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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of January 31, 2025.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review<\/em>, join Insight Jam<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.<\/p>\n The company furthermore delivered a number of under-the-hood architecture and network improvements to better serve enterprise needs. Among them: optimizing system efficiency to ultimately free up processing power for customers to use, and adding real-time monitoring of external internet conditions so the Backblaze team can more effectively manage for stable service delivery.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Prebuilt automations solve the most common use cases, including device backups, with single-click restore, compliance, audit, and remediation, task automation, OS and Firmware updates and patching, and vulnerability intelligence.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Achieving the AWS FTR validation signifies that Cirata Data Migrator is constructed according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, meeting essential technical requirements that guarantee a secure, efficient, and reliable cloud migration experience.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The collaboration underscores Commvault\u2019s commitment to proactively addressing the needs of modern enterprises and delivering solutions that enhance both cyber resilience and continuous business.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Findings from\u00a0The Global Cost of Ransomware\u00a0Study<\/em> reveal that 58 percent of organizations had to shut down operations following a ransomware attack, up from 45 percent in 2021. Forty percent reported a significant loss of revenue (up from 22 percent in 2021), 41 percent lost customers, and 40 percent had to eliminate jobs.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Incogni\u2019s researchers have taken a data-driven approach to examining 238 AI-powered Chrome browser extensions, each with over 1,000 users. They analyzed the permissions required by these extensions and the data their publishers admit to collecting.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n A central component of RAG is a vector database that accumulates and converts specific data into feature vectors in the database. RAG also utilizes an ANNS algorithm, which identifies vectors that improve the model based on similarity between the accumulated and target vectors. For RAG to be effective, it must rapidly retrieve the information most relevant to a query. Traditionally, ANNS algorithms are deployed in DRAM to achieve the high-speed performance required for these searches.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n This initiative specializes in researching and mitigating email threats and phishing attacks, using a combination of expert analysis and crowdsourced intelligence. The cybersecurity researchers and analysts behind KnowBe4 Threat Labs discover and investigate the latest phishing techniques and develop strategies to preemptively combat these threats.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n This initiative specializes in researching and mitigating email threats and phishing attacks, using a combination of expert analysis and crowdsourced intelligence. The cybersecurity researchers and analysts behind KnowBe4 Threat Labs discover and investigate the latest phishing techniques and develop strategies to preemptively combat these threats.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The new scalability features enable customers to start with as few as five partially populated NVMe Storage Server nodes, then expand in increments of one or more nodes at a time with the additional storage available in minutes, with no need for admin intervention, and no impact or interruption to user operation.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n With almost 30 years of experience in the technology and software industry, Mr. Page has held leadership roles at dynamic companies where he was instrumental in navigating evolving markets and achieving transformational outcomes. He joins Quest from CloudSoda, where he served as Acting CEO.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The new licensing model minimizes sales friction, streamlines order processing, and enhances backup functionality with reduced complexity, making ARTESCA the premier storage solution for service providers who offer Veeam Backup-as-a-Service.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Through the use of active optical cables, the switch can connect distances of up to 100 meters, thus enabling SAS fabrics to cover data center floor spaces up to 10,000 sqm (107,639 sq ft) and connect between floors or extend to nearby buildings.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n In support of the Canadian Sovereign AI Compute Strategy, VAST, together with Hypertec Cloud, will provide Canadian innovators, businesses, researchers and government agencies with access to the accelerated compute capacity they need to pursue groundbreaking research and deliver made-in-Canada AI solutions.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Their recent survey provides a detailed look into how consumers and IT professionals manage data backup and reveal gaps in trust, recovery times, and migration efforts. The below blog explores key findings from the survey and covers everything, from why people lose data to IT professionals\u2019 hesitation around changing providers.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Together, the companies are integrating advanced AI capabilities to make multi-cloud storage economical, efficient and effortless. Lucidity uniquely sits between company cloud storage and applications, creating a seamless intelligence layer on top of any cloud native block storage used for databases, application server disks, or Kubernetes.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Perforator helps developers identify the most resource-intensive sections of code and provides detailed statistics for subsequent optimization. By identifying code inefficiencies and supporting profile-guided optimization, Perforator delivers accurate data that enables businesses to manually optimize their applications and reduce infrastructure costs by up to 20 percent.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n In collaboration with\u00a0Skillify<\/a>,\u00a0Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Insight Jam<\/em><\/a><\/strong> co-developed this survey to help facilitate the shift from reactive measures to proactive strategies. <\/span>The\u00a0<\/span>Survey for Tech Professionals<\/span><\/i>\u00a0aims to explore the areas that will shape the future of tech work, including the evolving role of soft skills, the impact of AI on your job, and strategies for navigating uncertainty while maintaining the drive for innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n This story not only emphasizes the power of innovation but also highlights the critical importance of protecting sensitive data in scientific research; a theme that resonates profoundly in today\u2019s data-driven landscape. Just as the Braggs\u2019 careful analysis of crystalline structures led to major medical breakthroughs, managing sensitive data requires a strong commitment to security and confidentiality to safeguard valuable insights.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Hear from industry experts: Mike Nassis, Product Marketing Manager at Zerto and gain insights into how the Zerto Cloud Vault enables fast and reliable recovery, ensuring business continuity in any scenario. Live product demo and Q&A included!<\/p>\n Watch free on LinkedIn Live<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Join us LIVE on Thursday, January 30th, for an exclusive Solution Spotlight event: “NIS2 Directive and How Secureworks Can Help.” Learn how their company can your business with NIS2 compliance. Live product demo and Q&A included!<\/p>\nTop Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of January 31, 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Backblaze Announces B2 Cloud Storage Winter Update<\/h4>\n
BackBox Unveils New Cyber Resilience Platform<\/h4>\n
Cirata Passes AWS Foundational Technical Review for Data Migrator<\/h4>\n
Commvault Announces Partnership with CrowdStrike<\/h4>\n
Illumio Says More Than Half of Ransomware Victims Forced to Stop Operations<\/h4>\n
Incogni Ranks AI-Powered Chrome Extensions by Privacy Risk<\/h4>\n
KIOXIA Announces Open-Source Release of ANNS Storage<\/h4>\n
KnowBe4 Releases New Threat Labs Research<\/h4>\n
NinjaOne is Set to Acquire Dropsuite<\/h4>\n
Quantum Brings New Scalability to Myriad All-Flash System<\/h4>\n
Quest Software Names Tim Page New CEO<\/h4>\n
Scality Launches Pay-As-You-Go Licensing for Scality Cloud & Service Providers<\/h4>\n
Spectra Logic Releases New Optical SAS Switch<\/h4>\n
VAST Data Partners with Hypertec Cloud<\/h4>\n
Veeam Explores State of Data Backup Trends<\/h4>\n
Verinext Partners with Lucidity<\/h4>\n
Yandex Announces New Open-Source Perforator<\/h4>\n
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