,” said Holly Leslie, Senior Director of Life Sciences at Egnyte. “With the new addition to the Egnyte for Life Sciences suite, Quality teams can guarantee proper communication and training on standard operating procedures (SOPs) and global policies, ensuring that employees are compliant while making audit-ready documentation quickly available.”

The Egnyte for Life Sciences Quality: Training application enables organizations to:

• Manage document training: Assign and maintain detailed records for user training on regulated documents, such as SOPs, policy documents and regulated protocols.
• Automate the learning process: Reduce administrative burden, prompt action from employees, and mitigate risk with automated notifications and past-due reminders for training.
• Support proper documentation across the organization: Ensure version control and role-based access of documentation.
• Stay audit-ready: Remain inspection-ready by working in a cloud solution that quickly generates reports on training records and adheres to FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and Annex 11 compliance requirements.

For more information or to get a demo of the Egnyte for Life Sciences Quality application, visit www.egnyte.com/solutions/life-sciences/quality

About Egnyte
Egnyte provides one unified platform to govern and gain insight into business content on any app, any device, anywhere. More than 16,000 businesses trust Egnyte to empower distributed teams, protect business-critical data and reduce file-sharing cost and complexity. Investors include Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, and Goldman Sachs. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com

Additional Resources

• Follow Egnyte on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Egnyte
• Join Egnyte on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Egnyte
• Connect with Egnyte on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/egnyte/

Global Press & Media Contact
Brittany Carambio
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Lessons Learned from Two Real World Ransomware Attacks

BOSTON, MA – Dec. 07, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, today announced it will be presenting alongside its customer TenCate Protective Fabrics at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2021, Americas. Focusing on TenCate’s experience of two ransomware attacks—one before Zerto and one in which Zerto protected the business against the consequences of the attack—the discussion will also detail best practices for ransomware prevention, preparation, and the role of Zerto in delivering resilience.

WHO: Jayme Williams, senior systems engineer at TenCate Protective Fabrics, will share his experience of two ransomware attacks, illustrating how with Zerto’s continuous data protection (CDP) deployed he was able to recover from the second attack in seconds with virtually no data loss. Joined by Caroline Seymour, VP, product marketing at Zerto, their presentation will also explain why disaster recovery must be part of any cyber resilience strategy in the context of traditional recovery methods that are unfit for purpose and don’t help mitigate the risk of data loss.

WHAT: A presentation by Zerto and TenCate, a multinational textiles company based in the Netherlands, which has experienced ransomware attacks twice. The first attack occurred prior to implementing Zerto and the second one after the Zerto implementation. Its experience recovering from ransomware using backups the first time versus Zerto the second time reveals the power of how Zerto enabled TenCate to recover quickly.

WHEN: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 2:15 p.m. to 2:35 p.m. ET

WHERE: The Virtual Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2021, Americas — https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/infrastructure-operations-cloud-us/agenda/day

“Zerto enabled us to defend our business from the consequences and costs of ransomware,” said Williams. “We didn’t have to think about paying a ransom or spending weeks recovering and rebuilding from an attack. Zerto was able to protect our systems with minimal data loss and downtime by allowing us to rewind and recover data with granularity from any point in time—and we were able to do so within seconds of the disruptive event.”

About Zerto
Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, empowers customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. Zerto’s cloud data management and protection platform eliminates the risks and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption across private, public, and hybrid deployments. The simple, software-only platform uses continuous data protection at scale to converge disaster recovery, backup, and data mobility. Zerto is trusted by over 9,500 customers globally and is powering offerings for Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and more than 350 managed service providers.

Contact:
Derrick Shannon
Touchdown PR
Zerto@touchdownpr.com
772.475.1027

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Cybercriminals are using MSPs’ own internal tools against them; ransomware damage to exceed $20 billion by end of year — as per the Acronis Cyberthreats Report 2022

DUBAI, UAE – December 8, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Acronis, the global leader in cyber protection, today starts its #CyberFit Summit Dubai — the third stop in the Acronis World Tour, an ongoing industry event series dedicated to bringing cyber protection to businesses everywhere. Marking the start of the event, the company has released its annual Acronis Cyberthreats Report 2022, an in-depth review of cybersecurity trends and threats worldwide. The report warns that managed service providers (MSPs) are particularly at risk — having more of their own management tools, such as PSA or RMM, used against them by cybercriminals, and thus are becoming increasingly vulnerable to supply chain attacks.

Supply-chain attacks on MSPs are particularly devastating, since attackers gain access to both their business and clients — as seen in the SolarWinds breach last year and the Kaseya VSA attack earlier in 2021, one successful attack means crippling hundreds or thousands of SMBs. The report also shows that during the second half of 2021, only 20% of companies reported not having been attacked — as opposed to 32% last year — indicating that attacks are increasing in frequency across the board.

“The cybercrime industry is a well-oiled machine, using cloud and machine intelligence to scale and automate their operations. While the threat landscape continues to grow, we see that the main attack vectors stay the same — and they still work,” says Candid Wuest, Acronis VP of Cyber Protection Research. “While the attack surface is growing and 2022 will surely bring us surprises, cyber protection automation remains the only path to greater security, reduced risks, lower costs, and improved efficiency.”

Key trends of 2021 — and predictions for 2022

Beyond the growing efficiency of cybercriminals and the impact on MSPs and small businesses, the Acronis Cyberthreats Report 2022 shows:

• Phishing remains the main attack vector. 94% of malware gets delivered by email — using social engineering techniques to trick users into opening malicious attachments or links, phishing has been topping the charts even before the pandemic. It still continues to grow rapidly: just this year, Acronis reported blocking 23% more phishing emails and 40% more malware emails in Q3, as compared with Q2 of the same year.
• Phishing actors develop new tricks, move to messengers. Now targeting OAuth and multifactor authentication tools (MFA), these new tricks allow criminals to take over accounts. To bypass common anti-phishing tools, they will use text messages, Slack, Teams chats and other tools for attacks such as business email compromise (BEC). One recent example of such an attack was the infamous hijacking of the FBI’s own email service, which was compromised and started sending spam emails in November 2021.
• Ransomware still the #1 threat — to big companies and SMBs alike. High-value targets include the public sector, healthcare, manufacturing, and other critical organizations. But despite some recent arrests, ransomware continues to be one of the most profitable cyberattacks these days. Acronis predicts ransomware damages will exceed $20 billion before the end of 2021.
• Cryptocurrency among the attackers’ favorite playing cards. Infostealers and malware that swaps digital wallet addresses are the reality today. We can expect more such attacks waged directly against smart contracts in 2022 — attacking the programs at the heart of cryptocurrencies. Attacks against Web 3.0 apps will also occur more frequently, and new and increasingly sophisticated attacks, such as flash loan attacks, will allow attackers to drain millions of dollars from cryptocurrency pools.

Growing need for cyber protection in MEA: two data centers opening
Overall, in terms of cybersecurity, this year was the worst on record; not just for many organizations, but for many countries as well — including the UAE, a country now pushing to fight the global “cyber pandemic.” And despite their best effort, as Acronis’ own recent survey shows, 25% of people in UAE still do not use any cyber protection tools.

Malware attacks remain a global phenomenon, and every country has to fight it. Reviewing the normalized malware detection in our research, we saw countries like Taiwan, Singapore, China, and Brazil with over a 50% detection rate. However, the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region also ranks fairly high on the list, with the UAE at 38%; South Africa at 36%; and Saudi Arabia at 29%.

We see similar statistics for blocked ransomware attacks: the UAE ranked 33rd globally, responsible for 0.3% of all global detections — a 63% increase from October 2021 — while South Africa ranked 30th globally, responsible for 0.4% of all detections — a 64% increase from October 2021.

While ransomware attacks are clearly on the rise in MEA, the high malware detection rates could mean that countries are paying more attention to cyber protection by upgrading their detection capabilities.

The Acronis #CyberFit Summit taking place as a hybrid event in Dubai, UAE on December 8th?9th aims to help local organizations and citizens build up their cyber defenses. The platform engages world-class cybersecurity and industry experts, and provides an in-depth look at how companies can enhance their IT infrastructure capabilities — with a particular focus on MSPs, the backbone of channel business.

Acronis is also using this platform to pre-announce the opening of two data centers in Africa — Nigeria and South Africa — opening in Q2 2022, helping to fulfill the company’s ongoing plan of building 110 data centers worldwide within two years.

Acronis Cyberthreats Report 2022
The Acronis Cyberthreats Report 2022 is based on examining attack and threat data collected by the company’s global network of Acronis CPOCs, which monitor and research cyberthreats 24/7. Malware data was collected by more than 650,000 unique endpoints around the world running Acronis Cyber Protect — either as a client of an MSP using the solution or a business running the solution. The end-of-year update covers attacks targeting endpoints detected between July and November 2021.

The full report provides in-depth insights into the top cybersecurity and threat trends the CPOCs observed during the second half of 2021; a review of malware families and related statistics; a deep dive into ransomware’s most dangerous groups; the vulnerabilities that contribute to successful attacks; and Acronis’ security recommendations for 2022 and beyond. Check out the findings for the first half of 2021 in our Acronis Cyberthreats Report: Mid-year 2021 — https://dl.acronis.com/u/rc/White-Paper-Acronis-Cyber-Protect-Cloud-Cyberthreats-Report-Mid-year-2021-EN-US.pdf

You can download a copy of the full Acronis Cyberthreats Report 2022 here — https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/acronis-cyberthreats-report-2022-unveils-cyberthreat-predictions/

Acronis #CyberFit Summit in Dubai, UAE
Remote work is here to stay, and so are the increased levels of sophisticated cyberattacks — and so it’s up to both companies and individuals to follow the best cyber protection practices available.

If you are keen to learn more about cybersecurity pain points and available solutions for businesses, register now for the Acronis #CyberFit Summit World Tour 2021.

One platform that allows you to:

• Attend result-focused virtual sessions for free and learn from world-class experts on cyber protection.
• Enhance your MSP business’ cyber protection capabilities with advice from the top channel, cybersecurity, and industry experts.
• Hear exclusive case studies of successful, profitable, and scaling MSPs and MSSPs.
• Learn how to grow your business with cybersecurity-forward services.
• Join hands-on, interactive workshops, insightful panels and breakouts, and inspiring keynotes — while enjoying IT channel networking opportunities.

