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- February 08, 2022
08 Feb'22
CloudCasa offers bring-your-own storage for Kubernetes backup
The latest update for Catalogic's CloudCasa Kubernetes backup service offers new features to improve cloud security and enables users to bring their own choice of storage.
- February 04, 2022
04 Feb'22
Kasten, Veeam revenue reports reflect backup market strength
Cloud and container-based protection were among the keys that helped Kasten, Veeam and Commvault hit major revenue increases. Security is a major focus for these vendors in 2022.
- February 03, 2022
03 Feb'22
New Unitrends appliances provide pocket-sized data protection
Unitrends gives SMBs and managed service providers local backup and recovery with its Ion appliance line. It also unveiled its Cyber Assurance Program for employee training.
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- February 01, 2022
01 Feb'22
At Asigra, father-son team replaced by newly hired execs
After running the private company for more than 30 years, David and Eran Farajun will turn day-to-day leadership of Asigra over to a newly hired team of executives.
- December 16, 2021
16 Dec'21
New Veeam CEO sets $10B revenue goal, potential IPO
Veeam has had several CEOs in the last five years. Its latest leader aims for a massive increase in revenue, an IPO and acquisitions to continue its growth trajectory.
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Scale-Out vs. Scale-Up: Why Backup Storage Architecture Matters
Sponsored by Exagrid - Is the world of IT drowning in data? Experts estimate that organizations this year are generating more than 2.5 exabytes (2,500,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of new data—every day. With various experts predicting that the compound annual growth rate of data will increase from 33% to over 60%, one thing is clear: You’re going to need more storage and soon. See More
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4 Key Factors in Securing the Data-First Enterprise—From Edge to Cloud
Sponsored by HPE - With the rate of cyberattacks at an all-time high—and no signs of abating—protecting your enterprise requires constant vigilance. Security done right can help your business manage organizational risk by empowering your teams to proactively understand and address any potential weaknesses in enterprise operations. See More
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When Disaster Strikes, Backup Storage Matters
Sponsored by Exagrid - For data centers, uptime isn’t the most important thing—it’s the only thing that matters. According to Ponemon Institute, the cost of downtime now exceeds $9,000 a minute, putting the per-hour cost of downtime over a half-million dollars. Many organizations reported unplanned outages that soared into the millions of dollars until systems could be fully restored to operational status. See More
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Leveraging Edge-to-Cloud Analytics and AI to Promote Public Safety in Auckland, New Zealand
Sponsored by HPE - Auckland Transport is responsible for keeping the New Zealand city’s citizens and visitors moving safely on roads and in public places. Among other resources, AT collects data from the edge across a closed-circuit television (CCTV) network of more than 3,500 cameras. See More
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- December 09, 2021
09 Dec'21
Rubrik's ransomware tools put detection in line with protection
To better protect against ransomware, Rubrik has expanded the capabilities of its core platform and added new features including cyber threat hunting and Rubrik Cloud Vault.
- December 08, 2021
08 Dec'21
HYCU Protégé adds AWS protection for outages, cyber attacks
When cloud providers like AWS go down, business apps go down with them. Data protection tools from Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam and now HYCU Protégé for AWS prevent downtime.
- December 03, 2021
03 Dec'21
AWS Snowball Edge adds offline tape migration capabilities
With AWS Snowball Edge, users can now migrate tape libraries to the cloud, even doing so offline to save on bandwidth.
- December 01, 2021
01 Dec'21
Dell extends Cyber Recovery ransomware protection to AWS
Dell EMC's PowerProtect Cyber Recovery launched in AWS Marketplace, providing customers with a way to isolate their data in AWS-based storage instead of on premises.
- November 16, 2021
16 Nov'21
StorOne unveils S1 Backup for ransomware protection
StorOne expands its reach with S1 Backup to combat ransomware attacks. The new software emphasizes an all-flash backup tier and immutability as part of its strategy.
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- November 10, 2021
10 Nov'21
Clumio extends protection to SQL Server on Amazon EC2
Clumio Protect now covers Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2, enabling customers to protect SQL Server data in the cloud instead of manual scripts or on-premises backup.
