Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of November 22; Updates from Infinidat, Pure Storage, Scality & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of November 22, 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 22, 2024
Americase Unveils New Sustainable Rack Packaging
The revolutionary rack packaging eliminates the need for traditional wooden disposable crates, significantly reducing waste and carbon emissions. Its innovative construction makes it reusable with a 10+ year lifespan, ensuring long-term cost efficiency and environmental responsibility.
Baffle Announces New Vector Database Protection
For organizations using vector databases to store text and associated embeddings containing sensitive data for use by their GenAI application, they can now run vector database operations, like similarity searches, while remaining compliant with security and privacy requirements.
BigID Launches New Privacy Modules
The new BigID privacy modules add to BigID’s industry leadership in delivering AI powered data subject access and deletion rights. With the new modules, BigID delivers a complete suite of privacy operations modules that break with traditional process and people tools to deliver a fully automated privacy suite that adapts to changes in underlying data and data subject identities with AI enhanced process automation.
Catalogic Unveils Latest Edition of Data Protection Platform
The newest iteration, DPX vPlus 7.0, introduces major enhancements in technology integrations and user experience for modern enterprise environments. These developments are designed to bolster Catalogic’s advanced data protection capabilities.
Dell Updates APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will soon offer a Dell-managed option for organizations seeking a simplified deployment and management experience. Customers can easily meet the needs of AI workloads in multicloud environments using the enterprise-class performance, scalability and data services of Dell PowerScale
FinOps Foundation Expands Scope to SaaS and Data Centers
In the Data Center Scope, FinOps teams develop a strategy for on-premises infrastructure by moving from traditional capacity planning with an upfront purchase model toward a consumption-based usage and cost model. Working with Core and Allied Personas, the FinOps Practitioner’s ways of working shift the organizational culture from the traditional finance, procurement, and technology siloes to a collaborative, data-driven environment that facilitates planning, cost analytics and optimization.
Geyser Data Launches New Tape-as-a-Service Solution
Based around Los Angeles, California, Geyser pitches itself as a cheaper alternative to cloud archival services such as AWS Glacier for large-scale long-term storage. The company charges $27 per month per LTO-9 tape with a capacity of 18TB, with no data retrieval or egress fees.
Hitachi Vantara Announces Hitachi iQ with NVIDIA HGX
The Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services first became available in July 2024, including a new AI Discovery Service designed to help customers identify the most valuable AI use cases, assess their data readiness, determine ROI, and create a strategic roadmap for successful AI implementation.
Yikes: ITRC Finds Only a Third of Users Do Regular Backups
The number of data compromises reported in the first half (H1) of 2024 totaled 1,571 impacting an estimated 1.07 billion victims, including individuals impacted by multiple breaches. This was a ~14 percent increase in compromises compared to the same period in 2023, a year which set the record for data events reported in a single year (3,203).
Model N Unveils New GenAI and Data Intelligence Tools
Integrating GenAI and intelligent data into the company’s Channel Data Management, Formulary Compliance, and Provider Management solutions showcases Model N’s strong commitment to delivering continuous innovation and excellence to the world’s most innovative brands in life sciences and high tech.
Pure Storage Drops New GenAI Pod
The Pure Storage GenAI Pod, built on the Pure Storage platform, includes new validated designs that enable turnkey solutions for GenAI use cases that help organizations solve many of these challenges. Unlike most other full-stack solutions, the Pure Storage GenAI Pod enables organizations to accelerate AI initiatives with one-click deployments and streamlined Day 2 operations for vector databases and foundation models.
Quest Software Unveils Security Guardian Plugin for Microsoft Security Copilot
Companies urgently need solutions that can safeguard their assets, reduce complexity, and empower teams of all skill levels. The Security Guardian plug-in addresses these needs by reducing the identity attack surface and tackling challenges in cybersecurity expertise, disconnected data, and security team’s silos.
Rubrik Announces New Cyber Resilience Solution for Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage provides secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning. Optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data, organizations across all industries use Microsoft Azure Blob Storage as a critical repository for sensitive business information, personal data, compliance records, and data powering artificial intelligence (AI) training models.
Storj Launches Channel First Program
Storj provides the most transformative innovation in cloud object storage since AWS introduced their service – and has built a robust platform on that foundation, designed to serve the distributed storage and GPU compute landscape.
StorONE and Phison Announces New Partnership
This partnership represents a new milestone in data storage solutions, delivering powerful performance, robust security, and efficient management in one unified platform. As enterprises increasingly seek solutions to address the demands of big data and AI-driven workloads, this partnership positions StorONE and Phison at the forefront of high-performance, secure cloud storage technology.
Vanta Tackles GRC and ‘Trust’ with New & Upcoming Updates
Companies like Snowflake and Atlassian are leveraging Vanta for Marketplaces to enable their marketplace partners to meet their standards of trust and compliance. Over 400 of Atlassian’s partners have achieved or are working toward their SOC 2 with Vanta, building confidence among Atlassian customers and driving increased app adoption on their Marketplace.
VAST & NVIDIA Data Helps Advance the Federal AI Sandbox
This solution will provide researchers and developers across multiple federal government agencies with access to NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure and software for training large language models (LLMs) and experimenting with other generative AI tools to develop AI-enabled applications.
Zadara Extends Sovereign AI Cloud Portfolio
Throughout the year, Zadara has invested significant resources to ensure partners are fully equipped with advanced AI technologies and services. To support this, AI capabilities have been integrated into all of Zadara’s training and certification programs to equip partners with the knowledge and credentials necessary to deploy and implement AI-powered solutions on top of Zadara Sovereign Cloud for various use cases.
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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.
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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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