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.

Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, Acronis now has more than 1,700 employees in 34 locations in 19 countries. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million home users and 500,000 companies, and top-tier professional sports teams. Acronis products are available through over 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries and 25 languages.

Press Contact:
Kayla Fedorowicz
Acronis International GmbH
+1781782-9086; (019060)
Kayla.Fedorowicz@acronis.com

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The Enterprise File Fabric and PoINT Storage Manager: Flexible Data Access and Compliance in Hybrid Infrastructures

Siegen, Germany and London, UK – 7th December 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — PoINT Software & Systems and Storage Made Easy provide a powerful and flexible solution for data management in hybrid storage environments. This enables companies to meet the challenges of data growth, compliance and remote work.

The Enterprise File Fabric from Storage Made Easy is a data management solution for hybrid storage infrastructures and multi-cloud environments. Users can search, access, and share file and object storage through a global file system. Search and access are independent of the location of the data within the storage environment, and also independent of the user’s location and device.

In combination with the tiering and archiving software PoINT Storage Manager, a comprehensive and powerful solution for data and storage management in hybrid infrastructures is created. The solution provides automated file tiering and archiving according to previously created rules. Thus, the storage location corresponding to its usage, age, etc. is chosen for the data. Users’ familiar workflows are preserved, while storage systems are used much more efficiently.

The functional scope of the joint solution of Storage Made Easy and PoINT Software & Systems includes, among others, an active archive. The archiving of data is policy-based and automated. During its entire prescribed retention period the archived data is protected against modification and deletion in a legally compliant manner. Users also access the archived data transparently via the Enterprise File Fabric, regardless of whether the data is stored on a local file server or in the cloud.

“For our customers, the comprehensive search function and seamless data access via the Enterprise File Fabric platform open up many new application possibilities for PoINT Storage Manager,” says Sebastian Klee, CMO at PoINT Software & Systems. Achim F. von Montigny, Sales Director Europe at Storage Made Easy adds: “The tiering and archiving features of PoINT Storage Manager improve the use of the flexible storage architecture within the Enterprise File Fabric and significantly facilitate the integration of different cloud solutions.”

About Storage Made Easy (SME)
Storage Made Easy’s Enterprise File Fabric™ integrates file and object data into one single platform through a unified file system that works with on-premises and on-cloud data storage assets.

End users, whether local or remote, are able to access the unified file system using web scale protocols and clients that bridge desktop and cloud, but which provide familiar workflows to end users.

Cloud-like economics are provided across a company’s entire storage portfolio, unlocking the benefits and cost-efficiency of its data assets whilst providing strict controls and governance for legislative compliance, such as GDPR and CCPA, and addressing security concerns such as ransomware attacks.

The platform’s unique File Transfer acceleration technology M-Stream®, speeds up the transfer of files from desktop to storage, storage to desktop or even public cloud to public cloud, enhancing user productivity and providing ROI on latency sensitive workflows.

The company is backed by Moore Strategic Ventures, LLC, the private investment vehicle of Louis M. Bacon, in addition to other private shareholders including London-based entrepreneurs who previously successfully exited their businesses to larger industry peers.

Storage Made Easy is the trading name of Vehera LTD.

Follow us on Twitter @SMEStorage and @storagemadeeasy and visit us at www.StorageMadeEasy.com to learn more.

About PoINT:
PoINT Software & Systems GmbH is specialized in the development and distribution of software products for storage, management and archiving of data. Our data & storage management solutions offer an easy and efficient integration of different storage technologies and systems in consideration of enterprise requirements. PoINT products allow optimized usage of storage systems and help to reduce costs and issues caused by data growth. The software solutions fulfil compliance and archiving requirements and provide independence from storage technologies and vendors.

Press Contact
Mariado Martinez
Marketing Manager
mariado@storagemadeeasy.com
+44 (0)2086 432 885

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F-Secure Armory Drive combines protection for encryption keys, data, and the device’s firmware into a user-friendly portable storage solution

Helsinki, Finland – December 07, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Portable storage solutions need to balance accessibility and security: They need to be simple to use and compact enough for the owners to carry around, but secure enough to prevent other people from simply picking it up and accessing its contents. F-Secure Armory Drive aims to strike this balance by providing an encrypted storage solution that runs on the USB armory – the world’s smallest secure-by-design computer.

Video: F Secure Armory Drive

The solution consists of two components: Firmware for the USB armory, and an iOS app. The firmware (a free download for current USB armory owners) adds F-Secure Armory Drive functionality to the USB armory. The iOS app turns users’ iPhones into an authentication mechanism for data contained on microSD cards encrypted by the solution.

Access to the device owner’s iPhone and paired USB armory are required to access the contents protected by the system. These two components work together to prevent unauthorized access to data, even if the microSD card or USB armory is lost, or stolen by an experienced attacker.

The system also prevents exposing the solution’s encryption keys to laptops or desktops, which helps protect that information from untrusted or compromised computers.

“The USB armory has been embraced by companies, security professionals, and others with the technical expertise and need for a secure computing platform. However, everyone needs secure storage and providing it is well within the USB armory’s capabilities. F-Secure Armory Drive makes those capabilities accessible to anyone looking for secure, portable, limitless storage,” said F-Secure Head of Hardware Security Andrea Barisani, whose team designed the USB armory and F-Secure Armory Drive.

While other secure USB drives include protection for data and encryption keys, the introduction of measures to secure the system’s firmware is one of F-Secure Armory Drive’s more unique strengths. Barisani and his team achieved this by combining the USB armory’s Secure Boot capabilities with a Google transparency framework* – one of the first successful implementations of this framework for binary transparency.

Thanks to this innovation, any firmware update pushed to the USB armory undergoes additional authentication by both the desktop installer as well as the device itself. The additional authentication protects the system from compromise via a malicious update – a common tactic in supply chain attacks.

“F-Secure’s adoption of Firmware Transparency sets a great example of how device manufacturers can proactively help mitigate supply chain risks,” said Ryan Hurst, Product Manager, Google.

In addition to the USB armory’s existing features, F-Secure Armory Drive’s capabilities and benefits include:

• Control multiple units from a single mobile device
• Runs on any desktop or laptop without additional drivers or software
• Combination of multifactor authentication and full-disk encryption protects data on lost or stolen units
• Encrypt (AES) an unlimited number of microSD cards, providing unrestricted secure storage capability through one device
• Out-of-band unlock with authenticated, encrypted Bluetooth session prevents exposure of encryption keys, even to compromised or untrusted computers

More information on F-Secure Armory Drive, including order information for individuals and organizations, is available here: https://www.f-secure.com/armory-drive

Additional technical details and support resources are available on GitHub: https://github.com/f-secure-foundry/armory-drive

*Source: https://binary.transparency.dev/

About F-Secure
Nobody has better visibility into real-life cyber attacks than F-Secure. We’re closing the gap between detection and response, utilizing hundreds of our industry’s best technical consultants, millions of devices running our award-winning software, and ceaseless innovations in artificial intelligence. Top banks and enterprises trust our commitment to beating the world’s most potent threats. Together with our network of the top channel partners and over 200 service providers, we’re on a mission to make sure everyone has the enterprise-grade cyber security we all need.

Founded in 1988, F-Secure is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.

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PR Contact:
Adam Pilkey
PR Content Manager
+358 40 637 8859
adam.pilkey@f-secure.com

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Rubrik Cloud Vault provides data recovery assurance against ransomware attacks; Deeper integration with Microsoft brings Zero Trust Data Security to enterprise customers

PALO ALTO, Calif., December 7, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Rubrik, The Zero Trust Data Security Company™, today announced Rubrik Cloud Vault, a fully-managed, secure, and isolated cloud archival service that helps customers secure their data within minutes and defend against cyber-attacks. This new SaaS offering, built-on Microsoft Azure, reduces the risk that data is modified, deleted, or encrypted, and is logically air-gapped from customers’ production environments for enhanced security against ransomware attacks. Additionally, Rubrik Cloud Vault enables customers to survive cyber-attacks and avoid ransom payments by maintaining both immutable and instantly recoverable copies of the most-critical data in a secured and isolated cloud location fully-managed by Rubrik.

“Ransomware attacks pose an increased danger to every business around the world, regardless of industry,” said Dan Rogers, President of Rubrik. “This is a key milestone in our commitment to integrate Rubrik Data Security capabilities with Microsoft to deliver Zero Trust Data Security to global enterprise customers.”

With Rubrik Cloud Vault, organizations benefit from Rubrik Zero Trust Security enhanced with the highly available, durable, secure and scalable Azure platform. Rubrik Cloud Vault’s architecture and integration with Microsoft Azure simplifies air-gapping of critical data, end to end data immutability to ensure data is never compromised, corrupted, or maliciously deleted, strong encryption so data remains private, with multi-factor authentication and role-based controls so only authorized users ever get access to sensitive business data.

“Enterprise customers are looking for comprehensive and multi-layered data protection to be cyber-resilient.” said Jurgen Willis, Vice President, Azure Storage Engineering. “Rubrik Cloud Vault combines Rubrik’s Zero Trust Security with fundamental security and reliability features of Azure Blob Storage to provide customers with a valuable solution for addressing ransomware threats, as well as a secure platform to protect, and deliver accelerated recovery to their most important digital assets.”

“In the face of increasingly rising ransomware attacks, we must stay proactive and ensure we have the right solutions and technology partners in our corner,’ said Kyle Rosa, IT Director at University City Housing. “Rubrik Cloud Vault, along with Microsoft, is addressing these ransomware concerns, providing critical data security in a time when businesses need it more than ever.”

Rubrik Cloud Vault will be generally available globally in the coming months on the Azure Marketplace.