- October 21, 2021
21 Oct'21
Cloudian provides object storage backup target for Kasten
Cloudian HyperStore can serve as both secondary and primary storage for Kubernetes with its Kasten K10 by Veeam integration and support for Red Hat OpenShift.
- October 19, 2021
19 Oct'21
Backup vendors aid ransomware recovery with data vaults
Veritas and Cohesity introduced offerings that enable customers to put their data in air-gapped, vendor-managed storage vaults, providing an extra layer of ransomware defense.
- October 13, 2021
13 Oct'21
Veeam Backup for Salesforce seeks to protect user data
Veeam's Backup for Salesforce enters a market that has become busier in the last couple of years. Its features include comparison of data and metadata.
- October 06, 2021
06 Oct'21
Cohesity backup integrates with Cisco SecureX
Cohesity's anomaly detection and recovery functions can be accessed in Cisco SecureX, allowing greater visibility and quicker response time during a ransomware attack.
- October 05, 2021
05 Oct'21
Veeam backup updates focus on cloud, containers
Veeam Software seeks simplified management with its latest batch of updates. In addition, Kasten by Veeam enhanced support for its Kubernetes data protection.
- October 05, 2021
05 Oct'21
Quantum unveils ActiveScale on-prem archiving service
Quantum's new product combines ActiveScale object storage and Quantum tape to deploy a petabyte-scale cold storage environment within customers' on-prem data centers.
- September 30, 2021
30 Sep'21
Clumio extends backup as a service to Amazon S3
Clumio Protect for Amazon S3 provides point-in-time recovery and anti-ransomware features to a storage environment that is increasingly becoming mission-critical.
- September 28, 2021
28 Sep'21
Catalogic CloudCasa charges for Kubernetes backup storage
Catalogic introduced paid subscription tiers for customers using its CloudCasa Kubernetes backup-as-a-service platform to store persistent volume backups.
- September 23, 2021
23 Sep'21
New Salesforce native backup may not be enterprise ready
Salesforce unveiled a new way to natively back up and recover data within the platform, but it doesn't compare to the enterprise-grade features backup vendors offer.
- September 23, 2021
23 Sep'21
Qumulo consolidates data protection features into Recover Q
Qumulo Core's snapshotting, replication, recovery and access control have been packed into Recover Q to give customers a one-stop shop for anti-ransomware capabilities.
- September 21, 2021
21 Sep'21
Druva hastens ransomware recovery with curated snapshots
Druva's new Curated Recovery feature creates a recovery-ready snapshot containing the latest untampered data from previous snapshots, reducing recovery time.
- September 20, 2021
20 Sep'21
LTO tape capacity shipments dip, but expected to rise
The return of businesses to the office plus tape's protection against cyber attacks should help increase LTO shipments. In addition, LTO-9 recently launched with higher capacity.
- September 16, 2021
16 Sep'21
Backup startup Rewind raises $65M in Series B funding
Rewind closed a $65 million funding round led by Insight Partners. The investment will be used to grow employee headcount and expand the backup platform to cover more SaaS applications.
- September 15, 2021
15 Sep'21
TrilioVault update focuses on securing Kubernetes backup
Anti-ransomware features in TrilioVault for Kubernetes v2.5 include application-level immutability and encryption to help ensure Kubernetes backup data is recoverable.
- September 10, 2021
10 Sep'21
IBM leads parade of vendors delivering LTO-9 tape drives
While sales of tape drives faltered in 2020, IBM and a handful of storage vendors hope to fuel a comeback with delivery of new offerings that ascribe to the LTO-9 specifications.
- September 09, 2021
09 Sep'21
Dell EMC tunes PowerProtect for data protection at scale
Dell EMC updated PowerProtect with faster snapshots, new software to manage multiple appliances and a managed service for recovery to help scale data protection functions.
- August 25, 2021
25 Aug'21
AWS launches Backup Audit Manager compliance tool
A new AWS Backup feature, the Audit Manager, tracks backup activities to help customers determine if they are meeting business and regulatory compliance requirements.
- August 10, 2021
10 Aug'21
StorOne serves up backup storage for America's Test Kitchen
America's Test Kitchen uses Rubrik to store backups and snapshots in the cloud, then archives older data to an on-premises StorOne appliance for faster and cheaper retrieval.
