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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Additional key findings from the survey include:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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October 01, 2024

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

1) Consumer – for the general consumers

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

3) Enterprise – for large enterprise corporations

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

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

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

The Top 100 Cloud Backup Companies for October 2024

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

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

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

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

** Replication solution

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October 01, 2024

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

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

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

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

Top Online Cloud Backup Enablers

Note: Click on company names to read their profiles

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

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

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

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

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

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

Below are enablers’ ranking profiles:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some of these benefits include:

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

Key Features:
Efficient:

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

Comprehensive:

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

Cloud-Enabled:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The new patents include:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recovery Point’s Rubrik BaaS includes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ActiveScale 7.0 and ActiveScale Cold Storage Achieve Veeam Ready Qualification

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Reinforcing Commitment to Security and Quality in Data Protection

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ryan James
ryan@backupvault.co.uk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The latest version of DPX has features that offer:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Additional key findings from the survey include:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Unveiling Advanced Backup Features and Enhanced Storage Solutions for a New Era

ISSAQUAH, WA – September 27, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — WholesaleBackup, a pioneer in providing robust cloud backup solutions, proudly announces its 20th anniversary. Over two decades, WholesaleBackup has consistently delivered cutting-edge technology tailored for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), IT resellers, and backup providers, enhancing data security and recovery solutions across various industries.

As we celebrate this significant milestone, WholesaleBackup is excited to unveil new features designed to further empower our partners and clients. These enhancements include streamlined disk image backups up to 2 TB without local copies, support for Synology C2 and IDrive E2 cloud storage options, and a sophisticated Remote Data Restore feature accessible via the Backup Ops Web Console.

“Our commitment to innovation and customer success has been unwavering from the start,” said David Remer, Managing Partner of WholesaleBackup. “As we mark 20 years, we’re not just reflecting on our past achievements but also looking forward to providing even more powerful tools that meet the evolving needs of our clients.”

Enhanced Disk Image Backup Capabilities WholesaleBackup now supports disk image backups of up to 2 TB directly to the cloud without the need for storing local copies. This capability saves significant local storage space and streamlines the backup process, making it faster and more efficient.

Expanded Cloud Storage Integration We’ve added Synology C2 and IDrive E2 to our supported cloud storage options. Synology C2 offers robust security features and ease of use, while IDrive E2 provides scalability and cost-effectiveness, making it easy for businesses to manage their backup costs effectively.

Remote Data Restore via Backup Ops Web Console The new Remote Data Restore feature enhances the flexibility and responsiveness of data recovery processes, ensuring rapid recovery and minimal downtime for businesses.

These new features build on our legacy of providing highly customizable and secure backup solutions that are both easy to manage and deploy. With a focus on reliability and user-centric design, WholesaleBackup continues to set the standard for the industry.

For more information about WholesaleBackup’s services and to begin your free trial today, visit wholesalebackup.com

Contact:
David Remer
WholesaleBackup
+1 425-417-4632

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• Combined Strengths: Rubrik Security Cloud and Pure Storage Platform provide a modern solution architecture for short- and long-term data storage and protection.
• Data, the New Currency: Partnership ensures organizations’ critical data is secure and quickly recoverable with solid performance, scalability, and cost management.

PALO ALTO, Calif. – September 26, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Data is the new currency in today’s digital economy. However, organizations face unprecedented challenges with exponential data growth, including performance bottlenecks, a lack of practical data visibility, and increasing cyber threats. Today, Rubrik, Inc. (NYSE: RBRK), the Zero Trust Data Security™ company, and Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technologies and services, are partnering in bringing together primary storage, data security, and long-term retention with Rubrik Security Cloud, to arm global customers with a proven reference architecture to ensure uptime and a path forward in the face of growing cyber threats.

“As more and more organizations realize that cyber resilience is the most essential cybersecurity strategy, Pure Storage and Rubrik have come together to deliver the most complete cyber resilient hyper cloud solution,” said Bipul Sinha, CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Rubrik. “Having spent time with Charlie discussing cyber resilience, it became evident that our two companies had a tremendous opportunity to help our customers with data security and business continuity.”

Cyber Resilience, Defense in Depth
By combining key elements of Rubrik Security Cloud and the Pure Storage Platform, enterprises can gain critical Cyber Resilience capabilities with a three-layered defense strategy, which includes:

• Rapid Recovery: The Pure Storage Platform uses immutable snapshots as the first layer of defense in a three-layered architecture, ensuring rapid recovery and near-zero Recovery Time Objective (RTO) during cyberattacks. With Auto-on SafeMode governance, these snapshots are stored in a secure enclave, accessible only to designated contacts authenticated through Pure Storage Support, providing unmatched performance, durability, and scalability for instant recovery.
• Data Security: As a crucial second layer for data stored on the Pure Storage FlashArray, the Rubrik Security Cloud offers organizations a cyber resilience platform with compliant immutable and on-site backup via the Rubrik Secure Vault. Additional capabilities–Anomaly Detection, Threat Monitoring, Threat Hunting, Sensitive Data Monitoring, User Intelligence and Orchestrated Recovery–can further accelerate recovery and minimize downtime.
• Archival Location: The Pure Storage Platform supports the final layer of resilience, delivering massive scale-out and immutable, cost-effective storage designed for rapid recovery, even for data stored over extended periods. Both the performance-optimized FlashBlade//S™ and the economical at scale FlashBlade//E™ can be leveraged for the archival location, offering flexibility based on customer needs.

