The new cloud service is designed to give Commvault customers an easy-button option to establish a cloud backup on Azure.
Backup, Cloud, Storage
Commvault Metallic targets Commvault install base with new Metallic Cloud Storage Service
by Mark Cox •
Backup
Backup, Storage, Virtualization
Veeam buys Kasten as flurry of Kubernetes management acquisitions continues
by Mark Cox •
Veeam sees Kasten’s technology with its focus on the application perspective and strong suitability for backup and DR use cases as highly synergistic with itself
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Clumio expands presence in Canada to meet enterprise backup-as-a-service demand
by Mark Cox •
SaaS backup-as-a-service startup Clumio, which sells entirely through channel partners, hired its first Canada-based sales and engineering team this spring, and is seeing good results in the Canadian market.
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BackupAssist adds cloud recovery option with new BackupAssist ER solution
by Mark Cox •
BackupAssist anticipates that most of their SMB customers will continue to recover on-prem, but the cloud recovery option is designed to offer additional protection, at a price far less than DRaaS solutions.
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Backup, Security, Small Business
Acronis integrates anti-malware into Acronis True Image backup solution
by Mark Cox •
Acronis True Image had anti-ransomware security before, but a full security stack has now been added, replicating the company’s expansion of their enterprise Acronis Backup offering into Acronis Cyber Protect earlier this year.
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Axcient announces major restructuring of partner program
by Mark Cox •
The new Axcient program replaces a more informal one dating from the pre-merger eFolder days, and reflects the company’s growth and improved ability to provide more support for its partners.
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Asigra brings MFA deeper within cyberdefenses with Deep MFA
by Mark Cox •
Deep Multi-Factor Authentication extends the passwordless authentication that comes from a partnership with Secret Double Octopus
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Pure Storage, Cohesity extend partnership with Pure FlashRecover jointly engineered solution
by Mark Cox •
Pure and Cohesity have partnered around Pure FlashBlade before, but this is the first jointly engineered effort, and is backed by an integrated Go-to-Market strategy as well.
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Commvault expands use cases in product portfolio refresh
by Mark Cox •
The news involves reworking Commvault Data Protection and Commvault Backup & Recovery into separate products with a suite option, bringing Hedvig technology into HyperScale, expanding Hedvig support for Kubernetes, further encouraging subscription pricing, and positioning the Metallic SaaS offering to go upmarket and address the enterprise as well as the midmarket.
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Scale Computing targets new customers with Resilience offering for home-based workforce
by Mark Cox •
The new offering is a bundle of existing components, adding Acronis Backup and a choice of partner VDI offerings to the Scale HC3 platform, but it is purpose-built for organizations looking to protect home-based workforces.
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Commvault reworks partner program to add simplicity and more effective incents
by Mark Cox •
Commvault global channel chief Mercer Rowe discusses why Commvault reworked its channel program just a year after they remade it last year, and why he believes the changes will incent better partner performance.
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Commvault extends Microsoft partnership to cover Metallic SaaS portfolio
by Mark Cox •
While Metallic’s control plane was built on Azure, the Go-to-Marketing and engineering issues that have been announced around Azure are new.
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Backup, Cloud, Distribution
Pax8 strengthens Veeam ecosystem with NewCloud Networks partnership
by Mark Cox •
NewCloud brings Pax8 MSPs cloud storage and compute resources to support Veeam Cloud Connect, as well as simplification of Veeam licensing.
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StorageCraft emphasizes benefits for MSPs in ShadowXafe 4.0
by Mark Cox •
The enhancements to the new release of StorageCraft’s flagship data protection software are focused on filling in small gaps and connecting dots, to allow MSPs to use it as a single platform to cover all business continuity use cases.
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Stability, fine tuning characterize Veeam Go-to-Market strategy for 2020
by Mark Cox •
Going forward, Veeam’s acquisition by Insight is projected to make even more resources available for channel enablement than before.
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Veeam sees perfect storm in convergence of design philosophy, market opportunity and new solutions
by Mark Cox •
Updates were announced for Veeam Backup for Office 365, Veeam Backup for AWS and Veeam Availability Orchestrator and a sneak preview was given for Veeam Availability Suite v11, including something about Macs.
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Cohesity adds consumption-based pricing to MSP program
by Mark Cox •
Cohesity offers partners the ability to use the pricing model preferred by most service providers, as they expand their MSP channel both upmarket to large telcos and downmarket to MSPs who serve the SMB and midmarket.
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Backup, Channel Programs, Cloud
HYCU extends partner program to support Cloud Service Providers
by Mark Cox •
HYCU broadens its partner program to reflect the extension of its cloud partnering strategy since it introduced its Protégé multi-cloud program.
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Commvault launches their Metallic SaaS offering in Canada
by Mark Cox •
Manoj Nair, who took over as GM of Metallic in May, talks with ChannelBuzz about the launch in Canada, and what the plans are for Metallic beyond that.
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Clumio adds free operational snapshots, RDS support to AWS data protection
by Mark Cox •
Clumio is offering free support for operational recovery, which is typically used in DevTest environments, to highlight that it fits in to what they say is a more holistic data protection strategy than competitors.