For information on Rubrik Cloud Vault, please visit https://www.rubrik.com/products/rubrik-cloud-vault

About Rubrik
Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security CompanyTM, delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises. Rubrik’s big idea is to provide data security and data protection on a single platform, including Zero Trust Data Protection, Ransomware Investigation, Incident Containment, Sensitive Data Discovery, and Orchestrated Application Recovery. This means your data is ready so you can recover the data you need, and avoid paying a ransom. Because when you secure your data, you secure your applications, and you secure your business.

For more information please visit www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on Twitter and Rubrik, Inc. on LinkedIn.

Contact
Kelsey Shively
Sr. Director of Communications, Rubrik
kelsey.shively@rubrik.com

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BRISTOL, England – December 07, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — StorMagic®, simplifying storage and security from the edge to the core, announced today that StorMagic SvSAN and Commvault® Backup & Recovery software have been validated with HPE’s robust portfolio of server platforms, ranging from HPE Edgeline to HPE ProLiant. Now available through the HPE Complete Program, the HPE-validated solution allows customers to protect edge-to-edge, edge-to-core, or edge-to-cloud workloads, while maintaining high performance and processing, all in a minimal footprint.

“As more organizations transition away from the primary datacenter and focus on their edge sites, they find that they require a complete data protection solution for the edge that is reliable, flexible and easy to use,” said Wenceslao Lada, vice president of technical alliances, Commvault. “The combination delivered by StorMagic, Commvault and HPE provides agility, scalability and improved efficiency around edge data protection, to ensure data availability for all workloads.”

Commvault’s Backup & Recovery software delivers enterprise-grade protection and recovery of virtual machines, containers, databases, applications, endpoints and files, both at the edge and in the cloud. SvSAN is a virtual SAN designed for the edge that runs on any two HPE servers and creates a hyperconverged platform for users to run all of their local applications with 100 percent uptime. HPE servers running SvSAN protected by Commvault software can replicate workloads on the edge, back to core, or to the cloud, while restoring to any infrastructure, thus providing superior protection for business operations at the edge.

“StorMagic with Commvault complements HPE servers by adding data protection features like software RAID and synchronous mirroring, along with powerful backup and recovery to ensure data availability,” said Brian Grainger, president of StorMagic Inc. and chief revenue officer. “We are excited to partner with Commvault and HPE to help our customers meet demanding recovery needs, control costs and ensure uptime, with a complete solution that is ideal for edge computing sites.”

Availability
The new solution includes two HPE servers, Commvault Backup & Recovery and StorMagic SvSAN. Available immediately, the offering can be purchased by end users globally through HPE Complete Partners.

Register for a webinar with Commvault, HPE and StorMagic on January 13, 2022 at 11:00amEST/ 4:00pmGMT — https://stormagic.com/edge-data-protection-stormagic-commvault-hpe/

Download our joint solution brief to learn more about the new solution — https://stormagic.com/stormagic-svsan-with-commvault-solution-brief/

About StorMagic
StorMagic is making the complex simple for edge computing environments and leading the industry in bringing the edge to the core. Our storage and security products are flexible, robust, easy to use and cost-effective, without sacrificing enterprise-class features, for organizations with one to thousands of sites. SvSAN is a highly available two-node virtual SAN designed for hyperconverged edge and small datacenter sites. SvKMS is an encryption key manager for edge, datacenter and cloud. ARQvault is the first active intelligent repository and gathers data anywhere, stores it forever, and finds it fast. StorMagic customers around the world have deployed our solutions in thousands of sites to store, protect and use edge data and significantly lower costs. Visit www.stormagic.com.

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Contact:
Zoe Cushman
stormagic@matternow.com

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Now organizations can more accurately identify the last known clean copy of data to prevent reinfection and accelerate recovery

PALO ALTO, CA – December 7, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security CompanyTM, today announced new enhancements to its cyber resilience solutions to help better equip customers in the fight against ransomware. With this latest release, organizations can improve ransomware preparedness, respond with more intelligent and integrated tools, and recover from attacks faster. Now with simple UI support and API Driven integrations, including Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex XSOAR, the market-leading extended security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platform, security operations teams can recover from attacks faster and reduce the chance of reinfection.

According to IDC, more than one third of organizations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach that blocked access to systems or data in the previous 12 months. Of these attacks, only 13 percent of organizations attacked or breached reported not paying a ransom.*

“Recently, organizations have been targeted more frequently by highly sophisticated cyber attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in legacy backup products, forcing a ransomware payment,” said Dan Rogers, President of Rubrik. “With these new advancements, IT and security teams are able to better protect their enterprise, cloud, and SaaS environments and more quickly recover from cyber attacks without paying the ransom.”

Typically in the event of a cyberattack, organizations have been forced to scan their production systems for malware, which can be difficult, time consuming, and inaccurate. Now with Rubrik threat hunting, organizations can directly scan their backups for indicators of compromise, including ransomware. With this added intelligence, organizations can more accurately identify the last known clean copy of data in order to prevent reinfection during and after recovery. Additionally, Rubrik’s new threat hunting capabilities integrate with Cortex XSOAR threat hunting playbooks for easy identification of compromised data within backup snapshots during post-incident reviews and for simplified reporting to external regulatory agencies.

“As the rate and complexity of managing ransomware attacks continues to increase, companies need to leverage automated workflows to recover quickly without paying the ransom,” said Rishi Bhargava, Vice President of Product Strategy for Cortex at Palo Alto Networks. “Rubrik’s integration with Cortex XSOAR enables our joint customers to benefit from prebuilt threat-hunting playbooks to quickly identify new threat activity, recover from ransomware attacks faster, and prevent reinfection from happening during or after the recovery process.”

Rubrik’s latest release delivers new capabilities across Data Security, Cloud and SaaS, and Data Protection

New Data Security Capabilities
As legacy backup vendors struggle to meet the needs of ransomware protection and recovery, Rubrik continues to make its Zero Trust Data Security platform more robust. For example, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) can be globally enforced across the entire platform to help ensure that unauthorized users do not gain access to data.

Additionally, Rubrik is expanding its Sensitive Data Discovery service to roughly 60 pre-defined analyzers that can automatically identify and classify more data types, including certain types of Personal Identifiable Information (PII). The ability to discover sensitive business and customer information across environments without production impact can help reduce data risk, including assessing potential damage from an exfiltration attack.

New Cloud and SaaS Capabilities
Without Zero Trust Data Security, enterprise productivity tools and business applications in cloud and SaaS environments can be highly vulnerable as well. Rubrik continues to enhance cloud data protection with the following advancements:

• Protection for Azure SQL with Fully-Managed SaaS Support: Expanded Rubrik coverage in Azure cloud ensures Azure SQL can be secured alongside other cloud and on-prem workloads for unified visibility and streamlined policy management.
• Reduced Blast Radius with Archives for AWS S3: In the event of an AWS production account being compromised by ransomware, cloud data can be recovered through a bunkered account with new credentials. To maintain security, the new account has limited access and deletion rights.
• Optimized Cloud Economics: Low-cost daily snapshots for Azure VMs and AWS EC2 instances can save organizations up to 40%.
• Enterprise-Scale Protection for Microsoft 365: With Rubrik protection for up to 100,000 users, Rubrik customers can recover more application data with restores for Microsoft Exchange contacts and calendars, SharePoint lists and Teams channel posts.

New Data Protection Capabilities
Rubrik’s data protection begins with a logical air gap to keep data online for rapid recovery while incorporating proprietary protocols so that attackers cannot discover customers’ data. Additionally, Rubrik’s append-only file system keeps data in an immutable state.

With this latest release, Rubrik is introducing: 

• Expanded Protection for SAP Databases: Customers can now protect SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems, extending the ability to streamline protection and reduce the need for manual scripting and job scheduling across on-premises and the cloud.
• Faster Recovery of Oracle and SQL: Customers with large Microsoft SQL or Oracle databases that have a large number of files will now be able to recover even faster. SQL customers can see up to 3 times improvement in restores and Oracle customers can see up to 25 percent improvement for database recoveries.
• Enhanced Data Protection with Quicker Backups for Nutanix AHV: Now for Nutanix AHV, users can select individual disks to exclude from their backup to quickly protect only the critical and needed pieces, which frees up time and storage. Also to optimize network bandwidth and provide an extra security layer, the entire Nutanix AHV backup connectivity can be sent over a separate and isolated iSCSI Data Services network.

Customers Validate Rubrik’s Cyber Resilience Solutions

• “Rubrik is further distinguishing themselves as the leader in Zero Trust Data Security,” said Pankaj Govil, Executive Director, Global Storage Infrastructure of Estée Lauder. “With these new ransomware protection capabilities, it’s clear that they are prioritizing customers’ data security and ability to quickly recover after an attack.”

• “Ransomware is top of mind for every IT and security leader today,” said Ruddy Cordero, Senior Director, Infrastructure & Operations of Sesame Workshop. “With Rubrik’s latest ransomware recovery and cyber threat hunting capabilities, they’re continuing to instill confidence among customers that their data is recoverable and secure in the event of a cyber attack.”

• “The reality is, no business is immune from ransomware,” said Rama Arumugam, IT Manager of Plymouth Poultry. “For this reason, it’s more important than ever to proactively prepare for a cyberattack and ensure you have the right data security solutions in place to quickly recover after an attack, and also minimize the chance of re-infection. With Rubrik’s latest product release, they continue to make critical advancements to their ransomware recovery solutions to give customers the ultimate peace of mind.”

Rubrik’s latest release is expected to become available in the coming months through Rubrik’s expansive global partner network. The integration with Cortex XSOAR that includes prebuilt security orchestration playbooks for threat hunting and ransomware will also be available through the Cortex XSOAR Marketplace.

*Source: IDC’s 2021 Ransomware Study: Where You Are Matters! (IDC #US US48093721, July 2021)

About Rubrik

Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security CompanyTM, delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises. Rubrik’s big idea is to provide data security and data protection on a single platform, including Zero Trust Data Protection, Ransomware Investigation, Incident Containment, Sensitive Data Discovery, and Orchestrated Application Recovery. This means your data is ready so you can recover the data you need, and avoid paying a ransom. Because when you secure your data, you secure your applications, and you secure your business.

For more information please visit www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on Twitter and Rubrik, Inc. on LinkedIn.