By 2025, the world is expected to generate 463 exabytes of data daily¹, making efficient data management and protection a critical priority. A Rubrik Zero Labs report found that 66% of IT and security leaders believe that data growth is outpacing their ability to secure data and mitigate risk.

“In the face of evolving and sophisticated cyber threats, enterprises need a multi-layered architecture to outpace and counteract bad actors. The combination of Pure Storage and Rubrik delivers a solution designed to strengthen defenses while continuously evolving and scaling. Together, we’re committed to providing businesses with a robust, adaptive framework that drives true cyber resilience, helping them stay ahead in a complex cybersecurity landscape.” – Charles Giancarlo, Chairman & CEO, Pure Storage

Partner Quote:
“The partnership between these two companies couldn’t come at a better time with massive data surges and tech disruptions,” said Boomchi Kumar, Director Security Consulting – Cyber Resiliency Practice Leader at Trace3. “Our global enterprise customers require a joint solution that offers a holistic approach to cyber resilience, giving them the tools necessary to defend against modern cyber threats, ensuring business continuity and recovery at scale.”

For more information, please visit our partner page — https://www.rubrik.com/partners/technology-partners/pure-storage

About Rubrik
Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is on a mission to secure the world’s data. With Zero Trust Data Security™, we help organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Rubrik Security Cloud, powered by machine learning, secures data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS applications. We help organizations uphold data integrity, deliver data availability that withstands adverse conditions, continuously monitor data risks and threats, and restore businesses with their data when infrastructure is attacked.

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

About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) delivers the industry’s most advanced data storage platform to store, manage, and protect the world’s data at any scale. With Pure Storage, organizations have ultimate simplicity and flexibility, saving time, money, and energy. From AI to archive, Pure Storage delivers a cloud experience with one unified Storage as-a-Service platform across on premises, cloud, and hosted environments. Our platform is built on our Evergreen® architecture that evolves with your business – always getting newer and better with zero planned downtime, guaranteed. Our customers are actively increasing their capacity and processing power while significantly reducing their carbon and energy footprint. It’s easy to fall in love with Pure Storage, as evidenced by the highest Net Promoter Score in the industry. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com

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

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

¹ https://www.accenture.com/nl-en/blogs/insights/data-driven-enterprise

Contact:
Meghan Fintland
Global Head of PR, Rubrik
925.785.9192
meghan.fintland@rubrik.com

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New Veeam Apps integrated with Palo Alto Networks Cortex platform help organizations identify and respond to cyberattacks faster, ensuring the resilience of business-critical backup data

SEATTLE, WA – September 26, 2024 –- / BackupReview.info / — Veeam® Software, the #1 leader by market share in Data Resilience today announced a new integration with Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, to simplify security operations and strengthen data resilience. This integration addresses the pressing need for organizations to take an integrated approach to protecting their data backups and proactively responding to cyber threats through the capabilities offered by Veeam’s new Apps and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XSOAR. With this new integration, Veeam is the first Palo Alto Networks partner to independently design and develop a data collector, dashboards, and reports for Cortex XSIAM.

“Cyber threats are a reality for every single organization. It takes teamwork to fight this escalating battle against ransomware. We are excited to integrate with Palo Alto Networks to provide customers with capabilities to further strengthen their data resilience,” said Dave Russell, SVP of Strategy at Veeam. “This powerful integration enables our 550,000 customers to better protect their backups and respond to cyberattacks faster, tightening their security posture and helping to ensure reliable, rapid and trusted recovery.”

In today’s digital landscape, ransomware attacks are on the rise, with 96% specifically targeting an organization’s backups according to the Veeam 2024 Ransomware Trends Report. This alarming reality poses a significant challenge for IT and security leaders worldwide. Traditional tools struggle to scale for large enterprises, resulting in a high volume of alerts and overwhelming manual processes for security teams.

To combat these challenges and fulfill customer demand, Veeam and Palo Alto Networks have integrated technology to centralize, scale, and automate data monitoring and incident response. By integrating Palo Alto Networks AI-driven security operations center (SOC) platform with Veeam’s industry-leading recovery capabilities, organizations can identify and respond to cyberattacks faster, helping to ensure the resilience of their business-critical backup data.

