Druva quickens ransomware recovery with automated clean snapshot discovery
SaaS backup supplier Druva is making recovery from a ransomware attack faster by automatically identifying the latest clean backup before an attack — creating a single golden snapshot master...
Your occasional storage digest with Rewind, Satori, a Snowflake quadfecta, benchmark bifecta and more
There’s a mini-blizzard of Snowflake news — a quadfecta in fact — plus two startups raising cash, Rewind for SaaS application service backup, and Satori for its secure real-time...
Nasuni file sync accelerates ransomware recovery
Nasuni has invented Global File Acceleration (GFA) — a way to sync shared files up to 5x faster — and enabled faster ransomware recovery as a by-product, with a...
Socket to me: Veeam instance license confusion
Socket-based licensing Veeam users are getting alarmed about Veeam Universal License Perpetual costs amidst Veeam’s plans to phase out socket-based licenses.
Certain Veeam data protection products, such as Veeam Backup...
Your occasional storage buffet, with Commvault, NetApp, Lenovo and SingleStore plus accompanying tidbits
Commvault is offering anti-ransomware services to its customers. NetApp wants a billion dollars a year in recurring revenue from the public cloud. Lenovo wants to offer all its products...
Dell ransomware survey says customers want better data protection — data protection products updated...
Dell has issued a data protection report saying customers are managing and protecting more data than ever, yet lack confidence in their data protection arrangements. In response it has...
HPE adds superpower StoreOnce deduped backup appliances
HPE has added three new models to its StoreOnce purpose-built deduplicating backup appliance range, upping capacities and transfer speeds.
Update: HPE info added 9 September 2021 re HW boosts to...
Storage news buffet — Quantum, DataCore, SoftIron and other tasty treats
Quantum is building out its credentials as an ADAS (Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems) supplier, reckoning a contribution of a reference architecture will help acceptance of its storage HW+SW into ADAS...
Zerto: leading execs and board VCs should have known better
Despite having been acquired, Zerto was a failure that its leading executives and Venture Capital board members let happen, despite a litany of repeated signals that the business would not...
Seeing the light: Folio Photonics hopes to crack the optical archive disk market
Folio Photonics aims to develop an archive optical disk with lower-than-tape cost, terabyte-class capacity, multi-decade life and backwards compatibility through technology generations.
It reckons its technology is simpler to productise...
HYCU announces service to help firms gauge ransomware readiness
An online initiative has just launched, designed to help organisations understand and quantify how well prepared they are (or indeed aren’t) for a ransomware attack. It will also tell...
Your occasional storage digest with ransomware, sustainability, InfiniBand spec update, and lots of shorter...
Ransomware rules the waves in this digest. Prepare to be numerically amazed by the number of ransomware attacks and then read good news about Active Directory recovery from ransomware....