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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Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

What Happened at the 5th Annual Insight Jam LIVE on December 7

Insight Jam LIVE featured more than 100 experts across 18 Executive Roundtable panels over 4 days! Our editors encourage you to watch one or all of the sessions on-demand, and on your platform of choice. Click the link below to pick your player and graph your headphones!

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SR Editors Release Annual Roundup of Expert Data Protection Predictions for 2024

For our 5th annual Insight Jam LIVE! Solutions Review editors sourced this resource guide of data protection predictions for 2024 from Insight Jam, its new community of enterprise tech experts.

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SR Editors Release First-Ever Roundup of Expert AI Predictions for 2024

For our 5th annual Insight Jam LIVE! Solutions Review editors sourced this resource guide of AI predictions for 2024 from Insight Jam, its new community of enterprise tech experts.

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of December 1, 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 1, 2023

AWS Unveils S3 Express One Zone Storage

On the cloud storage front, AWS unleashed Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-Availability Zone storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for customers’ most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications.

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Datadobi Unveils Upgrades on StorageMAP

StorageMAP 6.6 adds important enhancements that provide customers and channel partners with an even more powerful solution for analyzing, securing, and taking automated actions on all types of unstructured data at massive scale.

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Rubrik Expands Portfolio of S3 Data Protection Tools

Rubrik’s new cyber resilience capabilities include air-gapped, immutable, access-controlled backups and rapid recovery at scale for organizations that have hundreds of petabytes of Amazon S3 data. The cyber posture features, which will help organizations understand where their data is stored and how it is secured.

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VAST Data Announces Version 5.0 on Amazon Web Services

With the VAST Data Platform, organizations benefit from enterprise data management capabilities and infrastructure efficiencies to easily manage files, objects, and tables wherever computation happens.

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Veeam Introduces New Zero Trust Data Resilience Model

Developed in collaboration with Zero Trust expert Jason Garbis of Numberline Security, ZTDR applies Zero Trust principles to backup and recovery as an extension to the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model.

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Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Editors Announce Speaker Lineup for 5th Annual BUDR Insight Jam on December 8

Announced on LinkedIn this week! Your Insight Jam journey starts here and starts now. We encourage you to dive in, explore, share, and engage. Let’s challenge ideas, bring new perspectives, and elevate our knowledge together. And tune in for 4 (!) LIVE Executive Roundtable panels here and here on December 7.

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A schedule of events for Insight Jam LIVE on December 8 (formerly BUDR Insight Jam), the annual element of Solutions Review’s Insight Jam, an always-on community for enterprise technology end-users, experts, and solution providers.

What is Insight Jam?

Think of the Insight Jam as a continuous, ongoing, interactive tech event.

The Insight Jam will always be here when you need answers to the questions that matter to your organization and your career. We’ve partnered with the leading industry experts, thought leaders, and analysts to live-stream a never-ending collection of Roundtable Events, Breakout Sessions, and Expert Podcasts.

And Insight Jam is built on a community platform that powers unlimited discussions, posts, and polls that will bring you deeper into the enterprise technology conversation.

Your Insight Jam journey starts here and starts now. We encourage you to dive in, explore, share, and engage. Let’s challenge ideas, bring new perspectives and elevate our knowledge together.

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Event Details: Insight Jam LIVE on December 8, 2023

11:00 AM: Executive Roundtable: The Convergence of Storage & Security: Key Implications featuring panel moderator Doron Youngerwood on LinkedIn and YouTube

12:00 PM: Executive Roundtable: Ransomware-Proofing Data Protection & Storage Environments featuring panel moderator Demetrius Malbrough, as well as Chris Marshall and Dr. Niraj Tolia on LinkedIn and YouTube

1:00 PM: Executive Roundtable: Best Practices for Governing Cloud Migration & Compliance featuring panel moderator David Loshin on LinkedIn and YouTube

2:00 PM: Executive Roundtable: Security, Compliance, and Privacy for Data Teams & Platforms (presented by Satori) featuring panel moderator Patricia Thaine on LinkedIn and YouTube

And that’s not all: Register for Insight Jam (free) to gain early access to all the exclusive 2024 enterprise tech predictions, best practices resources, and DEMO SLAM videos!

