Pax8 and Veeam also align strongly in the Office 365 space, and the new North American agreement should help grow Veeam’s business there.
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Veeam strengthens cloud business with new distribution deal with Pax8
by Mark Cox •
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Veeam hits $1 billion booking target as they announce plans for second act
by Mark Cox •
Veeam hits a long-sought milestone as they looks to drive their hybrid cloud strategy with a new strategic partnering initiative.
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Commvault optimizes larger incremental backups with Nutanix Files 3.5 integration
by Mark Cox •
A major innovation in Nutanix Files 3.5 is support for the new CFT incremental backup capability, something that Commvault is the first data protection vendor to support.
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HYCU adds new Nutanix support functionality in HYCU for Nutanix v4.0
by Mark Cox •
The big news, early support for Nutanix Mine, comes later this year, but other new capabilities kick in right away.
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Veeam looks on new Mine partnership with Nutanix as springboard for more appliance partnerships
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix announced their new Mine backup-as-a-service offering, with Veeam as the design partner, and with both companies looking to use it to enhance their place at the centre of their own ecosystems.
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Nutanix enters hyperconverged secondary storage market with Nutanix Mine service
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix Mine provides backup-as-a-service, extending the company’s recent services focus, in a strategy that it says will enhance other third-party backup providers and not compete with them.
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Cohesity makes first acquisition with distributed database specialist Imanis Data
by Mark Cox •
Concurrent with the acquisition, Cohesity also announces a new version of their platform which incorporates the newly acquired technology
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Unitrends unveils direct backup to cloud with Unitrends Cloud Backup
by Mark Cox •
The new Unitrends offering is designed to allow both MSP and traditional business customers to back up straight to the Unitrends cloud without needing to use a local appliance.
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Arcserve adds support for Microsoft OneDrive and Nutanix AHV in new Unified Data Protection release
by Mark Cox •
Third-party backup is still present in only a small number of Office 365 deployments, and Arcserve believes that their rounding out the core backup requirements with OneDrive will help them expand that.
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Dell EMC adds data management, scale-out capabilities to data protection with new PowerProtect line
by Mark Cox •
Dell EMC unveils a new scale-out offering, available as both a software-defined platform and an appliance, that is particularly aimed at hyperconverged startups like Cohesity and Rubrik.
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Acronis opens up APIs to rebranded Acronis Cyber Platform
by Mark Cox •
Acronis looks to build on the presence of its platform by opening it up to developers, something they say will materially assist their large number of channel partners.
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Unitrends upgrades entry-level offerings for MSPs and distributed locations with Recovery MAX appliances
by Mark Cox •
The Unitrends MAX appliances are targeted at the lower end of the market, providing it with failover capabilities and other capabilities which have not been available previously to these customers.
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New Axcient channel chief emphasizes commitment to 100 per cent channel model
by Mark Cox •
Axcient has named Gina Thompson as Vice President of Channel and Worldwide Distribution.
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Canadian businesses doing more with their data: Dell EMC study
by Mark Cox •
Since the last time this study was done in 2016, data has grown globally by 569 per cent – but this pales besides the Canadian data growth rate of 941 per cent over the same period.
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CTERA unveils new hyperconverged Edge X Series for large office environments
by Mark Cox •
CTERA’s Edge X series weds the CTERA global file system with the HPE SimpliVity enterprise-grade hyperconverged platform
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Cohesity ups investment in Canada and looks to drive deeper into midmarket
by Mark Cox •
Cohesity hopes to outgrow its new offices in the GTA, which will be filled both with new engineers for the company’s R&D operations, and new sales people working with the partners who are their sole route to market.
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Rubrik to offer lower prices and more customer flexibility with new Rubrik Go subscription licensing
by Mark Cox •
Rubrik Go is being presented as an option for customers, but the company thinks there’s no reason why a net-new customer who hasn’t already invested in perpetual licenses would want to buy any other way.
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Datto Channel Ransomware Report for Canada has some warning signs for MSPs
by Mark Cox •
Canada leads the countries surveyed in both the average ransom paid to ransomware creators and the amount of money lost to downtime from ransomware, which is hardly ideal, and something that Canadian MSPs need to work smarter to prevent.
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Datrium shifts licensing default to software model with Datrium Forward
by Mark Cox •
Datrium moves from their original licensing model to a new framework designed to provide customers with maximum portability and flexibility.
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Druva targets VMware customers moving to AWS cloud with DRaaS update
by Mark Cox •
Enhancements include new failback recovery capabilities, and recovery for cloud workloads with cross-region/account support.