Contact
Kelsey Shively
Sr. Director of Communications, Rubrik
kelsey.shively@rubrik.com

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BOSTON, MA — December 7, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today announced it has received the Business Intelligence Group’s BIG Award for Business and was named a 2021 Company of the Year. The Business Intelligence Group’s annual program rewards companies, products and people that are leading their respective industries.

Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage has redefined the industry with a solution that provides unlimited scalability at 1/5th the cost of Amazon S3, with best-in-class data immutability to protect from threats like ransomware, no fees for egress or API requests, and no vendor lock-in requirements. As companies increasingly rely on data to grow their business and adapt to the new post-COVID world, they need to store it securely while maintaining quick and easy access to it. Wasabi keeps data ‘hot’ so that it’s accessible in milliseconds at the moment it’s needed. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has been recognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies and differentiates itself by being the industry’s leading pure-play cloud storage provider – focused on doing one thing better than anyone else – rather than trying to do many things at once.

The company is coming off its most impressive year yet, closing $137M in Series C financing, and growing to 170 employees, 27,000 customers and 8,500 channel partners worldwide. To meet the demand for its services, Wasabi successfully expanded its global footprint with storage regions now across the United States, Europe, Japan, and most recently the UK, with additional regions coming in the next 6-12 months.

“As the world’s data moves to the cloud, Wasabi is on a mission to transform the way companies store, manage, and maximize this data to drive innovation in their respective industries,” said Wasabi CEO David Friend. “As a high-growth company on an aggressive growth trajectory, this recognition from the Business Intelligence Group validates the path we have set for ourselves within this unprecedented market opportunity.”

“We are so proud to reward Wasabi Technologies for their outstanding 2021 leadership and achievements,” said Maria Jimenez, chief nomination officer of the Business Intelligence Group. “This year’s group of winners are clearly leading by example in the global business community.”

About Wasabi Technologies
Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of 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 has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.

Follow and connect with Wasabi on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and our blog.

About Business Intelligence Group
The Business Intelligence Group was founded with the mission of recognizing true talent and superior performance in the business world. Unlike other industry award programs, business executives—those with experience and knowledge—judge the programs. The organization’s proprietary and unique scoring system selectively measures performance across multiple business domains and then rewards those companies whose achievements stand above those of their peers.

Wasabi Technologies PR contact:
Kaley Carpenter
Inkhouse for Wasabi
wasabi@inkhouse.com

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New Backup and Recovery Tool Will Be Bundled With Existing Rewind Data Recovery Products

OTTAWA, ON – Dec. 07, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Today Rewind launched Backups for Microsoft 365, an automated backup and data recovery tool that protects data created in Microsoft’s suite of online productivity apps. The addition of Backups for Microsoft 365, is another step forward in Rewind’s journey to backing up the entire cloud and becoming the leading data recovery provider for SaaS solutions.

“We think that most companies will be a SaaS company or built with these tools in the next 10 years; businesses will increasingly rely on a range of SaaS applications to run day-to-day operations,” said Mike Potter, CEO and co-founder of Rewind. “As these SaaS applications become the cornerstone of business operations, the ability to protect and recover vital data in case of an accident or cyberattack is essential.”

Backups for Microsoft 365 protects four critical applications within the popular SaaS tool:

• Exchange: The emails and calendars of users
• SharePoint: The sites created by users to share documents with colleagues, partners and customers
• OneDrive for Business: Online file storage that can be accessed from anywhere
• Groups & Teams: All group chats and online meetings

The majority of SaaS tools, including Microsoft 365, are governed by the Shared Responsibility Model of cloud computing. SaaS applications can restore data in the event of platform-wide issues. However, they can’t automatically restore user-level data if it is deleted or compromised. This limitation is specifically mentioned in Microsoft’s Service Agreement. Permanent data loss in SaaS can be caused by human error, cyber attacks, and third-party integrations. Rewind’s own research has shown that over 40 percent of SaaS users have permanently lost data.

This announcement comes after Rewind successfully raised a USD $65 million Series B round of financing in September, led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners. Rewind also recently completed its SOC 2 Type 1 certification last month. Rewind currently provides backup and restoration software for BigCommerce, GitHub, QuickBooks Online, Shopify, Shopify Plus, and Trello, and plans to launch Backups for Jira in 2022. Existing Rewind customers, who bundle Microsoft 365 with their current services, will receive a discount on this new product.

About Rewind
Since 2015, Rewind has been on a mission to help businesses protect their SaaS and cloud data. Today, over 100,000 customers in more than 100 countries trust Rewind’s top-reviewed apps and support to ensure their software-as-a-service applications run uninterrupted. The Rewind platform enables companies to back up, restore, and copy the critical data that drives their business.

Agency Contact:
Erica Camilo
Connexa Communications
+1-610.639.5644

Company Contact
Ryan Gibson
Rewind
+1-613-558-0202

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Gives cybersecurity teams ability to monitor unauthorized file sharing across cloud and email systems, speeds response to insider risk events

Minneapolis, MN — Dec 6, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Code42, the Insider Risk Management leader, today announced the FedRAMP Authorized Code42® Incydr™ Gov solution has added new data exfiltration detectors for cloud and email systems. In addition to detecting data exfiltration from endpoints, now security teams can detect, investigate and respond to insider risk activities, including monitoring unauthorized file movement, spillage and sharing from and within cloud and email systems. The new data exfiltration detectors give security teams full visibility when files are shared, downloaded, or emailed to untrusted destinations on OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Office 365 and Gmail, whether those insider risk events take place on a computer, in the cloud or over email.

With the growing adoption of cloud and use of collaboration tools across federal agencies, there are exponentially more ways for insiders to exfiltrate data. What’s more, many federal agencies’ insider risk programs are built around traditional tools like data loss prevention (DLP) products that weren’t designed to handle the modern reality of ultra-portable data and widespread cloud-based collaboration and file sharing. With research indicating that on average, every employee commits 13 data exposure events every day, federal organizations need clearer visibility to data spillage and prioritization of the riskiest file events happening both on and off their networks.

“Our research shows that nearly three-quarters (71%) of security teams lack complete visibility to sensitive data movement, according to IT security leaders,” said Jason Greenwood, Code42 Vice President, Federal. “Our new data exfiltration detectors help federal agencies execute against Zero Trust data security strategies, give crucial visibility into data that is being mishandled or shared from agency systems, and further protect some of the most sensitive information in the country against Insider Risk.”

Mitigating Data Exfiltration Across Federal Cloud and Email Systems
With the cloud and email data exfiltration detectors now available for purchase with Incydr Gov, federal agency security teams can now see when email attachments from federal email systems are sent to untrusted recipients, files are shared to untrusted locations, and links are shared too broadly from federal cloud storage systems.

Incydr Gov’s new capabilities further protect federal agencies against Insider Risk by allowing security teams to:

• Employ Zero Trust data security strategies
• Gain visibility into file exfiltration and spillage
• Detect when files are shared with untrusted users without installation or management of proxies
• Avoid alert fatigue stemming from false positive Insider Risk notifications
• Eliminate manual investigation time
• Quickly trigger response controls due to fast, accurate detection of unsanctioned activity

Availability: The new data exfiltration detectors for cloud and email systems are currently available to new and existing Incydr Gov customers as part of the Code42 Incydr Gov product in the FedRAMP Marketplace.

About the Code42 Incydr Gov Product
The Code42 Incydr Gov product is a FedRAMP Authorized Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that manages insider risk by protecting agencies’ critical data, strategic files and intellectual property from exposure, spillage and exfiltration risk created by employee and contractor departures and actions, bolsters litigation against data theft and secures remote and collaborative work for employees and contractors. The Code42 Incydr Gov product allows security teams to effectively mitigate data exposure risks without disrupting users’ legitimate collaboration as well as illuminates an organization’s data security blind spots by showing activities that fly under the radar of other security technologies.

About Code42
Code42 is the leader in insider risk detection and response. Native to the cloud, Code42 rapidly detects data loss, leak, theft and sabotage as well as speeds incident response – all without lengthy deployments, complex policy management or blocking employee productivity. With Code42, security professionals can protect corporate data and reduce insider risk while fostering an open and collaborative culture for employees. Backed by security best practices and control requirements, Code42’s insider risk solution can be configured for GDPR, HIPAA, PCI and other regulatory frameworks.

More than 50,000 organizations worldwide, including the most recognized brands in business and education, rely on Code42 to safeguard their ideas. Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and backed by Accel Partners, JMI Equity and Split Rock Partners. Code42 was recognized by Inc. magazine as one of America’s best workplaces in 2020. For more information, visit code42.com

© 2021 Code42 Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Code42, the Code42 logo and Incydr are registered trademarks or trademarks of Code42 Software, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other marks are properties of their respective owners.

Company Contact:
Kristin McKenzie
Public Relations Principal, Code42
kristin.mckenzie@code42.com
844-333-4242

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Komprise embraces new AWS innovations to accelerate file migrations to the cloud and maximize the use of cloud-native data analytics services

CAMPBELL, Calif. – Dec. 07, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Komprise, a leader in analytics-driven data management, today announced expanded support for new Amazon Web Services (AWS) file services to accelerate petabyte-scale file data migrations to the cloud, while enabling the use of native AWS data analytics and machine learning (ML) services to maximize data value.

Komprise, an AWS Advanced Technology Partner which recently achieved AWS Migration Competency, is at the forefront of leveraging new AWS innovations:

• Data replication, migration, and file tiering with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Komprise customers can now easily leverage the new fully managed AWS service built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP filesystem. Komprise enables cloud replication and cloud data migration from any network-attached storage (NAS) to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Furthermore, Komprise tiers at the file level, not block, to shrink not just storage but also backup and disaster recovery (DR) costs on FSx. Komprise Transparent Move Technology enables user to access the tiered files both from Amazon FSx and natively on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
• Simplify large data transfers via AWS Snowball. Komprise brings an efficient, automated migration workflow to AWS Snowball for organizations that have petabytes of file or object data which must be divided among multiple Snowball units and shipped to an Amazon data center. Simply select your Amazon S3 destination, your source, and associate as many AWS Snowball devices as desired. Komprise does the rest.
• Support for latest Amazon S3 tier, Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval. Komprise will support the new Amazon S3 tier and class, Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, early next year.
• Deep Analytics Actions for data pipelines to AWS Artificial Intelligence (AI), ML, and data lakes. Amazon offers a variety of AI and ML services for file data such as Amazon Comprehend for Natural Language Processing and Personal Identifiable Information (PII) Detection. But since files are scattered across multiple Amazon S3 buckets and file storage classes, searching and finding the right data to analyze can be a challenge. Komprise enables intelligent ingestion of files and object data into AWS AI/ML and data lake services by providing a Global File Index so you can search across all your Amazon S3 buckets and file storage. Komprise Deep Analytics Actions policies then systematically ingest just the right data into native AWS AI, ML, and data lake services.

