Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of November 1; Updates from Infinidat, Scality, Storj & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of November 1, 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.
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Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of November 1, 2024
Backblaze Partners with Opti9
Opti9 delivers managed cloud services, application development and modernization, backup and disaster recovery, security, and compliance solutions to businesses around the world. B2 Cloud Storage is secure, compliance-ready, always-hot object storage that is one-fifth the price of traditional cloud storage providers and can be used in any of the solutions Opti9 provides.
Barracuda Uncovers ‘Large-Scale’ OpenAI Impersonation Campaign
Barracuda threat researchers recently uncovered a large-scale OpenAI impersonation campaign targeting businesses worldwide. Attackers targeted their victims with a well-known tactic — they impersonated OpenAI with an urgent message requesting updated payment information to process a monthly subscription.
Broadcom Increases vSAN Capacity in VMware vSphere Foundation
And to round out the portfolio, for customers who are focused on compute virtualization, we will now have two options, VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus and VMware vSphere Standard. The entire VCF portfolio is available to all end user customers through our distribution channel or directly from Broadcom.
Cockroach Labs Drops 2025 Resilience Report
The survey was conducted by Cockroach Labs and Wakefield Research among 1,000 senior cloud architects, engineers, and technology executives across North America, EMEA, and APAC between August 29th and September 10th, 2024. It sheds light on the critical need for organizations to recognize their vulnerabilities and take proactive steps to fortify their operational resilience.
HCLTech Releases Global Cyber Resilience Study 2024-25
According to the report, 81 percent of the security leaders anticipate a cyberattack on their organizations in the next 12 months while only 48 percent believe they can prevent one. 54 percent of the security leaders identify AI-generated attacks as the biggest security risk. 76 percent of the security leaders faced high to moderate challenges in resuming business fully in the aftermath of a cyberattack.
HYCU Announces the General Availability of GitHub and GitLab
The newest availability provides developers with the broadest data protection capabilities to protect and recover IP, source code, and configurations across an enterprise. As more and more companies are becoming technology companies, powered by software development, GitHub, with more than 100 million users, is a leading developer platform where developers shape the future of software, together.
LogicGate Adds New AI Features to Compliance Platform
LogicGate is committed to innovating and investing in AI to help customers be more efficient in their GRC processes and unlock new insights, which is demonstrated through enhanced features and capabilities available to customers for free through Risk Cloud Spark AI.
Lightbits Collaborates with Crusoe
Crusoe is a leading AI cloud pioneer, powering its data centers with a combination of wasted, stranded, and clean energy resources to lower the cost and environmental impact of AI cloud computing. The Crusoe AI data center is constructed to industry-leading efficiency and reliability standards, advancing the frontier of data center design and scale for AI training and inference workloads.
Scality Launches New Ring XP
Scality’s two products are Artesca and Ring, which aim at opposite ends of the same market – namely, enterprise and small and medium-sized business customers that want object storage, but also want to keep applications on-premise.
Storj Names Colby Winegar New CEO
Prior to Storj, Colby co-founded and led CrowdStorage, which was the world’s largest distributed cloud storage platform connecting underutilized storage space across geographies to provide secure, reliable, affordable cloud storage.
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.
NEW Episode of Information Risk with David Loshin: A Matter of National (Data) Security
From state-sponsored cyber attacks to the implications of social media influence campaigns, they explore how countries of concern are exploiting data vulnerabilities. Tune in for government breaches, security requirements, and real insight around data collection practices in an increasingly connected world.
Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for an Exclusive Spotlight on Next-Gen, Cyber-Centric Data Protection & Recovery, November 7
Enterprises need to prepare for the inevitable — adopting a cyber recovery-focused approach that emphasizes high-speed recovery with minimal application and workload disruption. Join Infinidat’s CMO, Eric Herzog, and Senior Solution Architect, Joe Roa, as they showcase the benefits of the new, cyber-first approach to data protection and recovery.
Solutions Review Set to Host Cloudflare for an Exclusive Spotlight Webinar on Aligning to NIS2 Cybersecurity Risk-Management Obligations in the EU, November 20
Hear from industry experts: David J. K. T., Cybersecurity Expert & Solutions Engineer, Sebastian Hufnagel, Senior Public Policy Manager, and Justyna Kucharczak, Product and Solutions Marketing at Cloudflare. Take a deep dive into risk management measures required of organizations to address the NIS 2 Directive. Live product demo and Q&A included!
Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for an Exclusive Spotlight on Accelerating the Future of Enterprise Storage and Cyber Security, December 5
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.
For consideration in future data protection news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.
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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.
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