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Rubrik emphasizes Data-Forward Enterprise theme at FORWARD Digital Summit

May 11, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik emphasizes Data-Forward Enterprise theme at FORWARD Digital Summit
Rubrik’s first global customer event – virtualized by the pandemic – emphasized their vision for data management and how their applications fit into it, befitting the goal of a younger company to make itself and its value proposition better known.

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Acronis brings Cyber Protect integrated backup and security offering to GA

May 8, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Acronis brings Cyber Protect integrated backup and security offering to GA
Acronis expects most MSPs to move from Backup to Cyber Protect, and is offering a promo through the end of July to encourage this.

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Clumio adds Microsoft 365 to enterprise backup SaaS offering

April 29, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Clumio adds Microsoft 365 to enterprise backup SaaS offering
While Clumio started doing VMware backup, and has added AWS to that, Microsoft 365 is the first major application they have added, with their long-term vision being a very broad workload support as part of a single service.

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RMM/PSA provider Atera partners with Acronis for backup

April 27, 2020 Mark Cox 2
Some Atera MSPs were already using Acronis, and had asked for this integration to let them management the backup within the Atera management system.

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Acronis names first Channel Chief Evangelist as part of MSP push

April 17, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Acronis names first Channel Chief Evangelist as part of MSP push
Former MSP Amy Luby joins Acronis as the company is promoting its new Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud to the MSP market – these days largely through the use of digital media.

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OpenText Cloud Editions arrives as part of OpenText Release 20.2

April 8, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on OpenText Cloud Editions arrives as part of OpenText Release 20.2
In addition to the cloud-native capability for OpenText applications, which will roll out over this quarter, OpenText makes a multitude of other enhancements and some new additions in the 20.2 release.

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StorageCraft OneXafe Solo hits GA with broader market than first envisioned

April 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft OneXafe Solo hits GA with broader market than first envisioned
While OneXafe Solo’s ability to self-install by being plugged in is useful in today’s health conscious environment that same ability to cut MSP costs around original installs attracted partners in the beta who had not worked with StorageCraft before.

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Scale Computing expands Acronis backup partnership to Cloud Storage

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing expands Acronis backup partnership to Cloud Storage
Scale has seen their initial partnership with Acronis around Acronis Backup to be a major competitive displacement advantage for partners, and are looking to extend that further with the Acronis cloud backup solution.

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HYCU expands Protégé multi-cloud platform with HYCU for Azure

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox 1
HYCU, which started out with a purpose-built backup for Nutanix, continues to broaden its native support for other vendors, adding Azure support to the Google Cloud Platform support they announced last year.

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Cobalt Iron strengthens IBM-related opportunities with Arrow distribution deal

March 27, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cobalt Iron strengthens IBM-related opportunities with Arrow distribution deal
Cobalt Iron has already had a strong partnership with IBM because of an integration between their backup solutions, and the Arrow relationship will extend this, including bringing IBM’s Spectum Protect into the ArrowSphere cloud.