- August 04, 2021
04 Aug'21
Druva CEO talks COVID-19 cloud rush, data protection, roadmap
Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh discusses the challenges posed by the recent uptick in cloud adoption, the company's product plans for Kubernetes on AWS and its backup security measures.
- July 30, 2021
30 Jul'21
When long-term data archiving means 'forever'
Storage customers such as the German data processing service center GWDG have started to think about how they can archive data forever. It's challenging and complex, but possible.
- July 29, 2021
29 Jul'21
Zerto update adds ransomware defense and simplifies backup
Zerto 9 rolls out immutability for Amazon S3 and rapid VM recovery as anti-ransomware measures, and expands the platform's automation and long-term retention capabilities.
- July 20, 2021
20 Jul'21
N2WS introduces Azure backup in 4.0 update
N2WS expands its backup and recovery capabilities beyond AWS with new automated protection for Azure VMs. The vendor plans to build this feature out more fully in future updates.
- July 20, 2021
20 Jul'21
Backup vendors target a growing MSP market
MSPs aren't just a way for backup vendors to reach SMB customers, as enterprises are finding good reasons to outsource IT functions to third-party providers.
- July 13, 2021
13 Jul'21
XenData links up tape archives with S3 interface
XenData launched an object storage interface for its LTO archives, along with a new synchronization service that consolidates multiple archives into a single, global repository.
- July 12, 2021
12 Jul'21
Vendors push Kubernetes backup as a must for production
Vendors are making significant investments in Kubernetes backup as customers' containerized applications enter production and the demand for protection increases.
- July 07, 2021
07 Jul'21
Acronis CEO steps down, GoDaddy exec steps in
Acronis's previous CEO will lead product development while the new CEO focuses on go-to-market, partner program expansion and increasing company headcount.
- June 22, 2021
22 Jun'21
Catalogic CloudCasa makes room for persistent volume backup
Catalogic CloudCasa can now do backups instead of just snapshots, opening the door to better ransomware recoverability and meeting data governance and sovereignty requirements.
- June 16, 2021
16 Jun'21
Grax History Stream feeds Salesforce data to analytics tools
Grax History Stream simplifies the process of pulling Salesforce data, converting it to Parquet format, then feeding it to Amazon Redshift or other analytics tools.
- June 16, 2021
16 Jun'21
Veeam Government Solutions subsidiary features federal focus
Following Veeam's acquisition by Insight Partners, the data protection vendor sought to make gains among U.S. government customers. The unveiling of a subsidiary is the next step.
- June 15, 2021
15 Jun'21
Veritas NetBackup sets up ransomware defenses in new update
Veritas NetBackup is combating ransomware with data immutability for AWS S3 environments, anomaly detection, container backup and a next-gen Flex appliance.
- June 14, 2021
14 Jun'21
Businesses still lax about SaaS backup
An ESG survey finds customers can't reliably recover Office 365 and Salesforce data, despite the criticality of these SaaS applications and the availability of third-party tools.
- June 03, 2021
03 Jun'21
Public sector IT execs detail ransomware backup, recovery tips
City governments are particularly vulnerable to ransomware. These city IT leaders discuss how organizations can improve data protection to be ready for the next attack.
- May 28, 2021
28 May'21
Veeam executives detail backup trends, company plans
In this Q&A from VeeamON, several Veeam executives discuss data backup trends, the potential of the company going public, and if more acquisitions are on the table.
- May 27, 2021
27 May'21
Clumio Discover gives customers full view of AWS snapshots
With the consolidated and contextualized information that Clumio Discover provides, customers with large, sprawling AWS environments can make better snapshot policy decisions.
- May 25, 2021
25 May'21
Retrospect locks down backup data against ransomware
Retrospect Backup 18 focuses on anti-ransomware with the ability to make backups stored in public clouds immutable and an updated management console with security features.
- May 25, 2021
25 May'21
Veeam backup software integrating Kubernetes protection
Veeam backup software additions announced at VeeamON include Kasten integration, Office 365 enhancements and further hyperscale cloud support.