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Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of November 17, 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 November 17, 2023

New Backblaze Report Called Drive Stats Released into the Wild

Backblaze’s meticulous review covers the data drives’ quarterly and lifetime failure rates as of Q3 2023. For the first time, the drive failure rates are broken down by data centre, reported by their vault_id, pod_id, datacentre, cluster_id, and pod_slot_num, as a part of their ongoing commitment to transparency.

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Cohesity Expands Collaboration with Microsoft on 365 Security & Backup

With this expanded collaboration, Cohesity is working with Microsoft to deliver enhanced backup and recovery performance for Microsoft 365 environments via the integration of native APIs of Microsoft 365 Backup Storage with Cohesity DataProtect.

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Customers can now use Resilio Connect to sync SharePoint files and libraries with file servers, NAS, and other systems running Resilio agents. Another use case is extending collaboration to 3rd-party contributors—within and outside organizations. You can use Resilio Connect and SharePoint’s external file-sharing tools to collaborate with partner companies and internal teams or individuals.

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For many organizations, AI will put their IT organizations at a crossroads. Capturing value from data to thrive in the era age of AI-enabled insight will require enterprises to rapidly mature their approach to hybrid cloud and how they store, manage and protect data across its lifecycle.

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HYCU Drops Major Updates on HYCU R-Cloud Data Protection Platform

HYCU is the only solution that enables protection of all critical applications and services from build to runtime. This means protecting applications used to design, develop, and build on AWS like Atlassian Jira Software, services used to secure critical services like AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

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iXsystems Introduces TrueNAS Enterprise Appliances & TrueNAS SCALE 23.10

These all-NVMe models were designed for maximum performance, reliability, and density to serve the most demanding workloads, while offering significant reductions in power, space, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). With 30TB NVMe drives, a single 2U system supports 720TB of highly-available storage.

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Kasten by Veeam’s Kanister Accepted by CNCF as Sandbox Project

Kanister helps solve this by providing “day two” data protection operations by coordinating Kubernetes storage, application services, and off-cluster backups, ensuring data is protected in the event of a breach. Kanister puts Kasten’s experts with domain knowledge of specific applications in charge of tedious data management tasks with minimal application changes needed by the end user, adding an additional layer of security for an organization’s critical data.

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Together, Nasuni and Cegal are helping organizations to accelerate their cloud transformations by providing the technology infrastructure and expertise needed to manage and protect data at scale from any location. Nasuni has also announced strong momentum in the industry with a 235 percent increase in data managed for enterprise energy customers year over year.

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New Rubrik Cyber Report Finds that One of Every Two Organizations Suffered Loss of Sensitive Data Last Year

In its third global study since launching one year ago, Rubrik Zero Labs commissioned Wakefield Research to gather insights from more than 1,600 IT and security leaders — half of which were CIOs and CISOs — across 10 countries. This report is supplemented by a significant increase in Rubrik telemetry.

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New Pure Storage Survey Reveals Enterprise Unprepared for AI Data Demands

AI adoption is on the rise across industries, yet most organizations lack the necessary infrastructure to handle the high-performance data demands and energy requirements essential for maximizing its benefits.

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Scality Expands Cyber-Resilient storage for Veeam

A new channel-friendly hardware appliance will be available in the US by the end of November 2023 (and in other regions in January 2024). This extends deployment options for Scality ARTESCA beyond existing software and virtual appliance offerings.

