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October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17
New 'task' for Datto backup: Merging with IT management firm

Following its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners, the Datto backup and recovery line is merging with Autotask. The companies plan to integrate their products and expand.
October 25, 2017 25 Oct'17
Aparavi takes three-piece approach to cloud data protection

Aparavi uses a three-part architecture to try to elbow its way into the emerging and competitive market for protecting, restoring and managing data stored in multiple clouds.
October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17
Commvault HyperScale joins converged protection scrum

Commvault's HyperScale appliance is a scale-out architecture for linear scalability. HyperScale is part of the vendor's new product strategy to build out its data services.
October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17
Hitachi Data Instance Director redesigned for scalability

Hitachi Vantara's Data Instance Director 6 was built with MongoDB to scale 100 times more than the previous version. HDID 6 also improves access control for security.
October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17
Carbonite backup gets endpoint boost in Datacastle buy

Carbonite endpoint backup grows with the acquisition of Datacastle technology and customers. As a smaller company, Datacastle had been at a critical juncture.
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September 27, 2017 27 Sep'17
Veritas CEO talks analytics, GDPR and digital transformation

CEO of Veritas Technologies says despite all the changes swirling in the data protection world, the importance of data means 'incumbents get to win if they are good enough.'
September 27, 2017 27 Sep'17
DH2i DxEnterprise adds Linux support to improve availability

Once focusing on SQL Server, DH2i ventures into Linux waters. 'Smart Availability' allows users to move workloads any time, regardless of operating system.
September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17
Veritas Vision 2017: Veritas Cloud Storage, Access Appliance launch

With the release of Veritas Access Appliance and the object-based Cloud Storage, the storage software vendor follows a path it started down with NetBackup Appliances for backup.
September 19, 2017 19 Sep'17
Veritas 360 Data Management embraces cloud, dedupe, NoSQL

Veritas 360 platform upgrades -- including cloud deduplication for NetBackup -- dominate the opening day of the vendor's Veritas Vision 2017 user conference.
September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17
Tape storage capacity looks up as LTO-8 looms

Doubling the capacity from the previous generation, LTO-8 will present a strong option for data archiving. Tape systems can be an effective piece of tiered storage, officials say.
September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17
Iron Mountain cloud storage gains Iron Cloud

Iron Mountain unveiled its new Iron Cloud storage services that will be the foundation for its full-scale data management platform. The company is also opening a new data center.
September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17
Equifax breach highlights importance of GDPR preparation

While doing preparation work for GDPR, organizations should look at the Equifax breach and understand they would have to notify customers of a problem much sooner.
August 24, 2017 24 Aug'17
Acronis True Image backup fights ransomware with AI

Acronis True Image software will use machine pattern learning to stay ahead of potential ransomware attacks by detecting suspicious behavior before files get corrupted.
August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17
Code42 CrashPlan for Home ending, Carbonite seeks its users

In closing out its CrashPlan consumer backup product, Code42 is seeking to enhance its offerings for businesses. Consumers make up a small percentage of its overall customer base.
August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus tackles VM data protection

The new IBM Spectrum Protect takes another shot at virtual server data protection. Spectrum Protect Plus provides backup and recovery for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.
August 10, 2017 10 Aug'17
Datos IO RecoverX helps Maxwell Health protect MongoDB backup

SaaS healthcare benefits provider gets incremental backups and cost efficiency with Datos IO's RecoverX backup software, reducing MongoDB data protected on AWS cloud.
August 03, 2017 03 Aug'17
Veritas Data Insight adds GDPR compliance tool with AI

Veritas analytics adds Integrated Classification Engine to find sensitive private data that can help organizations comply with the looming General Data Protection Regulation.
August 02, 2017 02 Aug'17
Cohesity converged data protection bulks up hyper-convergence

Cohesity's Orion 5.0 software for hyper-converged secondary data supports more protocols and hypervisors, and DataPlatform hardware now includes 183 TB node.
July 20, 2017 20 Jul'17
Archive for Continuity247 brings cold cloud to Continuum

The Continuum backup and recovery line is enhanced with the addition of archiving for compliance and cheaper storage. Customers can use Glacier or their MSP's cloud.
July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17
Hospital picks Commvault data protection for Hyper-V, VMware

