VergeIO launches IOfortify ransomware defense
VergeIO has added an IOfortify feature, claiming it provides attack detection and recovery in seconds.
Enterprise or MSP tenants of a VergeIO datacenter run VMs in software-defined hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)...
CTERA the latest file systems crew to add ransomware detection
CTERA's latest software claims to be able to detect ransomware attacks against the file system as they happen and stop them in their tracks.
The idea is to monitor write...
Storage news ticker – June 12
Aporia is using Databricks' Lakehouse Platform, AI capabilities, and MLflow offerings to provide ML observability to customers. Databricks customers can monitor their ML models in production without duplicating any...
Cohesity cuts jobs – including its CMO
Cohesity has confirmed a round of job cuts, with chief marketing officer Lynn Lucas among those heading out of the door.
A spokesperson sent a statement to B&F:
"Cohesity...
Watch out malware actors! Commvault ramps up security measures
Commvault is offering greatly enhanced malware defences and detectors for its offerings, with workload recovery and automated recovery testing – all managed through a Cloud Command console.
The aim is...
Commvault security news Q&A
We asked Steve Preston, VP of Metallic Security at Commvault, some questions about newly introduced security measures and how they relate to competing products and services.
Blocks & Files: How...
A Quantum of growth, with more to come
Quantum reported its third growth quarter in a row and reckons it can see the end of a downturn affecting its markets. A prolonged downturn in its revenues has...
Storage news ticker – 2 June 2023
CloudCasa says it’s one of the available Kubernetes applications in the new Microsoft Transactable Container (aka Kubernetes Apps) in the Azure Marketplace. CloudCasa already provides native integration with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon...
Storage relative bright spot in dismal Q1 for Dell
It was a tough Q1 of fiscal 2024 for Dell as revenues fell by a fifth on the back of shrinking PC and infrastructure sales.
Turnover for the quarter...
Alcion sets sights on M365 backup-as-a-service
Kasten's founders have moved from backing up containers to protecting Microsoft 365, with their latest startup Alcion and its AI-enhanced backup-as-a-service based on open source Corso software.
The pitch is...
Competitors cry foul over CloudCasa claims of Velero dominance
CloudCasa this month claimed that open source Velero backup was far more prevalent in the Kubernetes data protection market than Portworx, Trilio or Kasten by Veeam. We note that...
N2WS: The backup rebels of AWS and Azure
Meet N2WS – an IaaS-style backup service on AWS and Azure that wants to be a great backup tool rather than an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink data protection combo.
We had an introduction to...