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Veeam Announces Updates to Backup for Salesforce on Salesforce AppExchange

This newest version builds on the success of Veeam Backup for Salesforce with its already powerful, rapid-recovery capabilities for IT departments and Salesforce administrators. It underlines why Salesforce data backup is critical to prevent data loss, ensures compliance, and enables fast recovery by providing a comprehensive, purpose-built Salesforce backup solution that gives organizations the ability to recover from Salesforce data loss with speed and confidence.

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VergeIO’s training module ensures a quick learning curve for VMware administrators. Typically, IT administrators become proficient with VergeOS in merely a few hours. Additionally, the team assists clients in phasing out superfluous applications now integrated into VergeOS.

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Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Set to Host Cloudflare & for 2 Exclusive HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Events on November 20 & 21

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Cloudflare for an informative webinar show which will teach you about the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset flaw, the ongoing DDoS attack campaign, and best practices to protect your organization. Product demo also included.

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Solutions Review Unveils Executive Roundtable Panel Topics for Insight Jam LIVE December 5-8

We are excited to bring an entirely new distribution channel to Insight Jam, and provide our readers with guidance, best practices, and advice on top-of-mind topics in enterprise technology, our community of experts a loudspeaker from which to share their insights, and our PR and vendor partners the ability to measure their impact on the community.

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Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of November 10, 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 November 10, 2023

Acronis Announces the Launch of New MSP Academy

Acronis partners that went through training and certification through the Academy in 2022 saw a 60 percent increase in revenue from Acronis product sales and a reduction in support incidents by 40 percent. In response to partner requests to expand the training portfolio beyond product training, Acronis delivered MSP Academy.

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BigID Data Intelligence is Now Available on Google Cloud

The partnership between BigID and Google Cloud enables them to automatically discover sensitive data across global accounts and ephemeral resources on Google Cloud. Organizations can find and inventory sensitive data across  Google Cloud services, including Google Drive, Cloud Storage, Gmail, BigQuery, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Spanner, Datastore, and Cloud SQL.

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Capterra: US Enterprises Set to Increase Software Spending in ’24, But Regret is Common

Over half (56 percent) of businesses with regretful software purchases describe the financial impact of their decision as “significant” or “monumental.” Beyond the financial burden, these businesses also experience other consequences—both internally and externally. In fact, 41 percent of U.S. businesses say their bad software purchase made them less competitive, and 38 percent say it led to productivity loss.

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Deloitte Releases 2023 Technology Fast 500

Now in its 29th year, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 honors the most innovative and fastest-growing companies across North America. The program recognizes the passion and dedication it takes to be an industry disrupter across the technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech sectors.

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Index Engines Adds Former Hitachi Vantara CEO to Advisory Board

This announcement comes as Index Engine’s strategic partnerships and customers are rapidly expanding, driven by the rise in ransomware attacks and CyberSense’s ability to detect corruption across both primary and secondary storage to expedite recovery and minimize business downtime.

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New Immuta Survey Says Data Governance and Security are Priorities Ahead of GenAI

The findings indicate that adoption and use of AI tools is high across organizations, however many are concerned about the impacts AI will have on their larger data security strategy. Only half of the respondents say their organization’s data security strategy is keeping up with AI’s rate of evolution.

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Kasten by Veeam Kanister Accepted by Cloud Native Computing Foundation as Sandbox Project

Kanister, created as an open-source project in 2017, removes the tedious data management details around Kubernetes execution with sharable blueprints that make it easy to add, change or reuse workloads and providers so application-level data protection is consistent across hybrid clouds.

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MinIO Partners with VMware On Natively Integrated Object Storage Solution for VMware Cloud Foundation

Data Services Manager is a native extension of VMware vSphere that empowers customers to manage best-in-class data services on-premises to their internal customers, most notably application teams in the lines of business. Data Services Manager integration builds on MinIO and VMware’s long history of technical collaboration, delivering a natively integrated experience and removing key dependencies in favor of greater administrator flexibility.