“We are thrilled to collaborate with Veeam, empowering organizations to respond and react more quickly to threats facing their critical data,” said Pamela Cyr, VP of Technical Partnerships at Palo Alto Networks. “By combining the power of Palo Alto Networks industry-leading AI-driven SOC platform with data resilience capabilities from Veeam we can help customers identify and respond to threats, ensuring the resilience of business-critical data. The new integration demonstrates our shared commitment to providing organizations with tools and technologies that help them proactively combat evolving cyber threats and strengthen their security posture.”

The integration introduces two new applications – the Veeam apps integrated with Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XSOAR that leverage a bi-directional API connection to monitor, detect, and respond to security incidents impacting critical business data and data backups. The Veeam app integrated with Cortex XSIAM brings data from Veeam Backup & Replication™ and VeeamONE environments into Cortex XSIAM, providing a centralized view of data and backup security-related activity. The Veeam App integrated with Cortex XSOAR enables regular API queries against Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE, monitoring for significant security events or alerts. Both applications are included at no charge to Veeam Data Platform Advanced and Premium customers.

Key customer benefits of the Veeam and Palo Alto Networks integrations include:

• Centralize security operations: Obtain a comprehensive view of security operations across the entire environment, including the Veeam environment, to stop threats and improve situational awareness.
• Easily configure critical security systems: Simplify setup and installation of Veeam apps with pre-configured monitoring and security dashboards, helping to ensure smooth and efficient onboarding.
• Automate incident investigation and response: Eliminate alert fatigue and speed up incident response with AI-powered automation to deliver real-time, automated response to potential security threats in Veeam environments.
• Scale security strategy with automation and AI: Monitor enterprise-scale environments without overwhelming security teams with burdensome alerts and manual processes.
• Help maintain compliance and regulatory requirements: Ensure efficient and effective incident management while meeting recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO), and supporting industry compliance regulations with automated ransomware recovery.

“Many enterprises have over 100 security products, creating the necessary but very unwanted job of being a cybersecurity systems integrator. Veeam and Palo Alto Networks are looking to alleviate the integration burden with their new strategic partnership,” said Frank Dickson, Group Vice President IDC’s Security & Trust Practice. “The pairing of Palo Alto Networks’ platforms with Veeam’s data resilience capabilities enables the proactive identification of cyber threats and the centralization and automation of data monitoring and incident response, thus comprehensively protecting business-critical data across the entirety of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.”

These new integrations will be highlighted as part of VeeamON Data Resilience Summit, taking place virtually on Oct. 1 in EMEA and the Americas and on Oct. 2 in Asia. Michal Goldshtein, Director, Security Architecture and Research at Palo Alto Networks, will highlight the new Veeam integrations and how they help customers before, during, and after ransomware threats. Event attendees will learn and discover how organizations of all sizes can keep their data secure, protected and accessible. Register now at no charge: https://www.veeam.com/veeamon-data-resilience-summit.

New Veeam Apps integrated with Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XSOAR are included in Veeam Data Platform Advanced and Premium. The new Veeam App integrated with Cortex XSOAR is available now for download in the Cortex Marketplace. The new Veeam App integrated with Cortex XSIAM will be available soon. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com.

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

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

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

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

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MELVILLE, NY – Sept. 25, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Data Storage Corporation (Nasdaq: DTST) (“DSC” and the “Company”), a provider of diverse business continuity solutions for disaster-recovery, cloud infrastructure, cyber-security, and IT automation, today announced that its subsidiary, CloudFirst, has secured an expanded agreement through its infrastructure partner, servicing a billion-dollar insurance company.

The client is currently utilizing the Company’s security services for their IBMi system and has now opted to enhance their disaster recovery capabilities by moving to a fully managed hosted target system. Through this agreement, Data Storage Corporation will provide a fully managed hosting solution that includes cloud backup, backup management, and replication management ensuring seamless and reliable data continuity.

Hal Schwartz, President of CloudFirst, stated, “Having served as a reliable and trusted partner for this client’s sensitive data, we’re honored to now expand the scope of our services within this large organization. This hosted solution enables the client to avoid the cost of acquiring new hardware while benefiting from our fully managed services, which ensure the client’s systems are continuously monitored, backed up, and supported for maximum uptime and security. This agreement exemplifies our ongoing commitment to providing reliable and scalable IT solutions that meet the unique needs of our clients.”

Chuck Piluso, CEO of Data Storage Corporation, commented, “This new contract demonstrates how closely we work with our infrastructure partners to create seamless solutions for clients. Our partners, that specialize in Intel and Windows platforms, turn to us for our expertise and to utilize our IBM Power Cloud. By collaborating, we’re able to deliver a unique, fully managed cloud solution that benefits all parties.”

About Data Storage Corporation
Data Storage Corporation (Nasdaq: DTST) is a leading provider of fully managed cloud hosting, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, IT automation, and voice & data solutions. With strategic technical investments in multiple regions, DTST serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies, in sectors such as government, education, and healthcare. Focused on the fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar cloud hosting and business continuity market. DTST is recognized as a stable and emerging growth leader in cloud infrastructure, support and the migration of data to the cloud. Our regional data centers across North America enable us to deliver sustainable services through recurring subscription agreements.

