Dell EMC PowerProtect X400 makes quiet exit from the planet
Dell EMC launched the PowerProtect X400 appliance in May 2019, GA'd in July. And then what? Not an awful lot, judging from this November 2020 Evaluator Group report...
Dell EMC to use Druva for Backup-as-a-Service
Scoop! Dell EMC is in negotiations with Druva to offer the startup's backup as a service and will announce the deal in weeks, according to industry sources.
The...
Gartner Peers love their backup suppliers (some of them)
Gartner Peer Insights's annual “Voice of The Customer” is out now for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions suppliers. Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam, Veritas and Zerto come out of...
ExaGrid goes big with backup appliances
ExaGrid has increased capacity in its deduplicating backup appliances and at the same time, cut the product portfolio from nine systems to seven. Appliances of any size can be...
Veritas snaps up HubStor, in DPaaS tech-and-team hire
Scoop! Veritas has bought HubStor, a Canadian backup and archive vendor, gaining itself a SaaS-based data protection development team. Terms are undisclosed.
Ontario-based HubStor was founded in 2015 by CEO...
Your occasional storage digest with Cisco Hyperflex, SoftIron, and more
2021 has started with a bang... but let's talk about data storage. In this week's news roundup we feature Cisco, Backup Assist and SoftIron. Also there are a flurry...
Fujitsu has 20 acquisition targets in its sights
Fujitsu has embarked on an ambitious M&A programme to enable it to supply "transformational services very competitive" market. The Japanese tech giant has drawn up a list of...
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 going all-in...
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 the cloud-backup, companies seeking a native...
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.
Dan Rogers, Rubrik President, GTM...
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 files in real-time with signature-less malware...