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Clumio targets competitor installs with air-gapped Clumio RansomProtect service

December 17, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Clumio targets competitor installs with air-gapped Clumio RansomProtect service
Clumio’s new service is specifically focused on providing ransomware protection, making it ideal for customers with another vendor solution for their primary backup needs, who are looking for a separate service to provide protection that will be much harder to attack and corrupt.

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SolarWinds MSP lays out monitoring, data protection and security product roadmap at online partner event

December 11, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on SolarWinds MSP lays out monitoring, data protection and security product roadmap at online partner event
The company’s product roadmap, unsurprisingly, is consistent with the broader corporate strategy of increasing automation, and moving towards more product innovation.

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Axcient removes obstacle to MSP productivity with x360Recover Virtual Office

December 10, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Axcient removes obstacle to MSP productivity with x360Recover Virtual Office
Axcient enables MSPs to spin up virtual infrastructure themselves in the event of a customer incident, without having to put in a ticket and wait for Axcient support to respond, as had been the case in the old system.

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Arcserve expands Sophos partnership with X Series appliances for bigger data needs

December 9, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve expands Sophos partnership with X Series appliances for bigger data needs

The X Series Appliances Secured by Sophos covers customer needs up to the 3PB range, significantly higher than the successful 9000 series introduced a year ago, which was the first joint collaborative product of Arcserve and Sophos.

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Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service on AWS reaches general availability

December 3, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service on AWS reaches general availability
Cohesity DataProtect, their backup offering sold through a strategic partnership with AWS on the AWS Cloud, was announced in October. Cohesity is also announcing a second offering, Cohesity SiteContinuity to provide DR as a service, which will soon go into early access preview.

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Quest makes major business unit organization to improve focus and synergy

November 24, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Quest makes major business unit organization to improve focus and synergy
Heath Thompson, who joined Quest a month ago, takes over a new Information Systems Management business unit that consolidates three of the five former ones, and emphasizes that the channel will play a more significant role as Quest drives forward in its new strategy.

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Rubrik upgrades Polaris, extends Google support in Andes 5.3 release

November 19, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik upgrades Polaris, extends Google support in Andes 5.3 release
This Rubrik release, like its predecessor, is focused more on incremental changes to better facilitate large enterprise workloads, but 2021 is likely to see a return to some eye-catching new applications.

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Zerto announces Zerto for Kubernetes beta, and hands on lab for anyone

November 17, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zerto announces Zerto for Kubernetes beta, and hands on lab for anyone
Zerto indicated it would make its long-awaited entry into Kubernetes earlier this year, and following the alpha program in conjunction with their virtual customer event in June, they have unveiled their beta, with the full release set for early next year.

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Commvault Metallic launches new Hybrid Cloud Data Protection portfolio including Metallic BaaS for Kubernetes

November 17, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault Metallic launches new Hybrid Cloud Data Protection portfolio including Metallic BaaS for Kubernetes
Metallic Database Backup and Metallic File & Object Backup are the other new offerings, all built on the Metallic Core Backup & Recovery solution.

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Axcient seeing good results from Early Access program for next-gen Direct-to-Cloud offering

November 12, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Axcient seeing good results from Early Access program for next-gen Direct-to-Cloud offering
Axcient’s new Axcient D2C removes the need for MSPs to have a physical appliance for customers, as well as the hassles of converting from another backup provider to this.