Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of December 8; Updates from Hitachi Vantara, VAST Data, Satori & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of December 8, 2023.

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 December 8, 2023

Data Theorem Introduces Industry’s First API Attack Path Visualization Capabilities to Enhance Protection of APIs and Software Supply Chains

Data Theorem, Inc., ‘a leading provider of modern application security’, introduced the industry’s first API Attack Path Visualization capabilities for the protection of APIs and the software supply chain. This latest enhancement of its award-winning API Secure solution empowers organizations with a first-ever comprehensive understanding of the attack chain, traversing all layers of an application..

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Diamond data storage breakthrough writes and rewrites down to single atom

Diamond is a promising material for data storage, and now scientists have demonstrated a new way to cram even more data onto it, down to a single atom. The technique bypasses a physical limit by writing data to the same spots in different-colored light. Diamond has great potential as a data storage medium – recent developments have produced 2-inch (5-cm) wafers of the stuff that can store the equivalent of a billion Blu-Ray discs.

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IDC Names Pure Storage a Leader in Container Data Management

Pure Storage announced it has been named a leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Container Data Management 2023 Vendor Assessment. According to the IDC MarketScape: “Portworx is generally well suited for most organizations looking for a comprehensive container data and storage management solution, but it aligns particularly well with those that are well underway on their container journey”

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Generative AI fuels demand for hybrid cloud storage in 2024

Generative AI’s massive data needs will drive companies to choose hybrid storage that includes cloud and on-premises hardware in 2024. Enterprise storage needs for data lake generation and machine learning (ML) drove purchases in the past several years, but the boom of GenAI interest and services has made storage a priority in the enterprise IT stack, said Dave Raffo, a senior analyst at Futurum Group.

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Hitachi Vantara Launches Unified Compute Platform Integrated with GKE Enterprise to Modernize and Simplify Hybrid Cloud Management

To support customers in their expanding cloud journeys, Hitachi Vantara, ‘the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd’. (TSE: 6501), announced the launch of Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for GKE Enterprise, a new, integrated hybrid solution, with long-time partner Google Cloud. Through Google Distributed Cloud Virtual (GDCV), Hitachi UCP for GKE Enterprise offers businesses a unified platform to manage hybrid cloud operations, leading to increased efficiency, scalability, and flexibility in their infrastructure and applications.

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LogicGate Named a Leader in Governance Risk & Compliance by Independent Research Firm

LogicGate, ‘a leading provider of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) solutions through its Risk Cloud® platform’, announced it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms, Q4 2023 report. Forrester conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the most significant GRC platform providers, utilizing a 25-criterion approach to thoroughly research, analyze, and score the leading providers.

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Mine Secures $30 Million in Series B Funding to Transform the Landscape of Data Privacy Governance for the Enterprise

Mine, ‘a pioneering company disrupting the data privacy market’, announced that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, co-led by Battery Ventures and PayPal Ventures, with significant investments from Nationwide Ventures and with the participation of all existing investors including Saban Ventures, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI), MassMutual Ventures and Headline Ventures.

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Rubrik expands SaaS app data protection to Jira Cloud

Rubrik has signaled a move into protecting SaaS applications, with data protection fro Atlassian’s Jira Cloud now available. The company protects on-premises data with both backup and cyber-resiliency, it says. It moved into SaaS application protection with Microsoft 365 and Alcion. Now it’s extending this to protect DevOps data in Jira with retention policies, multi-factor authentication, and encryption for data in flight and at rest.

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Scality partners with RIXS to empower Malaysian enterprises with modern cyber-secure storage

Scality, ‘a global leader in reliable, secure, and sustainable data storage software’, has partnered with RIXS to introduce advanced solutions to enterprises in Malaysia. Through this collaboration, RIXS will offer Scality’s RING and ARTESCA products in response to the escalating demand for robust IT solutions in Southeast Asia. With RING and ARTESCA, Scality enables RIXS to help local enterprises better address regulatory requirements, protect against ransomware threats, add cyber resiliency…

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VAST Data Closes Series E Funding Round, Nearly Triples Valuation to $9.1 Billion

VAST Data, the AI data platform company, announced that it has secured $118 million in Series E funding, led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and accompanied by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), BOND Capital and Drive Capital. The funding will advance VAST Data’s mission to deliver a new category of infrastructure that puts data at the center of how systems think, react, and discover.

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11:11 Systems Expands Award-Winning DRaaS Offering

11:11 Systems (“11:11”), a managed infrastructure solutions provider, has launched 11:11 DRaaS for Azure, a new disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering designed specifically for the Microsoft Azure cloud. The new globally available recovery solution gives organizations customized and fully managed disaster recovery (DR) for their on-premises, Azure cloud and/or multi-cloud environments.

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VergeIO Unveils VMware Essentials Upgrade Program

VergeIO has announced the immediate availability of VergeOS Small Data Center (SDC) Edition. The VergeOS SDC edition is more than a competitive swap out of VMware Essentials. It is a significant capability upgrade while lowering costs. Ironically, VMware Essentials is missing the essential capabilities that small data centers need most. With VergeOS SDC, customers get everything included in VMware Essentials plus advanced storage services…

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