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Nexsan Strengthens Popular Partner Program

Nexsan resellers, solution providers, and technology partners have access to the industry’s best resources, including sales and technical assistance, marketing tools, and incentives to help them close deals on the full line of the company’s all-flash, unified storage, file, block, and secure data vault storage.

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Protecto Secures $4M Seed Funding Round for Enterprise AI Data Privacy

At the core of its operation, Protecto is dedicated to securing enterprise data. It plays a crucial role in the GenAI project lifecycle, ensuring the safe generation of synthetic data for model development and safeguarding sensitive information during interactions with large language models (LLMs).

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Qumulo Announces Latest Version of Azure Native Product

ANQ offers cloud-native file storage services at 80 percent less expensive than comparable services, including the cloud vendors, according to Qumulo. Customers don’t have to worry about raw vs. usable capacity, either. ANQ presents a familiar pay-as-you-go model in its pricing structure, where economics improve as data volume grows.

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Rubrik Introduces New Generative AI Companion Called Ruby

The company’s newest AI companion, Ruby, extends Rubrik Security Cloud with generative AI and automation. Ruby helps customers of all levels of cyber expertise through a guided response process that enables customers to explore, understand, and respond to a cyber incident, with the goal to resume critical business operations more rapidly.

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Scality Names Eric LeBlanc Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales & GM of ARTESCA

Riding a wave of success with ARTESCA — Scality’s simple, secure S3 object storage software for immutable backups — LeBlanc will now extend his responsibility beyond EMEA and Asia-Pacific into a global role driving channel sales across all regions, including the Americas. LeBlanc’s new focus will help drive sustainable business results for the channel and ARTESCA customers.

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Teleskope Data Protection Adds Automated Remediation & Additional Data Stores Support

The Teleskope data protection platform gives companies full control over the data being deleted and completely automates the process of finding sensitive data, classifying the data, and handling data subject rights requests – reducing time spent by 80 percent as compared with typical manual processes.

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Velotix Data Security is Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

By using Velotix, Microsoft Azure customers can more easily and securely access data while benefiting from scalable, reliable, and serverless analytics. Data teams can centralize data access and security policies using automated enforcement across Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Databases, PowerBI, and more — through modern, fine-grained, attribute-based access controls (ABAC).

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VMware and Google Cloud Announce PostgreSQL-Compatible Database Solution for Traditional & Generative AI Apps

Mutual customers deploying VMware Private AI will be able to bring compute capacity and AI models to where enterprise data is created, processed, and consumed, and also leverage the innovative capabilities of AlloyDB AI, which offers an integrated set of capabilities for easily building enterprise generative AI applications.

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Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Launches New Insight Jam Community for Enterprise Technology Professionals

We are excited to bring an entirely new distribution channel to Insight Jam, and provide our readers with guidance, best practices, and advice on top-of-mind topics in enterprise technology, our community of experts a loudspeaker from which to share their insights, and our PR and vendor partners the ability to measure their impact on the community.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Monte Carlo & Salesforce for Exclusive GenAI Event on November 30

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Monte Carlo (and their partner Salesforce) for an informative webinar show. While GenAI has its fair share of hype, data leaders are being tasked by executives with investing in AI across the business. But how can we ensure that these technologies are actually useful and impactful?

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Solutions Review’s William Jepma Compiles Definitive Guide on the White House’s New EO on AI, Through Quotes

As you can expect, there was a lot of discussion around the Executive Order, what it might mean for AI regulation, and how it will affect the trends involved in governing, developing, and using AI in enterprises across industries. See key commentary from industry experts who shared their thoughts on the EO and how it will change AI’s role in business.

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Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of November 3, 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 November 3, 2023

Amazon Announces EC2 Capacity Blocks for Machine Learning Workloads

This is an innovative new way to schedule GPU instances where you can reserve the number of instances you need for a future date for just the amount of time you require. EC2 Capacity Blocks are currently available for Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs in the AWS US East (Ohio) Region.

