Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of August 9; Updates from Commvault, Gartner, Iron Mountain & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of August 9, 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 9, 2024

Cloudian Partners with Supermicro

Key capabilities include exabyte scale, military-grade security, highest S3 API compatibility, bi-modal data access and a platform portfolio including Supermicro Petascale All-Flash storage servers and Supermicro SuperServer 90 drive bay storage servers f- in addition to other 1U, 2U and 4U high products in the Supermicro family.

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Commvault Expands Cyber & Data Security Ecosystem

These bi-directional integrations empower customers to use their preferred security, data protection, and cyber recovery solutions. Security operations teams can leverage these integrations to help better understand risks and threats, defend against them, and recover with confidence.

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EQT Acquires Majority Stake in Acronis

The Cyber Protect Cloud relies on artificial intelligence algorithms to uncover hacking attempts. It can spot, among other threats, malicious files built specifically to avoid detection by antivirus tools. Acronis says the platform breaks down files into their components to detect embedded cybersecurity risks such as malicious links.

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Forbes Releases 2024 Cloud 100

With the tech IPO market stuck in the doldrums, familiar faces rule the top of our ninth annual list of the world’s top private cloud computing companies. But a wave of AI challengers – and standouts in fintech, security and vertical software – are looking to close the gap.

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Gartner Releases 2024 Magic Quadrant for Backup & Recovery Software

Solutions Review’s Executive Editor Tim King highlights what’s changed since the last iteration of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions and provide an analysis of the new report.

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Iron Mountain Unveils New Digital Experience Platform

Through InSight DXP’s unique intelligent document processing that extracts, classifies, and enriches information with speed and accuracy, customers can quickly turn physical and digital unstructured information into structured, actionable data they can use in their integrated business applications and as the basis for their AI initiatives.

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Kioxia Announces New Broadband SSD

Kioxia America is showcasing a prototype broadband SSD with an optical interface for next-generation data centers, at this week’s Future of Memory and Storage (FMC) conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Rubrik Partners with Mandiant

Recovering from ransomware attacks has become more challenging because cybercriminals may be present in an IT environment for multiple days. Determining how far back an organization needs to go to recover a pristine copy of data that hasn’t been infected by malware today often requires a lot of time and effort.

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Western Digital Announces New Enterprise Storage Lineup

The products are intended to drive storage forward in the data center, client, automotive, and consumer segments. Three particular announcements caught our eye: a BiCS8 flash 128TB high-capacity QLC enterprise SSD (eSSD), new SD cards in 8TB capacities, and a 16TB external SSD for consumers.

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