Opti9, a 2022 rebranding of Canadian IaaS firm HostedBizz, has just begun an important new strategic relationship with Backblaze, which just got underway January 1
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Opti9 launches new partnership with Backblaze
by Mark Cox •
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Zerto launches Cloud Vault solution for MSPs
by Mark Cox •
Zerto has complemented its Zerto Cloud Vault solution with Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault, a fully managed solution sold through a limited channel of Zerto resellers.
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Snowflake reworks channel sales strategy, organization to boost growth opportunities.
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Asigra announces general availability of SaaSAssure to address broad SaaS application market
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Startup Object First pleased with momentum for Veeam-focused backup appliance
by Mark Cox •
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.
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HYCU partners with Anthropic around new HYCU Generative AI Issue
by Mark Cox •
HYCU’s new offering utilizes Claude, Anthropics’s AI assistant, to integrate AI into the HYCU backup platform.
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Nexsan adds high end unified storage Unity NV6000 to data protection offerings
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Veeam strengthens Global ProPartner Network with improved deal registration and stronger incumbency protection
by Mark Cox •
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.
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HYCU leads into AWS Re-Invent with broadened coverage of AWS services
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Veeam-centric backup storage company Object First looks for new partners at VMware Explore
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Rubrik extends Microsoft collaboration around Sentinel to Azure OpenAI Service to add Generative AI to cyber recovery
by Mark Cox •
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.
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VAST Data announces partnership with Commvault at HPE Discover
by Mark Cox •
The extended partnership with Commvault follows up a major one with HPE early last year.
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Pure Storage strengthens data resiliency with new ransomware SLA guarantee, new data protection assessment and anomaly detection capabilities.
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Kaseya buying Datto leads to new Axcient-ConnectWise partnership around a co-managed backup service
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Cobalt Iron strengthens NAS backup with enhancements to their Compass NAS Protector
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Commvault makes major upgrades to their management capabilities
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Veeam updates Kasten as Kubernetes opportunity starts to go mainstream
by Robert Dutt •
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.
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Dell launches Project Fort Zero to deliver validated Zero Trust military grade solution
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Dell expands APEX portfolio with major new offerings and partnerships
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Zerto 10 launch adds air-gapped recovery vault and real-time encryption detection mechanism
by Mark Cox •
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.
