Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of August 4; Updates from Cisco, Cobalt Iron, Infinidat & More
Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of August 4, 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 August 4, 2023
Backblaze Announces Drive Stats for 2023
At the end of Q2 2023, Backblaze was monitoring 245,757 hard drives and SSDs in our data centers around the world. Of that number, 4,460 are boot drives, with 3,144 being SSDs and 1,316 being HDDs. The failure rates for the SSDs are analyzed in the SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats review.
Cigent Partners with Lenovo on Ransomware and Data Compromise Tech
ThinkShield Data Defense helps protect data throughout its lifecycle with prevention-based defenses embedded directly into secured storage devices in Lenovo PCs and within the files themselves. Lenovo customers will now have enhanced capabilities to fight ransomware attacks and help keep data secured throughout its lifecycle.
Cisco Adds Enhancements to Endpoint Detection & Response Solution
ThinkShield Data Defense helps protect data throughout its lifecycle with prevention-based defenses embedded directly into secured storage devices in Lenovo PCs and within the files themselves. Lenovo customers will now have enhanced capabilities to fight ransomware attacks and help keep data secured throughout its lifecycle.
Cobalt Iron Unveils New Compass Migrator Tool
Large enterprises are using Compass Migrator to gain control of their backup operations and data, move to the most modern backup technology available, and maintain custody control of their long-term retention data.
Infinidat Continues Meteoric Rise in First Half of 2023
In the first half of 2023, Infinidat expanded its award-winning InfiniSafe cyber storage resilience software portfolio with the announcement of InfiniSafe Cyber Detection. The InfiniSafe cyber storage software portfolio helps enterprise storage resist cyber-attacks, including malware and ransomware.
PrivacyHawk Launches New Privacy Score Tool
The Privacy Score provides the most complete assessment of personal data risk. It is the only personal data risk score that assesses data broker, open web, corporate database privacy and personal data exposure. The Privacy Score is also the only solution that provides real-time results versus waiting hours or days for results.
BlackFog Release State of Ransomware in 2023 Report
This year BlackFog are also introducing some new statistics based upon unreported incidents, which is a growing trend as organizations try to avoid regulatory penalties, reputation damage and class action lawsuits.
SEC Adops New Risk Management, Strategy, Governance & Incident Disclosure
The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted rules requiring registrants to disclose material cybersecurity incidents they experience and to disclose on an annual basis material information regarding their cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance.
VAST Data Unveils New VAST Data Platform
The VAST Data Platform is VAST’s global data infrastructure offering, unifying storage, database and virtualized compute engine services in a scalable system that was built from the ground up for the future of AI.
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Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for Exclusive Spotlight Webinar on August 15
With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading enterprise data and cloud solution provider Infinidat. This session will demonstrate how easily enterprises can create cyber-resilient storage environments that can withstand and recover from cyber-attacks.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.
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