Clumio debuts ‘air-gapped’ backup for Microsoft 365
Clumio customers can now protect their Microsoft 365 workloads using the startup’s AWS-based data protection as a service. Backup account-separation is a key aspect of the new facility.
Clumio backs...
Veeam upgrades Microsoft Azure backup
Veeam has released Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, extending its data protection embrace to Azure Blob storage and improving multi-coud portability.
Previously the company offered basic functionality only, introducing backup...
Rubrik delivers faster vSphere backups, quicker Oracle restores and stronger compliance
Rubrik is speeding up its software for Oracle and vSphere customers and has made compliance easier with Andes 5.2, the latest release of its cloud data management suite.
Rubrik president...
Your occasional storage round-up featuring Kioxia, Samsung, Veritas and more
Kioxia America
Kioxia America has added snapshots and clones to its KumoScale all-flash storage system.
It has done this by including Kubernetes CSI-compliant snapshots and clones to the KumoScale NVMe-over Fabrics-based...
Critical thinking: NetApp builds Scale-out Data Protection with Commvault
NetApp has launched a backup / disaster recovery system based on Commvault software that runs NetApp HCI and stores backup data on its all-flash FAS arrays and StorageGRID object...
Mainframe demand (again) boosts IBM storage sales
IBM has reported good storage revenue growth in the first 2020 quarter as robust demand for the System z15 mainframe carried DS8900 array sales in its wake.
The Register has...
Commvault sues Cohesity and Rubrik
Update; April 21, 2020 - Cohesity statement added. April 22, 220 - Rubrik statement added.
Commvault has filed suit against data management upstarts Cohesity and Rubrik, alleging patent infringement. It...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest featuring CTERA, Nutanix, OpenIO, StorONE and Veritas
This week's digest covers file-sharing, flash, hyperconverged infrastructure, all-in-one storage, object storage, data protection and supplier responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dive straight in with Nutanix.
Nutanix China win
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Cohesity pumps out ransomware alerts 24×7 via Helios smartphone app
Cohesity has developed a smartphone app for its Helios management software, to better enable admin staff to respond to external threats in real time.
For instance, the manager of a...
Starboard wants its directors on Commvault’s board
Activist investor Starboard Value has named six proxy directors it wants elected to Commvault’s board and is talking to Commvault's CEO and CFO.
Starboard announced last week it had bought...
Pure and Kasten integrate orchestrators for containerised backup
Pure Storage has teamed up with Kasten to integrate its storage arrays with Kasten's containerised app backup.
The news is detailed in a Pure Storage blog co-authored by Pure principal...
What pandemic? Cohesity raises $250m at blockbuster valuation
Cohesity has completed a $250m series E round that values the data management startup at $2.5bn.
Mohit Aron, CEO and founder, said today in a press release: “Closing a major...