For more information, please visit www.dtst.com or follow us on Twitter @DataStorageCorp.

Safe Harbor Provision
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, that are intended to be covered by the safe harbor created thereby. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Statements preceded by, followed by or that otherwise include the words “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “projects,” “estimates,” “plans” and similar expressions or future or conditional verbs such as “will,” “should,” “would,” “may” and “could” are generally forward-looking in nature and not historical facts, although not all forward-looking statements include the foregoing. The forward looking statements in this press release include statements such as continuing to grow revenue and increase profitability as the Company executes on its strategic initiatives, the consolidation of the CloudFirst and Flagship subsidiaries positioning the Company to optimize operations, leverage its technical teams, realize greater efficiencies, and improve internal resource allocation, while capitalizing on extensive cross-selling and upselling opportunities among its customer networks, the two meaningful announced contracts being just the first of many such announcements that will come from the efforts of the combined organizations, having developed a robust business strategy that we will drive growth and secure sustainable profitability while maximizing long term value for shareholders and providing meaningful updates to shareholders as developments unfold. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can provide no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s expectations and assumptions as of the date of this press release and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations and assumptions from those set forth or implied by any forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include the Company’s ability to execute and advance its growth strategies. These risks should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read together with the other cautionary statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it was initially made. Except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise.

Contact:
Crescendo Communications, LLC
212-671-1020
DTST@crescendo-ir.com

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New Synchronoss Personal Cloud Adds Features Such as Memories and Built-In AI Functionality to Make it Even Easier for Subscribers to Optimize Digital Content

BRIDGEWATER, NJ – Sept. 25, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (“Synchronoss” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: SNCR), a global leader and innovator in personal cloud platforms, today announced the latest version of its carrier-grade Synchronoss Personal Cloud platform. Unlike over-the-top (OTT) solutions, the new Synchronoss Personal Cloud offers a tailored white-label solution for service providers to enable subscribers to manage, backup and optimize all types of digital content across a range of mobile devices, laptops, and computers.

Available now, the latest Synchronoss Personal Cloud introduces several enhanced features and capabilities that are designed to increase awareness and drive subscriber engagement:

• Memories – an AI curated personalization of user’s content in a movie format that users can enjoy and share with their family and friends.

• AI-Enhanced Genius with One-Click Editing – allows users to edit and optimize photos with an array of AI filters and transformations.

• Improved Backups – significant enhancements to improve backup and notification management.

• Tip Cards – new in-app communications “tiles” allow carriers to provide relevant tips to their subscribers to drive awareness and adoption of new features.

“The newest version of Synchronoss Personal Cloud enables our service provider partners to deliver robust cloud solutions with enhanced user experiences aimed specifically at improving engagement,” said Jeff Miller, President and CEO of Synchronoss. “With the introduction of Memories and AI-Enhanced Genius features, subscribers can effortlessly curate, share, and optimize their digital content – all within an intuitive and consistent interface. We are very proud to announce these new capabilities and are excited for subscriber feedback based on the user experience testing we have done.”

Delivered as a white-label solution through leading communications service providers, telecom carriers, and mobile operators, Synchronoss Personal Cloud currently supports over 10 million mobile and broadband subscribers worldwide. Synchronoss’ flexible and highly scalable platform enables operators and service providers to rapidly launch and offer personal cloud solutions across tiered plans, value-added bundles, and premium features, effectively minimizing churn and increasing average revenue per user (ARPU).

About Synchronoss
Synchronoss Technologies (Nasdaq: SNCR), a global leader in personal Cloud solutions, empowers service providers to establish secure and meaningful connections with their subscribers. Our SaaS Cloud platform simplifies onboarding processes and fosters subscriber engagement, resulting in enhanced revenue streams, reduced expenses, and faster time-to-market. Millions of subscribers trust Synchronoss to safeguard their most cherished memories and important digital content. Explore how our Cloud-focused solutions redefine the way you connect with your digital world at www.synchronoss.com

Media Relations Contact:
Domenick Cilea
Springboard
dcilea@springboardpr.com

Investor Relations Contact:
Ryan Gardella
ICR for Synchronoss
SNCRIR@icrinc.com

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Box Hubs Now Enables Instant Insights Across Multiple Folders with Box AI Powered Search & Summarization

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – September 25, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX), the leading Intelligent Content Cloud, today announced the general availability of Box Hubs. Box Hubs are simple, customizable portals that revolutionize how individuals and teams curate and publish content across their enterprise. With Box Hubs, it’s easier than ever for people to find the most accurate, up-to-date information they need to get work done, keep everyone on the same page, and extract insights from their enterprise content with Box AI.

