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More than ever, cybersecurity solutions are core to any MSPs offering. No longer should technology service providers be farming this out to dedicated security providers. Trust and peace of mind are the core tenets of what they are selling and solutions like Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud can provide the platform upon which to deliver on those promises.
Zerto Virtual Replication is a data replication software that assists in data recovery in both private and public clouds.
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Rubrik simplifies backup and recovery for virtualized and physical environments. Eliminate backup software by integrating data orchestration, catalog management, and deduplicated storage into a single, scale-out fabric.
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Data protection is never going to be the same with the latest release of Acronis Backup 12.5 — the world’s most innovative backup solution suitable for companies of all sizes
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Veeam is the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management. Veeam provides a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud and securing your data. With 365,000 + customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune 500 and 66% of the Global 2,000.
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Backup Exec gives you simple, complete backup and recovery protection for your business—to cover all your data across physical, virtual, and multi-cloud environments.
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Protect your data with a cloud-based backup as a service Keep your data in Azure and on-premises safe. Backup supports VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines running on Linux and Windows, as well as physical Windows Servers.
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Barracuda Backup makes it easier and more cost-effective than ever for you to protect all your data from cyber criminals, natural disasters, hardware failures, and more. Physical, virtual, cloud, and SaaS — a single, integrated solution keeps all your data safe.
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Micro Focus Data Protection Suite (DP) is enterprise backup and disaster recovery software for data centric protection across heterogeneous environments. DP eliminates the need of multiple point products due to its broad support matrix and integrations with mission critical applications.
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Enterprise data is anything but uniform. Which is why your data protection, backup and recovery solution needs to cover the full range of data sources, file types, storage media and backup modes — from snapshots to streaming.
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Discover the industry-leading disaster recovery software to enable application availability and mobility across sites in private cloud environments with policy-based management, non- disruptive testing and automated orchestration.
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A data recovery and re-use solution for virtual environments and databases that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. Empower a broader set of users with role-based access and easy-to-use data backup and recovery portals.
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MSP360™ Managed Backup (MBS) (formerly Cloudberry Lab) is an easy-to-use backup solution for Managed Service Providers and IT departments that require a centralized license and job management, monitoring, and reporting. MBS allows you to leverage AWS, Microsoft Azure, Backblaze B2, and Wasabi cloud storage to drive more revenue and deliver best-in-class data protection to your customers.
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Enterprise class secure data protection for all of your business computers, servers, Exchange, SQL, NAS and mobile devices.
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Deliver application-consistent backup and clone management for NetApp® storage—across the Data Fabric.
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Data is growing rapidly and becoming more fragmented across many clouds and virtual environments. Unified data protection is the only way your IT organization can deliver required Service Levels while limiting cost and risk, regardless of whether data resides on-premises or in the cloud.
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Designed on Google-like principles, Cohesity simplifies data protection by converging backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery on a single, hyperconverged, cloud-native platform. Gain unparalleled app and data mobility with a software-defined solution that spans from your core to the cloud and edge.
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Carbonite backup solutions provide comprehensive protection for your data center, with flexible deployment options and multi-platform support, plus powerful high availability plans to protect your critical systems from disruptions of any kind.
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Key Features - Unified, cloud-based backup service for physical and virtual servers - Robust and reliable enough to handle even large machines and applications - Fast backup and rapid restore with built-in compression and deduplication - Simple, at-a-glance status dashboard eliminates manual checking - Global, purpose-built, private cloud included - Low TCO with no hidden costs
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Asigra Cloud Backup is comprised of two major components: the DS-Client, installed at the edge of the cloud where data needs to be protected; and the DS-System, installed at the vaulting location, or core of the cloud, where the protected data resides. This scalability enables Asigra Cloud Backup to support additional backup loads and multiple operating systems, servers, databases, applications, and storage environments.
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Commvault HyperScale Appliance is built on scale-out architecture and delivers web-scale services with cloud-like economics in an industry proven data ..
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NetWorker delivers centralized backup and recovery operations for complete control of data protection across diverse computing and storage environments. NetWorker delivers enterprise-class performance and security to meet even the most demanding service level requirements. Integration with advanced technologies such as array-based snapshots (both block and file) and the VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection provides fast, efficient, and non-disruptive backup.
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Unitrends Backup converges enterprise backup software, ransomware detection, and cloud continuity into a powerful, all-in-one platform.
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NetBackup Appliances integrate multiple components into a single device, streamlining management, operation, and support—and saving you money and critical IT resources
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Business Backup The easy, effective way to manage your team's backup needs - Desktop, Laptop, Server, & NAS.
