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Veeam adds ability to restore from backups to Veeam Availability Orchestrator

May 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam adds ability to restore from backups to Veeam Availability Orchestrator
Other enhancements improve documentation, role-based granularity, remote restore capability, and licensing improvements for VCSPs.

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Veeam strengthens cloud business with new distribution deal with Pax8

May 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam strengthens cloud business with new distribution deal with Pax8
Pax8 and Veeam also align strongly in the Office 365 space, and the new North American agreement should help grow Veeam’s business there.

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Veeam hits $1 billion booking target as they announce plans for second act

May 21, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam hits $1 billion booking target as they announce plans for second act
Veeam hits a long-sought milestone as they looks to drive their hybrid cloud strategy with a new strategic partnering initiative.

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Commvault optimizes larger incremental backups with Nutanix Files 3.5 integration

May 13, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault optimizes larger incremental backups with Nutanix Files 3.5 integration
A major innovation in Nutanix Files 3.5 is support for the new CFT incremental backup capability, something that Commvault is the first data protection vendor to support.

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HYCU adds new Nutanix support functionality in HYCU for Nutanix v4.0

May 13, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HYCU adds new Nutanix support functionality in HYCU for Nutanix v4.0
The big news, early support for Nutanix Mine, comes later this year, but other new capabilities kick in right away.

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Veeam looks on new Mine partnership with Nutanix as springboard for more appliance partnerships

May 10, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam looks on new Mine partnership with Nutanix as springboard for more appliance partnerships
Nutanix announced their new Mine backup-as-a-service offering, with Veeam as the design partner, and with both companies looking to use it to enhance their place at the centre of their own ecosystems.

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Nutanix enters hyperconverged secondary storage market with Nutanix Mine service

May 8, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix enters hyperconverged secondary storage market with Nutanix Mine service
Nutanix Mine provides backup-as-a-service, extending the company’s recent services focus, in a strategy that it says will enhance other third-party backup providers and not compete with them.

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Cohesity makes first acquisition with distributed database specialist Imanis Data

May 8, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity makes first acquisition with distributed database specialist Imanis Data
Concurrent with the acquisition, Cohesity also announces a new version of their platform which incorporates the newly acquired technology

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Unitrends unveils direct backup to cloud with Unitrends Cloud Backup

May 3, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Unitrends unveils direct backup to cloud with Unitrends Cloud Backup
The new Unitrends offering is designed to allow both MSP and traditional business customers to back up straight to the Unitrends cloud without  needing to use a local appliance.

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Arcserve adds support for Microsoft OneDrive and Nutanix AHV in new Unified Data Protection release

May 3, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve adds support for Microsoft OneDrive and Nutanix AHV in new Unified Data Protection release
Third-party backup is still present in only a small number of Office 365 deployments, and Arcserve believes that their rounding out the core backup requirements with OneDrive will help them expand that.