NetBackup

Artificial Intelligence

Veritas brings new predictive analytics to appliances

November 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas brings new predictive analytics to appliances
Veritas Predictive Insights will be a core, free feature of their appliances, beginning initially with NetBackup Appliances and extending to Access and Flex appliances next year.

Artificial Intelligence

Veritas partners with Pure Storage on joint solution around Pure’s data hub architecture

October 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas partners with Pure Storage on joint solution around Pure’s data hub architecture
The joint solution is targeted at larger customers, and will initially go to market through a select number of the two companies’ joint channel partners, before having its availability broadened out subsequently.

Backup

Veritas highlights redesigned user interface in NetBackup 8.1.2

August 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas highlights redesigned user interface in NetBackup 8.1.2
Veritas fundamentally designed their user interface in accordance with principles of simplicity, intuitiveness and integration, with the latter creating an API First approach which will make it much easier for customers and partners to integrate NetBackup with other solutions.

Backup

Veritas looking to expand partner business with Nutanix

May 14, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas looking to expand partner business with Nutanix
Veritas wants their mutual partners with Nutanix to ramp up their joint business, including Nutanix’s cloud offerings, and they are considering making channel program changes as one way to accomplish this.

Backup

Veritas boosts partner profitability, simplifies certifications in major partner program redo

April 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas boosts partner profitability, simplifies certifications in major partner program redo
Veritas remakes its partner program to add additional support for its 360 data management portfolio beyond their two core backup products.

Backup

Veritas broadens partner opportunities for NetBackup with RestAPI

March 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas broadens partner opportunities for NetBackup with RestAPI
In addition to introducing RestAPI for the first time, Veritas also extends the ability to support modern workloads that was first introduced in the previous NetBackup release.

Backup

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

February 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Backup

New subscription-based model highlights new version of Veritas Backup Exec

November 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New subscription-based model highlights new version of Veritas Backup Exec
Veritas is hoping that many of its customers will move to its new subscription option, while also emphasizing that the new model’s simplicity will make life easier for partners.

Backup

IBM announces Red Hat partnership, expands ones with Veritas and NetApp

March 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on IBM announces Red Hat partnership, expands ones with Veritas and NetApp
IBM’s new partnering announcements are focused on expanding opportunities for other vendors’ customers to use the IBM cloud.

Networking

Riverbed adds NAS Storage support to SteelFusion in 5.0 release

February 28, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed adds NAS Storage support to SteelFusion in 5.0 release
Riverbed fills in what they state was the only void in their SteelFusion edge product, and expect this will open up new opportunities and continue the product line’s momentum.