- May 24, 2021
24 May'21
Catalogic sells ECX copy data management software to IBM
Catalogic Software has divested its ECX product to long-time storage hardware partner IBM and will now focus on its CloudCasa Kubernetes data protection service.
- May 20, 2021
20 May'21
Cloud migration helps Choice Hotels weather COVID-19
Choice Hotels' cloud-based global reservation system and adoption of collaboration and communication applications helped it stay in business during the pandemic.
- May 20, 2021
20 May'21
County's ransomware remediation includes backup, security
A northern California county recovered from ransomware thanks to backups and quick action following the attack. The county's CIO details how it happened and tips for recovery.
- May 18, 2021
18 May'21
Rubrik Forward highlights ransomware recovery features
Rubrik's virtual Forward conference featured AppFlows and several data security features aimed at identifying and rapidly recovering from ransomware attacks.
- May 17, 2021
17 May'21
Cohesity BaaS offers Microsoft 365 protection
Cohesity's as-a-service version of DataProtect now supports Microsoft 365, covering what one study found to be a large SaaS application data protection gap.
- May 04, 2021
04 May'21
Trilio and Portworx showcase Kubernetes backup at KubeCon
With Kubernetes applications moving from development projects to production, Kubernetes backup vendors are making their products easier to use for the IT operations audience.
- April 29, 2021
29 Apr'21
HYCU Protégé integrates Kubernetes data protection
Backup and recovery vendor HYCU has added Kubernetes protection, an increasingly popular trend. The first release targets Google Kubernetes Engine users, with more support to come.
- April 28, 2021
28 Apr'21
Kasten Kubernetes backup adds ransomware protection
Kasten launched its biggest update since Veeam acquired the Kubernetes data protection provider. Kasten Kubernetes backup adds immutability to its K10 platform.
- April 27, 2021
27 Apr'21
Rewind pins down cloud backup for Trello boards
Rewind's Backups for Trello provides an automated method to restore Trello boards. The vendor continues to target SaaS applications outside of Salesforce and Office 365.
- April 26, 2021
26 Apr'21
What's on 2021's data protection conference calendar
Curious about data protection conferences in the coming months? This roundup details dates and topic areas for 2021 events covering backup and disaster recovery.
- April 20, 2021
20 Apr'21
Zerto targets cloud data protection at ZertoCon 2021
Zerto rolled out three products to protect SaaS, Kubernetes and AWS at its ZertoCon virtual event and gave a preview of new features added to Zerto 9.0.
- April 19, 2021
19 Apr'21
Druva gets $147M boost, brings valuation to more than $2B
The additional money will help Druva expand its cloud platform to new geographies and keep up with growing customer demand for cloud data protection, said Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh.
- April 06, 2021
06 Apr'21
Dell EMC adds cloud-based backup to PowerProtect lineup
Dell EMC has expanded its PowerProtect portfolio with the launch of Backup Service, a cloud-based data protection product for SaaS applications, endpoints and hybrid workloads.
- March 30, 2021
30 Mar'21
Pure Storage combines FlashBlade with Portworx PX-Backup
Pure Storage's joint product with Portworx gives customers a way to quickly recover container applications in case of failures by combining flash storage and PX-Backup.
- March 30, 2021
30 Mar'21
HYCU backup closes first funding round, eyes IPO
The HYCU backup and recovery platform gained a boost with a major funding haul. HYCU seeks to stand out in a competitive data protection market.
- March 16, 2021
16 Mar'21
Datadobi adds Azure Blob as unstructured data storage target
Datadobi DobiProtect has gained support for Azure Blob, extending its cross-protocol replication capabilities between NAS and cloud object storage beyond S3-compatible targets.
- March 11, 2021
11 Mar'21
FalconStor's turnaround prospects see glimmer of progress
FalconStor's annual revenue continues to slump, but an increase in net income, new customer bookings and a renewed focus on cloud data storage bring hope to the company.
- March 11, 2021
11 Mar'21
NetApp Astra goes GA, adds Kubernetes data protection
NetApp Astra, a data management service for Kubernetes workloads, gained snapshotting, application-level backups and cloning and became generally available this week.
