Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 22; Updates from Alcion, Arcserve, Veeam & More

Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of September 22, 2023.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy storage and data protection news items.
Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 22, 2023
Alcion Raises $21 Million, with Participation from Veeam, for Go-to-Market
Founded in 2022, Alcion provides Microsoft 365 administrators with a platform to protect against ransomware, malware, corruption and accidental data loss. The company’s platform takes a multi-layered approach to security to combat ransomware and malware using threat detection, intelligent backup scheduling, encryption and delete protection.
Arcserve Drops New Research on Healthcare Data Protection
The findings reveal gaps, vulnerabilities, and misconceptions in the healthcare sector, potentially hindering its ability to effectively safeguard and recover data in the event of malicious attacks and accidental data outages stemming from human error or natural events.
CrowdStrike Unveils New Data Protection, Exposure & Management Tools
New platform innovations across data protection, exposure management, and IT automation are another leap forward in disrupting legacy markets and tools with a modern, unified approach to stopping breaches. The platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry.
Dig Security the Expansion of its Data Protection Platform
Dig has introduced new ease of deployment and ongoing use, cutting down installation to minutes with minimum permissions required for deployment. The improvement deployment is claimed to save businesses months of evaluation and implementation of different tools, as well as maintaining complex toolchains, providing fast time to value overall.
Infinidat Adds AFA Inside Hybrid InfiniBox Offering
In effect, with the SSA Express software, applications can be pinned into the flash cache. Admins can select specific datasets, applications, and workloads to reside in the SSD layer of the InfiniBox hybrid with near 100 percent read cache hit rate.
SolarWinds Launches New Service Management and Database Observability Solutions
SolarWinds ESM provides a powerful solution for customers who currently rely on disparate and disconnected tools across departments to manage inbound requests and workflows, which creates silos that slow response times and further complicate the company’s technology stack.
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Solutions Review Set to Host Zscaler for Exclusive Spotlight Webinar on October 5
With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Zscaler. In this webinar, attendees will hear how to efficiently detect, triage, and resolve IT incidents that have global, regional, or user-specific impact at scale.
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