“IT leaders know that getting data to the cloud is just the first step,” said Kumar Goswami, CEO of Komprise. “It’s about how you leverage the flexibility and innovation of the cloud to deliver meaningful long-term benefits to the organization and its customers. Komprise Intelligent Data Management continues to invest in AWS so that our customers not only save on storage but can leverage cloud-native data services and tools to drive revenue-generating insights and better business outcomes.”

Learn more about Komprise for AWS — https://www.komprise.com/partners/amazon-web-services/

Read about Pfizer’s cloud data journey with AWS and Komprise — https://www.komprise.com/wp-content/uploads/2021_AWS_Partner_Komprise_Case_Study_FINAL.pdf

About Komprise
Komprise is a multi-cloud data management-as-a-service that frees you to easily analyze, mobilize, and access the right file and object data across clouds without shackling your data to any vendor. With Komprise Intelligent Data Management, you can know first, move smart, and take control of massive unstructured data growth while cutting 70% of enterprise storage, backup and cloud costs. www.komprise.com

Media Contact:
Kevin Wolf, TGPR
www.tgprllc.com
kevin@tgprllc.com

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – December 06, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX), the leading Content Cloud, today announced that members of its management will present at the following conference:

Raymond James Technology Investors Conference

• Date and Time: December 7, 2021 at 11:30am ET
• Location: Virtual event; webcast

This event will be webcast live at www.box.com/investors and will be available for replay beginning approximately one hour after the live event for a period of three hundred sixty-five (365) days.

About Box
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leading Content Cloud that enables organizations to accelerate business processes, power workplace collaboration, and protect their most valuable information, all while working with a best-of-breed enterprise IT stack. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading organizations globally, including AstraZeneca, JLL, and Morgan Stanley. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. To learn more about Box, visit http://www.box.com. To learn more about how Box powers nonprofits to fulfill their missions, visit Box.org.

Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements
During the course of this event, Box will make forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of the company. Statements including words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” or “expect” and statements in the future tense are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or actual future results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. Please refer to Box’s latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2021 for a discussion of important factors that could cause actual events or actual results to differ materially from those discussed during this event. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of the event; Box assumes no obligation, and does not necessarily intend, to update these forward-looking statements.

Investors:
Cynthia Hiponia / Elaine Gaudioso
+1 650-209-3463
ir@box.com

Media:
Rachel Levine
press@box.com

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Munich/California, December 7th, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Archiware GmbH announces a collaboration with Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) to optimize media workflows and ensure maximum data protection. The new integration makes it easier for teams to manage growing volumes of data and guarantee its availability at every stage of production. Archiware P5 offers automatic backup, replication and media archive features to protect and preserve media on Seagate storage products and services.

Seagate provides end-to-end mass-data storage infrastructure solutions including LyveTM Cloud and LyveTM Mobile, edge storage data transfer services and enterprise data storage systems, hard drives, and solidstate drives. The company’s high-capacity mobile disk systems, and high-performance flash arrays are ideal server building blocks for modern media workflows. LaCie, the premium brand from Seagate, offers bestin-class SSD and disk solutions for production and post-production workflows.

Archiware’s P5 data management software offers professional protection, replication, backup and archive for production storage. P5 Backup ensures that large data sets are backed up in the shortest time possible. P5 Archive is a long-term storage solution for data migration with mini-MAM features. P5 Synchronize replicates data to ensure maximum data availability.

“We are glad to work with Seagate and offer such a broad spectrum of solutions together from protecting ingest and time-critical storage to servers and cloud storage,” says Dr. Marc Batschkus, Director of Business Development and Marketing at Archiware. “Seagate is a very agile and powerful partner that focuses on the M&E market to provide best services and solutions for media production.”

“Seagate’s mass capacity storage solutions simplify management and enable frictionless data flow
throughout the data lifecycle,” said Ted Oade, Director of Global Marketing at Seagate Technology. “Our collaboration with Archiware builds on those capabilities to elegantly solve the unique data management, protection and availability needs of M&E professionals.”

Discover more about the Archiware and Seagate solution here:
https://www.archiware.com/solutions/seagate

About Archiware:
Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Archiware GmbH is a privately held company with over 20 years of experience in data management software for backup, synchronization and archiving and more than 17,000 licenses sold. Archiware’s software is used by hundreds of media companies worldwide.

The product line includes:
– P5 Synchronize – Replicate data to ensure high availability
– P5 Backup – Back up server data to disk, tape and cloud
– P5 Backup2Go – Back up desktop and laptop data to disk
– P5 Archive – MAM-like Archive to migrate data offline to disk, tape and cloud
– Pure – Essential VMware Backup

For more information, visit www.archiware.com

Press Contact:
Archiware GmbH
Lana Tannir, Marketing Manager
Sonnenstr. 27, 80331 Munich
www.archiware.com
lt@archiware.com
+49 89 319 084 98

About Seagate Technology:
Seagate Technology crafts the datasphere, helping to maximize humanity’s potential by innovating worldclass, precision-engineered mass-data storage and management solutions with a focus on sustainable partnerships. A global technology leader for more than 40 years, the company has shipped over three billion terabytes of data capacity. Learn more about Seagate by visiting www.seagate.com or following us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and subscribing to our blog.

Press Contact:
Seagate Technology
Greg Belloni, Sr. Corporate Communications Manager
gregory.belloni@seagate.com

Source: Archiware

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TAIPEI – December 7, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Infortrend® Technology, Inc. (TWSE: 2495), the industry-leading enterprise storage provider, modernized IT infrastructure of world’s leading car manufacturer with EonStor GS enterprise unified storage for file storage and server backup application. The solution provided stable performance and data protection, which greatly benefitted to overall productive performance of the company.

World’s leading automaker had a legacy storage system, which was used by employees from different departments and required daily full server backup. IT Department was constantly receiving complaints from employees that the existing File Server didn’t provide fast enough access, especially to large files during peak hours. Full server backup also took long hours, even overlapping with production hours, which negatively affected company’s productivity.

Their System Integrator, IO Datamovers, found EonStor GS is suitable to provide a smooth access to enterprise data, quick backup, and tight data protection. “EonStor GS ideally fits for general applications, such as enterprise file sharing and backup,” advised Frank Lee, Senior Director of Product Planning.

For the regional office and the factory, SI deployed two systems of enterprise unified storage EonStor GS 1000, providing 80 TB total capacity. GS solved the main issue of slow access to files and greatly improved performance of server’s full backup from hours to within minutes. At least 50% faster file access greatly contributes to improving employees’ productivity. For marketing team, it helps with meeting deadlines in creating advertisement materials, for drawing and design professionals — with sharing files on production site/office, while making sure company’s ‘know-how’ is protected with properly structured user authentication and file access rights.

“Infortrend storage dramatically improved file access performance and reduced server backup time to help workers of the famous car manufacturing company increase productivity output and, hence, gain higher profits,” said Kelvin Chuah, Sales Director of IO Datamovers.

Learn more about EonStor GS — https://www.infortrend.com/global/products/gs

About Infortrend
Infortrend (TWSE: 2495) has been developing and manufacturing storage solutions since 1993. With a strong emphasis on in-house design, testing, and manufacturing, Infortrend storage delivers performance and scalability with the latest standards, user friendly data services, personal after-sales support, and unrivaled value. For more information, please visit www.infortrend.com

Infortrend® and EonStor® are trademarks or registered trademarks of Infortrend Technology, Inc.; other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contact:
Infortrend Technology, Inc.
Winnie Tsai
winnie.tsai@infortrend.com
www.infortrend.com

Source:  Infortrend Technology, Inc.

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Cloud4U Storage-as-a-Service Offering Built on Cloudian Software

LONDON, UK – December 6, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Cloudian® today highlighted the role of its HyperStore object storage in helping Cloud4U, a leading Russian cloud service provider, grow its business. Last year Cloud4U launched a S3 Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) offering powered by HyperStore software, giving its customers a fully S3 compatible and limitlessly scalable modern platform for managing and protecting their growing data volumes.

With over 2000 customers and the most Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects in Russia, Cloud4U helps enterprises run their businesses more efficiently and cost-effectively. As the number of S3-based applications increased significantly over the last few years, Cloud4U wanted to ensure it could provide a robust storage foundation to support these applications.

“After evaluating different solutions, we chose Cloudian because it best met all our requirements,” said Fedor Martynenko, lead engineer, Cloud4U. “We particularly liked the fact that it has the industry’s most advanced S3 compatibility and ranked highest for all use cases in Gartner’s 2020 Critical Capabilities for Object Storage report.”

To date, Cloud4U has purchased 1.5 PB of HyperStore software and currently has 2.5 billion objects under management. The company expects this to continue to grow significantly as more customers take advantage of the STaaS offering.

“The Cloudian storage solution has been a great addition to our technology portfolio, enabling us to pursue new business opportunities and deliver more value to our customers,” said Vahtang Darsalia, lead engineer, Cloud4U. “And its limitless scalability means we can easily manage increasing data demands as we grow.”

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Cloudian
Cloudian is the most widely deployed independent provider of object storage. With a native S3 API, it brings the scalability and flexibility of public cloud storage into the data center while providing ransomware protection and reducing TCO by up to 70% compared to traditional SAN/NAS and public cloud. The geo-distributed architecture enables users to manage and protect object and file data across sites—on-premises and in the cloud—from a single platform. Available as software or appliances, Cloudian supports conventional and containerized applications. More at cloudian.com.

