Aparavi File Protect & Insight is being sold as a separate solution from their original Active Archive, because the use cases are so fundamentally different.
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Commvault Canada country manager Hemdan bullish on new Commvault offerings
by Mark Cox •
While the Metallic SaaS solution for the midmarket won’t arrive in Canada till the new year, the strengthening of Commvault Activate further enhances a solution that is already doing well in Canada.
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Commvault scales up Activate Go-to-Market with licensing changes, product enhancements
by Mark Cox •
Since its formal launch a year ago, Commvault has been strengthening its internal resources behind the offering, and will be doing the same with channel resources going forward.
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If backup is dead, what is Acronis today?
by Robert Dutt •
Acronis Americas boss Patrick Hurley discusses how MSPs should think about the company in its cyber-protection era, why the company is looking to build in Canada, and much more in this edition of the podcast.
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Commvault touts ‘Data Brain’ for unified data management and storage with expanded Hedvig use cases
by Mark Cox •
At their GO 2019 event, Commvault laid out further details about their vision for their Hedvig software-defined storage acquisition, as well as its roadmap going forward.
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Commvault’s new Metallic SaaS offering for midmarket will be pure channel play
by Mark Cox •
Canadian partners need to be prepared to wait a while however. The new services launch in the U.S. only, and the plan is to pilot it there to make sure it delivers what customers want.
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Commvault drives home trust theme at Partner Xchange
by Mark Cox •
Hollywood stunt doubles and a data therapy dog were part of the core messaging Commvault delivered to partners at the start of their GO event Monday: that partners can trust Commvault to deliver peace of mind to customers and increased simplicity and predictability in their business with the company.
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Veritas, Pure Storage extend collaboration with new integrations
by Mark Cox •
The new integrations, around primary storage, analytics and long-term data retention, further enhance a partnership that began a year ago.
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Backblaze adds option to extend backups beyond 30 days in Backblaze Cloud Backup 7.0
by Mark Cox •
Options are now available for a year of backup protection, as well as one that provides protection forever.
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Acronis introduces program to provide free usage for new MSPs
by Mark Cox •
Acronis will provide six months of free service to partners who sign up to attend the Acronis Cyber Summit, with three months to new MSPs who sign up after the event later this year.
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Cohesity unveils SmartFiles intelligent NAS solution
by Mark Cox •
Cohesity says that SmartFiles’ leveraging of capabilities added to the Cohesity DataPlatform in version 6.3 provides unique benefits from any other NAS solution on the market.
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Arcserve, Sophos target ransomware with new alliance to harden Arcserve appliances
by Mark Cox •
The integrated solution, which brings Sophos’ Intercept X deep learning technology onto Arcserve appliances, will be sold through the Arcserve channel.
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Rodney Foreman lays out plan to make Cobalt Iron the Nutanix of data protection
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix’s former global channel chief is now CRO at SaaS-based data protection startup Cobalt Iron, and thinks the company and its all-channel model can do in enterprise data protection what Nutanix did in HCI.
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Backblaze celebrates tenth anniversary of storage pod with new Tiger Bridge integration
by Mark Cox •
The new Backblaze integration with Tiger Bridge is designed to solve a pain point for businesses and MSPs who want to tier their data in Veeam to the cloud at low cost.
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Data Domain disappears as Dell rebrands next-gen appliances as DD Series
by Mark Cox •
While the Data Domain OS and technology remains core to the solution, Dell EMC has rebranded the portfolio to the PowerProtect DD Series as they release its next generation.
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Deeper integration with strategic partners highlights Zerto 7.5 GA release
by Mark Cox •
Enhanced relationships with Microsoft, VMware and HPE bring new capabilities to the Zerto platform, particularly around security.
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Axcient looks to automate distribution of leads to motivated MSP partners with new Lead Generation Program
by Mark Cox •
The goal, which is partially realized at this point, is for Axcient’s Partner Success team to leverage the new Axcient Marketing Portal to provide an automated process to distribute the number of leads that has been steadily increased since Axcient opened up their trial program.
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Cohesity continues to add new abilities to leverage backup data with Cohesity Agile Dev and Test
by Mark Cox •
The new solution lets developers access backup data on a secure self-service model to facilitate much faster building of applications, while providing channel partners with additional points of contact and new subscription-based revenues.
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Druva deepens AWS solution set with multi-tier intelligent storage, enhanced DRaaS
by Mark Cox •
The multi-tiered storage tiering system for the AWS cloud covers all layers of AWS storage, including S3, Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive, with Druva moving the data either by its own policies or ones set by the customer.
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MSP-focused backup vendor Probax partners with Dropbox
by Mark Cox •
Probax, which sells entirely to MSPs, and has built beyond its original base in Australia to develop a good presence in the U.S. and Canada, is already seeing strong interest in the solution, which is the first of its type that Dropbox has certified.