“Today’s enterprises need to enable collaboration while keeping content secure. One of the biggest obstacles they face is making it simple for people to organize and publish critical information so it’s easy to find and accessible to the right people, both inside and outside their company,” said Diego Dugatkin, CPO of Box. “That’s the power of Box Hubs. From creating an HR Hub with the latest company policies, to a Sales Hub for enablement, or a Marketing Hub for digital assets, Box Hubs transforms how people work. And there’s even more value to be gained by connecting a Hub to powerful AI models with Box AI.”

“At Exact Sciences, we are focused on transforming how we connect people with the information they need,” said Mike Jordan, manager of the collaboration tools support team at Exact Sciences. “Box Hubs allows our employees to access portals so they can easily find information relevant to their jobs and projects, while leveraging Box permissions to ensure Hubs owners maintain control over access to content; and Box AI will be a game changer for our users enabling employees to summarize long documents, surface important nuggets of information buried within them, and even comb through multiple folders at once to quickly find the information they need. The combination of Hubs with AI will help to drive our organization into a new era of more efficient collaboration.”

New Features in Box Hubs, Available Today
With intuitive content playlists, a configurable look and feel, and no-code creation, Box Hubs makes it easy to publish content while helping employees find and utilize information across multiple documents.

Building on these capabilities, customers can now:

• Securely share a Hub externally with partners, agencies, and vendors, providing secure access to curated content;
• Locate files quickly with Box’s global search;
• Utilize new settings like linking directly to a Hub, creating vanity links, and adding bookmarks;
• Meet new federal compliance requirements, such as Section 508.

Box customers in the Enterprise Plus plan can also leverage Box AI functionalities with Box Hubs to easily ask questions across all of the documents in a Hub so they can get immediate, accurate answers to critical questions with easy-to-follow citations for transparency.

Many Box Enterprise Plus customers are already using Box AI for Box Hubs across different departments and teams:

• A municipality organization created an HR Hub that brings together the company handbook, retirement plan documents, updated diversity and inclusion resources, and more, so that all employees can easily find information and use Box AI to quickly get answers to questions about employee policies;
• A professional services firm created a Hub with industry-specific customer stories, positioning statements, and competitive analyses, allowing business development teams to use Box AI to find valuable insights when creating pitches and talking to potential customers;
• A hospitality business created a Hub to centralize and organize legal documents, so its teams can quickly get Box AI-driven insights that help it streamline compliance management;
• A marketing agency created a Hub with ready-made templates, images, and logos so designers and creatives have easy access to the building blocks they need to deliver great assets and campaigns;
• A technology company created a department Hub for the Product team that includes the official product roadmap, org charts, and quarterly planning process documents, keeping their teams aligned and helping deliver products to customers on-time.

“Modern enterprises are challenged to efficiently organize, share, and extract actionable insights from growing volumes of content and data sources. Employees lose countless hours each week searching for the information they need,” said Mel Brue, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Moor Insights & Strategy. “Box aims to solve this with Box Hubs, allowing users to curate critical content and leverage AI-powered search and summarization, which should make content more accessible and valuable.”

Box Hubs Pricing and Availability
Box Hubs is available to all Box users on Enterprise plans and above. Box Hubs with Box AI, including unlimited end-user queries, is available to users on the Enterprise Plus plan. Both versions of Box Hubs are available today. To learn more about Box Hubs and how Box AI will transform the way you work with your content, register for tomorrow’s webinar, check out the Box Blog, and register for BoxWorks taking place on November 12.

About Box
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leading Intelligent Content Cloud, a single platform that enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including AstraZeneca, JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Visit box.com to learn more. And visit box.org to learn more about how Box empowers nonprofits to fulfill their missions.

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Dani Robin
press@box.com

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Strategic Alliance Provides Canadian Channel Partners Access to Barracuda’s Industry-Leading Cybersecurity Solutions

CAMPBELL, Calif. – September 25, 2024 —- /BackupReview.info/ — Barracuda Networks, Inc., a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced a new Canadian distribution agreement with Ingram Micro, a global leader in technology and supply chain services. The strategic alliance provides Ingram Micro’s extensive network of resellers, integrators, and service providers in Canada with access to Barracuda’s portfolio of industry-leading cybersecurity solutions.

“This expanded relationship with Ingram Micro is a significant step forward as we accelerate product innovation and go-to-market strategy across North America,” said Jason Beal, vice president of worldwide partner ecosystems at Barracuda. “Barracuda is committed to delivering complete cybersecurity protection that is easy to buy, deploy, and use. Our strong and longstanding relationship with Ingram Micro enhances our reach and partner engagement strategy with unparalleled efficiency and support. We look forward to further empowering our Canadian channel partners to grow their businesses while protecting our collective customers.”

Barracuda’s complete platform, comprised of email, application, data, and network protection solutions, protects against ransomware and other complex cybersecurity threats. The award-winning Barracuda Partner Success Program provides unmatched support and resources that enable partners to remain agile across various routes to market so they can meet customers where and how they want to procure and consume technology.