An Iowa-based hospital switched its troublesome IBM Tivoli backup offering for Commvault's data platform, simplifying virtual backups of VMware and Hyper-V.
June 28, 2017 28 Jun'17
Commvault CEO talks GDPR preparation, ransomware, blockchain

GDPR, ransomware, blockchain, and vendors merging and splitting have changed the data protection world. We asked Commvault CEO Bob Hammer for his take on it all.
June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17
Rocket Servergraph software passes university's backup test

The University of Edinburgh sought better backup data monitoring and reporting, and landed on Rocket Software. Servergraph reports on the school's IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
June 20, 2017 20 Jun'17
Comtrade Software launches HYCU for Nutanix backup

Comtrade seeks poetry in hyper-converged infrastructure backups with HYCU (pronounced like haiku) application that protects Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor virtual machines.
June 14, 2017 14 Jun'17
New Quest data protection takes off with VROOM

Quest VROOM protects VMware and Hyper-V, and it provides DRaaS in Microsoft Azure. It's the vendor's first data protection product since Dell sold off the company.
June 12, 2017 12 Jun'17
Veritas Information Map peers into cloud data

Veritas now has an Amazon S3 Connector that gives users visibility into their unstructured data residing in the cloud. Information Map can help identify risk.
June 01, 2017 01 Jun'17
Acronis Backup software adds ransomware protection, improved dedupe

Acronis enhanced its business-level backup product with active protection against ransomware that recognizes 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' ransomware sources.
June 01, 2017 01 Jun'17
Veeam management changes accompany product transformation

Veeam, once focused primarily on virtual machines, widens supports for other platforms as the company's revenue increases and management team transforms.
May 30, 2017 30 May'17
Former NSA chief wants private sector to take on cyberthreats

Protection against WannaCry ransomware and other cybersecurity threats could benefit from better leadership in the business world, former CIA and NSA head Michael Hayden says.
May 24, 2017 24 May'17
VeeamON puts ransomware, cloud DR, CDP on stage

Microsoft, Quantum and DataGravity were among the Veeam partners offering new backup and recovery services at VeeamON. The products include tape and cloud data protection.
May 18, 2017 18 May'17
BackupAssist Software adds dedupe, multicloud support

BackupAssist has rebuilt its data protection product with data deduplication, compression, multicloud support and AES encryption for the SMB Hyper-V market.
May 18, 2017 18 May'17
Protection against ransomware requires strong backup

The WannaCry ransomware attack sent many organizations reeling. Practice good 'data protection hygiene' to fight ransomware and keep workloads safe overall.
May 16, 2017 16 May'17
WannaCry ransomware attack shows value of data backups

WannaCry and other ransomware attacks can be thwarted, but it takes proper data protection practices beforehand, as well as close monitoring of your data.
May 11, 2017 11 May'17
Druva cloud expands to help Brexit, GDPR reg challenges

Organizations have a 'heightened awareness' about increasingly prevalent data protection regulations, and Druva's three new cloud locations aim to aid compliance.
May 08, 2017 08 May'17
Code42 endpoint data protection now available with threat detection

Code42 Software integrates threat detection tools into its data protection software. The backup and recovery product now monitors data movement to public clouds.
May 08, 2017 08 May'17
Dell EMC IDPA changes vendor's backup strategy

The Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance is the vendor's first integrated enterprise backup target. What does this mean for physical Data Domain appliances?
May 03, 2017 03 May'17
Datos IO RecoverX supports 'traditional applications'

Datos IO now offers data protection and recovery for Microsoft SQL in the cloud. The RecoverX 2.0 software also supports Cloudera and Hortonworks platforms.
April 27, 2017 27 Apr'17
Arcserve archive integrated into UDP to protect email

An Arcserve archiving module under its UDP umbrella incorporates technology acquired from FastArchiver in early 2017 and provides granular email search of Outlook.
April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17
Rubrik Cloud Data Management adds replication between AWS, Azure

Rubrik's cloud platform gets an upgrade with support for native cloud applications in AWS and Microsoft Azure for application-consistent snapshots and recovery.
April 17, 2017 17 Apr'17
CEO Sinha talks Rubrik Cloud Data Management, converged protection

Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha says cloud and virtualization were key pieces of his company's converged data protection platform from the start, but customers also want physical protection.
April 13, 2017 13 Apr'17
Altaro backup product steps 'inline' for VM protection

Altaro VM Backup version 7 includes an augmented inline deduplication feature for the data protection software as it tries to cut backup size and costs.
April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17
Cohesity storage strategy embraces object, NAS backups

Cohesity keeps extending its converged secondary storage platform, with object storage, NAS and erasure coding joining the lineup. The startup also completed another funding round.
March 31, 2017 31 Mar'17
Nakivo Backup & Replication v7 adds Hyper-V support

While historically targeting SMBs, Nakivo is looking to move up the enterprise ladder with its backup software. Its new backup capabilities include Hyper-V and vSphere 6.5 support.
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
Unitrends backup and recovery attacks ransomware

Unitrends' physical and virtual appliances can alert administrators if ransomware is detected. The updated products also feature simplified backup management.
February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17
Veritas lands Azure partnership for the hybrid cloud

Veritas Technologies signed a joint-development agreement with Azure for hybrid cloud deployments. The Azure collaboration will help Veritas rebuild its brand.
February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17
Index Engines supports tape data migration to AWS

For Index Engines' new feature, the information management and archiving provider remotely installs software, processes tapes and migrates data of value to Amazon Web Services.
February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17
Cohesity's converged data protection platform goes ROBO

Cohesity upgraded its product line with a virtual edition appliance for converged protection in remote offices and branch offices. It also added a new hardware appliance.
February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17
Komprise Data Management Grid broadens file analytics

The Komprise data plane sits out of band to return adaptive file analytics on data and metadata. The update supports unlimited linear scaling of Komprise VMs across a unified grid.
February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17
Rubrik software adds Windows Server support, encryption

Rubrik plans a first-quarter software update to enable its Cloud Data Management platform to support physical Windows servers, software-based encryption and customized reports.
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
Actifio Virtual Data Pipeline (VDP) 7.0

A pioneer in copy data management, Actifio beat out competitors in the 2016 Products of the Year competition to take silver for backup hardware with its Virtual Data Pipeline.
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
Druva software aims to get 'inSync' with ransomware

Druva inSync software is upgraded with tools to detect ransomware attacks and helps recover clean data. The endpoint software detects strange data behavior patterns.
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
Unitrends Recovery Series

Unitrends Recovery Series backup appliances ranked high in ease of use and manageability to take Products of the Year gold.
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
Barracuda Backup 6.3

Barracuda Backup 6.3 introduces multi-streaming and cloud-to-cloud backups to take bronze for 2016 Products of the Year in the backup hardware category.
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
Zerto Virtual Replication 4.5

Aimed at enterprises with large VMs, Zerto Virtual Replication version 4.5, aided by a new journaling feature, stresses RPOs of seconds and RTOs of minutes.
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
Veeam Software's Veeam Availability Suite v9

Veeam Availability Suite v9 scored highly on functionality, offering Veeam Cloud Connect Replication and Veeam Explorer for Oracle databases among its more than 250 features.
February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17
Datos IO RecoverX

The cornerstone of Datos IO RecoverX backup and recovery product is the vendor's patented Consistent Orchestrated Distributed Recovery architecture.
February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17
Arcserve UDP appliance goes deeper into Amazon cloud

Arcserve enhances UDP version 6.5 to provide backup, disaster recovery and high availability in the Amazon public cloud as well as on premises.
February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17
Data protection company action: Carbonite, Datto make acquisitions

Data protection companies Carbonite and Datto both made purchases to improve their standing in a needed area: high availability and networking, respectively.
January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17
Acronis adds blockchain to True Image 2017 for ransomware protection

Acronis' new True Image combines backup with protection against ransomware. The software uses blockchain technology to authenticate and certify data to combat ransomware attacks.
January 19, 2017 19 Jan'17
StorageCraft backup diversifies, acquires Exablox object storage

StorageCraft backup targets server-based storage. Exablox OneBlox is converged hardware, with an object-based file system and NAS front end. Product integration is a goal.
January 09, 2017 09 Jan'17
Demand grows for disk, cloud storage backup market

