Backup and recovery software

Cohesity CEO: We're more than a backup company

Cohesity CEO Mohit Aron says the company is focused on secondary storage and becoming software-only, relying on strategic partnerships for covering hardware and technology gaps. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

How can AI and data protection work together?

There may be value in including artificial intelligence in backup software. Find out which vendors are already using AI to improve backup and data protection capabilities. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

7 rules for effective data backup procedures

If you're responsible for data backups on multiple systems, strong policies are highly recommended. This tip gives you seven rules to follow for effective data backup procedures. Continue Reading

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• Rick Cook and Paul Crocetti

Blacktip uses AvePoint for Office 365 backup

Serving users who are mobile and not highly technical, MSP Blacktip turns to SaaS apps such as Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite. But those apps need protection. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

NetBackup at core of Veritas services platform

The Veritas services platform addresses protection, availability and data intelligence by unifying multiple products around NetBackup and its metadata catalog. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Intelligent data management drives smarter use of copy data

Intelligent data management has turned copies of backup data into tools for analytics, test/dev and other use cases. But company culture prevents some organizations from adoption. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Rubrik backup, Compellent SAN power MoA data center

Mall of America IT director says she'd rather have her staff working on other things -- such as data analytics -- than managing storage and data backup. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Veeam roadmap features cloud focus, possible IPO

Analysts noted more of a backup emphasis at VeeamON 2019, as Veeam plans to tackle the hybrid cloud market. Will acquisitions be part of the Veeam strategy? Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Penn State Health seeks centralized backup, picks Commvault

As Penn State Health's data grew across its vast network of hospitals and practices, it turned to Commvault for centralized backup and a way to archive petabytes of research data. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

ShadowXafe 2 supports Hyper-V, network tunneling

StorageCraft wants to bring its ShadowXafe data protection software to midsize enterprises and managed service providers, rather than only small and medium-sized businesses. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

VeeamON 2019: Veeam enhances orchestrator, promises NAS support

Veeam has hit its long-term $1 billion revenue goal. The vendor updated its DR orchestration and now aims to finish off the awaited Availability Suite v10, with NAS backup. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Kaseya acquisition trail continues with ID Agent -- is DR next?

ID Agent, the latest Kaseya acquisition, adds its identity protection capabilities to IT Complete and will be integrating with Spanning and Unitrends products. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Nakivo backup supports Nutanix AHV in latest update

In its quest to reach feature parity with Veeam, backup software vendor Nakivo adds support for the Nutanix AHV hypervisor and the ability to replicate VMs from backup sets. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Acronis data protection gives Red Sox an edge in backup

Acronis has stepped up to the plate for the Boston Red Sox. The 2018 World Series champions will use Acronis products for backup, recovery, transfer and remote data accessibility. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Unitrends Cloud Backup protects remote endpoints

Unitrends Cloud Backup protects data on workstations through direct replication of endpoint devices to the cloud. UCB also enables direct restores from the Unitrends Cloud. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

With Nutanix Mine, HCI vet adds converged secondary storage

Nutanix prepares to launch its Mine converged secondary storage appliances as it expands beyond primary storage with an architecture that Cohesity and Rubrik have adopted. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Cohesity backup expands with Imanis Data acquisition

Cohesity bought Imanis Data to integrate its NoSQL database protection into Cohesity's products. Cohesity plans to tackle other modern workloads like containers and SaaS apps next. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Odaseva introduces Vault for long-term Salesforce backup

Odaseva launched Vault, a Salesforce backup product that lets customers store their sensitive data in an encrypted long-term retention layer that's still readily accessible. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Arcserve UDP update supports Nutanix AHV, Office 365

The Arcserve UDP update extends the backup software's support to Nutanix AHV and Office 365, with the promise of other hypervisors and SaaS applications to come. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Dell EMC PowerProtect aims to go beyond data protection

Dell EMC hopes PowerProtect will modernize its data protection for customers, but what will it mean for its legacy backup products, such as Data Domain, Avamar and NetWorker? Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Druva Office 365 backup adds restore options, snaps