- March 09, 2021
09 Mar'21
Catalogic builds out CloudCasa with cloud database support
Catalogic has added support for AWS RDS to its CloudCasa Kubernetes backup-as-a-service platform, citing overlap between customers who need container backup and cloud database backup.
- March 02, 2021
02 Mar'21
Nexsan launches cloud edition of Assureon immutable vault
Nexsan Assureon can now be deployed on Azure and private clouds, no longer tying its immutable storage and active archive capabilities to Unity appliances.
- March 02, 2021
02 Mar'21
Arcserve UDP 8.0 update focuses on ransomware protection
After its latest update, Arcserve's flagship data protection software has integrated Sophos security and supports AWS S3 Object Lock to make backups immutable.
- February 24, 2021
24 Feb'21
Veeam Backup & Replication v11 adds CDP, immutability option
Continuous data protection leads Veeam's Backup & Replication update. The vendor also recently launched its Backup for Google Cloud Platform and penciled in a date for VeeamON.
- February 24, 2021
24 Feb'21
Arcserve and StorageCraft merge to address broader market
The Arcserve-StorageCraft merger combines the products and channel partners of both companies, with the hope it will address the needs of businesses of all sizes.
- February 18, 2021
18 Feb'21
Komprise launches replication for FlashArray File Services
Komprise Asynchronous Replication enables file-based replication for more granular restores in backup and DR use cases. It is first available on Pure FlashArray File Services.
- February 17, 2021
17 Feb'21
Index Engines' CyberSense SDK expands its third-party reach
CyberSense can more easily integrate with third-party backup and storage platforms with its new API-based developer's kit, giving customers a powerful ransomware detection tool.
- February 11, 2021
11 Feb'21
Rewind backup moves forward with BackHub acquisition
With the acquisition of BackHub, Rewind's SaaS data protection extends to GitHub, helping customers protect their code without having to cobble together backup themselves.
- February 10, 2021
10 Feb'21
HYCU backup enters SaaS territory with Office 365 support
HYCU backup and recovery for Microsoft Office 365 marks the vendor's first protection for software as a service, with further expansion expected soon.
- February 04, 2021
04 Feb'21
OwnBackup CEO: Funding will support M&A, products, IPO plans
In this Q&A, OwnBackup CEO Sam Gutmann discusses how the company is working towards going public as well as his near-term product and staffing plans.
- February 04, 2021
04 Feb'21
IT company clicks with OpenShift Container Storage snapshots
Red Hat's OpenShift Container Storage 4.6 update brought data protection functionality to the platform, allowing APIS IT to put more critical workloads on it.
- February 01, 2021
01 Feb'21
Rewind CEO plans to expand SaaS app backup coverage
Rewind's CEO says SaaS applications that aren't 'the big three' also need backup. Rewind currently protects e-commerce apps, but will expand to cover GitHub, ZenDesk and Trello.
- January 29, 2021
29 Jan'21
Potential magnetic tape storage capacity surges in 'renaissance'
Tape technology continues to improve, resulting in huge possibilities for capacity. With data growth, tape has received new customers; some don't even realize they're using it.
- January 29, 2021
29 Jan'21
Commvault Metallic expansion includes Salesforce and on-premises
Commvault's Metallic backup now covers Salesforce, Microsoft Teams and other workloads. The vendor's investment in recurring revenue has led to its best fiscal quarter ever.
- January 28, 2021
28 Jan'21
Veeam backups save Alaska community from ransomware attack
Kodiak Island Borough transitioned to Veeam backups just in the nick of time. After successfully recovering from a ransomware attack, the IT department added more Veeam protection.
- January 27, 2021
27 Jan'21
Veritas NetBackup 9 adds Flex Scale scale-out architecture
NetBackup 9 offers a new scale-out deployment aimed at software-defined, hyper-converged data centers, allowing customers to add storage nodes as they see fit.
- January 27, 2021
27 Jan'21
Candy-maker sweetens IT setup with VxRail, PowerProtect
Warrell Corp. treated itself to a new IT infrastructure to drive its candy manufacturing, adding hyper-converged backup appliances and cloud DR from Dell EMC.
- January 25, 2021
25 Jan'21
Commvault CEO says we won't go back to pre-COVID-19 ways
Commvault CEO Sanjay Mirchandani says cloud adoption and remote collaboration will stay after the pandemic, but in-person events and physical data centers will be scaled back.
