Most QuickBooks data is not backed up today, in part because Quickbooks’ own backup options are limited, and expensive for smaller businesses.
Other announcements from Dell Technologies today include the expansion of Dell APEX Data Storage Services and the addition of isolated cyber vaults to Google Cloud, joining cyber vault support for AWS and Azure.
The announcements, which also include the appointment of a new member to the Cohesity Advisory Council, were made at Cohesity’s virtual ReConnect event.
Workloads on Azure Government Cloud in many countries including Canada can now be backed up, restored to different regions and recovered to a different region if desired.
The company estimates this will cut costs by 20-25% for existing MSP360 partners, and up to 50% for those who switch from other backup products.
The new ThreatWise offering becomes the ninth item in the Metallic catalogue, and offers what the company calls unique cyberdeception capabilities that fills out their solution with protection against data exfiltration that are now commonly part of ransomware attacks.
Sasha Acosta has expanded both sales and sales engineer staff in Canada since his January appointment, including the hire of a channel manager.
The two companies have worked before in EMEA, but this expanded partnership will impact other geos, including North America.
Katie Bach takes the new position with the objective of expanding both partners and resources to drive MSP360 to its next phase of growth.
David Bennett comes over from Axcient, where he had been CEO, to take the same role at Object First.
While HYCU says that the actual cash from their new $53 million Series B funding round was not essential to their growth plans, those plans are substantial and will include what they term a new developer-led SaaS service within two months.
SecureVault Lite is 30% less expensive than Clumio’s SecureVault, with the reduced charge coming mainly at the cost of some fine-grained file level capabilities which Clumio believes will matter only to a fairly select audience.
Asigra is taking measures to increase the number of channel partners, with an emphasis on adding VAR partners who play in the midmarket and enterprise space.
While partners were happy to be back to face-to-face contact with Veeam, policies will continue pretty much as before, with emphasis on things like services and subscription which have recently proven to be very successful.
One the first day of VeeamON’s re-emergence as a live event in front of engaged customers and partners, the company introduced their new CEO and laid out their vision and broad strategy going forward.
Kaseya has historically kept acquired companies as independent entities within Kaseya, but Datto is now worth more than Kaseya, and is a direct competitor as opposed to a maker of complementary solutions. Nevertheless, the plan is for Kaseya to remain separately run, just like those past acquisitions.
N-able, which has a very strong cloud-first backup strategy, recently polled some of their more engaged resellers, and found that while a majority agreed that traditional on-prem backup had its limitations, many are still reluctant to switch.
Data protection vendors have widely adopted data immutability technologies to prevent ransomware attacks from encrypting it, a technique that has been successful and led some attackers to try stealing the data and hold its return for ransom instead. Titaniam is also designed to stop that.
Veeam is the market leader in this space, but they see it as an almost complete green fields opportunity since their share is 8.5 million users in an area Microsoft estimates at 300 million today, growing to 500 million in 2025.
Retrospect’s 18.5 release makes enhancements to the anomaly detection introduced in 18.0, and adds improvements and some new features to the software’s data immutability abilities.