“We are excited to be teaming with Barracuda and expand their go-to-market strategy and drive vertical market growth within the Canadian market,” said Tyler Coughlan, vice president and Canada country chief at Ingram Micro. “By incorporating the breadth of Barracuda’s cybersecurity solutions and partner program into our growing portfolio of solutions, resources, and services, we are helping our mutual channel partners extend their cybersecurity solution offerings to better meet their customers’ needs and business requirements.”

“Barracuda’s robust portfolio of industry-leading cybersecurity solutions, along with their outstanding technical enablement and support resources, has made them a great partner for Natrix for nearly two decades,” said Eric Rivest, vice president of business development at Natrix Technologies, Inc., a Barracuda partner based in Laval, Quebec, Canada. “We are happy to see them investing further in the Canadian channel through their alliance with Ingram Micro and look forward to leveraging this relationship to grow our business together.”

Barracuda’s new distribution agreement with Ingram Micro in Canada expands its existing relationship, which includes alliances in the United States, EMEA, and APAC.

About Barracuda
At Barracuda we strive to make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-first, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. Hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect and support them so they can focus on taking their business to the next level. For more information, visit barracuda.com

Barracuda Networks, Barracuda and the Barracuda Networks logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Barracuda Networks, Inc. in the U.S., and other countries.

Contact:
Anne Campbell
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
978-328-1642
acampbell@barracuda.com

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Commvault provides cloud-first organizations with greater choice and flexibility to protect and recover data and cloud-native applications in a multi-cloud era

TINTON FALLS, NJ – Sept. 24, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, announced it will acquire Clumio, a technology leader in data protection for critical cloud data in AWS.

This transaction enables Commvault to leverage Clumio’s AWS offerings to provide cyber resilience to next generation applications built on AWS. Clumio serves a wide range of customers including Atlassian, Cox Automotive, Duolingo, and LexisNexis.

More and more organizations are relying on Amazon S3 as their de facto storage offering, including for AI development in the cloud. Clumio has brought groundbreaking innovations to market in this area, including technologies that enable customers to have near-instant access to their Amazon S3 data during a time-critical recovery operation.

“In the event of an outage or cyberattack, rapidly getting back to business is paramount to our customers,” said Commvault CEO Sanjay Mirchandani. “Combining Commvault’s industry-leading cyber resilience capabilities with Clumio’s exceptional talent, technology, and AWS expertise advances our recovery offerings, strengthens our platform, and reinforces our position as a leading SaaS provider for cyber resilience.”

“At Clumio, our vision was to build a platform that could scale quickly to protect the world’s largest and most complex data sets, including data lakes, warehouses, and other business-critical data,” said Poojan Kumar, co-founder of Clumio. “Joining hands with Commvault allows us to get our cloud-native offerings to AWS customers on a global scale.”

The asset acquisition is expected to close in early October 2024, and be immediately accretive to ARR and revenue, and accretive to free cash flow within the next three quarters. The purchase price is not material to Commvault and will be funded with cash on hand. Commvault reiterates the fiscal second quarter 2025 earnings guidance previously announced on July 30, 2024.

BofA Securities served as a financial advisor and Hogan Lovells LLP served as legal counsel to Commvault in connection with the transaction.

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

About Clumio
Clumio helps organizations simplify data protection in AWS. Its secure air-gapped SaaS backup solution enables organizations to achieve ransomware protection, backup and restore data in minutes, and gain better visibility to optimize cloud storage costs.

Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the expected benefits of the acquisition and financial projections, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties affecting Commvault’s business, see “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our annual report on Form 10-K and “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Statements regarding Commvault’s beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future are forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results. Commvault does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.

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

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

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Advances in intelligent data infrastructure enable simplicity, powerful high-end capabilities, and affordability for enterprise storage

SAN JOSE, Calif. – September 24, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced the release of its new all-flash NetApp ASA A-Series storage systems, optimized for block storage, to enable storage modernization for every organization. With these new systems and continued advancements to NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure, customers no longer need to make tradeoffs between operational simplicity, high-end capabilities, and affordability in their storage.

The new all-flash NetApp ASA A-Series systems are positioned to help customers manage their most advanced block storage workloads by providing three key benefits:

• Simplicity: Customers will be able to leverage a storage solution so simple that anyone can deploy, manage, and upgrade it. With deployment in minutes and provisioning in seconds, adopting ASA systems is fast and hassle-free. And day-to-day management, driven by built-in AIOps and deep integration with VMware, consists of just a few steps that anyone can handle.
• Power: IT teams can use the new systems to accelerate VMware and database apps with market-leading performance, proven reliability, and intelligent data management. The ASA A-Series delivers abundant performance and efficiency, from millions of IOPs to consistent sub-millisecond latency. With advanced features like scale-out clustering, seamless workload balancing, a “six 9s” availability guarantee, the Ransomware Recovery Guarantee from NetApp, and application-aware backup, users get market-leading storage that is ready to power and consolidate their block workloads.
• Affordability: Organizations will get unmatched value with a 25-50 percent lower upfront price and better return on investment over time. With this pricing, organizations can modernize to simple, powerful all-flash storage with industry-leading raw-to-effective storage efficiency while meeting budget limits. And low power consumption can increase savings while low operational overhead slashes the total cost of ownership (TCO) over time.