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Backblaze Announces Upload Speeds Faster Than AWS S3

All B2 Cloud Storage customers will benefit from these performance enhancements, especially those who use Backblaze B2 as a storage destination for data protection software. Small uploads of 1MB or less make up about 70 percent of all uploads to B2 Cloud Storage and are common for backup and archive workflows.

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CloudCasa by Catalogic Drops New BaaS Platform as Self-Hosted Option

The new self-hosted option will make its public debut at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023, November 6-9 in Chicago, where CloudCasa is a sponsor of the event. Also being introduced are single sign-on integration for enterprise SaaS customers and enhanced Velero onboarding and support services.

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Cohesity Launches Cohesity SmartFiles Integration on the Snowflake Data Cloud

With Cohesity SmartFiles, joint customers can store their data locally in SmartFiles and leverage Snowflake’s analytics capabilities with the flexibility to keep data either on-premises or in the cloud. This integration provides customers with broader access and choice while allowing them to adhere to strict internal policies.

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Gartner releases 2023 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems & Object Storage

Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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Hitachi Vantara Announces Global Reorganization Around OT & IT

Effective November 1, 2023, Hitachi Vantara LLC’s digital solutions business will be spun off into a new company, Hitachi Digital Services led by CEO Roger Lvin. The Digital Services branch will provide digital value to each industry and drive Hitachi’s unique synergy creation under Hitachi Digital led by Jun Taniguchi and Gajen Kandiah.

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IBM Introduces NEW Storage Scale System 6000

The IBM Storage Scale System 6000 is optimized for storing semi-structured and unstructured data including video, imagery, text, instrumentation data, etc., that is generated daily and accelerates an organization’s digital footprint across hybrid environments.

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New IDC Study Says Data Management Workloads Responsible for Majority of Compute Spending

Workloads spending profiles vary among product categories. For ODM Direct the highest spending in 1H23 was concentrated on Digital Services with $2.6 billion representing 11.7% of ODM spending. In comparison, OEM Servers and OEM Storage spending is led by Structured Databases/Data Management.

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iXsystems to Release TrueNAS Enterprise F-Series All-NVMe Appliances

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Quest Software Releases 2023 State of Data Intelligence Report

In partnership with Enterprise Strategy Group, Quest surveyed 220 business and IT professionals across North America responsible for and/or familiar with their organizations’ data governance and intelligence strategies, investments, and operations to keep a pulse on what they are experiencing and learn more about their current efforts to move their organizations forward in their relationships with data.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Launches New Insight Jam Community for Enterprise Technology Professionals

We are excited to bring an entirely new distribution channel to Insight Jam, and provide our readers with guidance, best practices, and advice on top-of-mind topics in enterprise technology, our community of experts a loudspeaker from which to share their insights, and our PR and vendor partners the ability to measure their impact on the community.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Dig Security and Cohesity for Exclusive Roundtable Webinar on November 7

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Dig Security, Cohesity, and data strategy consultant David Loshin to explore how AI impacts cloud security.

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For consideration in future storage and data protection news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

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Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of October 27, 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 October 27, 2023

Opaque Systems Names Aaron Fulkerson as New CEO

Fulkerson joins Opaque with enterprise and open-source software expertise and decades of experience growing and scaling technology companies. Most recently, he launched ServiceNow Impact, a new software category providing AI-enabled value acceleration for ServiceNow customers, where he served as Vice President and General Manager.