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ShadowProtect® backup and disaster recovery software ensures on-prem business systems and data are fully protected and always available.
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More than ever, cybersecurity solutions are core to any MSPs offering. No longer should technology service providers be farming this out to dedicated security providers. Trust and peace of mind are the core tenets of what they are selling and solutions like Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud can provide the platform upon which to deliver on those promises.
Veeam to be acquired by Insight Partners for US$5 billion: On January 9, 2020, Veeam announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement of purchase with Insight Partners.
Zerto 7.5 adds support for Azure Active Directory Managed Service Identity (MSI), which simplifies authentication to Azure services while improving security.
Quest Software’s NetVault Backup v12.4 release adds support for OneDrive to its existing Office 365 (O365) backup capabilities, enabling its customers to better align backup strategy to business requirements, and helping Quest Software keep up with other O365 backup offerings.
Veeam has rolled out new backup features that integrate with Amazon S3 to help users save on storage costs for their backups. This tech is some serious secret sauce.
HPE has ported over InfoSight Predictive Analytics platform from its 2017 acquisition of Nimble to its SimpliVity line, adding AI to the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), as announced in an Oct. 28 press release.
Veeam is still running strong in the enterprise and cloud backup markets two business quarters into its 2019 fiscal year. Veeam has announced its second quarter results and the numbers are still impressive.
Cyberattacks are terrible and require the same dedication to overcome them as would any other disaster response effort. Just like natural disasters, cyberattacks cause millions of dollars in damage, disrupt infrastructure, and impede citizens from their daily lives.
Zerto has enhanced its Azure integration to reduce achievable RTOs and recovery cost. Specifically, Zerto’s latest release leverages Azure’s native Virtual Machine Scale-Sets to reduce overhead, speed up recovery, and minimize additional costs incurred during recovery.
At VeeamON 2019, Veeam announced it had achieved $1billion in annual bookings. The software company attributes success to its ability to take advantage of Act 1: Virtualization of the Data Center; now it is gearing up for what it predicts will be Act 2: Hybrid Cloud.
Cohesity is the first backup solution to provide native integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is good for the partners and will give competitors pause.
Nutanix enterprise cloud computing and Veeam cloud data management will combine to deliver agile backup and replication. This is a smart strategy for the hardware agnostic vendor Veeam, looking to increase the stickiness of its product.
Microsoft is releasing free online courses for artificial intelligence. This is its attempt at remaining relevant in the AI space, so you might as well take advantage.
In a move to support customer migration from offsite tape cold storage to offsite cloud, Commvault now targets AWS Deep Glacier.
This month, BlackBerry Cylance introduces CylancePERSONA, a user behavior detection and response platform, to address the growing pains of user impersonation and valid user credential exploits to launch malicious attacks.
Sanjay Mirchandani is Commvault’s first new chief executive in two decades. We anticipate the new CEO will strengthen Commvault’s cloud data protection offerings in ways that leverage the company’s existing strengths in data management.
NetBackup and Backup Exec have achieved AWS Storage Competency status. Veritas customers can better leverage AWS infrastructure for data management, migration, and protection to and in the cloud.
The new CEO of the France-based cloud services provider says OVH will expand operations in Canada, launching additional public cloud services, API access, new artificial intelligence (AI) services, and a future Partner program.
Backup of cloud data (as opposed to backup of data to the cloud) is a major trend as more corporate workloads and data move there. Veeam’s 2018 earnings reflect this trend.
Metered pay-per-use is not so great when usage keeps going up and rarely goes down. Cloud backup vendor Asigra has introduced license pricing that is fixed regardless of how much capacity, users, or machines increase over a term.
Microsoft Azure, with its scalability and enterprise-grade security, is quickly catching up to Amazon Web Services in enterprise public cloud adoption rates. Organizations need to consider all the factors to determine whether Azure might be right for them.
According to a recent survey by data backup and management company Commvault, IT departments are not ready to lead digital transformation. I think a major impediment is in how IT departments, especially infrastructure managers, view data.
Four years ago, analysts attempting to come up with a name to describe emerging hyperconverged options coined the term “Server SAN.” So which is it, a server or a SAN storage array? Does it even matter which? Surprisingly, it sort of does.
Cost-constrained organizations with modest virtual server infrastructures (under 30 VMs) are baulking at the cost of hyperconverged infrastructure. There are SMB HCI alternatives to consider, but you should ask if HCI is really needed.
NetApp is the storage comeback kid. In just over two years NetApp has gone from drowning under to riding the waves of change that are disrupting the storage industry. If you have previously written off NetApp it may be time for another look.