EMEA Media Contact
Jacob Greenwood
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
cloudian@rlyl.com
+44 (0) 20 7403 8878

Source: Cloudian

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Franchise adds best-in-class cybersecurity services, dedicating software to keep the organization’s data safe online

FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts – December 6, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Today, the New England Patriots and Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, announced their Official Cyber Protection Partnership which will be supported by HUB Tech. Through this partnership with Acronis, the Patriots will have access to innovative cyber protection solutions to safeguard data, applications, and systems to optimize data management and defend cyberattacks.

“In our increasingly digital world, cyber protection and security is essential to every aspect of our business,” said Murray Kohl, Vice President of Corporate Partnership Sales for Kraft Sports + Entertainment. “Acronis’ cutting-edge technology, innovative cybersecurity solutions and ability to defend against cyberattacks sets them apart. We are thrilled to partner with Acronis and look forward to utilizing their cybersecurity to protect our team and employees’ online data.”

The team will use Acronis Cyber Protect, an innovative Machine Intelligence (MI) enhanced solution that integrates data protection with cybersecurity, prevents cyberattacks and helps avoid downtime. Acronis combines automation and integration, ensuring the prevention, detection, response, recovery and analysis needed to safeguard all workloads while streamlining protection efforts. Acronis cyber protection provides the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity and security (SAPAS) services required to protect the modern sport.

“As a lifelong New England fan, today is a very exciting day for me as we welcome the New England Patriots to our #CyberFit Sports family,” said Acronis Vice President and General Manager, Americas, Pat Hurley. “With HUB Tech, we are confident that we will deliver the best cyber protection services on the market to Gillette Stadium. Just like the feeling you get when you wear your favorite hoodie, Acronis provides the Patriots with the comfort that they are protected and #CyberFit.”

HUB Tech has expanded their partnership with Acronis to now join the #TeamUp program to deliver cyber protection to professional sport teams. HUB Tech is an end-to-end IT solutions provider, leveraging the latest technologies and proven partnerships to design, implement, and maintain the systems their customers need to keep their businesses moving. These services include network security and management, end-user connectivity and support, data center transformation, infrastructure management and so much more.

“The Patriots organization is professional and committed to excellence and we are excited to be aligned with proven champions,” said Joseph Lovetere, President of HUB Tech. “At HUB Tech, we put our clients at the top of our organization and support them with our team members that thrive on technology. We believe in continual development and growth for our team, keeping our clients Connected, Managed and Secured.”

By becoming an Acronis #TeamUp partner, HUB Tech now joins the sports ecosystem to deliver Acronis technology to one of the league’s best franchises. In this partnership, HUB Tech, the Patriots, and Acronis will share a rich set of sports marketing opportunities through access to hospitality, social media, executive appearances, and content with players.

Acronis #TeamUp Program for managed service providers
Service providers are invited to join the Acronis #TeamUp Program to deliver Acronis Cyber Protection solutions to world-class sports properties on behalf of Acronis and enjoy a rich world of sports benefits and brand exposure. For more information, please visit https://www.acronis.com/en-us/lp/msp-sports/

To learn more about Acronis’ extensive sports partnership program, please register to attend the Acronis #CyberFit Summit World Tour in Dubai and Singapore.

About HUB Tech
HUB Tech has been a trusted IT Solutions Provider for over 25 years. As a trusted advisor within all industries (State and Local Government, Financial, SMB, Enterprise, Healthcare, K-12 and Higher-Education) we work beside you to ensure you have a strategy that allows you to transform your Information infrastructure and security posture to keep up with the needs of your organization and your users.

We have developed proprietary tools, strategies, and methodologies which have enabled us to lower cost and increase the quality of service to our client base. As a Strategic Partner and industry leading Managed Services Provider, HUB Tech offers a comprehensive, end-to-end IT solutions portfolio, including Managed Services, Security and Business Continuity Solutions, Digital Transformation, and End-User Computing.

Our mission is simple – to take full ownership for all that we do, to protect those who trust in us, and to make lifelong clients from every customer contact.

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.

Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, Acronis now has more than 1,700 employees in 34 locations in 19 countries. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million home users and 500,000 companies, and top-tier professional sports teams. Acronis products are available through over 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries and 25 languages.

Press Contact:
Kayla Fedorowicz
Acronis International GmbH
+1781782-9086; (019060)
Kayla.Fedorowicz@acronis.com

Source: Acronis

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• CRN Tech Innovator Awards honor the year’s most innovative products and services
• Arcserve UDP is recognized for being a groundbreaking data protection offering for solution providers

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – December 06, 2021 –/BackupReview.info/ — Arcserve, the world’s most experienced data and ransomware protection provider, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Arcserve as a finalist for the 2021 CRN Tech Innovator Awards. Arcserve is recognized for Arcserve® UDP 8 in the Data Protection Software category.

This annual award program showcases innovative vendors in the IT channel across 47 different technology categories in critical areas ranging from cloud to storage to networking to security. To determine the winners, a panel of CRN editors reviewed hundreds of vendor products using multiple criteria, including key capabilities, uniqueness, technological ingenuity, and ability to address customer and partner needs.

Finalist Arcserve UDP uniquely combines deep learning server protection, immutable storage, and scalable onsite and offsite business continuity for a multi-layered approach that delivers complete IT resiliency for your virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructures. It is the only product on the market that offers a complete solution to neutralize ransomware attacks in the cloud or on-premises.

Arcserve UDP’s backups are secured by Sophos Intercept X Advanced for Server, a robust first line of defense against ransomware. Pairing with the OneXafe appliance offers native immutability to store backups, making it difficult for ransomware to touch backup data. Immutable cloud storage for backups is powered by Amazon AWS S3 Object Lock.

With its inclusion of Sophos Intercept X Advanced, Arcserve UDP opens opportunities for channel partners to offer customers data protection and cybersecurity with one solution. Partners can use one vendor to satisfy customers’ needs for a formidable first and last line of defense for backups.

Arcserve is the only vendor promoted to “Challenger” in the Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software; Arcserve UDP played a vital role in earning this recognition. The Magic Quadrant report cited Arcserve’s breadth of platform, malware detection, data recovery capabilities, and cost of ownership as key strengths.

Supporting Quotes

Shridar Subramanian, CMO, Arcserve
“We’re excited to be recognized with other vendors who, like us, are committed to empowering solution providers with cutting-edge technologies. UDP being named a finalist in this year’s Tech Innovators competition confirms its technical ingenuity and, more importantly, its value to our channel partners and their customers. With Arcserve UDP, partners get an all-in-one data and ransomware protection solution to neutralize ransomware attacks, restore data, and perform effective disaster recovery.”

Blaine Raddon, CEO, The Channel Company
“CRN’s annual Tech Innovator Awards acknowledge technology vendors that display their ongoing commitment to empowering and enabling end-users while also promoting continuous business growth for solution providers, with cutting-edge, purpose-built products and services. I’d like to personally congratulate each and every one of this year’s CRN Tech Innovator Award winners. We are proud to recognize these best-in-class vendors that are driving transformation and innovation in the IT space.”

The Tech Innovator Awards will be featured in the December issue of CRN and can be viewed online at crn.com/techinnovators

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

Contact:
Jock Breitwieser
Arcserve
+1 408.800.5625
jock.breitwieser@arcserve.com

Source: Arcserve

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Experienced corporate board director with background in digital marketing, cybersecurity, and analytics will focus on the future trajectory of Acronis in her role

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland – December 6, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Acronis, a global leader in cybersecurity and data protection, today announced the appointment of Lisbeth McNabb to its Board of Directors. Ms. McNabb brings a wealth of experience in financial leadership, business analytics, and hyper-growth management to this position. She will help Acronis develop an effective strategy to maximize return on the recent investment from CVC Capital Partners VII and other investors, as the company goes through a period of rapid market expansion and intense growth.

Earlier this year, Acronis raised $250M at a $2.5B valuation, appointed Patrick Pulvermueller as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, and named Paul Maritz, former SVP of Microsoft and CEO of VMWare, as Chairman of the Board. Acronis is committed to penetrating new strategic markets and growing together with service providers and cloud distributors, as it meets cyber protection demands of the rapidly changing digital world.

Ms. McNabb is an expert in driving finance, strategy, operations, data analytics and revenue strategies at high-growth scaling companies. Her professional background includes over 25 years in innovation in growing companies at Match, Linux Foundation, Illuminate Education, DigiWorksCorp, w2wlink, PepsiCo Frito-Lay, American Airlines, AT&T, and Sodexo.

Ms. McNabb currently serves on the Board of Directors and was a former Audit Chair of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST), and is an Independent Director and Audit Chair at NeoGames S.A. (Nasdaq: NGMS), which she also served as an advisor when the company went public in November 2020.

“Lisbeth brings a wealth of experience to Acronis as an innovative leader and an expert in finance and operations. Adding her to our Board of Directors represents another step forward for Acronis in solidifying its position as a global leader in cyber protection, and will be key to strategic decisions made in 2022 regarding market segmentation, understanding our customers, diversity, governance, and driving company value,” said Patrick Pulvermueller, Acronis CEO.

“Acronis is the leader in cyber protection and clearly showing to the market that cyber protection is the only right way to implement cybersecurity and data protection. It is an honor to join the Board of Directors. Furthermore, I am excited to work with the team to disrupt the cybersecurity market,” Ms. McNabb said.

Lisbeth received her B.S. at the University of Nebraska and M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business. Her honors include NACD Top 50 Director, Digital Director 50, Financial Times Agenda Magazine, Distinguished Alumnae by SMU Cox School of Business, Top 25 Women in Business, Top 25 Women in Technology by Conde Nast’s Dallas Business Journal, and expert press, including Wall St. Journal, Forbes, CMO and CIO.

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.

Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, Acronis now has more than 1,700 employees in 34 locations in 19 countries. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million home users and 500,000 companies, and top-tier professional sports teams. Acronis products are available through over 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries and 25 languages.

