Tag Archive for Data Recovery

Commvault takes first step to self-driving backup with Commvault Command Center

Commvault’s senior executives kicked off their opening keynote at Commvault GO on Wednesday, and while they introduced several new solutions, the highlight was their new Command Center interface.

IT Cloud launching BDR appliance service with StorageCraft tech for small Canadian MSPs

Rearchitected Hitachi Data Instance Director likely to have first appeal to channel

Version 6 of Hitachi Data Instance Director massively increases scalability, and adds role-based access controls and a new interface. Exposing the system with REST API will, however, likely be the factor that makes it more attractive to Hitachi partners.

Cloudian launches first partner program as part of channel ramp-up

Object storage vendor Cloudian has close strategic partnerships with several other vendors who touch different parts of the storage space, and their channel partners tend to be ones who work with those vendors.

DataGravity announces DataGravity for Availability to enhance Veeam

DataGravity for Availability is a separate product that sits on top of Veeam, and provides it with a behavior-driven security capability. For now, it only works with Veeam, but the plan is to ultimately extend it to other vendors.

Hyper-V specialist backup vendor Altaro officially launches in North America

Malta-based Altaro simultaneously announced the version 7 of their VM Backup, which was originally a Hyper-V backup solution, but has also supported VMware environments since Version 6.

Ransomware detection highlights enhancements to Unitrends flagship backup solutions

Unitrends sees both the new anti-ransomware capability, and two enhancements which make Unitrends more attractive to enterprises, as important differentiators for partners.

Commvault announces upgrades to Commvault Data Platform

Improvements to user interfaces in a cloud world, better automation and orchestration to deal with Big Data, increased openness and new software-defined data services highlight what Commvault is calling a very significant series of announcements.

Unitrends revamps partner program on unique engagement philosophy

Unitrends is implementing a program based on five stars, with partners earning credit for ranking based on sales, marketing, customer satisfaction, training and social media achievements, in a system that can let smaller partners and even influencers rise in the program.

Unitrends looks to recruit smaller VARs with move to 100 per cent channel model

Unitrends only added a channel component to their business in 2013, and now are dispensing with direct entirely to give partners the confidence their vendor won’t poach deals from them, which will in turn encourage them to invest more in Unitrends.

Arcserve’s first appliance to hit the street by end of February

These models are aimed at the SMB and lower mid-market spaces, but more will be following which will take on the higher midmarket where the Symantec-Veritas NetBackup 5000 plays.

Arcserve announces first appliance offering

The CA spinoff, which is now free to focus on its SMB and midmarket-focused product line, is also announcing a free edition of its software, and an update of its Unified Data Protection (UDP) which adds some new features.

Nutanix adds hybrid cloud, high performance appliance

Nutanix believes the ability to offer public cloud capacity, together with a more powerful appliance, will make them the go-to vendor for any enterprise converged infrastructure project.

Data recovery business full steam ahead

With all the stress vendors have placed on backup solutions, whether it’s tape, disc or the latest cloud solutions, there might be a perception that the data recovery business is shrinking, but that’s not the case, according to the head of data recovery specialist CBL Data Recovery Technologies. In fact, quite the opposite. Business is…