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Commvault sees GDPR benefits in latest extension of Office 365 capabilities

May 30, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault sees GDPR benefits in latest extension of Office 365 capabilities
Commvault is positioning both their Office 365 integration and their new Sensitive Data Governance offering as logical solutions to the issues created by the growing intersection of data protection and compliance.

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Zerto pledges to disrupt traditional backup with continuous data protection for long-term retention

May 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zerto pledges to disrupt traditional backup with continuous data protection for long-term retention
Zerto 7, when it becomes available next winter, will add Elastic Journal continuous data protection that adds the capabilities offered by traditional backup to Zerto’s solution.

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Cohesity announces snapshot integration around Pure Storage FlashBlade

May 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity announces snapshot integration around Pure Storage FlashBlade
While multiple backup vendors have snapshot integrations around Pure’s FlashArray//M array, integrations for the AI-focused Pure FlashBlade are rarer.

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Canonical sees huge boost to OpenStack from Bootstack integration with Trilio backup and recovery solution

May 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canonical sees huge boost to OpenStack from Bootstack integration with Trilio backup and recovery solution
Canonical believes that bringing Trilio directly into Ubuntu will have a profound impact on OpenStack enterprise adoption, making OpenStack much more attractive to the private cloud market and allowing its cost advantages over Vmware to have more resonance.

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Hitachi Vantara fills out end-to-end copy management solution with HDID 6.5

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara fills out end-to-end copy management solution with HDID 6.5
Hitachi Data Instance Director, which had been around Hitachi Data Services since 2008, gets an updating from integration with Hitachi Content Platform and analytics technologies which came in the formation of Hitachi Vantara.

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Panzura partners with Veeam and achieves Veeam Ready certification

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Panzura partners with Veeam and achieves Veeam Ready certification
Panzura’s hybrid cloud NAS gains an additional use case with the certification, which will enable joint Veeam and Panzura solutions for cloud-native VM backup and DR in any public or private cloud.

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Channel consistency rather than change takeaway message from VeeamON 2018

May 18, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Channel consistency rather than change takeaway message from VeeamON 2018
The overall Veeam message at this year’s VeeamON event was change, with their hyper-availability vision, but for their channel partners, the messaging revolved around consistency of programs and assured consistency of support.

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New product announcements at VeeamON secondary to new vision statement

May 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New product announcements at VeeamON secondary to new vision statement
The major announcement was Veam DataLabs, which is an upgraded version of the old Veeam Virtual Labs repositioned to serve broader use cases. In that sense, this product announcement also fits into the articulation of the broader vision which is what this year’s VeeamON was all about.

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Veeam CEO says aggressive strategic partnering strategy central to recent – and future – growth

May 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam CEO says aggressive strategic partnering strategy central to recent – and future – growth
Veeam CEO Peter McKay credited Veeam’s expansion of their strategic relationships as critical to their success in 2017, and indicated they plan significant further expansion here going forward.

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Veeam cloud company N2WS expands AWS solution support with Cloud Protection Manager 2.3 release

May 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam cloud company N2WS expands AWS solution support with Cloud Protection Manager 2.3 release
N2WS makes a sexy announcement expanding NoSQL support around Amazon DynamoDB, a solid announcement expanding support for Amazon Aurora databases, and a RESTful API announcement that will be of particular interest to channel partners.