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.
The local cache, which was always planned as a local complement for D2C, will remove any need for local appliances and truck rolls, by placing a local copy resembling a browser cache on any commodity storage.
The Rubrik Go Foundation Edition, and Rubrik Go Business Edition SKUs will appear on NetApp price lists starting May 17, providing multiple benefits to the companies’ field sales forces and joint channel partners.
HYCU’s new Kubernetes protection service is an elastically scalable backup service, which doesn’t protect containers separately but as a fully integrated component of an integrated data protection process.
In addition to providing immutability against ransomware attacks, the new version of Kasten K10 adds ease of use enhancements and new vendor integrations.
Some of the new enhancements are part of the forthcoming Zerto 9.0 release, which Zerto also previewed to customers at the virtual event.
