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Commvault adds early threat detection capabilities from TrapX to Metallic

September 21, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault adds early threat detection capabilities from TrapX to Metallic

The new ThreatWise offering becomes the ninth item in the Metallic catalogue, and offers what the company calls unique cyberdeception capabilities that fills out their solution with protection against data exfiltration that are now commonly part of ransomware attacks.

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Zerto’s first Canadian country manager outlines strategy for expansion

September 19, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zerto’s first Canadian country manager outlines strategy for expansion
Sasha Acosta has expanded both sales and sales engineer staff in Canada since his January appointment, including the hire of a channel manager.

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 Polish backup company Storware partners with Scale Computing

September 12, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on  Polish backup company Storware partners with Scale Computing
The two companies have worked before in EMEA, but this expanded partnership will impact other geos, including North America.

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MSP 360 strengthens channel operations with hire of first-ever Global Director of Channel Operations

August 15, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on MSP 360 strengthens channel operations with hire of first-ever Global Director of Channel Operations
Katie Bach takes the new position with the objective of expanding both partners and resources to drive MSP360 to its next phase of growth.

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Veeam founders launch Object First to provide Veeam-centric storage appliance

June 28, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam founders launch Object First to provide Veeam-centric storage appliance
David Bennett comes over from Axcient, where he had been CEO, to take the same role at Object First.

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HYCU brings in two new strategic investors as part of hypergrowth plan

June 13, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on HYCU brings in two new strategic investors as part of hypergrowth plan

While HYCU says that the actual cash from their new $53 million Series B funding round was not essential to their growth plans, those plans are substantial and will include what they term a new developer-led SaaS service within two months.

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Clumio launches affordable ransomware protection with SecureVault Lite for Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS

June 2, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Clumio launches affordable ransomware protection with SecureVault Lite for Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS
SecureVault Lite is 30% less expensive than Clumio’s SecureVault, with the reduced charge coming mainly at the cost of some fine-grained file level capabilities which Clumio believes will matter only to a fairly select audience.

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Asigra looks to expand channel base with new Asigra Tiger’s Den Channel Program

May 31, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra looks to expand channel base with new Asigra Tiger’s Den Channel Program
Asigra is taking measures to increase the number of channel partners, with an emphasis on adding VAR partners who play in the midmarket and enterprise space.

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Veeam back to business as usual with partners at VeeamON

May 24, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam back to business as usual with partners at VeeamON
While partners were happy to be back to face-to-face contact with Veeam, policies will continue pretty much as before, with emphasis on things like services and subscription which have recently proven to be very successful.

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Veeam updates vision, objectives at hybrid VeeamON 2022

May 18, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam updates vision, objectives at hybrid VeeamON 2022
One the first day of VeeamON’s re-emergence as a live event in front of engaged customers and partners, the company introduced their new CEO and laid out their vision and broad strategy going forward.