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Rubrik improves recovery time and enhances cyberreadiness with Rubrik Cyber Recovery

The cyberreadiness features include the ability to simply test, validate, and document cyber recovery plans, instantly recover the last known clean copy of data into production to minimize downtime, and performing forensic investigations out-of-band in an isolated recovery environment.

Zerto looks to expand Continuous Data Protection beyond mission critical apps

Zerto is announcing enhancements to their platform to encourage its use in more mainstream data protection use cases. They also intend to support next-gen cloud-native applications, and accordingly have announced Zerto for Kubernetes.

Vancouver-based headless commerce vendor Elastic Path strengthens microservices with Moltin acquisition

Elastic Path competes with much larger suite vendors in the large enterprise space, and sees the expanded services library combined with their orchestration layer as providing further differentiation for these customers.

Komprise goes cloud native with Cloud Data Growth Analytics for AWS

Komprise has been able to move data to the cloud before now, but this is their first cloud native offering. Going forward, the plan, in fairly short order, is to get similar offerings available for the other big cloud providers

New Year’s Podcast Series: Pat Finerty of SAS Canada

Pat Finerty, vice president of alliances and channels for Canada and Latin America at SAS Institute

SAS’s vice president of channels and alliances on why and how the analytics and AI powerhouse is building out its channel business, opportunities for solution providers, highlights of its business in 2018, and plans for 2019 in this edition of the Podcast.

Expanded HPE partnership makes Cohesity an OEM partner and greatly expands go-to-market motion

Long-time HPE partner Cohesity expects to see major go-to-market gains from the expanded relationship, which makes HPE more likely to position Cohesity aggressively in takeaway deals, and further encourages HPE salespeople to sell Cohesity.

Datrium ships DVX 4.0 Software with new perks added since fall announcement

While Datrium DVX 4.0’s Cloud DVX backup and recovery service and Oracle RAC support have been made public before, other features, and two promotional offers, are being announced now for the first time.

ConnectWise acquires HTG

Arnie Bellini, CEO of ConnectWise

Aimed at better positioning both companies to help MSPs embrace operational best practices, the move brings a leader in managed services software and a leader in managed services peer groups together under one roof.

Aparavi emerges from stealth with SaaS platform for mid-market long term data retention

The Aparavi leadership team is largely made up of executives from NovaStor, a classic legacy backup player, who got frustrated with the problems created by traditional data protection.

Cisco beefs up SMB wireless portfolio

The highlight of the multiple product announcement is the upgrading of the Cisco Mobility Express management software, to deliver true enterprise functionality at a small business price point.