Category: Data Protection

Data Security and Protection Vendor Commvault Makes Progress With Metallic SaaS Backup
The Futurum Group’s Daniel Newman and Dave Raffo provide their take on Commvault fiscal Q1 2024 earnings report, which demonstrates that the data protection vendor is continuing to make strides with its Metallic SaaS backup product and its subscription and recurring revenue models.
In this episode of Infrastructure Matters, Steven Dickens and Krista Macomber discuss zero-trust architecture and its implementation, as well as IBM’s acquisition of Apptio and BMC’s new AMI Cloud portfolio.
Enhanced Enterprise Security Helps Rising Combat Cyber Threats in the Era of BYOD Workplaces
Clint Wheelock, Chief Research Officer at The Futurum Group, examines the recent announcement by Samsung and Microsoft on the first on-device attestation for enterprise security.
Vendor Highlights Main Types of SaaS Breaches, Provides 14 SaaS Security Recommendations, and 3 Future Predictions
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers the release of Valence’s 2023 State of SaaS Security report, and details the best practices for mitigating risk by tightening access procedures, even at the risk of creating more worker friction.
Krista Macomber, Senior Analyst with The Futurum Group, covers tech giants’ commitment to the White House for safe AI usage through security testing, digital watermarking, and AI risks management while collaborating on global AI governance.
Krista Macomber, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, covers Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 Backup and Archive services launched at Inspire 2023, as well as the impacts of the API-based integration support for partners on the broader data protection landscape.
The Futurum Group Senior Analyst Dave Raffo looks at Nasuni’s cyber-resiliency features added to its Ransomware Protection service, and its integration with Microsoft Sentinel.
The Futurum Group senior analyst Dave Raffo digs into survey and interview results from CISOs about their data management and data protection strategies.
Ada Lovelace Institute Report Reveals the Challenge to Balancing Pro-Business AI Priorities With Pro-Consumer AI Protections
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines a new Ada Lovelace Institute report that reveals the challenge to balancing pro-business AI wishes with pro-consumer AI protections. The piece explores how the current AI policy debate in the UK is a great example of the struggle to find equilibrium, where business can thrive and the public is sufficiently protected. The current AI Safety approach will not help the UK become an AI leader, and the approach is essentially a good example of what not to do to build sensible AI regulations that benefit business and the public.
Mitch Lewis, Research Analyst at The Futurum Group, assesses new data protection and cyber-resiliency focused updates to NetApp’s BlueXP multi-cloud data management platform.
In our latest Report, BMC AMI Cloud: Empowering Mainframe Data Management in the Hybrid Cloud Era, done in partnership with BMC, we detail the challenges of both traditional and hybrid storage solutions, and how enterprises can efficiently manage storage operations and drive operational success.
Dave Raffo and Krista Macomber, Senior Analysts at The Futurum Group, cover NetApp’s announcements at its NetApp Analyst Summit on the company’s strategy for bringing customers along in a hybrid multicloud world.

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