N2WS was originally a pure play AWS protection platform, with AWS being both their best partner and biggest competitor, but they more recently broadened into Azure platform support and the Azure marketplace.
Acronis’ only Canadian data centre until now has been in Vancouver, and in a business where physical proximity to the data centre impacts efficiency, they expect having one in Toronto will boost their Canadian business.
Asigra’s new SaaSBACKUP platform is designed to back up a virtually endless number of apps, with customer able to provide protection to the ones it wants, protection many still do not know is not provided by the software itself.
The new portfolio comes in three versions, with the Foundation Edition consisting of Veeam Backup and Replication v.12, the Advanced Edition adding Veeam ONE to this, and the Premium Edition adding both VeeamONE and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator.
While specific apps to provide core Microsoft and Google office product are becoming more common, they are far from ubiquitous and most apps have no or tiny amounts of software protection for them.
Larissa Crandall becomes Vice President of Global Channel and Alliances, the first time Veeam has brought these areas together globally under a single executive.
Most QuickBooks data is not backed up today, in part because Quickbooks’ own backup options are limited, and expensive for smaller businesses.
Other announcements from Dell Technologies today include the expansion of Dell APEX Data Storage Services and the addition of isolated cyber vaults to Google Cloud, joining cyber vault support for AWS and Azure.
The announcements, which also include the appointment of a new member to the Cohesity Advisory Council, were made at Cohesity’s virtual ReConnect event.
Workloads on Azure Government Cloud in many countries including Canada can now be backed up, restored to different regions and recovered to a different region if desired.
The company estimates this will cut costs by 20-25% for existing MSP360 partners, and up to 50% for those who switch from other backup products.
The new ThreatWise offering becomes the ninth item in the Metallic catalogue, and offers what the company calls unique cyberdeception capabilities that fills out their solution with protection against data exfiltration that are now commonly part of ransomware attacks.
Sasha Acosta has expanded both sales and sales engineer staff in Canada since his January appointment, including the hire of a channel manager.
The two companies have worked before in EMEA, but this expanded partnership will impact other geos, including North America.
Katie Bach takes the new position with the objective of expanding both partners and resources to drive MSP360 to its next phase of growth.
David Bennett comes over from Axcient, where he had been CEO, to take the same role at Object First.
While HYCU says that the actual cash from their new $53 million Series B funding round was not essential to their growth plans, those plans are substantial and will include what they term a new developer-led SaaS service within two months.
SecureVault Lite is 30% less expensive than Clumio’s SecureVault, with the reduced charge coming mainly at the cost of some fine-grained file level capabilities which Clumio believes will matter only to a fairly select audience.
Asigra is taking measures to increase the number of channel partners, with an emphasis on adding VAR partners who play in the midmarket and enterprise space.
While partners were happy to be back to face-to-face contact with Veeam, policies will continue pretty much as before, with emphasis on things like services and subscription which have recently proven to be very successful.
