Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 15; Updates from Continuity, IBM, Scality & More

Micron Selects Nutanix Cloud Platform for Its Manufacturing Facilities Globally

Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), ‘a leader in hybrid multicloud computing’, announced that Micron Technology, an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions, selected Nutanix to build a cloud platform for Micron’s manufacturing facilities globally. The Nutanix Cloud Platform will enable Micron to optimize its infrastructure resources, efficiently operationalize new cloud-ready applications, dramatically reduce costs..

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Scality partners with Comportal to bring private cloud storage software to Central Asia

Scality, ‘a global leader in reliable, secure, and sustainable data storage software’, has partnered with value-added distributor Comportal to help enterprises in the region modernize IT infrastructures with state-of-the-art private cloud storage solutions focused on cyber resiliency and large-scale data growth. Comportal will deliver Scality ARTESCA and RING, object storage software that solves organizations’ biggest data storage challenges — growth, security and cost — and delivers 100% uptime, ransomware protection and utmost resilience.

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Quantum Announces New Pre-Configured ActiveScale Cold Storage Bundles to Make It Simple to Deploy On-Prem Cloud Resources and Unlock Value in Archived Data

Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), the leader in solutions for unstructured data, today announced new pre-configured bundles to make it even easier to purchase and deploy Quantum ActiveScale™ Cold Storage, the industry’s only S3-enabled object storage solution architected for both active and cold data sets that reduces cold storage costs by up to 60 percent. With the massive amount of data customers need to retain for business and compliance purposes, customers are using both public and private cloud resources to store and manage this data…

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Vcinity Announces General Availability of Vcinity Accelerate™

Vcinity, Inc. announced the availability of Vcinity Accelerate™, ‘an advanced software’ offering that leverages Vcinity’s high-speed unstructured data transfer technology in an easy-to-use format to automate file and object data transfers over any distance for organizations who need to move their data. Vcinity Accelerate is a data movement solution that leverages Vcinity’s Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Wide Area Network (WAN)…

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Veritas Field CISO Dr. Joye Purser Receives ISC2 Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to the Advancement of Information Security

Veritas Technologies, ‘the leader in secure multi-cloud data management’, congratulates Dr. Joye Purser, CISSP, Ph.D. and field chief information security officer at Veritas, on receiving the ISC2 Harold F. Tipton Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest tribute in cybersecurity. ISC2 is the world’s leading nonprofit member organization for cybersecurity professionals. Named for information security pioneer Harold F. Tipton, CISSP, the award from ISC2 annually recognizes a top cybersecurity professional for their lifelong contributions to the advancement of information.

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90% of Organizations Concerned With Meeting PCI DSS 4.0 Timeline, Bluefin Survey Finds

Bluefin, ‘the recognized leader in PCI-validated encryption and tokenization technologies that protect payments and sensitive data’, unveiled the findings of a new data report it commissioned with S&P Global Market Intelligence, “The State of Enterprise Readiness for PCI DSS 4.0,” which offers insight into the current state of payment data security and establishes a baseline for PCI DSS 4.0 readiness.

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