Druva sets out to fill in data protection gaps in Microsoft Office 365, providing an independent backup source for the popular software-as-a-service application. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

NetBackup backup as a service now available on IBM Cloud

Veritas sells NetBackup as a service through the IBM Marketplace, following the industry trend of pushing as-a-service-type offerings. But not everyone thinks it's a good idea for enterprises. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Dell EMC data protection engineers firm's backup, DR

Engineering and environmental consulting business GEI needed quicker backup and had to keep an eye on DR cost. It found an answer in Dell EMC data protection software and hardware. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Cohesity backup available as a service on Google Cloud

Cohesity backup software is available as a service on Google Cloud Platform. The partnership simplifies purchasing and implementing backup for workloads in Google Cloud. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Using snapshot backups for your data backup system

The quick and simple nature of snapshot backup systems can be a big win for your data protection platform. However, there are elements of snapshots that aren't great for backup. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director
• W. Curtis Preston

Storware vProtect backup supports OpenShift and CloudForms

Storware updates its vProtect data protection software for open platforms, adding backup support for Red Hat OpenShift containers and the latest version of CloudForms. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Cohesity-Cisco partnership deepens into reseller deal

The partnership between vendors Cohesity and Cisco has blossomed into a reseller deal. Customers can now buy Cohesity software with Cisco HyperFlex hardware and architecture. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Veeam roadmap includes NAS, CDP, acquisitions

In this Q&A, Veeam co-founder Ratmir Timashev details how close the well-funded company is to making an acquisition, and what's to come for its products in a competitive market. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Veritas acquires Aptare for storage analytics

Veritas acquired storage monitoring software vendor Aptare on the advice of common customers and will integrate its features in NetBackup and other data protection applications. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

N2WS Backup & Recovery adds power switch for AWS instances

If you don't like AWS Instance Scheduler, N2WS says its Backup & Recovery Resource Control console has a better way of turning AWS resources on and off to save money. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Head Start provider achieves SaaS backup with Spanning

East Coast Migrant Head Start Project selected SaaS backup through Spanning in order to protect its Google Apps, Salesforce and Office 365 data. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Cohesity backup saves time and space for Nebraska hospital

Community Hospital switched to Cohesity backup after scrapping the Dell EMC Avamar software and fourth-generation hardware it was using since 2009, saving rack space and improving performance. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Cohesity applications available through Cohesity MarketPlace

Cohesity MarketPlace includes Cohesity applications for secondary storage management, along with third-party choices, such as SentinelOne and Imanis Data. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Synology Active Backup boosts recovery speeds for Shiseido

Worried about slow recovery times and the impact ransomware might cause endpoint devices, Shiseido swapped in Synology Active Backup to reduce recovery time to 30 minutes. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

StorageCraft backup and object storage focuses on healthcare

A new bundle of StorageCraft backup hardware, software and disaster recovery as a service targets healthcare organizations, which are particularly susceptible to ransomware. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Experts look for new Commvault CEO to automate, orchestrate

Experts say new Commvault CEO Sanjay Mirchandani is qualified for his new job, while the vendor still has some challenges to overcome in the face of a competitive, dynamic market. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Carbonite acquisition of Webroot merges backup, cybersecurity

The Carbonite acquisition of Webroot is a big play in the SMB market. Carbonite's backup and recovery platform will combine with Webroot's cybersecurity. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

The top enterprise data storage products of 2018

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IBM Storage Solutions draw up blueprint for blockchain storage

IBM offers up blueprints for blockchain storage, with NVMe arrays and software for scale-out. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Data protection systems must address GDPR, ransomware concerns

Backup products don't have a granular enough understanding of data to scan or analyze it effectively and fully meet today's privacy and security requirements. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Data protection systems must address GDPR, ransomware concerns

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Asigra Cloud Backup Evolved 14

Veteran data protection vendor Asigra beat out new and older competition with its Cloud Backup Evolved product, highlighted by its ability to shield backups from ransomware. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Zerto IT Resilience Platform 6.0

Zerto's rebranded IT Resilience Platform provides many cloud choices for recovery, as well as automation and orchestration. Its innovation impressed our judges. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.2

