Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of April 12; Updates from Cohesity, Infinidat, Object First & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of April 12, 2024.

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 April 12, 2024

Backblaze Completes Partner Network Assessment & Receives Blue Shield Status

The Trusted Partner Network provides content creators and service provider partners with standardized methods to share critical security status specific to the industry. To achieve Blue Shield status, TPN members submit self assessments of their security posture which interested companies can then review when assessing their product or service.

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Cohesity Extends Cyber Resilience with New IBM Investment

Cohesity’s collaboration with IBM has brought Cohesity DataProtect together with IBM’s Storage Defender Solution to help their joint customers protect, monitor, manage, and recover data. Cohesity DataProtect is a high-performance, secured backup and recovery solution.

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Concentric AI’s new release also expands its vast ecosystem of supported structured and unstructured data repositories, including new support for Salesforce, Azure Blob Storage, Azure SQL, and BigQuery, broadening the company’s ability to discovery, monitor, classify, and protect organizations’ structured and unstructured data.

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Google Announces Axion First Arm-Based CPU for Data Centers

Arm-based processors are often a lower-cost and more energy-efficient option. Google’s announcement came right after Arms CEO Rene Haas issued a warning about the energy usage of AI models.

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HYCU Wins Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Backup & Disaster Recovery

HYCU provides backup and recovery for the broadest number of IaaS, DBaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services for Google Cloud currently. This support includes Google Workspace, BigQuery, CloudSQL, AlloyDB, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and AppEngine with enhanced capabilities for GKE.

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Index Engines Unveils Intuitive Ransomware Recovery Dashboard & Advanced Alerts

CyberSense 8.6 provides an integrated experience for organizations to understand potential data corruption, detect malicious activity by threat actors, assess affected data, and view both clean and suspect backups and snapshots in an intuitive workflow.

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Infinidat Announces Strategic Alliance with TCS

The collaboration between Infinidat and TCS will focus on building new services that TCS will provide to augment Infinidat’s award-winning InfiniBox and InfiniGuard solutions, enabling enterprises to simplify IT operations, improve the cybersecurity and cyber resilience of storage infrastructure, and reduce TCO.

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NetApp Partners with Google Cloud

Google Cloud and NetApp are announcing a new service level for NetApp Volumes called Flex that gives customers more granular control to adapt their storage and performance to match the exact needs of their cloud workloads.

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Panzura Launches Near Real-Time Ransomware Detection and Recovery Solution

By uniquely combining powerful, AI-infused detection software with expert-guided recovery, Panzura Detect and Rescue adds layers of ransomware resilience to the company’s market-leading hybrid cloud data platform, Panzura CloudFS.

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Rubrik Threat Hunting Now Available on Rubrik Security Cloud – Government

Now with Rubrik Threat Hunting, government entities can directly scan their backups for indicators of compromise, including ransomware. With this added intelligence, organizations can more accurately identify the last known clean copy of data in order to prevent reinfection during and after recovery.

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SIOS Technology Joins Nutanix Elevate Partner Program

SIOS’ proven track record includes successful implementations for customers enabling high availability and disaster recovery with more than 80,000 licenses installed globally, protecting applications for companies in a broad range of industries.

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Spectra Logic Announces New Products Spectra Cube, LumOS & TFinity Plus

Spectra modernizes IT infrastructures to preserve, protect and defend data at scale, from days to decades — whether on-premises, in a single cloud, across multiple clouds or in all locations at once. Our cost-effective solutions help organizations efficiently manage, migrate and store their high-value data, from terabytes to exabytes, with features that make it ransomware resilient.

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Part of the VAST Data Platform, the VAST DataSpace is a global namespace that offers a unified, consistent data management layer to access, move, manage and protect structured and unstructured data across edge, on-premises and hybrid multi-cloud environments, beyond a single cluster.v

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