Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of November 17; Updates from Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam & More

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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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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