IBM's Spectrum Protect Plus focuses on virtual data protection. Judges praised its VMware backup, instant recovery and potential for being part of overall data management strategy. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Unitrends Recovery Series Gen 8 backup appliances

Unitrends has updated its Recovery Series backup appliance to Gen 8, with added features like machine learning-based ransomware protection and automatic recovery testing. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Cohesity DataPlatform

Cohesity's converged data management product gets updated with machine-driven capacity planning and case management alongside a centralized, simplified dashboard. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance

Asigra's integrated backup appliance combines its Cloud Backup Evolved V14 antiransomware software with iXsystems' TrueNAS hardware featuring the OpenZFS file system. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

New Commvault CEO Mirchandani: We're ready for the next wave

The new Commvault boss says it's time for well-funded data management upstarts to 'take the training wheels off' if they want to compete in the enterprise. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Data storage startups to watch in 2019

Failure is a more likely outcome than success for a storage startup. Still, intrepid newcomers offer innovative technologies in cloud, backup, convergence and flash. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

U.K. trade union fends off ransomware with Asigra backup

After moving off of tapes to Asigra software for disk and cloud backup, the Public and Commercial Services Union gained faster restores -- and foiled a ransomware attack. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Commvault CEO Hammer says goodbye, prepares handoff

Bob Hammer is ready to pass the baton to a new CEO. He says Commvault is in good shape, but the data protection vendor still faces questions and challenges in a shifting market. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Unlimited use licensing offered for Asigra backup customers

The 'all-you-can-eat' licensing model is meant to help Asigra backup customers by providing a predictable cost and potential savings. However, it is not the best fit for everyone. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Veeam, Rubrik funding show interest in data protection

New rounds of Rubrik, Veeam, Actifio and Cohesity funding have given these vendors resources to challenge established backup vendors such as Veritas and Dell EMC. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Cohesity backup gains ransomware detection, SAP HANA restores

Cohesity backup boosts its anti-ransomware capabilities with a new DataLock feature to prevent unauthorized backup deletion and releases a certified integration with SAP HANA. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Assurance, ClearView merge business continuity services

U.S.-based Assurance Software's merger with U.K.-based ClearView extends the business continuity providers' international reach, helping customers who do business globally. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Converged secondary storage changes (almost) everything

Converged secondary storage brings important benefits but also crucial choices. Learn the advantages and what you must do, and what questions to ask, in order to reap them. Continue Reading

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• Scott Wallask

ROI considerations with a hyper-converged data protection platform

Do the benefits of a single operating environment and improved cloud support outweigh the costs associated with switching to hyper-converged data protection? Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Data backup and recovery tools: 2018 Products of the Year finalists

The 2018 backup and disaster recovery software finalists feature new vendors in the competition along with established players. Many products offer comprehensive data protection. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Veritas NetBackup provides Docker container backup

A new NetBackup client enables users to back up application data on Docker containers, becoming one of the few products to offer data backup and recovery in the container space. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Veeam backup software just 'Right' for background check provider

HireRight likes the simplicity of the Veeam Availability Suite and its use in complying with GDPR. Testing has proven the backup software meets HireRight's needs. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

IT storage team skills for hyper-converged secondary storage

Is your IT storage team ready for the arrival of hyper-converged secondary storage? Learn what storage skills pros need now in order to take on this latest development in storage tech. Continue Reading

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• Scott D. Lowe, ActualTech Media

Top data backup news of 2018: Ransomware, multi-cloud, CEO shifts

There's a lot to back up these days. Data backup vendors in 2018 enhanced products to protect many different types of data and tackle some of the top security issues of the day. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Acronis updates Data Cloud with more ransomware protection

Acronis Data Cloud 7.8 adds cloud-centric data protection features to grow the vendor's managed service provider customer base. The vendor also added a physical shipping service. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

CEO details HYCU backup for hyper-converged, multi-cloud

Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU, discusses his company's foray into hyper-converged and multi-cloud backup and recovery. The new vendor spun off from Comtrade in 2018. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Studies find proliferation of data poses huge IT challenge

