Tag Archive for Disaster Recovery

Sungard AS increases scalability of Zerto-powered Sungard AS Cloud Recovery – Virtual Servers

Sungard AS enhances the service it first rolled out last year, with an emphasis on increasing scalability to better meet the needs of larger customers.

Commvault restructuring of product portfolio, channel enablement tools guided by same theme

Commvault has greatly simplified its solution set, from 21 product areas to four, and consolidated its partner enablement tools, with the goal of both being to greatly scale the channel business.

StorageCraft continues vertical solutions strategy with StorageCraft for Education bundle

StorageCraft is now offering a standard bundle with special pricing for the education market. Later this summer, they will also be introducing more complex integrated solutions for their vertical markets as well.

Dell EMC targets SMB and midmarket customers with DP 4400 Integrated Protection Appliance

The IDPA series Dell EMC rolled out last year was aimed at the enterprise, but the DP4400 was specifically built for SMB and midmarket customers, and is being targeted there rather than at ROBO deployments of enterprises.

Imanis Data upgrades machine learning Data Management Platform as it expands channel strategy

Imanis Data is looking for selected channel partners who want to emphasize data management rather than just backup, and who get that this requires selling to the C-suite.

Zerto pledges to disrupt traditional backup with continuous data protection for long-term retention

Zerto 7, when it becomes available next winter, will add Elastic Journal continuous data protection that adds the capabilities offered by traditional backup to Zerto’s solution.

Pivot3 fills out HCI cloud strategy for partners by adding new capabilities, plus Azure and Google support

Pivot3 is stressing that while other HCI vendors have intelligent hybrid cloud strategies, they have one that is in production today.

Unitrends targets Veeam with VM Backup solution

This initial version of VM Backup Essentials supports a maximum of six sockets, and so is aimed at enterprise departments and SMBs, but Unitrends says that an enterprise version will be out later this quarter.

Pivot3 announces cloud version of their HCI offering for the AWS Cloud

The features of the next-gen Pivot3 Acuity platform introduced last year are being migrated to the cloud, beginning with using its dynamic provisioning capability for backup and disaster recovery.

Zerto extends IBM partnership around IBM Resiliency Orchestration DRaaS solution

Zerto is already an established IBM partner, including a relationship with IBM Resiliency. The partnership is now being extended to the IBM Resiliency Orchestration DRaaS offering.

Acronis partners with Google Cloud, with integrations coming soon

Support for the Google Cloud will be integrated into each Acronis solution at their next release, and Acronis will release a specific backup for Google’s G Suite before the first half of the year ends.

Veritas adds cloud-based data protection for Azure and Google with CloudPoint 2.0

While CloudPoint 1.0 was all about snapshotting, 2.0 layers on additional data protection capabilities. It’s available now for Azure and Google, with AWS not that far off.

Zerto launches multi-cloud resilience platform with Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0

ZVR 6.0 extends bi-directional replication that Zerto had introduced in their previous release. Another highlight of 6.0 is a new management portal for Cloud Service Providers.

Dell EMC upgrades low end of Data Domain portfolio with cloud-friendly DD 3300

The Dell EMC DD3300 replaces the DD2200 in the Data Domain lineup, providing the ROBO-SME part of the market with an offering that features full cloud capability as well as upgraded capacity.

Arcserve announces cloud-first DR with near-zero cloud recovery points

Arcserve brings the technology adapted from last year’s acquisition of Zetta to market, with the ability to deliver the go-to-market potential that always eluded Zetta.

Tintri, Neverfail partner on DRaaS solution

The Tintri collaboration provides a packaged replication service for higher tier disaster recovery needs. It will be available through Neverfail partners, and will likely be able to be sold by Tintri partners too.

Carbonite primes strategy for big 2018

Carbonite made key solution acquisitions and reworked their channel program in 2017 to build a base for significant growth in 2018. Now they need to execute, and are looking to some new initiatives to help them do that.

Scalable storage vendor WekaIO makes major enhancements to AWS functionality in new release

On the heels of a key new partnership with HPE, the extension of the WekaIO relationship with AWS significantly strengthens the startup’s go-to-market positioning.