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Zerto launches Cloud Vault solution for MSPs

January 6, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zerto launches Cloud Vault solution for MSPs
Zerto has complemented its Zerto Cloud Vault solution with Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault, a fully managed solution sold through a limited channel of Zerto resellers.

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Snowflake reworks channel sales strategy, organization to boost growth opportunities.

June 10, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Snowflake reworks channel sales strategy, organization to boost growth opportunities.
At their Data Cloud Summit, with a freshly rebuilt channel leadership team, Snowflake elaborated on key elements of their new strategy and the steps they will encourage the channel to take to get there.

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Asigra announces general availability of SaaSAssure to address broad SaaS application market

June 3, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra announces general availability of SaaSAssure to address broad SaaS application market
Asigra has been a backup provider for decades, and is now expanding their portfolio with SaaSAssure, which provides comprehensive recovery for SaaS applications, with ten apps available at launch today, and 14 more set to become available in the near future.

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Startup Object First pleased with momentum for Veeam-focused backup appliance

March 12, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Startup Object First pleased with momentum for Veeam-focused backup appliance
Object First’s Ootbi now has over 80 installations for Veeam environments, with six of them worth over $100,000, as they stress how their storage immutability and Zero Trust capabilities are effective weapons against ransomware.

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HYCU partners with Anthropic around new HYCU Generative AI Issue

January 30, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on HYCU partners with Anthropic around new HYCU Generative AI Issue
HYCU’s new offering utilizes Claude, Anthropics’s AI assistant, to integrate AI into the HYCU backup platform.

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Nexsan adds high end unified storage Unity NV6000 to data protection offerings

January 24, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nexsan adds high end unified storage Unity NV6000 to data protection offerings
Back on its own, following the bankruptcy of former parent company StorCentric last year, Nexsan adds a new high-end model with immutable backups and S3 object locking.

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Veeam strengthens Global ProPartner Network with improved deal registration and stronger incumbency protection

January 17, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam strengthens Global ProPartner Network with improved deal registration and stronger incumbency protection
The changes remove inconsistencies around these program features, and will be followed up in 2024 with additional partnership and program announcements, some of which are now imminent.

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HYCU leads into AWS Re-Invent with broadened coverage of AWS services

November 22, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on HYCU leads into AWS Re-Invent with broadened coverage of AWS services
The updates to the HYCU R-Cloud data protection program involve new instant data and configuration restores for multiple AWS services, including Amazon Aurora, AWS IAM, Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda.

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Veeam-centric backup storage company Object First looks for new partners at VMware Explore

August 29, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam-centric backup storage company Object First looks for new partners at VMware Explore
Object First, created by Veeam’s two co-founders and run by former Webroot and Axcient CEO David Bennett, focuses on immutability and ransomware recovery, and as a year-old startup, is looking for more partners to get their message out to customers.

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Rubrik extends Microsoft collaboration around Sentinel to Azure OpenAI Service to add Generative AI to cyber recovery

June 29, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik extends Microsoft collaboration around Sentinel to Azure OpenAI Service to add Generative AI to cyber recovery
The new collaboration will not be sold separately, but will be rolled into the existing offering around Rubrik and Microsoft Sentinel, meaning that partners will not have a new product to sell, but will have something new to show cutting edge capability to customers.