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Backup and recovery software

• January 21, 2020 21 Jan'20

  Nakivo update supports tape, physical servers

  Nakivo now supports tape and physical servers, a departure from its initial focus on cloud and VMs. Demand and expert opinion suggest there will always be need for physical backup.

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  Catalogic launches KubeDR to protect etcd data

  Catalogic's new KubeDR tool protects cluster configurations, metadata and certificates, which is data often overlooked by Kubernetes protection tools.

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  Veeam's Timashev discusses selling company, next steps

  Veeam co-founder Ratmir Timashev discusses why now is the right time to sell the data protection company, which shifts its focus to hybrid cloud after it 'won the VMware market.'

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  Backup focus in 2020: Data at the edge and in containers

  Storage and backup industry analysts say as data grows at the edge and inside containers, those areas will require more attention from backup products in 2020.

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  Veeam Software bought by private equity firm at $5B valuation

  Veeam is under new ownership. Insight Partners acquired the data protection company for an undisclosed sum. With the acquisition comes a modified leadership team.

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  Actifio 10c adds container support and DR orchestration

  Actifio's 10c update added some significant new capabilities that further take advantage of the cloud. Backup, disaster recovery, migration all got a boost in this update.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  XenData launches plug-and-play archive appliance

  XenData's X1 appliance makes archiving by tape, Sony Optical Disc Archive and cloud object storage simpler and more network-friendly. It connects archives for multiple users.

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Druva expands on AWS backup, moves S3 snaps across regions

  In response to customers' expanding AWS footprint, Druva added new backup features to CloudRanger, which it acquired in 2018 for protection of data stored in AWS.

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Container backup grows, following container adoption

  Although demand for container backup remains low, vendors anticipate growth in this area. Containers have shifted from being lightweight throwaways to persistent mini-VMs.

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Insurance company uses Cohesity backup to wean off tape

  Illinois Mutual wanted to switch from tape backup to something cloud-based. It needed a vendor that integrated with Hyper-V but could also support tape during the transition.

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  With Time on its hands, Meredith drives storage consolidation

  Following an acquisition of Time Inc., Meredith Corp. dumped most of its traditional IT gear and added newer technology developed around virtualization, convergence and the cloud.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Clumio extends support to AWS EBS with $135M funding bump

  Clumio plans to use its funds to expand its data protection to data sources including more public clouds, SaaS applications and containers. It's starting with Amazon EBS support.

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Odaseva introduces high availability for Salesforce

  Odaseva is rolling out a feature that can provide Salesforce with high availability, letting them work with Salesforce data even when the SaaS application is down.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Vancouver Canucks defend data with Veeam backup

  To prepare for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Vancouver Canucks used Veeam to protect against point-of-sale system failures -- a major upgrade over its previous tape backup.

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Commvault lays out Metallic and Hedvig roadmaps

  Commvault is adding nonbackup capabilities to Metallic and integrating Hedvig with HyperScale. The vendor will roll out features for the two ventures over the course of next year.