Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of February 9; Updates from Broadcom, Cohesity, Veritas & More

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

Backblaze New ‘Powered’ Program

This program helps independent software vendors (ISV), technology partners, and other companies take the complexity out of offering object storage within their branded user experience so that they can focus on enabling customer success and growing revenue.

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Cloudflare Names Former Alteryx Chief Mark Anderson New CRO

Anderson, who’d been the CEO at analytics platform provider Alteryx for more than three years, had previously served as president at Palo Alto Networks, a major Cloudflare rival in market segments including SASE (secure access service edge).

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The Merger: Cohesity Set to Combine with Veritas Technologies’ Data Protection Business

Customers will benefit from the accelerated innovations unlocked by the joint company’s scaled R&D investment and one of the industry’s most extensive partner ecosystems. The combined company will bring together 100s of exabytes of data protected and a strong partner ecosystem across all segments of cloud service providers, security players, VARs, system integrators, and hardware OEMs.

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DH2i Unveils New DxOperator

DxOperator is engineered to meet the growing demands of businesses seeking efficient, scalable, and highly available (HA) database environments. It is the ideal choice for customers looking to streamline their SQL Server container deployments on Kubernetes.

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DigitalOcean Enhances Frequency & Speed of Backups

With improved DigitalOcean Backups, new and existing customers can recover from a security incident quicker, minimize the risk of data loss from user errors, and better adhere to compliance requirements. These automatically-created disk images of virtual machines allow users to revert to an older state or create new Droplets, effectively reducing the time and effort spent on backup management.

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Fortanix Joins NIST AI Safety Institute

The Consortium will help equip and empower the collaborative establishment of a new measurement science that will enable the identification of proven, scalable, and interoperable techniques and metrics to promote the development and responsible use of safe and trustworthy AI, particularly for the most advanced AI systems, such as the most capable foundation models.

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IBM Announced the Release of New LinuxONE 4 Express

The pre-configured rack mount system is designed to offer cost savings and to remove client guess work when spinning up workloads quickly and getting started with the platform to address new and traditional use cases such as digital assets, medical imaging with AI, and workload consolidation.

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Komprise Releases Intelligent Data Management Winter 2024

It introduces Komprise Elastic Replication to drastically cut the cost of replicating unstructured data. With more frequent and devastating natural disasters, cybersecurity and ransomware attacks, data protection and disaster recovery (DR) strategies are essential in the enterprise.

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New Kroll Report Finds Finance, Healthcare Most-Breached

Third-party risk, which is to say any risk to an organization by external parties in its ecosystem or supply chain, was the headline culprit in 2023. Kroll handles thousands of incidents every year and saw evidence of this breach having a significant impact on the most breached industries. In this year’s Data Breach Outlook, Kroll ranked which industries continue to top the charts.

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Spectra Logic Brings Object-Based Tape Tier to NetApp

The new combination creates a hybrid cloud storage infrastructure optimized for preserving large amounts of data over extended periods of time. With this solution, inactive data may be tiered to object-based tape storage, providing greater scalability, robust security and substantial cost savings compared to public cloud options.

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Zerto to the Moon: Vendor Earns Several Key Industry Awards

Zerto earned a position as a leading solution for disaster recovery, ransomware resilience, and multi-cloud mobility. These awards build on a year of significant growth — including strong momentum in the SEUR region — and position Zerto for an even more significant role in the industry in the year ahead.

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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 for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Launches The Thought Leader Project

The Thought Leader Project is a single initiative that brings the full power of Solutions Review‘s authority, reach, and distribution to help technology vendors build brands, enhance their reputation, and ultimately, reach their target market.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Broadcom for March 14 Spotlight Event

In Key Challenges and Best Practices for Modern NOC Observability, you will learn the best practices for overcoming modern network complexity hindering quality network delivery experiences. This includes networks you manage and those you don’t like ISP and cloud providers. Proven outcomes include optimizing your NOC operations, proving your innocence faster, and achieving 85 percent alarm noise reduction.

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Live This Week: The Information Risk Podcast with David Loshin, Powered by Insight Jam

Recognized worldwide as an information management thought leader. David is a monthly columnist for TechTarget and frequently presents at The Data Warehousing Institute World Conferences, Enterprise Data World, the Data Governance and Information Quality conferences, and web-based seminars.

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For consideration in future data protection news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.