At their Data Cloud Summit, with a freshly rebuilt channel leadership team, Snowflake elaborated on key elements of their new strategy and the steps they will encourage the channel to take to get there.
Asigra has been a backup provider for decades, and is now expanding their portfolio with SaaSAssure, which provides comprehensive recovery for SaaS applications, with ten apps available at launch today, and 14 more set to become available in the near future.
Object First’s Ootbi now has over 80 installations for Veeam environments, with six of them worth over $100,000, as they stress how their storage immutability and Zero Trust capabilities are effective weapons against ransomware.
HYCU’s new offering utilizes Claude, Anthropics’s AI assistant, to integrate AI into the HYCU backup platform.
Back on its own, following the bankruptcy of former parent company StorCentric last year, Nexsan adds a new high-end model with immutable backups and S3 object locking.
The changes remove inconsistencies around these program features, and will be followed up in 2024 with additional partnership and program announcements, some of which are now imminent.
The updates to the HYCU R-Cloud data protection program involve new instant data and configuration restores for multiple AWS services, including Amazon Aurora, AWS IAM, Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda.
Object First, created by Veeam’s two co-founders and run by former Webroot and Axcient CEO David Bennett, focuses on immutability and ransomware recovery, and as a year-old startup, is looking for more partners to get their message out to customers.
The new collaboration will not be sold separately, but will be rolled into the existing offering around Rubrik and Microsoft Sentinel, meaning that partners will not have a new product to sell, but will have something new to show cutting edge capability to customers.
The extended partnership with Commvault follows up a major one with HPE early last year.
The new SLA guarantee is the first SLA that customers will have to purchase rather than get free as part of Evergreen, but it provides significant benefits on getting the customer new clean hardware for recovery, assisted by a Pure engineer onsite.
The new partnership was consciously designed as a replacement for the key role Datto has played with ConnectWise, which became far less attractive after Datto was acquired by ConnectWise’s largest competitor.
The big one for many users will likely be the full integration of NAS with other backup types, which will save time and money on administration costs.
While the big change is the integration of the traditional Cloud Command and Metallic, most of the enhancements revolve around improved security, and enhanced partnerships with Microsoft and CyberArk were also announced.
At its annual VeeamOn conference, Veeam announces the latest version of its Kasten K10 offering for backup and recovery of Kubernetes containers, just as it says the popular test-and-dev environment is starting to find its way into the mainstream.
Project Fort Zero quietly got underway last year, and included a new Dell Zero Trust Center of Excellence, and a partner ecosystem announced in April to accelerate Zero Trust adoption, and based on this momentum, Dell intends to deliver a validated, advanced maturity Zero Trust solution within the next 12 months.
Dell makes some major announcements around their as-a-service portfolio, including bringing their Project Alpine previews from last year out as projects, in what they are saying brings the whole APEX strategy to fruition.
The Zerto 10 update also requires customers to migrate to a new Linux-based software appliance, although Zerto is providing a tool to migrate it from Windows, while the HPE company also is announcing its Zerto 10 for Microsoft Azure offering.
N2WS was originally a pure play AWS protection platform, with AWS being both their best partner and biggest competitor, but they more recently broadened into Azure platform support and the Azure marketplace.
Acronis’ only Canadian data centre until now has been in Vancouver, and in a business where physical proximity to the data centre impacts efficiency, they expect having one in Toronto will boost their Canadian business.
