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Datto to remain separately run organization if acquisition by Kaseya goes through

April 22, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datto to remain separately run organization if acquisition by Kaseya goes through
Kaseya has historically kept acquired companies as independent entities within Kaseya, but Datto is now worth more than Kaseya, and is a direct competitor as opposed to a maker of complementary solutions. Nevertheless, the plan is for Kaseya to remain separately run, just like those past acquisitions.

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Cloud-first backup on the rise, but large pockets of MSP holdouts remain

April 5, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloud-first backup on the rise, but large pockets of MSP holdouts remain
N-able, which has a very strong cloud-first backup strategy, recently polled some of their more engaged resellers, and found that while a majority agreed that traditional on-prem backup had its limitations, many are still reluctant to switch.

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Titaniam brings full anti-ransomware suite to market with ability to stop data exfiltration as well as prevent attacker encryption

March 24, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Titaniam brings full anti-ransomware suite to market with ability to stop data exfiltration as well as prevent attacker encryption
Data protection vendors have widely adopted data immutability technologies to prevent ransomware attacks from encrypting it, a technique that has been successful and led some attackers to try stealing the data and hold its return for ransom instead. Titaniam is also designed to stop that.

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 adds self-service restore portal and cloud object storage integrations

March 9, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 adds self-service restore portal and cloud object storage integrations

Veeam is the market leader in this space, but they see it as an almost complete green fields opportunity since their share is 8.5 million users in an area Microsoft estimates at 300 million today, growing to 500 million in 2025.

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Retrospect beefs up its ransomware capabilities with Anomaly Detection capability

February 15, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Retrospect beefs up its ransomware capabilities with Anomaly Detection capability
Retrospect’s 18.5 release makes enhancements to the anomaly detection introduced in 18.0, and adds improvements and some new features to the software’s data immutability abilities.

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Rubrik changing global channel chiefs

February 10, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik changing global channel chiefs
Bertrand Yansouni, who has been VP of Worldwide Channel at Rubrik, is leaving that role, and is being replaced by Ghazal Asif, who becomes Vice President of Global Partners and Alliances.

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Unitrends unveils small form factor ION appliances aimed at small offices and client sites

February 2, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Unitrends unveils small form factor ION appliances aimed at small offices and client sites
While the ION and the ION+ small tower model are mainly aimed at MSPs, Unitrends also expects some VAR business aimed at specific customer use cases.

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Big changes at Asigra as new management team is brought in to run the company

January 27, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Big changes at Asigra as new management team is brought in to run the company
Both Asigra founder David Farajun and his son Eran remain at Asigra, David as Chairman of the Board, and Eran on the board and with his old SVP role, but with new execs doing much of what he did previously.

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Acronis makes changes to partner program to add differentiating and aggressive features

January 25, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Acronis makes changes to partner program to add differentiating and aggressive features
The big focus is helping traditional VAR partners transition to being cloud service providers, and in addition to improved traditional incents, new elements like a program that facilitates collaboration between Acronis, a partner, and a sports team have been added.

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Dell unveils new and enhanced multi-cloud products to speed multi-cloud journey from default to design

January 19, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell unveils new and enhanced multi-cloud products to speed multi-cloud journey from default to design
Dell is making a large number of multi-cloud announcements to expand their multi-cloud capabilities, and make them more effective for customers.