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Veeam buys Kasten as flurry of Kubernetes management acquisitions continues

October 5, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam buys Kasten as flurry of Kubernetes management acquisitions continues
Veeam sees Kasten’s technology with its focus on the application perspective and strong suitability for backup and DR use cases as highly synergistic with itself

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Clumio expands presence in Canada to meet enterprise backup-as-a-service demand

September 4, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Clumio expands presence in Canada to meet enterprise backup-as-a-service demand
SaaS backup-as-a-service startup Clumio, which sells entirely through channel partners, hired its first Canada-based sales and engineering team this spring, and is seeing good results in the Canadian market.

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BackupAssist adds cloud recovery option with new BackupAssist ER solution

August 24, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on BackupAssist adds cloud recovery option with new BackupAssist ER solution
BackupAssist anticipates that most of their SMB customers will continue to recover on-prem, but the cloud recovery option is designed to offer additional protection, at a price far less than DRaaS solutions.

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Acronis integrates anti-malware into Acronis True Image backup solution

August 20, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Acronis integrates anti-malware into Acronis True Image backup solution
Acronis True Image had anti-ransomware security before, but a full security stack has now been added, replicating the company’s expansion of their enterprise Acronis Backup offering into Acronis Cyber Protect earlier this year.

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Axcient announces major restructuring of partner program

August 19, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Axcient announces major restructuring of partner program
The new Axcient program replaces a more informal one dating from the pre-merger eFolder days, and reflects the company’s growth and improved ability to provide more support for its partners.

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Asigra brings MFA deeper within cyberdefenses with Deep MFA

August 18, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra brings MFA deeper within cyberdefenses with Deep MFA
Deep Multi-Factor Authentication extends the passwordless authentication  that comes from a partnership with Secret Double Octopus

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Pure Storage, Cohesity extend partnership with Pure FlashRecover jointly engineered solution

August 12, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage, Cohesity extend partnership with Pure FlashRecover jointly engineered solution
Pure and Cohesity have partnered around Pure FlashBlade before, but this is the first jointly engineered effort, and is backed by an integrated Go-to-Market strategy as well.

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Commvault expands use cases in product portfolio refresh

July 24, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault expands use cases in product portfolio refresh
The news involves reworking Commvault Data Protection and Commvault Backup & Recovery into separate products with a suite option, bringing Hedvig technology into HyperScale, expanding Hedvig support for Kubernetes, further encouraging subscription pricing, and positioning the Metallic SaaS offering to go upmarket and address the enterprise as well as the midmarket.

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Scale Computing targets new customers with Resilience offering for home-based workforce

July 16, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing targets new customers with Resilience offering for home-based workforce
The new offering is a bundle of existing components, adding Acronis Backup and a choice of partner VDI offerings to the Scale HC3 platform, but it is purpose-built for organizations looking to protect home-based workforces.

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Commvault reworks partner program to add simplicity and more effective incents

July 14, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault reworks partner program to add simplicity and more effective incents
Commvault global channel chief Mercer Rowe discusses why Commvault reworked its channel program just a year after they remade it last year, and why he believes the changes will incent better partner performance.