The cloud and disk-based storage appliances are meeting backup market needs in this age of massive and faster data creation and risk.
January 09, 2017 09 Jan'17
Ransomware protection best served by backing up your data

A recent survey illustrates how extensive ransomware threats have been, and Rich Castagna says backing up data remains your best defense
January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17
2016 data backup hardware Products of the Year finalists

This year's seven data backup hardware finalists for Products of the Year feature built-in new software capabilities to improve backup and recovery and are becoming cloud-compatible.
January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17
Data backup and recovery software: 2016 Products of the Year finalists

While the cloud is a steady presence, the backup and disaster recovery software finalists provide a variety of capabilities across technologies and platforms.
December 30, 2016 30 Dec'16
Backup 2017: Focus on ransomware protection, copy data management

Backup and recovery trends for 2017 will focus on improved ransomware protection, integrated copy data management and more mature DraaS offerings.
December 22, 2016 22 Dec'16
Backup 2016: Emphasis shifts to data management platforms

In 2016, backup vendors highlighted their intentions to evolve data protection technologies into a full data management platform.
December 09, 2016 09 Dec'16
Veritas turns NetBackup 8.0 into data management platform

Veritas Technologies' latest version of its NetBackup product is integrated with copy data management, Veritas Resiliency Platform and Veritas Information Map.
December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16
Align data protection requirements and compliance

While many compliance mandates discuss the importance of data protection guidelines, not all are as prescriptive as you'd think or like them to be.
November 30, 2016 30 Nov'16
Veeam backup software protects mental health facility's Hyper-V

A mental health and addiction facility had an ongoing problem with its virtual machine backup and recovery until it was solved with Veeam's Backup & Replication.
November 29, 2016 29 Nov'16
U.S. court dismisses Symantec lawsuit against Veeam

A U.S. district court ends the patent lawsuit that Symantec, now Veritas, brought against Veeam four years ago. The court dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice.
November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16
Cohesity storage adds Cloud Edition for AWS, Azure

Startup Cohesity launches DataPlatform Cloud Edition, a version of its converged secondary storage software designed to run on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16
Veritas Backup Exec 16 backs up Microsoft Azure, Windows Server 2016

Trying to rebuild the Backup Exec brand, Veritas adds support for Microsoft Azure, Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V Server. The upgrade is part of the new Veritas' cloud focus.
November 10, 2016 10 Nov'16
With Microsoft Office 365 backup, Veeam breaks into new market

Veeam's beta program for backing up Microsoft Office 365 pulls in 1,500 downloads within a few days of the offering's release. Customers want local protection for Exchange data.
October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16
Quantum Scalar platform grows with LTO libraries, StorNext appliance

Quantum's unstructured data archiving platform consists of Scalar LTO tape libraries and StorNext data management. The vendor aims to make tape more efficient across multi-tiers.
October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16
Commvault CEO: We're ahead of Veritas in data management platform race

Commvault CEO Bob Hammer talks about transforming his company into a full-scale data management vendor and how its technology is ahead of competitors.
October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16
Arcserve UDP appliance upgrades capacity, memory to go up market

Data protection vendor moves up market with the 8000 Series Arcserve UDP appliance hardware. The 8000 models scale from 4 TB to 80 TB raw storage before source-side deduplication.
October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16
Commvault Go lays out new focus for data management vendor

At Commvault's first user conference, the vendor revealed its roadmap to expand from data protection into full data management on premises and in the cloud.
September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16
Talena's big data analytics software tacks on Amazon S3 archive

Talena backups are stored in a compressed and deduplicated format. Customers can now choose Amazon S3 as a backup target and run active big data analytics in AWS.
September 20, 2016 20 Sep'16
Veritas Technologies CEO: Vendor 'got lost' as part of Symantec

Veritas CEO Bill Coleman talks about how he intends to reshape the company around data protection, data management and the cloud after splitting from Symantec.
September 14, 2016 14 Sep'16
Veritas Vision: Beyond backup to cloud, data management

Newly independent vendor Veritas plans to evolve from selling more than data protection to targeting the data management market, while using the cloud.
August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16
Veeam availability expands in hybrid cloud platform

