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Your occasional storage digest, featuring Brexit, Tsinghua Unigroup and more

Brexit, China, the cloud and 3D NAND are the main themes in this week's digest. We also have a multitude of smaller items, including a large customer...

Clumio simplifies ransomware protection with ‘virtual air gap’

Clumio this week launched RansomProtect which it claims is the industry’s first air-gapped ransomware protection for private and public clouds and SaaS applications. According to...

Rubrik picks up Igneous pieces, gains Petabyte scale

Rubrik has bought "key technology and IP assets of Igneous", the Seattle-based data management startup which hit the buffers this year. Terms are undisclosed.
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Asigra brings better backup ransomware protection to Office 365

Asigra has added ransomware detection and quarantine to its Office 365 backup product.  Cloud Backup with Deep MFA integrates with O365 and scans all...

Your occasional storage digest with DataStax, StorOne, NAND prices and more

Here is a near-final storage digest for 2020 with news from NoSQL-er DataStax, fast Optane and QLC NAND storage array supplier StorOne. and research business TrendForce...

Kubernetes data protector Trilio raises $15m in dash for growth

Trilio, the Kubernetes data protection startup, has bagged $15m in funding, including $12m in B-series round and $3m in debt finance. The funding mix suggests that the...

Ransomware-struck schools reject £1m demand from crims in timely reminder to always mind the...

An independent schools group in Wales was hit by a ransomware attack in September, during which the perpetrators deleted files belonging to staff and pupils, and...

Cohesity writes two new chapters for its everything DMaaS story

Cohesity this week officially launched DataProtect-as-a-Service. The data management vendor also said it will SaaS-ify SiteContinuity, the new disaster recovery software it announced in September. The moves...

Commvault gives VMware workloads some more loving in latest DR software release

Commvault has updated its new DR software with recovery automation for VMware workloads. The upgrade also sees Commvault Disaster Recovery gain orchestration to,...

Google builds out Cloud with Actifio acquisition

Google is buying Actifio, the data management and DR vendor, to beef up its Google Cloud biz. Terms are undisclosed but maybe the price was on the...