Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of December 13; Updates from Cohesity, Infinidat, Quest Software & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of December 13, 2024 – special 6th annual Insight Jam LIVE!: Strategies for AI Impact edition.
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.
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Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of December 13, 2024
Arctera Separates from Veritas Technologies
Arctera will operate as three distinct product business units, each tailored to solve the most demanding data challenges for their customers. Tens of thousands of customers around the world already trust Arctera for their data compliance, data availability and data protection needs, including 70 percent of the Fortune 100.
Cohesity Combines with Veritas’ Enterprise Data Protection
Now the world’s largest data protection software provider by market share1, Cohesity will serve over 12,000 customers – including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500 – and protect hundreds of exabytes of the world’s data. With the completion of this combination, Cohesity now offers the broadest workload support and one of the largest partner ecosystems in the data protection industry.
CrashPlan Drops New Work Trend Security Report
CrashPlan’s 2024 Work Trend Security Report, based on a survey of over 2,300 U.S. workers, revealed that respondents who said they always back up their work data reported the highest levels of employee satisfaction and engagement. Those reporting the lowest levels of employee engagement were also most likely to admit to a range of risky data security practices.
Infinidat Serves Japanese e-Com Giant ELTEX
Headquartered in Yokohama, Japan, ELTEX uses the InfiniBox solution to store e-commerce-related products and services data as well as end-user transaction data for each of its customers. This is mission-critical to its core business in the development and implementation of eltexDC, a packaged system integrating e-commerce and mail-order systems.
MinIO Releases Object Storage and AI Report
Perhaps the biggest takeaway from the research is the ubiquity of object storage today. Respondents indicated that 70 percent of the enterprise’s data was in object storage today and it was expected to grow to 75 percent over the next two years. The reason for the growth was AI. “Support AI” was the most popular reason why IT leaders are adopting object storage at their organization. Performance and scalability rounded out the top three.
ORNL Announces New Data Transfer Tool
After decades of service, HPSS is set to be decommissioned in early 2025, and users are working to migrate their data before the Jan. 31 deadline. As the HPC Storage Systems team prepared for the mass exodus earlier this year, Wynne recognized the need for a new tool to facilitate the process.
Panzura Integrates with GRAU Data Metadata Hub
Symphony is an unstructured data management facility – based on Panzura’s Moonwalk acquisition – that enables customers to have automated, exabyte-scale data discovery and assessment, along with risk and compliance analysis, and dynamic data movement orchestration.
New Quest Software Updates Aimed to Hasten PostgreSQL Adoption
With the new updates, customers can streamline migrations to PostgreSQL and then optimize its performance and availability. Combined, the two updates help enterprises embrace modern database confidentiality while minimizing risk and costs.
Rubrik Unveils Turbo Threat Hunting
The traditional process of identifying clean backups can take days or even weeks, leaving organizations vulnerable to prolonged outages and devastating financial outcomes. Turbo Threat Hunting is Rubrik’s solution, enabling organizations to scan up to 75,000 backups in less than 60 seconds.
SIOS Protection Suite Secures SAP Recertification for Integration with S/4HANA
SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux earned SAP certification by successfully completing rigorous qualification procedures. These procedures, based on SAP-approved integration technologies, confirmed the software’s reliability and stability within each supported SAP environment.
StorMagic Announces SvHCI Version 2.0
SvHCI 2.0 will be generally available for purchase in the next 90 days. Pricing begins at $2,049 for a one-year subscription for a single server and up to 2 TB of storage. Also launching today is the SvHCI Global Beta Program for VM Snapshots, where customers and partners can get early access to the software and test on their own servers.
Vultr Partners with AMD, Broadcom & Juniper Networks
This news comes on the heels of Vultr’s extended collaboration with AMD to make the new AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators and ROCm open software available within Vultr’s composable cloud infrastructure. Collaborating with Broadcom and Juniper is the next step in creating an open ecosystem, powered by ROCm, to unlock new frontiers of GPU-accelerated workloads from the data center to the edge.
Zerto Drops New Cloud Vault Solution through MSPs
With Zerto Cloud Vault, customers can leverage MSPs that deliver tailored cyber resilience strategies to meet the specific requirements of their organizations. Cloud Vault is the latest offering in HPE’s comprehensive cyber resilience portfolio and complements the existing Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault, which is deployed as a self-hosted, on-premises stack.
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Final Day of the 6th Annual Insight Jam LIVE!: Strategies for AI Impact, December 10-13
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Solutions Review Editors Release Annual Curation of Data Protection Predictions by Network of Experts
As we step into 2025, the evolving landscape of enterprise technology and artificial intelligence continues to shape how organizations approach data protection. In an era defined by rapid innovation and heightened cybersecurity threats, staying ahead requires insights from those who build, implement, and innovate at the cutting edge of these technologies.
On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosted Infinidat for an Exclusive Spotlight on Accelerating the Future of Enterprise Storage and Cyber Security
Today’s threat environment calls for a new approach to end-to-end data protection that is truly cyber-centric. Traditional backup methods fall very short in an era of relentless cyber-attacks. Instead, enterprises need to prepare for the inevitable — adopting a cyber recovery-focused approach that emphasizes high-speed recovery with minimal application and workload disruption.
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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.