- January 14, 2021
14 Jan'21
Veritas acquires HubStor for SaaS data protection
The HubStor product will continue to be offered, but Veritas intends to integrate its technology and capabilities into its Enterprise Data Services Platform in the future.
- January 13, 2021
13 Jan'21
Indiana hospital hops on cloud data protection with Clumio
Rush Memorial Hospital switched from on-premises backup and disaster recovery to cloud data protection through Clumio, significantly reducing its costs and backup management burden.
- January 06, 2021
06 Jan'21
Tape storage protects research on Antarctic science ship
British Antarctic Survey outfitted the RRS Sir David Attenborough with Quantum QXS hybrid disk and Scalar i3 tape libraries to store and protect research data mid-voyage.
- December 28, 2020
28 Dec'20
Zix acquires CloudAlly backup for SaaS data protection
Zix plans to integrate CloudAlly backup and recovery with its Secure Cloud email security and compliance platform. Backup was a technology that Zix needed.
- December 28, 2020
28 Dec'20
COVID-19 impact on data backup will continue in 2021
COVID-19 accelerated certain data backup trends throughout 2020. Now, with vaccines available, experts share what they believe 2021 has in store for backup and recovery.
- December 21, 2020
21 Dec'20
In 2020, backup and recovery technologies play critical role
It was a big year for backup and recovery. Data protection technology evolved and shifted in a year dominated by the pandemic, while several vendors raised significant funding.
- December 18, 2020
18 Dec'20
Rubrik acquires Igneous Systems' unstructured data tech
Rubrik found Igneous Systems' large-scale unstructured data management capabilities to be complementary to its own and plans to fold it into the Rubrik platform.
- December 17, 2020
17 Dec'20
Clumio launches air-gapped data protection service
Intended as an add-on to non-Clumio data protection, RansomProtect SaaS provides an additional bunker for data through an isolated recovery environment.
- December 17, 2020
17 Dec'20
X Series Arcserve backup appliances have built-in security
Arcserve X Series appliances have Sophos Intercept X Advanced built in and can scale to three petabytes. All Arcserve backup appliances now ship with Sophos software.
- December 10, 2020
10 Dec'20
Trilio raises $15M in funding for Kubernetes protection
Sensing market opportunity, Trilio's CEO said he will seize it by using the funds to bolster sales and marketing. Trilio has raised a total of $22 million in funding.
- December 09, 2020
09 Dec'20
New XenData appliances provide bridge between disk and tape
XenData seeks to simplify managing LTO tape libraries but finds itself competing with disk, public clouds, other tape vendors and 'poor storage management.'
- December 08, 2020
08 Dec'20
Veeam cloud backup updates target Teams, Amazon RDS
Veeam Software boosted its backup for AWS and Microsoft Office 365 data. Both of the cloud-based platforms are trending up in the data protection market.
- December 03, 2020
03 Dec'20
Rubrik's latest update goes faster, covers more clouds
Rubrik's update focuses on backup speed and cloud workload support, but the industry is trending away from traditional databases and toward cloud-hosted databases and containers.
- December 02, 2020
02 Dec'20
Google's Actifio acquisition adds cloud DR, copy management
Google sees Actifio acquisition bolstering its disaster recovery and backup for Google Cloud Platform. No price was disclosed for the private company valued at more than $1 billion.
- November 30, 2020
30 Nov'20
Veeam roadmap: Cloud, containers, virtual VeeamON 2021
The Veeam roadmap seeks to take advantage of trends in data protection, from an increasing use of cloud-based workloads to the need for better cybersecurity.
- November 23, 2020
23 Nov'20
AvePoint enters $2B initial public merger with Apex SPAC
AvePoint wants to use funds to invest in MSPs and push into the SMB market, and CEO Tianyi Jiang said a merger with Apex would be faster and easier than a regular IPO.
- November 23, 2020
23 Nov'20
Kubernetes backup moves to forefront
Market appetite for Kubernetes backup is heating up, and product updates from Trilio, Commvault, Portworx and other vendors show an eagerness to attract early customers.