Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of August 23; Updates from Arcserve, Rubrik, Storj & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of August 23, 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 23, 2024

Assured Data Protection Launches in LatAm with Rubrik Tech

By utilizing Assured’s managed services model, enterprises of all sizes across Latin America will benefit from a more flexible approach to Rubrik deployment at a price point that will be affordable to all. Enterprises in Latin America will now be able to rapidly recover from cyberattacks, including ransomware.

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CUDOS and Storj Join Forces with Distributed Compute & Storage

Storj’s distributed storage platform enhances security through client-side encryption and data sharding. Files are encrypted, split into fragments and distributed globally across their network of tens of thousands of storage nodes across over 100 countries, delivering privacy, durability, availability, security, and superior edge performance.

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DDN Achieves Tier-One Performance Data Platform Certification for NVIDIA

Proven in production in the largest AI data centers and cloud providers worldwide, DDN’s data intelligence platform is designed to significantly speed up AI training workflows, while also drastically reducing power and space requirements. This allows cloud providers to minimize data management overhead, assuring customers are getting maximum utilization from their GPU service provider.

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Delphix Releases State of Data Compliance and Security Report

The report also reveals that the challenge of protecting sensitive data will only get more complex with the rise of AI. 85 percent of enterprises report concerns about regulatory non-compliance in AI environments. Even more troubling, 68 percent of organizations surveyed perceive a lack of solutions to tackle data privacy in AI environments.

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Fortanix Adds File System Encryption to Data Security Platform

Aside from preventing disruptions of IT admin activities and other kernel dependency-related issues due to its operating system layer operations, Fortanix File System Encryption also eases agent deployment scaling and enables total access policy control. Organizations could also leverage the service to centralize encryption key management, with keys stored in FIPS-140-2 Level 3 HSMs, noted Fortanix.

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LiquidStack Launches First in a New Family of Universally Compatible Coolant Distribution Units

Built for advanced computing applications such as generative AI, large language models and HPC, LiquidStack’s new CDU offer addresses a critical market need by helping alleviate CDU supply constraints in the direct-to-chip liquid cooling segment. As data center adoption of liquid cooling scales, the demand for standardized, DTC-optimized CDUs has accelerated significantly.

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Continuous Data Protection from Own pushes data changes to a backup as they happen, allowing businesses to capture changes in their data in near real-time. In addition to creating a more resilient and scalable approach, the higher-fidelity datasets this offering creates will enable organizations to unlock new ways of leveraging analytics and AI models across their vital information.

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A backup and recovery solution for Salesforce Core Platform data, the new offering is powered by the robust data security capabilities of Rubrik Security Cloud, a unified platform that consolidates data protection across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises environments, simplifying management and enhancing operational efficiency. This offering adds to Rubrik’s existing data protection for SaaS tools like M365 and Jira.

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Arcserve Reports on State of Data Resilience in the Enterprise

Today, the best practice for effective ransomware resilience and data loss prevention is the 3-2-1-1 backup strategy: having three copies of company data; storing backups on two different types of media; keeping one copy of the data offsite; and ensuring one copy is immutable.

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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: It Ain’t Easy Staying Green

How does data quality affect the debate over deforestation? David Loshin explores the thorny world of deforestation data and its global impact. From the Amazon to the EU and beyond, learn more about how data can shape the future of our planet.

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