Veeam's availability product vision aims to protect data regardless of the type of workload. The vendor is also planning upgrades to its Availability Suite.
August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16
Spectra tape library preserves history for NBC Olympics

Spectra Logic tape libraries will serve as flag bearers for NBC's video archiving and disaster recovery services during its production of the Rio Olympic Games.
July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16
Acronis Backup 12 adds support for Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2

Acronis backup software has a new central console for data protection and recovery across servers and mobile devices, including Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2.
July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16
Bar codes group uses Cohesity to converge DevOps storage

Bar code standards firm GS1 wanted a simpler, faster way to back up storage for DevOps, and it added a Cohesity platform that hyper-converges data protection.
July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16
New CEO Barth says Catalogic ECX poised for rapid growth

Investor-turned-CEO Ken Barth said Catalogic's ECX may support 12 additional storage platforms in 2017, adding to existing EMC, IBM, NetApp, Oracle and VMware storage.
June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16
Catalogic Software supports EMC Unity array, Oracle, AWS

ECX 2.4 enables in-place copy data management for EMC Unity arrays and helps Oracle administrators manage RMAN backups attached to local storage.
June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16
Cohesity gets physical with converged data protection

The latest version of Cohesity's data protection software adds physical machine support. Can the startup broaden its use cases beyond backup?
June 14, 2016 14 Jun'16
Catalogic Software teaches schools to manage copy sprawl

Catalogic Software's ECX Instant Copy Data Management stabilizes NetApp backup and replication for Fairfax public schools, and offers better search for their 100 million files.
May 20, 2016 20 May'16
EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management sneak peek

The eCDM product, announced at EMC World 2016, helps cut back on redundant data. It may also mean EMC breaks into the relatively new copy data management market.
May 11, 2016 11 May'16
Oil firm finds Druva inSync aids Windows 10 migration

Endpoint backup specialist Druva's inSync software aids Windows 10 migrations, with its ability to import user files and settings.
May 04, 2016 04 May'16
EMC World 2016: With eCDM, vendor addresses copy sprawl

With rollouts at EMC World 2016, Enterprise Copy Data Management and ViPR 3.0 extend EMC's software-defined storage push into copy sprawl and heterogeneous storage support.
April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16
IDrive unveils low-cost archival data product Nearline

With its Nearline for data archiving, backup vendor IDrive touts a cost of 1 cent per gigabyte of storage per month, no data retrieval fee and quick access.
April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16
On-premises, Office 365 backup key for FDA-regulated firm

Medical device manufacturer Millar has two-pronged data protection -- Barracuda Networks appliances and cloud for on-premises backups and EMC Spanning for Office 365 backups.
April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16
Asigra launches free AWS Snapshot Manager

Backup vendor Asigra has launched a free software tool to smooth the management of Elastic Block Store snapshots in the Amazon Web Services platform.
April 06, 2016 06 Apr'16
Data backup options lag, yet CDP adoption still lacking

Data backup options that call for protecting data created by 21^st century apps with 20^th century tools just won't work.
April 05, 2016 05 Apr'16
EMC launches DD VE, virtual edition of Data Domain

EMC unveils the virtual edition of its Data Domain disk library, DD VE, allowing the Data Domain operating system to run inside a VMware hypervisor and back up to any hardware.
March 29, 2016 29 Mar'16
'Snow' day: CloudBerry Backup works with AWS appliance

CloudBerry Lab's cloud backup service and AWS Snowball now work together to assist in large data transfers, including the initial backup to the cloud.
March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16
Talena storage software analyzes big data

Talena claims big data fuels demand for predictable storage workloads and application usage. The vendor's new ActiveRx uses predictive intelligence on data availability.
March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16
Druva inSync expands cloud-to-cloud backup platform

Druva adds backup for popular cloud applications to its inSync endpoint protection software, bringing governance features to services such as Office 365 and Box.
March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16
Data protection vendors fight for cloud storage title

Though major cloud storage service providers like AWS, Azure and Google lead on price, they may be lacking for data protection services.
March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16
Oracle VSM brings cloud backup to the mainframe

Oracle upgrades its virtual tape library for the cloud. The Virtual Storage Manager system helps connect traditional mainframe storage to the cloud through tiering.

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