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Backblaze and HYCU Team Up to Protect Critical Workloads for On-Prem and Hybrid Cloud Environments

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Behemoths Team Up in Collab to Embed Red Hat Enterprise Linux into Cohesity Data Cloud

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Cohesity Names Industry Leaders to Newly Formed CEO Advisory Council

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Data Startup Cribl Surpasses $100 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue

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DataPivot Technologies Touts Novel Approach to Data Backup & Recovery Challenges For Healthcare Providers 

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Cloudflare Drops DDoS Threat Report for 2023 Q3

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Chkk Raises $5.2 Million in Seed Funding for Mission-Critical Apps & Availability

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Hitachi Vantara Research: Many Orgs Experiencing Revenue Loss Technology Downtime

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Big and PlainID Partner on Resilient Data Protection Framework

By integrating these powerful tools, organizations can ensure that data is used exclusively for its intended purposes and appropriate ways. This approach enables organizations to establish consistent policy-based access control throughout their entire technology stack, resulting in increased security and reduction in administrative errors.

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Few OrgsConfident in Mainframe Security Compliance, New Rocket Software Survey Says

Over half of survey respondents (51 percent) indicated that they either run all or the majority of core business applications on the mainframe. But, with the digital landscape changing and with the introduction of new methodologies like DevOps, open-source adoption, and the shift towards hybrid cloud solutions, prioritizing mainframe vulnerability management is more important than ever.

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Shred-It Releases Annual Data Protection Report

The full 2023 Data Protection Report provides actionable recommendations for small business leaders to help keep their digital and physical data secure as well as best practices to remain educated about changes in data protection legislation.

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Velotix Data Security Platform Integrates with Google Cloud’s BigQuery

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Zerto Research Report Finds Companies Lack a Comprehensive Ransomware Strategy

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Deloitte: 1 in 5 Digital Trust Execs Lack Confidence in their Org’s Programs to Protect Data

Further, while more than half of respondents indicate that their organizations’ top leaders work closely on digital trust programs (58.5 percent), 21.4 percent say that such leadership coordination is lacking.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as Solutions Review editors will use it to share new Expert Insights Series articles, Contributed Shorts videos, Expert Roundtable and event replays, and other curated content to help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend. All to meet the demand for what its editors do best: bring industry experts together to publish the web’s leading insights for enterprise technology practitioners.

Solutions Review Launches New Insight Jam Community for Enterprise Technology Professionals

We are excited to bring an entirely new distribution channel to Insight Jam, and provide our readers with guidance, best practices, and advice on top-of-mind topics in enterprise technology, our community of experts a loudspeaker from which to share their insights, and our PR and vendor partners the ability to measure their impact on the community.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Dig Security and Cohesity for Exclusive Roundtable Webinar on November 7

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Dig Security, Cohesity, and data strategy consultant David Loshin to explore how AI impacts cloud security.

Read on for more.

For consideration in future storage and data protection news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

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Solutions Review’s Expert Roundtable with BARC, Sigma Computing, Monte Carlo, and Databricks is entitled: Revolutionizing AI: Innovative Approaches to Cloud Stack Modernization.

What is an Expert Roundtable?

Solutions Review’s Expert Roundtables are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these kinds of events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Expert Roundtable” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers across enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year over 10 million people come to Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Dig Security, Cohesity, and data strategy consultant David Loshin to explore how AI impacts cloud security.

Speakers

Moderator:

• David Loshin – Data Strategy Consultant @ Knowledge Integrity

Featured Speakers:

• Dan Benjamin – CEO @ Dig Security
• Greg Statton – Office of the CTO – Data & AI @ Cohesity

About

Knowledge Integrity is globally recognized as a leader in the business value assessment of information and data. We are trusted by our clients to devise programs supporting all aspects of the data and information lifecycle, including analytics, data science, data governance, metadata management, data quality, master data management, and business intelligence practices.

Dig Security is a cloud data security startup that provides real-time visibility, control, and protection of data assets. Monitoring and detecting data exfiltration and policy violations has become a challenging problem with few, fragmented solutions as enterprises transition to complex settings with dozens of different database types across clouds.

Cohesity is a data management company that manages, protects, and extracts value from enterprise data. The provider’s flagship tool, Cohesity DataProtect, safeguards a wide range of data sources on a single web-scale platform. The solution can be deployed on-premises on qualified platforms in the data center, public cloud, and on the edge.