The mass propagation of data across multiple storage silos is getting out of control in many organizations. IT administrators cite it as a top concern. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

FalconStor Software CEO talks rebuilding, rebranding

FalconStor's CEO talks about saving the company by focusing on cloud, rebranding its FreeStor data protection and management platform, and keeping his finger off the panic button. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

HPE partnership with Cohesity blossoms to OEM deal

The Cohesity data management platform will be delivered through HPE DL380 and Apollo servers, thanks to the strengthened HPE partnership, marking Cohesity's first OEM deal. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Veritas data management tool uses AI to tackle downtime

Veritas' new Predictive Insights data management tool uses AI, machine learning and telemetry data to assign reliability scores to systems, guiding administrators' priorities. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Rubrik backup focus moves to enterprise apps

Rubrik's Cloud Data Management Andes 5 release includes backup features aimed at apps that 'generate a lot of money for a company,' such as Oracle and SAP HANA. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

American Pacific Mortgage banks on cloud, Commvault backup

As American Pacific Mortgage grew into a large enterprise, its old backup system couldn't keep up with cloud demands. Scalable Commvault backup was the answer. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Former Veeam CEO looks back, company looks ahead

Peter McKay, formerly president and co-CEO of Veeam, said a lot of factors went into his departure from the company, and he plans to become a CEO again soon. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Successful IT resiliency strategy based on high availability and DR

Stringent yet realistic RTOs and RPOs are crucial to resiliency plans aiming to minimize interruptions to businesses operations should disaster or disruptions strike IT resources. Continue Reading

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• James Alan Miller, Senior Executive Editor

Igneous Systems takes on unstructured data management

With the addition of DataFlow and DataDiscover as-a-service offerings, Igneous is building out its portfolio of products to manage and protect unstructured data. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Dell EMC Cyber Recovery isolates and protects data

Cyber Recovery software from Dell EMC forms a last line of defense against malware by putting critical data in a secure vault, isolated from where data attacks occur. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Commvault web interface getting a major overhaul

At Commvault Go, the data protection vendor introduced a revamped user interface with machine learning-powered analytics and smarter storage usage reporting. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Veritas appliances help Flex NetBackup muscle

More than two years after escaping Symantec, Veritas fights off data protection newcomers by packaging NetBackup with an expanding appliance portfolio. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Commvault backup-as-a-service portfolio expands by 3 options

Commvault enhances its cloud-based data protection suite by offering its flagship Complete Backup & Recovery software as a service, with new services for VMs and native cloud apps. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Micro Focus Data Protector gets Express, Premium treatment

Version 10.10 of Data Protector marks a new chapter in the backup and recovery product's long history, which goes back to years under Hewlett-Packard. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

HPE StoreOnce backup adds capacity, protection capabilities

Hewlett Packard Enterprise spruces up StoreOnce secondary storage with federated management of up to 100 appliances. HPE also deepened the StoreOnce integration with Commvault. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Lenovo and Veeam integration teams storage with protection

Thanks to a new integration, Veeam and Lenovo customers can purchase Veeam's data management and protection with Lenovo's software-defined infrastructure or SAN products. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Imanis Data 4.0 introduces autonomous backups, NoSQL support

Imanis enables the protection of NoSQL databases with no human intervention through new SmartPolicies, along with automated RPO-based backup and improved ransomware detection. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Backup snapshots and replication supplement standard backup

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VSphere vs. KVM: Assessing hypervisors in hyper-convergence

Hyper-converged infrastructure has become a complex and competitive segment of the data center architecture market in recent years and so too has the architecture's support for hypervisors. Examples of hyper-converged hypervisors vary, and, over time, a number of HCI vendors have turned to the open source kernel-based virtual machine hypervisor as an alternative to VMware vSphere and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft Hyper-V and others.

This vSphere vs. KVM competition aptly illustrates the evolution of hypervisors in hyper-convergence. For hyper-converged vendors and their customers, KVM offers several advantages, including a lower cost. Some vendors are now supporting KVM, including ones that have built their entire platform around it.

