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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of January 31; Updates from BackBox, Commvault, Veeam & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of January 31, 2025.

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 January 31, 2025

Backblaze Announces B2 Cloud Storage Winter Update

The company furthermore delivered a number of under-the-hood architecture and network improvements to better serve enterprise needs. Among them: optimizing system efficiency to ultimately free up processing power for customers to use, and adding real-time monitoring of external internet conditions so the Backblaze team can more effectively manage for stable service delivery.

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BackBox Unveils New Cyber Resilience Platform

Prebuilt automations solve the most common use cases, including device backups, with single-click restore, compliance, audit, and remediation, task automation, OS and Firmware updates and patching, and vulnerability intelligence.

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Cirata Passes AWS Foundational Technical Review for Data Migrator

Achieving the AWS FTR validation signifies that Cirata Data Migrator is constructed according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, meeting essential technical requirements that guarantee a secure, efficient, and reliable cloud migration experience.

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Commvault Announces Partnership with CrowdStrike

The collaboration underscores Commvault’s commitment to proactively addressing the needs of modern enterprises and delivering solutions that enhance both cyber resilience and continuous business.

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Illumio Says More Than Half of Ransomware Victims Forced to Stop Operations

Findings from The Global Cost of Ransomware Study reveal that 58 percent of organizations had to shut down operations following a ransomware attack, up from 45 percent in 2021. Forty percent reported a significant loss of revenue (up from 22 percent in 2021), 41 percent lost customers, and 40 percent had to eliminate jobs.

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Incogni Ranks AI-Powered Chrome Extensions by Privacy Risk

Incogni’s researchers have taken a data-driven approach to examining 238 AI-powered Chrome browser extensions, each with over 1,000 users. They analyzed the permissions required by these extensions and the data their publishers admit to collecting.

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KIOXIA Announces Open-Source Release of ANNS Storage

A central component of RAG is a vector database that accumulates and converts specific data into feature vectors in the database. RAG also utilizes an ANNS algorithm, which identifies vectors that improve the model based on similarity between the accumulated and target vectors. For RAG to be effective, it must rapidly retrieve the information most relevant to a query. Traditionally, ANNS algorithms are deployed in DRAM to achieve the high-speed performance required for these searches.

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KnowBe4 Releases New Threat Labs Research

This initiative specializes in researching and mitigating email threats and phishing attacks, using a combination of expert analysis and crowdsourced intelligence. The cybersecurity researchers and analysts behind KnowBe4 Threat Labs discover and investigate the latest phishing techniques and develop strategies to preemptively combat these threats.

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NinjaOne is Set to Acquire Dropsuite

This initiative specializes in researching and mitigating email threats and phishing attacks, using a combination of expert analysis and crowdsourced intelligence. The cybersecurity researchers and analysts behind KnowBe4 Threat Labs discover and investigate the latest phishing techniques and develop strategies to preemptively combat these threats.

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Quantum Brings New Scalability to Myriad All-Flash System

The new scalability features enable customers to start with as few as five partially populated NVMe Storage Server nodes, then expand in increments of one or more nodes at a time with the additional storage available in minutes, with no need for admin intervention, and no impact or interruption to user operation.

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Quest Software Names Tim Page New CEO

With almost 30 years of experience in the technology and software industry, Mr. Page has held leadership roles at dynamic companies where he was instrumental in navigating evolving markets and achieving transformational outcomes. He joins Quest from CloudSoda, where he served as Acting CEO.

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Scality Launches Pay-As-You-Go Licensing for Scality Cloud & Service Providers

The new licensing model minimizes sales friction, streamlines order processing, and enhances backup functionality with reduced complexity, making ARTESCA the premier storage solution for service providers who offer Veeam Backup-as-a-Service.

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Spectra Logic Releases New Optical SAS Switch

Through the use of active optical cables, the switch can connect distances of up to 100 meters, thus enabling SAS fabrics to cover data center floor spaces up to 10,000 sqm (107,639 sq ft) and connect between floors or extend to nearby buildings.

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VAST Data Partners with Hypertec Cloud

In support of the Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Strategy, VAST, together with Hypertec Cloud, will provide Canadian innovators, businesses, researchers and government agencies with access to the accelerated compute capacity they need to pursue groundbreaking research and deliver made-in-Canada AI solutions.

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Veeam Explores State of Data Backup Trends

Their recent survey provides a detailed look into how consumers and IT professionals manage data backup and reveal gaps in trust, recovery times, and migration efforts. The below blog explores key findings from the survey and covers everything, from why people lose data to IT professionals’ hesitation around changing providers.

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Verinext Partners with Lucidity

Together, the companies are integrating advanced AI capabilities to make multi-cloud storage economical, efficient and effortless. Lucidity uniquely sits between company cloud storage and applications, creating a seamless intelligence layer on top of any cloud native block storage used for databases, application server disks, or Kubernetes.

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Yandex Announces New Open-Source Perforator

Perforator helps developers identify the most resource-intensive sections of code and provides detailed statistics for subsequent optimization. By identifying code inefficiencies and supporting profile-guided optimization, Perforator delivers accurate data that enables businesses to manually optimize their applications and reduce infrastructure costs by up to 20 percent.

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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.

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NEW by Solutions Review Thought Leader Dr. Joe Perez: Illuminating Data Security/Lessons from Bragg X-Ray Innovation

This story not only emphasizes the power of innovation but also highlights the critical importance of protecting sensitive data in scientific research; a theme that resonates profoundly in today’s data-driven landscape. Just as the Braggs’ careful analysis of crystalline structures led to major medical breakthroughs, managing sensitive data requires a strong commitment to security and confidentiality to safeguard valuable insights.

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On-Demand Now: Solutions Review Hosts Zerto for the Exclusive Spotlight – Beyond Backup: The Power of the Zerto Cloud Vault for Cyber Resilience

Hear from industry experts: Mike Nassis, Product Marketing Manager at Zerto and gain insights into how the Zerto Cloud Vault enables fast and reliable recovery, ensuring business continuity in any scenario. Live product demo and Q&A included!

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On-Demand Now: Solutions Review Hosts Secureworks Panel of Experts on the NIS2 Directive

Join us LIVE on Thursday, January 30th, for an exclusive Solution Spotlight event: “NIS2 Directive and How Secureworks Can Help.” Learn how their company can your business with NIS2 compliance. Live product demo and Q&A included!

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NEW by Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King: Data Privacy Week Insights from Industry Experts

In honor of Data Privacy Week 2025, January 27-31, we’ve curated the definitive thought leader guide, drawing on the collective expertise of over 50 industry leaders and privacy professionals. This curation brings together in-depth insights and commentary from some of the most respected voices in data privacy, offering a comprehensive view of the current landscape and the evolving challenges facing businesses, regulators, and individuals alike.

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

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