To support the new ASA A-Series, NetApp has enhanced its Data Infrastructure Insights service, formerly Cloud Insights, to elevate the monitoring and analysis capabilities for the ASA platform. With these updates, customers can better manage visibility, optimization and reliability for their data infrastructure to increase savings and performance.

“Our customers tell us that the demands on their infrastructure keep intensifying so they need storage systems that deliver real value through power, affordability and simplicity,” said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp. “With the new NetApp ASA A-Series systems, our customers can modernize their operations to meet the demands of more powerful workloads on block storage without having to choose between operational simplicity and high-end capabilities. Simpler operations at an affordable price point ensure our customers have the time and resources to apply their powerful storage systems to drive innovation across their business.”

Continuing Investment in Intelligent Data Infrastructure

In addition to the ASA A-Series, NetApp is continuing to advance intelligent data infrastructure with the release of several new enhancements to its portfolio, including:

• New FAS Systems: NetApp has added to its portfolio of hybrid flash storage arrays with new FAS 70 midrange and FAS 90 high-end FAS systems. NetApp FAS is ideal for achieving a low cost of data over its lifecycle by auto-tiering cold data. These systems deliver affordable, yet high-performing backup storage, enabling a secure cyber vault for recovery from ransomware attacks.
• Updates to Cloud Volumes ONTAP®: NetApp ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) and WORM are available for no additional cost with Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO). NetApp customers’ CVO licenses now include ONTAP’s industry-leading cyber security features—no additional license needed—strengthening IT teams’ ability to fight ransomware attacks.
• Enhancements to Native Cloud Services: There are now new features generally available for two of NetApp’s native cloud storage services, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes and Azure NetApp Files. For Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, the Premium and Extreme service levels now can provision large volumes starting at 15TiB that can be scaled up to 1PiB dynamically in increments of 1GiB. Additionally, Google Cloud customers can achieve cost savings through auto tiering, which efficiently moves less frequently accessed data to lower-cost storage service levels. Azure NetApp Files now has new features for cost effective pricing and enhanced reliability. Azure customers can achieve cost savings through cool access auto tiering, which efficiently moves less frequently accessed data to lower-cost storage services. Additionally, users can improve data availability with cross-zone replication, enhancing data protection by replicating volumes across Azure availability zones.
• New Features for BlueXP: NetApp released new features and updates to BlueXP to make unified management in a hybrid multicloud world simpler for IT. BlueXP’s newest software updates streamline the ONTAP upgrade process with a service that identifies potential candidates, validates compatibility, reports on recommendations and benefits, and executes selected updates through intuitive wizards.

“What sets NetApp apart is not just the strength of its storage systems, as displayed by its new ASA A-Series, but also its comprehensive portfolio of solutions to support data operations both on-premises and in the cloud,” said Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, part of TechTarget. “The definition of value is changing for IT customers. It isn’t just about price or performance anymore; it’s both. Organizations are running increasingly advanced workloads but need to do so with budgets that they can sustain for the long term. By packaging incredible simplicity for block storage workloads with impressive performance and affordable TCO in its ASA A-Series, NetApp is giving organizations the tools they need to succeed in the era of data and intelligence.”

NetApp is now accepting orders for the ASA A-Series, which will begin shipping by the end of October 2024.

Additional Resources

• Accelerate Your Business With the New ASA A-Series
• NetApp Ups the Innovation Ante
• Modernize with Simple, Powerful, Affordable All-flash Block Storage
• BlueXP – Unified, Simple, Integrated and Secure – Your Management Solution

About NetApp
NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability and AI to enable the industry’s best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world’s biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous optimization of performance and efficiency through observability and AI. No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can transform your data infrastructure to realize your business possibilities. Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at www.netapp.com/TM are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contact:
Kenya Hayes
NetApp
kenya.hayes@netapp.com

Investor Contact:
Kris Newton
NetApp
kris.newton@netapp.com

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Guardian Forest Recovery restores Active Directory instantly to ensure business continuity in the face of escalating ransomware attacks

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Sept. 24, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Cayosoft Inc., the leader in Microsoft Active Directory management, monitoring, and recovery, has secured the patent for its flagship product, Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery. It is the only Active Directory (AD) recovery solution on the market that instantly restores AD, reducing business operation downtime and financial loss in the event of an outage caused by misconfiguration or cyberattack.

Microsoft Active Directory is used by 90% of large organizations worldwide. As the central hub for managing permissions, logins, and authorization, Active Directory serves as the gateway to an organization’s systems and resources. AD forest integrity is paramount to business continuity; an AD outage impacts every aspect of a business, often halting operations. Despite the ever-growing frequency of ransomware attacks, traditional Active Directory forest recovery solutions take hours, days, or even weeks to complete their task, often require clean and/or new hardware for each outage, and come with significant risks of failure and reinfection.

Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery’s patented approach solves these issues by functioning as an AD resilience solution rather than a typical backup and recovery tool. While competing solutions start the recovery process only after AD goes down, Guardian Active Directory Forest Recovery does it all before an AD outage happens. Cayosoft begins by taking a backup of an organization’s Active Directory, and then creates a working standby forest in an isolated secure cloud environment. These AD replicas are automatically created and tested daily, allowing organizations to immediately switch to the clean AD copy when an outage occurs. Guardian Forest Recovery can be used with all Microsoft directories, on-premises AD, hybrid AD, and Entra ID.

“Other solutions treat Active Directory resilience as a backup problem – this comes with immense risks, including reinfection by a compromised Active Directory backup, recovery process failures, and extended downtime,” said Robert Bobel, founder and CEO of Cayosoft. “Cayosoft has solved the Active Directory resiliency issue itself. With our patented technology, organizations can instantly switch to an always-ready, always-available standby version of AD the moment an AD outage occurs.”

Key Features and Benefits:

• Instant AD Forest Recovery: In the event of an AD outage, Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery instantly replaces the production AD environment with a clean, up-to-date standby AD replica to ensure business continuity is not interrupted. In contrast, traditional AD recovery solutions require an average of 21 days, with over 35 complicated steps to complete native recovery.
• Automated Daily AD Backup & Testing: Kept in an isolated cloud environment, the AD replica is continuously maintained to ensure no data loss and 100% functionality when called upon to replace the afflicted AD environment. Built-in threat detection ensures AD resilience by minimizing the risk of re-infection.
• Continuous Change Monitoring and Automated Rollback: These advanced features ensure unwanted or malicious changes are quickly detected and reversed, preventing disruptions across on-premises AD, hybrid AD, and Entra ID environments.
• Business Continuity Assurance: An Active Directory outage costs organizations an average of $1.5M per day in labor costs alone. Instant AD recovery with Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery ensures that operations interruptions are kept to an absolute minimum.

Book a demo to see Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery in action: https://www.cayosoft.com/request-a-demo/

About Cayosoft
Cayosoft delivers the only unified solution enabling organizations to securely manage, continuously monitor for threats or suspect changes, and instantly recover their Microsoft platforms, including on-premises Active Directory, hybrid AD, Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), Office 365, and more.

Unlike legacy solutions, Cayosoft builds with hybrid, cloud, and mobile users in mind, fully supporting an organization throughout its IT cloud journey. Manage by offering roles, rules, and automations for Active Directory user governance. Monitor for critical changes, risks, vulnerabilities, and threats that could compromise operations. Lastly, recover from simple objects up to multiple forests. Cayosoft is the only vendor offering instant forest recovery and delivering AD forest recovery in minutes vs. multiple hours, days, even weeks with traditional methods.

To learn more, visit cayosoft.com and be sure to follow @cayosoft on LinkedIn, X/Twitter, and Facebook.

Media Contact:
Doug De Orchis
cayosoft@scratchmm.com
Scratch Marketing + Media for Cayosoft

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CrashPlan makes it easy for influencers, prosumers, and businesses of all sizes to offer discounted, unlimited computer backup as a benefit

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Sept. 24, 2024 — / BackupReview.info / — Backup and recovery leader CrashPlan today introduced a new commission-based affiliate program aimed at making it simple to offer unlimited personal computer backup as a benefit. Through the program, individuals and organizations of all types can earn commissions from customer referrals and offer discounted, unlimited endpoint backup.

CrashPlan makes it easy for more than 900,000 users to protect the data stored on more than 1.4 million devices by automatically backing them up every fifteen minutes. Whether a CrashPlan user accidentally deletes files, their computer malfunctions, or their laptop gets stolen, they can quickly recover their data. CrashPlan users recover over 100 billion files annually, a big reason the average user has been a customer for more than seven years.

CrashPlan provides each affiliate partner with dedicated marketing materials to make it easy to extend benefits to their communities, including a logo and a unique promo code to add to their benefits page, an optional landing page, and a series of emails to send through their own channels that speak to the benefits of endpoint backup with CrashPlan. Affiliates can sign up for the program for free and receive a 7% commission for every sale brought in through their unique discount code. Subscribers will have the option to choose between a 1-year or 2-year CrashPlan Professional subscription.

“Our users understand the value of automatic endpoint data backup because they have seen it save the day again and again,” said Christine Schaefer, Chief Marketing Officer for CrashPlan. “This program gives our most passionate customers a way to share CrashPlan with their fans and followers, along with a special 10% discount to reward them for their loyalty.”

To learn more or sign up for CrashPlan’s Affiliate Program, visit: https://www.crashplan.com/partners/affiliate-program/

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

Media Contact:
Maura Lafferty
Firebrand Communications
crashplan@firebrand.marketing

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