Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of August 2; Updates from Cohesity, Pure Storage, VAST Data & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of August 2, 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 August 2, 2024

Cerabyte Secures Strategic Investment from Pure Storage

Cerabyte enables a new tier of accessible, permanent, and sustainable data storage that is projected to extend from petabyte to exabyte-scale data center racks. The persistent media technology can hold data for extremely long periods of time while consuming no power.

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CloudCasa by Catalogic Partners with IONOS Cloud for Kubernetes Data Protection

Under this partnership, CloudCasa will integrate its state-of-the-art cloud data protection and migration service with the robust and scalable cloud infrastructure of IONOS. The partnership offers users seamless, automated backup, recovery, migration and replication for Kubernetes and cloud-native applications, providing an unmatched level of security and reliability.

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Cohesity Extends ‘First Mover’ Status on GenAI Detection & Recovery

Cohesity enhanced its AI-powered cyber recovery assistant tool for the Cohesity Data Cloud, providing expert guidance on the appropriate response. Using security context as input to GenAI and complementing this multiple sources including threat hunting scans, ransomware detection, data risk, and posture, among others, customers can receive an alert to anomalous behaviors.

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Cribl ‘Navigates the Data Current’

Cribl found the number went up 32 percent from last year. The company also found that 18 percent of Cribl.Cloud customers are consuming data from 10 or more data sources. The top sources include the data collectors associated with Spunk, REST end points, Windows Event Logs, and Amazon S3, among other sources.

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Cybersixgill Releases New Ransomware Intelligence Module

Cybersixgill’s new Ransomware Intelligence Module addresses this need by offering comprehensive, contextual insights into ransomware activities, helping organizations proactively mitigate risks.

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Cyera Adda New Identity Modes to Data Security Platform

Cyera’s Identity Module gives organizations complete visibility into data access through a single, centralized dashboard — data that the company’s DSPM module discovers and classifies with 95 percent accuracy.

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Devo Drops Data Orchestration and SOC Workflow Enhancements

With the launch of Devo’s new data orchestration and data analytics cloud, organizations aren’t forced to omit data sources because it’s too expensive. Devo’s SOC workflow enhancements also enable analysts to easily act on that data with AI-driven automation for precise threat detection and incident response.

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Leostream & Scale Computing Unveil Integrated Virtual Desktop Tool

Leostream and Scale Computing have developed a streamlined, complete hardware/software architecture for hosting Windows and/or Linux desktops with greater ease of deployment, best-in-class support, and a competitive price point.

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Microsoft Launches New 365 Backup Storage

Microsoft 365 Backup Storage powers the Microsoft 365 Backup offering. It gives third-party backup developers, using the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage APIs, a way to provide the same features of Microsoft 365 Backup through their own integrated application.

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MinIO Unveils New DataPod for Exascale AI Data Infrastructure

In addition to MinIO DataPod, MinIO is announcing its recognition on the InfraRed 100, which honors 100 transformative companies in cloud infrastructure, and its receipt of an AI Breakthrough Award as the best overall AI-based analytics company. These industry honors highlight the growing impact and adoption of MinIO object storage for AI.

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Nasuni Valuated at $1.2 Billion

Nasuni’s success to-date includes award winning technology, top decile customer retention rates, industry leading NPS scores, and a consistent 30% growth rate in a market that is rapidly expanding with the advent of hybrid cloud and AI. Nasuni’s data platform is used by over 850 companies spanning 70 countries.

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SK Hynix Unveils New GDDR7 Memory

The company was able to achieve this jump in power efficiency by using new packaging techniques. For example, it increased heat dissipating substrate layers by 50% (from four layers to six), allowing the chip to release its built-up thermal energy much faster without increasing the PCB area it uses.

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Storj Secures Veeam Ready-Object Status

Storj has outstanding durability thanks to its decentralized architecture where every file is encrypted, redundantly sharded, and distributed across tens of thousands of storage nodes. No entity has access to any customer data, and data recovery is not reliant on any specific storage locations. So, multi-region replication is not needed for resilience.

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VAST Data Nabs High-Performance Storage Certification

This certification underscores VAST’s position as a leading data platform provider for AI cloud infrastructure and further strengthens VAST’s collaboration with NVIDIA in building out next-generation AI factories.

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Veeam Integrates Data Cloud with Microsoft 365

Veeam is a launch partner for Microsoft’s new service and the company’s Edward Watson said it’s one of the first vendors to use the new Microsoft APIs, while using the occasion to announce its Microsoft 365 data cloud service will now consist of three plans.

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Votiro Drops New Data Privacy Features

Votiro is poised to grow internationally with notable new partnerships including Novacoast, an international cybersecurity company providing IT services and software development, and CyberKis, a full-service cybersecurity company in Israel.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

NEW Episode of Information Risk with David Loshin: A (Not So) Secret Identity

David Loshin explores real-world examples of data matching errors, including a case in India where algorithmic errors led to the denial of food benefits. Learn more about the challenges of maintaining data privacy while achieving accurate record linkage and the potential role of AI in improving these processes.

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NEW episode of the Insight Jam Podcast Featuring Qumulo CEO Douglas Gourlay

Gourlay shares his unique insights from years in the tech industry, discussing the challenges of balancing cloud and on-premises storage solutions. They get into the profound impact of AI on various sectors, including education and healthcare.

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On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts Pure Storage for the Spotlight: Enterprise AI Solutions

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Pure Storage to showcase strategies to future-proof AI storage to meet dynamic and growing data needs. Reserve your spot now for this exclusive event and gain the insights needed to elevate your AI ventures to the next level!

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