Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of October 6; Updates from Arcserve, Cohesity, Wasabi & More

Cisco Partners with Nutanix on Simplifying Infrastructure & Application Delivery

Industry observers are already lauding this new partnership. Ashish Nadkarni, IDC Group Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Systems, said, “This is a fantastic announcement. Huge. It is the start of a great journey for both Cisco and Nutanix and it gives Cisco a new avenue for UCS servers and more customer choice. The strategic importance of this alliance should not be underestimated.”

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Cohesity Forms New Alliance of Data Security Posture Management Vendors

Cohesity is expanding this ecosystem with six leading Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) vendors, including long-standing partner BigID, as well as Cyera, Dig Security, Normalyze, Sentra, and Securiti.

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CTERA Announces New Fusion Capability

Enterprises can run in-cloud machine learning training, video footage analysis, and data classification directly on their file shares, benefitting from CTERA’s ability to store globally in their cloud of choice, and present locally using the high-performance CTERA Edge Filers.

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DigitalOcean Announces Scalable Storage for DigitalOcean PostgreSQL and MySQL

Scalable Storage gives users the flexibility to add storage to MySQL and PostgreSQL Managed Databases at cost-effective prices with minimal friction and downtime. With a variety of shared and dedicated configuration plans, DigitalOcean customers can benefit from more customizable options that better fit their businesses.

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Nexsan Offers Storage Refresh Rebate Program to Customers

Nexsan channel partners benefit from the trade-in program with the opportunity to offer the latest E-Series or BEAST systems as replacements for the trade-in. Common use cases include very large data sets, high-performance data vaults, bulletproof backup and archive, cybersecurity, and digital video.

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PlanetScale Adds Support for Vector Storage & Search into MySQL

PlanetScale already maintains a fork of MySQL, and will be adding vector types and indexes to it. When released, the company will run that MySQL fork in PlanetScale as they do today. They will also publish packages and containers for PlanetScale-flavored MySQL that will allow users to test and develop locally.

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Veeam Announces New Backup Service for 365 and Azure

Cirrus by Veeam, which is available now for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure customers, provides a simple, flexible, reliable and powerful BaaS offering. It gives companies the option of simplifying the management and administration of their backup operations with all the resiliency of Veeam technology.

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Solutions Review Launches New Insight Jam Community for Enterprise Technology Professionals

We are excited to bring an entirely new distribution channel to Insight Jam, and provide our readers with guidance, best practices, and advice on top-of-mind topics in enterprise technology, our community of experts a loudspeaker from which to share their insights, and our PR and vendor partners the ability to measure their impact on the community.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Acronis for Exclusive Spotlight Webinar on October 24

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading backup and cyber protection vendor Acronis. This session will examine the current cyberthreat landscape, delve into how GenAI tools like ChatGPT are being used by criminals to improve the scale and efficacy of ransomware and other cyber-attacks, and feature an expert panel discussion on how healthcare cybersecurity and IT operations teams can defend their uptime and critical data through a combination of cyber defense and recovery tactics.

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