Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of June 14; Updates from Backblaze, Druva, StorMagic & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of June 14, 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 June 14, 2024

Backblaze Partners with Coalition on Cyber Risk Protection

The partnership provides Coalition’s customers with direct access to Backblaze Computer Backup, an enterprise-grade, unlimited, and automatic endpoint backup solution, via the Coalition Control cyber risk management platform.

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Blue Mantis Unveils New Secure Managed Backup Solution

Blue Mantis Managed Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) provides midmarket and enterprise customers with secure and scalable cloud backup and recovery capabilities from a single point of contact while simplifying the management and administration of their backup operations.

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Certa Adds GenAI Features to Risk Management & Compliance Platform

This marks a new era of efficient and intelligent third-party risk and compliance management. With Generative AI woven throughout the Certa platform, a redesigned user interface, and plug-and-play ESG modules, Certa empowers organizations to proactively navigate regulatory complexities while offering robust, compliant, and sustainable third party relationships.

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Cirata Now Offers Native Databricks Migration via the Unity Catalog

Databricks Unity Catalog delivers a unified governance layer for data and artificial intelligence (AI) within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Using Unity Catalog enables organizations to seamlessly govern their structured and unstructured data, machine learning modules, notebooks, dashboards and files on any cloud or platform.

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Druva Blogs on Latest Microsoft Data Security Enhancements

With support for Entra ID, Druva helps customers maintain business continuity in the event of cyber threats, data loss, corruption, or accidental deletion. Formerly known as Azure Active Directory, Entra ID is a critical addition to Druva’s portfolio of supported workloads and reinforces Druva’s commitment to enhancing data security across the Microsoft cloud ecosystem.

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Hitachi Vantara Partners with AMD on Hi-Performance Cloud & DB Solutions

Offering breakthrough performance and sustainable computing, the new Hitachi Vantara converged and hyperconverged solutions deliver the much needed high-performance, scale, and cost-reduction for hybrid cloud, database and high-performance environments.

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OpenDrives Appoints Sean Lee as CEO

Sean Lee, who previously served as the company’s chief strategy and operations officer, has been part of OpenDrives’ leadership since 2015. With 15 years of experience at Universal Studios, where he improved workflows and implemented efficient processes, Lee brings a customer-centric perspective to his new role.

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Scality RING Powers New Genomic Research at SeqOIA

This is the most recent in a series of deployments where RING is leveraged as a foundational analytics and AI data lake repository for organizations in healthcare, financial services and travel services across the globe.

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StorMagic Unveils New Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Solution

StorMagic’s recently announced SvHCI combines a hypervisor with virtual networking alongside its established virtual storage technology. This full-stack HCI solution is specifically designed for edge and small—to medium-sized business (SMB) environments. It also includes in-house 24x7x365 customer support.

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Virtuozzo Partners with Robson to Bring VMware Cloud Alternative to MSPs

Under the partnership, Robson now offers Virtuozzo’s flexible, affordable alternative to VMware cloud for MSPs and their customers, enabling business continuity for companies impacted by changes to VMware’s bundling, licensing and partnership models after its acquisition by Broadcom. Robson provides cloud solutions tailored to each MSP’s technical and business requirements.

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Wait, Who Has My Data Now? New Episode of Information Risk with David Loshin Now Live

Join Doug Atkinson and David Loshin as they break down recent forfeiture orders by the FCC involving location data violations by major telecom companies. They discuss the complexities of data sharing, the importance of governance, and the implications of information misuse.

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