FAQ

• What: How AI Impacts Cloud Security
• When: Tuesday, November 7, 2023, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more detail)

Register for Solutions Review’s Expert Roundtable FREE

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Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of October 20, 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 October 20, 2023

News Breaks of Broadcom’s Intent to Acquire VMware

Broadcom is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control.

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Commvault Hires Alex Janas as Field CTO for Security

Janas comes to Commvault with nearly 20 years of private sector cybersecurity experience, as well as offensive security skills he developed as an Analyst, Operator, and Technical Director while working at the National Security Agency. He is a proud recipient of the Master Operator designation, a prestigious honor bestowed upon a select cadre of Computer Network Operations (CNO) personnel.

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Druva Releases New Generative AI-Powered Dru Copilot

GenAI copilot is a large language model-based machine learning system that is trained on a set of specific subject area issues, in this case, Druva’s SaaS backup. Users interact with the copilot software using conversational text to request system reports and analyses or solve problems.

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Nyriad Releases New STaaS Version of UltraIO

Enterprises today face a myriad of hurdles, including capital budget constraints, rapid and unpredictable data growth, gaps in IT talent, operational complexity and ever-stringent sustainability mandates. Nyriad’s UltraIO-as-a-Service offering comprehensively addresses these challenges with flexible, simple-to-use STaaS options.

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Scality Announces Interoperability for VMware Cloud Director OSIS

Through this collaboration, Scality will enable its customers to expand their cloud storage offerings with intrinsic security. Additionally, plug-and-play interoperability between Scality RING and VMware Cloud Director can be leveraged to operate new object storage services for a range of data protection workloads, helping service providers increase revenue streams from advanced storage services without a huge engineering lift.

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Seagate Unveils New Exos 24TB Hard Drives

Designed for maximum storage capacity and the highest rack-space efficiency, Exos X24 is purpose-built for hyperscale with powerful performance and proven technology. The new helium 3.5-inch 7200 RPM nearline drive offers both SATA and SAS interfaces and delivers enhanced caching that performs up to three times better than solutions that only utilize read or write caching.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as Solutions Review editors will use it to share new Expert Insights Series articles, Contributed Shorts videos, Expert Roundtable and event replays, and other curated content to help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend. All to meet the demand for what its editors do best: bring industry experts together to publish the web’s leading insights for enterprise technology practitioners.

Solutions Review Launches New Insight Jam Community for Enterprise Technology Professionals

We are excited to bring an entirely new distribution channel to Insight Jam, and provide our readers with guidance, best practices, and advice on top-of-mind topics in enterprise technology, our community of experts a loudspeaker from which to share their insights, and our PR and vendor partners the ability to measure their impact on the community.

Read on for more.

Solutions Review Set to Host Acronis for Exclusive Spotlight Webinar on October 24

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading backup and cyber protection vendor Acronis. This session will examine the current cyberthreat landscape, delve into how GenAI tools like ChatGPT are being used by criminals to improve the scale and efficacy of ransomware and other cyber-attacks, and feature an expert panel discussion on how healthcare cybersecurity and IT operations teams can defend their uptime and critical data through a combination of cyber defense and recovery tactics.

Read on for more.

Solutions Review Set to Host Dig Security and Cohesity for Exclusive Roundtable Webinar on November 7

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Dig Security, Cohesity, and data strategy consultant David Loshin to explore how AI impacts cloud security.

Read on for more.

For consideration in future storage and data protection news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

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Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy storage and data protection news items for the week of October 13, 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 October 13, 2023

Quantum Unveils New DXi Edge-Core-Cloud Bundles

DXi-Series appliances are available as both physical and virtual appliances, providing enterprise scale and flexible deployment options. With built-in replication and newly announced DXi Cloud Share tiering, DXi appliances may be deployed across edge sites, central data centers, and the public cloud.

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