replication

Storage

Cohesity unveils new product for hyper-converged backup to AWS and Azure

November 23, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity unveils new product for hyper-converged backup to AWS and Azure
Cohesity, which aims to consolidate all forms of secondary storage on a single platform, builds on cloud archiving and tiering in their spring release with a platform with full cloud capability.

Storage

Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 extends continuous data protection journal

November 15, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 extends continuous data protection journal
Other new features include Azure support, one-to-many replication capability and a mobile app to enable remote access to Zerto environments.

Data Centre

NetApp learns from past integration failures to leverage SolidFire

September 30, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp learns from past integration failures to leverage SolidFire
Twelve years ago, NetApp acquired scale-out NAS startup Spinnaker, and began a long and horrific series of integration problems. This year, they acquired SolidFire’s scale-out technology, and took steps to learn from the lessons of the past.

Managed Services

Barracuda Backup – Intronis MSP Edition adds virtual appliance option

August 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda Backup – Intronis MSP Edition adds virtual appliance option
Intronis MSPs who want a virtual appliance can now leverage the virtual appliance technology from Barracuda to obtain it.

Storage

Hyper-converged secondary storage vendor Cohesity enhances platform, software

June 29, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hyper-converged secondary storage vendor Cohesity enhances platform, software
The enhancements include a major improvement to the platform’s performance as well as the ability to now handle physical protection as well as virtual.

Storage

Kaminario breaks sub-$1/GB flash pricing barrier with new array

August 20, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaminario breaks sub-$1/GB flash pricing barrier with new array
The all-flash vendor also announces the first industry support for 3D TLC Drives, native array-based replication and its Perpetual Array program. Boston-based Kaminario has unveiled its K2 v5.5 all-flash primary storage array, which becomes the
Cloud

Veeam to add cloud-based VM replication to Veeam Availability Suite v9

June 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam to add cloud-based VM replication to Veeam Availability Suite v9
The new functionality will also let service providers provide their customers with cloud-based disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) through the new Veeam Cloud Connect Replication for Service Providers offering.