Author: Fred Chagnon (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Darryl Levesque (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Frank Trovato (Info-Tech)

Zerto 7.5 adds support for Azure Active Directory Managed Service Identity (MSI), which simplifies authentication to Azure services while improving security.

Author: Frank Trovato (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Derek Shank (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Darryl Levesque (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Darryl Levesque (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Marc Mazur (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Frank Trovato (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Teodora Siman (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Teodora Siman (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Teodora Siman (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Ken Weston (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Darryl Levesque (Info-Tech)

In a move to support customer migration from offsite tape cold storage to offsite cloud, Commvault now targets AWS Deep Glacier.

Author: Michelle Tran (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Andrew Sharp (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Teodora Siman (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Darin Stahl (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: John Sloan (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: John Sloan (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: Aadil Nanji (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: John Sloan (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: John Sloan (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: John Sloan (Info-Tech)

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.

Author: John Sloan (Info-Tech)

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.