Press Contact:
Kayla Fedorowicz
Acronis International GmbH
+1781782-9086; (019060)
Kayla.Fedorowicz@acronis.com

Source: Acronis

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Wasabi’s success driven by unparalleled work-life balance and collaborative, fully-engaged team

BOSTON, MA – Dec. 2, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today announced it has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in the 14th annual employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe. The Top Places to Work 2021 issue publishes online at Globe.com/TopPlaces on the night of December 1 and in Globe Magazine on December 5.

Top Places to Work recognizes the most admired workplaces in the state voted on by the people who know them best—their employees. The survey measures employee opinions about their company’s direction, execution, connection, management, work, pay and benefits, and engagement. The employers are placed into one of four groups: small, with 50 to 99 employees; medium, with 100 to 249 workers; large, with 250 to 999; and largest, with 1,000 or more.

With headquarters in the heart of Boston, Wasabi was founded in 2017 by Carbonite founders David Friend and Jeff Flowers to remove the complexity of cloud storage for businesses all over the world. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has been recognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and most visionary companies and has grown exponentially in recent years, now with over 170 employees who have unparalleled flexibility and work-life balance, top workplace benefits, and a creative and collaborative team that has only become more engaged in Wasabi’s success.

“At Wasabi, we know that product alone does not make a company. We empower our employees to thrive by prioritizing their personal lives and showing trust in their abilities, and as a result, they bring remarkable energy and enthusiasm to their careers at Wasabi,” said David Friend, CEO, Wasabi Technologies. “The expertise, pride, and mutual respect our employees have for one another is what makes Wasabi a great place to work and has been essential to our business momentum. This honor from the Boston Globe is truly a testament to them.”

“The workplace is undergoing a once-in-a-lifetime transformation, and the companies that embraced that change, and put their employees’ needs first, really stood out,” said Katie Johnston, the Globe’s Top Places to Work editor.

The rankings in Top Places to Work are based on confidential survey information collected by Energage (formerly WorkplaceDynamics), an independent company specializing in employee engagement and retention, from more than 80,000 individuals at 363 Massachusetts organizations. The winners share a few key traits, including offering more flexibility to continue working remotely, tracking progress on efforts to support a diverse workforce, and, above all, remembering to have some fun along the way.

Top Places to Work online extras include sortable rankings and features such as showcasing companies that are going the extra mile to make their workplaces more equitable and to help employees connect with one another, and their communities, during the pandemic. All can be found at Globe.com/TopPlaces. Readers can follow the news on Twitter at #workboston.

About Wasabi Technologies
Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of 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 has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.

Follow and connect with Wasabi on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and our blog.

About Boston Globe Media Partners LLC
Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC provides news and information, entertainment, opinion and analysis through its multimedia properties. BGMP includes The Boston Globe, Globe.com, Boston.com, STAT and Globe Direct.

Wasabi Technologies PR contact:
Kaley Carpenter
Inkhouse for Wasabi
wasabi@inkhouse.com

Source: Wasabi Technologies

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Optimized process of purchasing services and propagating transactions to Datto’s Autotask PSA

IRVINE, Calif. – December 02, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Ingram Micro Cloud, operator of the channel’s largest cloud marketplace, today announced the integration of Datto’s Autotask PSA to its cloud marketplace to help simplify transactions for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Datto’s Autotask PSA is a complete IT business management platform that delivers the mission-critical tools MSPs need to run their IT managed services business. It’s a reliable, cloud-based platform that centralizes business operations to drive MSP efficiency, accountability, and insight. This integration allows MSPs leveraging the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, the world’s largest marketplace of cloud solutions and services for the channel, to log into their integration console and optimize the process of purchasing services and propagating transactions to Datto’s Autotask PSA.

“Autotask PSA delivers all the mission-critical tools necessary to run a managed services business, making this an invaluable addition to our cloud marketplace,” said Victor Baez, Senior Vice President at Ingram Micro Cloud. “This integration further delivers on our promise to customers for ‘More as a Service’.”

Benefits of the integration include the ability for MSPs to synchronize between Cloud Marketplace and Autotask PSA, as well as map customers, import customers from Autotask PSA to Cloud Marketplace, reconcile customers’ subscriptions, navigate products, and more.

“We’re excited to partner with Ingram Micro Cloud on this Autotask PSA integration,” said Joseph Rourke, Director of Product Management at Datto. “By partnering with leading technology companies and providing easy-to-use integrations, Ingram Micro Cloud enables businesses of all sizes to refocus and reallocate their saved time and energy on achieving and surpassing business objectives.”

The Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace is an automated, end-to-end e-commerce platform that enables resellers to provision services within minutes, purchase preset bundles to increase their profit margin and streamline their back-office operations with consolidated control. Resellers can also leverage the automated Go-to-Market Hub to customize their marketing and sales collateral, enabling them to reduce time to market and increase revenue.

About Ingram Micro Cloud
Ingram Micro Cloud brings together innovators and problem solvers to help the world accomplish more. It facilitates and manages the cloud’s complex digital value chain—all powered by CloudBlue technology. With unmatched global reach, easy access to automated go-to-market and integration tools, deep technical expertise, and a curated selection of scalable SaaS and IaaS solutions, Ingram Micro Cloud helps vendors, resellers, and managed service providers by offering More as a Service. Detailed information is available at www.ingrammicrocloud.com.

PR Contact:
Megan Binkley
Ingram Micro Cloud
Megan.Binkley@ingrammicro.com

Source: Ingram Micro

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DENVER, CO – December 1, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Today, Axcient, a leader in business continuity and cloud migration solutions for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), announced its ‘A’ rating (up 5 points to a 96) from SecurityScorecard verifying the security of its business continuity, disaster recovery, and cloud migration tools. This ‘A’ security rating encompasses controls protecting security across all risk indicators, including Networking, DNS Health, Patching Cadence, Endpoint Security, IP address, Web Application Security, Cubit Score, Hacker Chatter, Information Leak, and Social Engineering.

As a cloud services platform custom-built to secure and support MSPs, Axcient’s security rating enables Partners to both trust and verify the data protections supporting their supply stream. Gathering publicly available information across the Internet, using the SecurityScorecard platform, Axcient can now leverage their best-in-class cybersecurity control environment without compromising the integrity of their internal controls. For more than four months, SecurityScorecard has continuously monitored 10 risk indicators across seven different companies, determining Axcient’s overall cyber health.

“SecurityScorecard’s rating validates the security and reliability of Axcient’s business continuity offerings,” said Joshua Foltz, Chief Security and Compliance Officer at Axcient. “In all that we do—whether product development, process innovation, or security testing—we put the needs of our Partners first. The scorecard proves that our applications and cloud are the most secure, which is a direct reflection of our Partner experience and commitment to offering world-class products.”

SecurityScorecard enables users to view and continuously monitor security ratings and report on the cyberhealth of their ecosystems. In the monitoring process, SecurityScorecard integrated an algorithm called Next-Gen Scoring that deployed a deterministic scoring methodology for Axcient based on a robust statistical framework with a grading system that links issue changes to score fluctuations. Based on threat data, Axcient was graded and benchmarked against six different companies, including Acronis, Datto, StorageCraft, Barracuda, Infrascale, and Veeam. The monitoring and test determined that Axcient was the only company who received an ‘A’ rating.

“This is a competitive differentiator for Axcient,” said Marc Moesse, Vice President of Product at SecurityScorecard. “Nearly 70% of breaches are a result of poor third-party security. With Axcient, MSPs can have confidence that if their customers lose a server, system, website, or data center, the company offers secure technology to recover data to stand up their servers and get back to business.”

View the Security Scorecard report — https://axcient.com/schedule-a-demo/

About Axcient
Axcient is an award-winning leader in business availability software for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Axcient x360 empowers MSPs to Protect Everything™ by combining SaaS Backup, BCDR, and secure File Sync & Share into one platform and experience. Trusted by MSPs worldwide, Axcient protects business data and continuity from events such as security breaches, human error, and natural disasters. For more information, visit www.axcient.com

Follow Axcient on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Media Contact
Amanda Lee
ARL Strategic Communications for Axcient
(727) 272-0781
Amanda.Lee@arlpr.com

Source: Axcient

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Delivers improved experiences and performance for AI workloads on premises and in the cloud

CAMPBELL, Calif. – December 02, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — WekaIO™ (Weka), the data platform for AI, today announced the availability of its latest version of WekaFS™, the fastest storage for data-intensive applications that provides users with enhanced capabilities for cloud deployments and provides new capabilities for both cloud native and virtualized applications on premises.

Weka’s data platform, built on WekaFS, addresses the storage challenges posed by today’s enterprise AI workloads and other high performance applications running on-premises, in the cloud or bursting between platforms. One single data platform offers the simplicity of NAS, the performance of SAN or DAS and the scale of object storage along with accelerating every stage of the data pipeline from data ingestion to cleansing to modeled results.

The additional enhancements now available with version 3.13 of the software provide customers with an even better experience by addressing modern workload demands, fully integrating flash, S3 object storage, cloud and on-premises in a single framework.

Among the top new features in WekaFS 3.13 are:

AWS Autoscaling Groups Thin Provisioning
WekaFS already supports AWS Autoscaling Groups to allow for easy, on the fly, scaling up of the cluster for peak demand periods and auto scaling down when not needed. For cloud-native applications autoscaling delivers the full flexibility of cloud elasticity by allowing resource instances to join or leave the group based on performance or user demand requirements.

New in 3.13, a filesystem can be set as thin provisioned when scaling the number of EC2 instances to be increased or decreased. When scaling up, as the NVMe capacity grows, these filesystems will get more NVMe capacity automatically added to them without additional user intervention. It also allows for shrinking the filesystem as EC2 instances are removed. This simplifies the entire storage management experience in AWS and works with AWS Budgets so you can track and take action on the cost of your dynamic AWS usage.

Remote Backup to Multiple Object Stores
Remote Backup is now generally available in 3.13, supporting the use of multiple S3 object stores. With 3.13, WekaFS’ namespace expansion can now attach to a second object store for snap-to-object data protection and cloud bursting purposes. Now, for example, a daily snapshot can be stored to a local object store, while a monthly snapshot is uploaded to a remote object store. An additional feature of the Remote Backup capability is that Weka can upload just the incremental changes between each remote snapshot even if there are other local snapshots, allowing for both reduced network traffic and reduced capacity needed in the target object store.

High-Performance Clients on VMware Virtual Machines
While customers have previously been able to have virtual applications run against Weka storage in the past, there were some tradeoffs that needed to be made. Now, it is even easier to use Weka FS reliably in a VMware environment. WekaFS 3.13 introduces support for VMXNET Generation 3 (VMXNET3), the most recent virtual network device from VMware. This allows for high-speed WekaFS operation with vMotion (vSphere) in a typical virtual environment. Just load the Weka client onto the guest VM and make sure a VMXNET3 network is attached.

CSI Quota
The Weka CSI Plugin provides the creation and configuration of persistent storage external to Kubernetes. At scale, customers have asked for ways to help control the consumption of storage in the Kubernetes environment. WekaFS 3.13 introduces CSI resource quota management to request volume size and enforce its limits via policies that are integrated in the plugin to allow for tighter controls and reign in unchecked storage consumption.

“Other storage vendors often refer to their latest versions as an ‘upgrade’ or an ‘evolution’ of their products but that simply means that previous iterations were lacking or that the company was slow to recognize needs in the market,” said Liran Zvibel, co-founder and CEO of WekaIO. “Because it was built for NVMe flash and cloud-native, Weka was designed to enable organizations to maximize the full value of their high-powered IT investments – compute, networking and storage. The Weka development model ensures that we continue to improve the product on a rapid basis and the latest features are an extension of our capabilities to better help users unlock the full capabilities of their data centers.”

WekaFS 3.13 is currently available for new and existing customers. Those looking to learn more or leverage the latest features are encouraged to contact one of the company’s Weka Innovation Network partners for additional information.

About WekaIO
WekaIO™ (Weka), the leading data platform for achieving first-to-market results in artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, and high-performance computing (HPC)) is used by eight of the Fortune 50 enterprise organizations to uniquely solve the newest, biggest problems holding back innovation and discovery. Weka solutions are purpose-built to future-ready the accelerated and agile data center. Optimized for NVMe-flash and the hybrid cloud, its advanced architecture handles the most demanding storage challenges in the most data-intensive technical computing environments, delivering truly epic performance at any scale, enabling organizations to maximize the full value of their data center investments. Weka helps the enterprise solve big IT infrastructure problems to accelerate business outcomes and speed productivity. For more information, go to https://www.weka.io

Follow WekaIO: Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook

WekaIO, WekaFS, Weka AI, Weka Innovation Network, Weka Within, Weka AI logo, WIN logo, Weka Within logo, and the WekaIO logo are trademarks of WekaIO, Inc.

Contact:
JPR Communications
Judy Smith
judys@jprcom.com

Source: WekaIO

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The Enterprise File Fabric solution for Media and Entertainment is now part of Global Distributions’ product portfolio

LONDON, UK – 2nd December 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Storage Made Easy and Global Distribution announced a new distribution partnership which brings the Enterprise File Fabric™ for Media and Entertainment into Global Distribution’s product portfolio.

The Enterprise File Fabric provides a one-of-a-kind secure media management solution that addresses the unique challenges of the Media and Entertainment industry.

Some of the features and benefits that the Enterprise File Fabric for M&E offers are:

• • Unified Namespace for Hybrid Assets: The File Fabric provides a single common interface across all public / private data stores from which to view, manage and define collaboration and security controls. It doesn’t matter if media data is located on-premises, NAS, object storage, private and public clouds, or SaaS applications; the Enterprise File Fabric is able to provide a single common interface to all assets.

• • Large File Transfer Acceleration: The Enterprise File Fabric platform provides a unique transfer acceleration feature called M-Stream® which speeds up the uploading, downloading, and copying of very large assets. This works with Tier 1, Tier 2 and Archive storage and works from storage to end user desktop, from storage platform to storage platform, or even rack-to-rack in the data centre.

• • VPN-Less Remote Access to assets stored on SMB Shares: SMBStream™ is a site-to-site gateway that provides end users accelerated, secure access to office bound such as NAS/SAN, or cloud bound such Amazon FSx or Azure files, and SMB shares. Speeds can be as much 30x faster than using a traditional UDP VPN.

• • Metadata Extraction: The File Fabric indexes media assets and extracts metadata making it easier to classify, search and find data. Integrations are provided into best of breed video AI technology, such as Google Vision.

Nick Warburton, Director at Global Distribution said: “When I first looked at SME’s Enterprise File Fabric™ I was extremely impressed. There is no question that this is a must have software solution for companies that are looking for a way to unite on-cloud and on-premises file and object storage infrastructure, and provide an indexed global file system, that can accelerate end user and application workflows, at the same time as providing required access control and security. Global has always sought out the best of breed technology solutions and is delighted to be able to offer Storage Made Easy to our worldwide network of resellers.”

Jim Liddle, Storage Made Easy CEO said, “With the File Fabric for Media we are able to differentiate and increase the value Global Distribution brings to their channel resellers whilst SME gains the benefit of a smart, savvy distribution partner operating across Europe in the M&E space.”

About Storage Made Easy (SME)
Storage Made Easy’s Enterprise File Fabric™ integrates file and object data into one single platform through a unified file system that works with on-premises and on-cloud data storage assets.

End users, whether local or remote, are able to access the unified file system using web scale protocols and clients that bridge desktop and cloud, but which provide familiar workflows to end users.

Cloud-like economics are provided across a company’s entire storage portfolio, unlocking the benefits and cost-efficiency of its data assets whilst providing strict controls and governance for legislative compliance, such as GDPR and CCPA, and addressing security concerns such as ransomware attacks.

The platform’s unique File Transfer acceleration technology M-Stream®, speeds up the transfer of files from desktop to storage, storage to desktop or even public cloud to public cloud, enhancing user productivity and providing ROI on latency sensitive workflows.

The company is backed by Moore Strategic Ventures, LLC, the private investment vehicle of Louis M. Bacon, in addition to other private shareholders including London-based entrepreneurs who previously successfully exited their businesses to larger industry peers.

Storage Made Easy is the trading name of Vehera LTD.

Follow us on Twitter @SMEStorage and @storagemadeeasy and visit us at www.StorageMadeEasy.com to learn more.

Press Contact
Mariado Martinez, Marketing Manager
mariado@storagemadeeasy.com
+44 (0)2086 432 885

Source: SME

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Exos X20 and IronWolf Pro 20TB CMR-based HDDs help organizations maximize the value of data

FREMONT, CA — December 2, 2021 — /BackupReview.info/ — Data drives today’s most innovative technology and business breakthroughs. Maximizing the value of an organization’s data is dependent on the ability to store, access, and activate as much data as possible. Today, Seagate® Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in mass-data storage infrastructure solutions, launched the new Exos® X20 20TB and IronWolf ® Pro 20TB conventional magnetic recording (CMR)-based hard disk drives (HDDs), increasing mass-capacity data storage capabilities.

Scalable, Responsive, and Innovative Enterprise Solutions
Seagate’s Exos X20 enterprise HDD is designed for maximum storage capacity and the highest rack-space efficiency. Built with cloud storage in mind, the 20TB Exos X20 delivers performance for hyperscale data centers and massive scale-out applications. With low latency of 4.16ms and repeatable response times, Exos X20 provides enhanced caching that performs up to three times better than solutions that only utilize read or write caching. Exos X20 also delivers an increased sustained data rate (SDR) of up to 285 MB/s.

With available Seagate Secure™ technology and a 2.5M-hr MTBF rating, enterprises count on Exos X20 to realize their greatest data and operational efficiencies, and highest storage densities in the datasphere.

The Exos X20 HDD can be paired with Seagate’s recently announced Exos CORVAULT™ intelligent storage system to deliver maximum data density in a small footprint. Built on Seagate’s 4U chassis accommodating 106 Exos enterprise drives in only seven inches (18 cm) of rack space, CORVAULT offers over 2.12PB of SAN-level performance built on Seagate’s breakthrough storage architecture.

High Capacity, Dependable Solutions for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs)
Seagate’s new IronWolf Pro 20TB HDD offers network attached storage (NAS)-optimized AgileArray™ technology to provide exceptional RAID reliability and compatibility during the heaviest NAS workloads that SMBs might require. Designed with built-in rotational vibration (RV) sensors, IronWolf Pro 20TB offers RV mitigation to provide reliable performance for NAS systems with little lag or downtime.

Purpose-designed for heavy user workloads, the new IronWolf Pro 20TB features high reliability with user workload rate limits of 300TB/year — a necessity for today’s NAS servers. It also offers sustained transfer rates of 285MB/s giving users the power to collaborate by sharing files, backing up, and tackling heavy workloads in multi-user NAS environments.

The new drive comes equipped IronWolf Health Management system for easy access and monitoring drive health as well as a five-year limited product warranty and three years of Rescue Data Recovery Services for peace of mind.

Shipping this month, Exos X20 20TB will be available for list price of $669.99 and IronWolf Pro 20TB is available for $649.99. CORVAULT is available globally via qualified Seagate distributors.

https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/news/media-kits/ironwolf-pro-20tb-kit-master/

About Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology crafts the datasphere, helping to maximize humanity’s potential by innovating world-class, precision-engineered mass-data storage and management solutions with a focus on sustainable partnerships. A global technology leader for more than 40 years, the company has shipped over three billion terabytes of data capacity. Learn more about Seagate by visiting www.seagate.com or following us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and subscribing to our blog.

©2021 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Spiral logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Exos and IronWolf are trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Actual data rates may vary depending on operating environment and other factors.

Seagate Media Contact
Roxanne Hesh, Consumer PR, Americas
Roxanne.Hesh@seagate.com
(415) 233-0757

Source: Seagate

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December 01, 2021

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

1) Consumer – for the general consumers

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

3) Enterprise – for large enterprise corporations

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

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

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

The Top 100 Cloud Backup Companies for December 2021

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

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

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

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

** Backupify is a backup tool for social networking accounts (e.g. Google+, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

*** Replication solution

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