The two new services, which will be available in the first half of 2022, expand both HPE’s cloud services portfolio and as-a-service opportunities for their channel partners.
Clumio anticipates a significant market for this solution when it hits GA in December, because AWS S3 has become a large customer pain point, and theirs is the first solution on the market for it.
Kaseya, which provides IT infrastructure and security management solutions for MSPs and SMBs, has announced an expansion of their Canadian staff based in their Canadian office in Vancouver, as well as an expansion of data centre facilities in Ontario and Quebec. Kaseya’s physical presence in Canada until now has been principally based on its 2018…
New PowerScale solutions continue, but do not quite complete, the retirement of the Isilon brand.
Datto has sold its on-prem SIRIS BCDR solution for years, but their new solution for Azure gives them their first such solution on a public cloud, along with measures to protect customers from public cloud pitfalls like egress charges and data cost fluctuations.
Barracuda is also releasing a new survey at the event, showing how the danger level to customers from various threats, including ransomware, has increased significantly.
The new offerings are being announced in conjunction with the 2021 Dell Technologies GDPI survey, which shows considerable customer doubt about their ability to protect their data, particularly against ransomware.
The new N-series, which also incorporates Sophos cybersecurity technology, is aimed at customers in the high midmarket and in the enterprise.
The anti-ransomware enhancements include immutable protection in the public cloud, starting with AWS S3, a new instant restore capability from production, and automated VM protection.
While the effects of COVID on MSPs were mixed, coming out of COVID, competition has become the primary concern of MSPs, for the first time in the five year history of this survey.
Datto unveils a virtual version of their data protection software that is easier for partners to use, and with the Azure cloud version now in beta, expect to soon have the virtual and cloud deployment options together with their hardware, all manageable through the same pane of glass.
HPE brought the two vendors together to design a validated solution on HPE Proliant servers, which combines Zerto’s high resiliency with StorMagic’s lightweight software for edge deployments.
Axcient’s new sync thin client stores data in the cloud, and mirrors it back to local devices, in what the company believes will soon be the default choice for most customers.
Veeam also has some new competencies around Microsoft 365, Offsite Backup and MSP Backup in pilot now, with some more on the way.
Veeam is now number two in the data protection space, but they have a focused strategy to get to the top spot by 2023.
Clumio Discover, which is being offered as a free product, complements the core Clumio Protect offering, and is intended to steer non-Clumio customers to it.
Veeam also made some product announcements on the first day of their event, notably the addition of support for a fourth hypervisor, Red Hat Virtualization.
Retrospect adds strong ransomware protection and enhancements to their management console.
Ransomware is the focus, both with enhancements to the core capability and the addition of AppFlows, which builds ransomware protection into an orchestrated DR solution, but there is a lot more here as well.
Cohesity’s Microsoft 365 BaaS product is coming to market later than some competitors, and while they acknowledge their partners are likely selling one of those offerings today, they think theirs will have advantages that will convince them to switch.