There are tradeoffs to taking the KVM route in the vSphere vs. KVM sweepstakes. We explain what those are as we assess where hypervisors fit in hyper-convergence. We also outline what you need to know to adapt to the less mature KVM ecosystem and migrate away from other more established and comprehensive -- yet more expensive -- technologies.

Also in this issue, we look at how traditional backup no longer meets the speedy data recovery expectations of modern enterprises–hence the growing use of backup alternatives, such as snapshots and replication. However, there are problems with these approaches to data protection, as well. We explore these shortcomings and find out what can be done to successfully combine snapshots and replication with backup to form a comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery plan. We also outline how another option, copy data management, may be the answer IT is looking for to meet management's fast and wide-ranging data recovery ambitions.

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Backup snapshots and replication supplement standard backup

Traditional backup or data snapshot and replication technologies alone don't meet the data protection and DR needs of modern enterprises. Combine them all together and they do. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Acronis True Image backup tackles cyber protection

Acronis True Image 2019 takes on security issues, including still-prevalent ransomware attacks. The consumer and SMB software also adds backup cleanup and a recovery 'Survival Kit.' Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Veritas NetBackup upgrade includes facelift

Veritas gives the grande dame of data protection a facelift, making NetBackup more intuitive and visually appealing to capture backup newbies, as well as the grizzled vets. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

IBM DS8882F converges array and mainframe in one rack

IBM skinny mainframes add a few pounds with the DS8882F all-flash array screwed into the IBM Z ZR1 and LinuxOne Rockhopper II 19-inch racks. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

New Nakivo update supports more platforms

Light on new functions, Nakivo's new update focuses on playing nicely with others, adding software support for VMware vSphere 6.7, Netgear ReadyNAS and Dell EMC Data Domain Boost. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

HYCU moves beyond Nutanix backup with Google Cloud support

HYCU's first non-Nutanix-based product is backup for Google Cloud Platform, ahead of Nutanix's Xi Cloud Services partnership with Google due later this year. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Commvault architecture overhaul reduces product count

By consolidating more than 20 offerings into four repackaged product sets, Commvault moves to simplify the purchasing process and eliminate its architecture's 'features sprawl.' Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

StorageCraft backup and object storage packaged for schools

As schools shift from textbooks to rich media, StorageCraft packages object storage with backup and recovery software in hard disk drives or all-flash appliances. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Imanis Data improves ransomware detection

Imanis improves its machine learning-powered ransomware detection, introduces disaster recovery for Hadoop and unveils its new Recovery Sandbox feature. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Cohesity backup replaces legacy EMC at Piedmont HealthCare

A healthcare firm doesn't take full advantage of Cohesity secondary storage capabilities, but finds its backup and recovery features simpler and faster. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Data backup systems supplement wares with management features

With data so important to companies, backup vendors are seeking to provide a better window into its overall lifecycle, including such elements as compliance and analytics. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

A data replication strategy for all your disaster recovery needs

Know your IT environment inside and out to choose the right data replication product for your organization's current and future disaster recovery requirements. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Catalogic Software teams up with Storware data protection

Catalogic and Storware executives feel their companies complement each other. The two data protection vendors have a distribution agreement and are working in partnership. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Veeam enterprise push embraces 'hyper-availability,' cloud

Noting that 'data is the currency of the enterprise,' Veeam is taking its platform beyond protection and into more management. VeeamON 2018 laid the groundwork for its strategy. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Extended Zerto journaling highlights backup, resilience push

Zerto 7 will feature a journaling capability that extends far beyond what the vendor previously offered. The vendor's IT Resilience Platform also includes automation and analytics. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

Kaseya acquisition leads to merger with Unitrends

Kaseya's acquisition of Unitrends links remote monitoring and management, professional services automation, and backup and recovery services for midmarket enterprises and MSPs. Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Editorial Director

What are System Center DPM 2016 limitations?

Not every tool is right for the job of backing up data. Find out what limits System Center DPM 2016 protection and which alternatives cover what it lacks. Continue Reading

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• Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor