Clumio’s new service is specifically focused on providing ransomware protection, making it ideal for customers with another vendor solution for their primary backup needs, who are looking for a separate service to provide protection that will be much harder to attack and corrupt.
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Backup, Cloud, Managed Services, Security
SolarWinds MSP lays out monitoring, data protection and security product roadmap at online partner event
by Mark Cox •
The company’s product roadmap, unsurprisingly, is consistent with the broader corporate strategy of increasing automation, and moving towards more product innovation.
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Backup, Virtualization
Axcient removes obstacle to MSP productivity with x360Recover Virtual Office
by Mark Cox •
Axcient enables MSPs to spin up virtual infrastructure themselves in the event of a customer incident, without having to put in a ticket and wait for Axcient support to respond, as had been the case in the old system.
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Arcserve expands Sophos partnership with X Series appliances for bigger data needs
by Mark Cox •
The X Series Appliances Secured by Sophos covers customer needs up to the 3PB range, significantly higher than the successful 9000 series introduced a year ago, which was the first joint collaborative product of Arcserve and Sophos.
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Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service on AWS reaches general availability
by Mark Cox •
Cohesity DataProtect, their backup offering sold through a strategic partnership with AWS on the AWS Cloud, was announced in October. Cohesity is also announcing a second offering, Cohesity SiteContinuity to provide DR as a service, which will soon go into early access preview.
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Backup, Data Centre, Security, Software
Quest makes major business unit organization to improve focus and synergy
by Mark Cox •
Heath Thompson, who joined Quest a month ago, takes over a new Information Systems Management business unit that consolidates three of the five former ones, and emphasizes that the channel will play a more significant role as Quest drives forward in its new strategy.
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Backup, Cloud, Data Centre
Rubrik upgrades Polaris, extends Google support in Andes 5.3 release
by Mark Cox •
This Rubrik release, like its predecessor, is focused more on incremental changes to better facilitate large enterprise workloads, but 2021 is likely to see a return to some eye-catching new applications.
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Zerto announces Zerto for Kubernetes beta, and hands on lab for anyone
by Mark Cox •
Zerto indicated it would make its long-awaited entry into Kubernetes earlier this year, and following the alpha program in conjunction with their virtual customer event in June, they have unveiled their beta, with the full release set for early next year.
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Commvault Metallic launches new Hybrid Cloud Data Protection portfolio including Metallic BaaS for Kubernetes
by Mark Cox •
Metallic Database Backup and Metallic File & Object Backup are the other new offerings, all built on the Metallic Core Backup & Recovery solution.
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Axcient seeing good results from Early Access program for next-gen Direct-to-Cloud offering
by Mark Cox •
Axcient’s new Axcient D2C removes the need for MSPs to have a physical appliance for customers, as well as the hassles of converting from another backup provider to this.
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Dell Technologies unveils next generation of PowerProtect data protection portfolio
by Mark Cox •
New PowerProtect DP series integrated appliances were the main event, but the announcement also included a key certification for their PowerProtect Cyber Recovery Data Vault and enhancements to PowerProtect Data Manager.
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Arcserve introduces UDP Universal Licensing in Americas trial run
by Mark Cox •
Arcserve thinks the new model, which is likely to be introduced on a project basis in more mature markets, responds to partner requests for more recurring revenue and the ability to grow deal sizes.
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Backup, Channel Programs, Cloud, Managed Services, Software
OpenText looks to leverage synergies from acquired SMB Carbonite-Webroot channel
by Mark Cox •
Prentiss Donohue, SVP of Partners and Alliances at OpenText, provides ChannelBuzz with a channel update, particularly around progress on bringing the newly acquired SMB channel into the broader ecosystem.
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Datto sees IPO as major plus for its MSPs
by Mark Cox •
Datto’s Rob Rae sees Datto’s successful going public on Wednesday as a significant plus for Datto MSP partners because it strengthens both the company and the MSP business as a whole.
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HYCU enhances SAP support in HYCU for Google Cloud
by Mark Cox •
HYCU expects that the significant enhancement in the support they now provide for SAP HANA in Google Cloud will further enhance that solution’s strong momentum, which they announced was 600% year-on-year growth.
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Backup, Cloud, Managed Services
Acronis CEO pledges massive data centre expansion in reaction to cloud and MSP-centric world
by Mark Cox •
In a preview to his keynote today at the Acronis Global Cyber Summit, Serguei Beloussov said that traditional backup and traditional resellers are obsolete in a world of cloud and MSPs, and Acronis is expanding its infrastructure and partner enablement to respond to that change.
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Acronis overhauls partner training approach with Acronis #CyberFit Academy
by Mark Cox •
The new training, which has been redesigned to be both massively scalable and capable of being deeply personalized, will be free in 2020 for existing Acronis partners.
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Backup, Virtualization
Zerto targets broader backup market with new Zerto Data Protection offering
by Mark Cox •
Zerto Data Protection leverages new cloud and feature capabilities from their Zerto 8.5 release, also being announced today, to go after the backup providers who Zerto customers have been using for their non-mission critical applications.
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Backup, Cloud, Partnerships
Cohesity partners with AWS to deliver Data Management as-a-service offering
by Mark Cox •
Cohesity DataProtect Backup as a Service will be the first service within the new offering when it launches near the end of the year, although it will not initially be available in the AWS Canada region.
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Backup, Cloud, Storage
Commvault Metallic targets Commvault install base with new Metallic Cloud Storage Service
by Mark Cox •
The new cloud service is designed to give Commvault customers an easy-button option to establish a cloud backup on Azure.
