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HYCU launches their first backup SaaS offering with Protégé for Microsoft Office 365

February 12, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on HYCU launches their first backup SaaS offering with Protégé for Microsoft Office 365
HYCU enters a very crowded Office 365 backup market, but believes that the capabilities within their Protégé platform and some design features to address specific market needs, will provide them needed differentiation.

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Commvault Metallic adds support for new apps, integrates HyperScale X appliance as edge offering

January 27, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault Metallic adds support for new apps, integrates HyperScale X appliance as edge offering
Metallic also continues its global rollout, with support for nine new EMEA countries, brining the total of countries supported to 23.

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Axcient addresses compliance use cases with private cloud option for Direct-to-Cloud offering

January 26, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Axcient addresses compliance use cases with private cloud option for Direct-to-Cloud offering
The private cloud capability is the latest enhancement to Axcient’s new flagship solution, with more major adds set to be rolled out relatively soon.

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Veritas looks to cancel competitor HCI deployments in NetBackup environments by adding Flex Scale deployment option

January 26, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas looks to cancel competitor HCI deployments in NetBackup environments by adding Flex Scale deployment option
NetBackup 9 responds to customer requests for an HCI option that they can use in new projects, while simplifying their management to have a solution managed by a single vendor.

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Veritas expands enterprise SaaS capabilities with acquisition of Canadian SaaS backup vendor HubStor

January 13, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas expands enterprise SaaS capabilities with acquisition of Canadian SaaS backup vendor HubStor
While there are some similarities with Commvault’s development of Metallic to provide a strong SaaS capability, Veritas has a different focus on how to best integrate the HubStor technology into their strategy.

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Commvault names (the other) John Tavares as new global channel chief

January 7, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault names (the other) John Tavares as new global channel chief
The Toronto Maple Leafs aren’t losing their captain, but Commvault is gaining a new channel leader who has spent his entire career at EMC and its Dell successors, and believes his experience there can add some things to the Commvault channel.

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Quest sees major solution, channel synergies with erwin acquisition

January 7, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Quest sees major solution, channel synergies with erwin acquisition
While both Quest and erwin have hybrid sales models, erwin’s channel has been more successful at driving new business, something that Quest is eager to emulate as it expands its channel business beyond fulfilment.

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BackupAssist partners with Wasabi for new low cost cloud backup offering

January 6, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on BackupAssist partners with Wasabi for new low cost cloud backup offering
On the heels of the latest release of Version 11 of their BackupAssist Classic offering, BackupAssist announces a new integration with Wasabi with their flagship BackupAssist Classic, which complements an existing integration with BackupAssist ER.

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Rubrik strengthens abilities in larger multi-PB deployments with Igneous acquisition

January 4, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik strengthens abilities in larger multi-PB deployments with Igneous acquisition
Rubrik picks up the assets from Igneous, which imploded in late 2020, but whose technology is first-rate and will significantly upgrade Rubrik’s ability to manage huge amounts of unstructured data.

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StorageCraft introduces next-gen of legacy ShadowProtect offering with SPX 7

December 17, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft introduces next-gen of legacy ShadowProtect offering with SPX 7
StorageCraft has reworked their ShadowProtect offering specifically to address requests for improved security, in part to handle Work From Home environments, and to handle the increasingly large volumes of storage that has to be backed up.