Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 13; Updates from Commvault, IBM, Infinidat & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of September 13, 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 September 13, 2024
Backblaze Hires Two New Sales Execs
Backblaze announced that Dave Cotten and Teresa Dodson joined the company’s sales leadership team. The news follows the recent appointment of Jason Wakeam as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. Reporting to Wakeam, the two new leaders bring robust experience in sales and business development.
Cohesity Extends Partnership with CrowdStrike
The powerful combination offers greater visibility into the attack by providing the latest intelligence on emerging threats while minimizing the attackers’ advantages. Threat hunting on Cohesity backup copies allows customers to investigate incidents while preventing adversaries from enacting countermeasures.
Commvault Releases 2024 Cyber Recovery Readiness Report
The Commvault survey, done in collaboration with GigaOm, shows that organizations that have endured cyber incidents in the past don’t want to get burned again. Consequently, they often reassess and invest in cyber resilience and recovery strategies in very meaningful ways.
ConnectWise Acquires Axcient and SkyKick
ConnectWise is a leading IT management and business automation software provider dedicated to helping MSPs manage their businesses, protect clients, and grow efficiently. Axcient and SkyKick customers will continue to receive full support for their deployments, while existing ConnectWise partners can seamlessly integrate these solutions into their technology stack.
Cyera Releases 2024 Data Security Posture Management Adoption Report
The report revealed that 75 percent of organizations will implement DSPM within the next 12 months. This rapid adoption highlights the critical role DSPM plays in managing data security risks across modern, multi-environment infrastructures. The rate of adoption of DSPM outpaces other security technologies, including Security Service Edge (SSE), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM).
CTERA Expands Partnership with MTI
The focus of the agreement between CTERA and MTI is to continue to deliver customized, global managed services associated with enterprise class storage, with simpler implementation and affordability. MTI has been working with CTERA to develop solutions to provide comprehensive, full-scale solutions that cost-effectively reduce data center footprint.
Druva Announces GenAI Powered Data Security Investigation Tool
With Dru Investigate, users across IT, security, legal, and privacy teams can swiftly identify and mitigate data risks without needing to write complicated queries. Built on Amazon Bedrock, an AWS service to easily build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models, Dru Investigate leverages Druva’s insights from protected data to streamline cyber and legal investigations.
Google Adds New Backup Vaults to Google Cloud
The new backup vault prevents deleting or modifying backups, helping to secure backup data against malicious and accidental data loss. The centralized backup management tool should make backup admin easier and improve Compute Engine VM creation by developers with simultaneous backup policy setting.
IBM Announces New DS8000 Mainframe Storage
Designed to harness the full power of IBM Z, this latest generation of IBM Storage DS8000 is designed to provide organizations access to critical workloads, consistent and optimized data performance, and a modular architecture to adopt the latest IBM research-backed technologies to fuel business growth while monetizing data.
Infinidat Extends Partnership with Red Hat
This technical validation opens new possibilities for enterprise customers and channel partners to deploy, migrate and manage new and existing virtual machine (VM) workloads and virtualized applications using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. The milestone builds on the success Infinidat has had with the certified InfiniBox Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for petabyte-scale Kubernetes deployments of Red Hat OpenShift in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Qumulo Releases Cloud Native Qumulo on AWS
This release delivers an enterprise-proven, multi-protocol system designed to manage unstructured data with superior performance, scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. Now publicly available on AWS, CNQ is set to revolutionize enterprise data management by meeting the rigorous demands of high-performance workloads with a cloud-native approach.
Seagate Updates Lyve Cloud Object Storage Service
Lyve Cloud is competing with regional CSPs offering S3 storage services, like OVH, and also multinational CSPs such as Backblaze and Wasabi, which both offer S3 cloud storage. All of these suppliers exist underneath the AWS S3 price umbrella.
Spectra Logic Unveils RioPanel for Avid Media Composer Environments
Developed using the Media Composer Panel SDK (software developer’s kit), RioPanel software offers unparalleled flexibility and efficiency, enabling editors and producers to move content easily and quickly to and from Avid Media Composer without leaving the platform.
VDURA Appoints Peter Ungaro to Board of Directors
Peter Ungaro’s deep expertise in AI and HPC applications, ecosystems, and business models will be invaluable as VDURA builds out its SaaS business model and strives to achieve its vision for AI and HPC data infrastructure software leadership.
Veritas Technologies Joins IT SCC
Among other activities, Veritas will participate in IT SCC functions such as identifying vulnerabilities, interdependencies, risk assessments and risk management methodologies related to critical infrastructure protection; developing sector recommendations for preparedness and incident response and recovery plans; and improving information sharing among IT sector members, government entities and other industry sectors.
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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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