World Backup Day – Taking Stock of Data Protection Best Practices
Krista Macomber, senior analyst at Evaluator Group, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, explores why World Backup Day has become an important reminder for companies to back up their data and shares some key best practices for IT Ops teams and CISOs.
IBM Augments its Cyber Resiliency Stack with IBM Storage Defender, in Collaboration with Cohesity
Krista Macomber, senior analyst at Evaluator Group, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers news of IBM’s collaboration with Cohesity to launch its new IBM Storage Defender solution, which includes Cohesity’s data protection.
Cohesity DataHawk Goes GA and the Company Introduces Security Advisor Council and Data Security Alliance, Embracing Partners for Cyber Resiliency
Krista Macomber, senior analyst at Evaluator Group, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers news of Cohesity DataHawk entering general availability as well as the company’s introduction of its Security Advisory Council and Data Security Alliance, moving toward embracing partners to help deliver on cyber resiliency.
The National Cybersecurity Strategy Proposed by the Biden-Harris Administration Portends Greater Scrutiny for IT Operations
Krista Macomber, senior analyst at Evaluator Group, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, explores the National Cybersecurity Strategy recently announced by the Biden-Harris administration and what that means for IT Operations teams.
Catalogic CloudCasa Partners with Ondat to Accelerate Adoption of Kubernetes Data Protection
Krista Macomber, senior analyst with Evaluator Group, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers news of Catalogic CloudCasa’s partnership with Ondat, designed to accelerate adoption of Kubernetes data protection and her insights on the benefits this will provide to IT Ops and DevOps teams.
Cohesity’s Introduction of Cohesity Data Cloud 7.0 Rallies Around Cyber Resiliency
Krista Macomber, senior analyst at Evaluator Group, covers Cohesity’s introduction of Cohesity Data Cloud 7.0, which rallies around cyber resiliency and provides enhanced and new capabilities that provide strengthened privileged access controls, extended support for platforms and workloads, and enhanced cyber resiliency for file and object workloads.
Veeam Version 12 Enhances Cybersecurity and Data Protection in the Multi-Cloud Era
The News: Version 12 of Veeam Backup and Replication (VBR) is now generally available. The release includes more than 500 new and enhanced product features. It also encompasses a new, umbrella packaging (“Veeam Data Platform”) of VBR with Veeam ONE with Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, and a new ransomware warranty. See the press release from Veeam […]
HYCU R-Cloud Delivers a Cloud-Platform for SaaS Providers
The News: HYCU previews R-Cloud, a low-code, cloud-delivered platform that allows third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) independent software vendors (ISVs) to create HYCU-based, native data protection capabilities. The new offering provides IT Operations with graphical visualization of unprotected assets. R-Cloud services are available through the Protégé Marketplace. It is slated for General Availability in April 2023. The […]
Staffing Pressures Drive Enterprises to Data Protection as-a-Service
The state of data protection is changing, from that of an investment in expensive infrastructure that largely sits idle, and valuable IT staff hours to procure, configure and manage that infrastructure. Data is becoming more critical, and it is also more in danger of corruption, exploitation, and loss than ever before due to ransomware. At […]
KubeCon 2022: Data Security and Protection Insights
Adoption of Kubernetes is tipping to the mainstream, with more than half of enterprises currently using Kubernetes in production according to recent Evaluator Group research. As these environments become stateful and run critical business services, IT and platform operations teams play a mission critical role in supporting the developer experience by facilitating data and infrastructure-related […]
Enhance Cyber-Resiliency with VMware Ransomware Recovery
IT providers of all shapes and sizes, ranging from object storage vendors though backup and recovery software vendors, are evolving their portfolios and market messaging to address ransomware. The imminence and impact of ransomware threats has catapulted cyber-security – and in particular cyber-recovery – to become arguably the hottest topic pertaining to IT. C-Suite executives […]
Using AWS Services for Cyber-Resiliency
Evaluator Group Take on AWS Storage Day Data Protection Announcements AWS and the Shared Responsibility Model AWS Storage Day 2022 highlighted data protection, and in particular the differences and simultaneous need for both application and data resiliency. This topic is important for two key reasons. The first reason is because ransomware has elevated cyber-resiliency to […]
