Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of December 6; Updates from HPE, Quantum, Veeam & More
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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of December 6, 2024 - special 6th annual Insight Jam LIVE!: Strategies for AI Impact edition.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy storage and data protection news items.
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Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of December 6, 2024
AWS Introduces Storage-Optimized EC2 I8g Instances
AWS introduced storage-optimized EC2 I8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, delivering enhanced speed and efficiency for I/O-intensive workloads. Additionally, the new I7ie instances offer up to 120TB NVMe storage, providing significant improvements in compute and real-time storage performance.
BigID Announces New Data Activity Monitoring
BigID empowers organizations to proactively identify risks, respond faster to potential threats, and help strengthen regulatory compliance. BigID's Data Activity Monitoring helps organizations manage the risk of data breaches and strengthens their overall security posture by alerting on potential insider risk, unauthorized access, and data misuse.
DataStealth Launches to Solve for PCI DSS v4
While these standards are crucial for securing consumer payment data, many businesses find that traditional, script-based solutions don't address the growing threat of cyberattacks and payment page tampering. Available this week, DataStealth offers a superior, no-code, fully managed solution that helps businesses achieve compliance within a few weeks.
HPE Announces MSA Gen7 Storage
HPE MSA Gen7 adds features that focus on simplifying routine system maintenance. It also now includes on-device access to the cloud-based HPE MSA Health Check tool and support for online firmware updates for both controllers and drive media, eliminating required downtime for maintenance.
Index Engines Brings New AI and Machine Learning Customizations to CyberSense
Index Engines also prioritized user experience this year by launching two new data integrity dashboards. The home dashboard offers a comprehensive overview of critical metrics, while the backup/snapshots dashboard provides detailed insights into scan results
LogicGate Releases New GRC Value Realization Tool
This new tool provides remarkable visibility into the financial value of GRC by automatically tracking key program initiatives in real-time. These include resource efficiencies, tracking revenue enablement, and proactive risk reduction, allowing leaders to easily correlate risks with value and more effectively illustrate GRC's impact on the organization's bottom line - an industry need that has not been met until now.
Pure Storage Partners with Kioxia
To eliminate obstacles, the latest collaboration between Pure Storage and Kioxia will deliver a data storage platform engineered from the ground up to tackle the needs of hyperscale environments, allowing for rapid scale while lowering power consumption and reducing the overall physical footprint of hyperscale data centers.
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Quantum Says its New Scaler i7 RAPTOR is Available Now
Originally announced in March of this year, the Scalar i7 RAPTOR is designed for hyperscale customers, managed service providers (MSPs), and large enterprises and is the densest, most scalable tape solution on the market.
Red Hat Collaborates with AWS On Virtualization and AI
Red Hat OpenShift, with the inclusion of OpenShift Virtualization and migration toolkit for virtualization, allows for easier migration of VMs. The solution is designed with the cloud in mind for full automation from day one deployments and includes auto-healing and reconciliation, applied to both containers and VM workloads.
Seagate Lyve Now Integrated with AWS Services
Whether moving a few terabytes to an EC2 instance in AWS, or hundreds of terabytes or petabytes into S3 cloud, Seagate Lyve Services supports AWS users to provide a future-ready hybrid IT infrastructure, helping them manage capex and opex goals and maintain control over their assets and data.
Veeam Unveils New Enterprise Data Protection Capabilities
Veeam Data Platform v12.3 expands data portability by offering complete Nutanix AHV protection with application-aware processing, in-depth alerting and analytics for Nutanix AHV workloads. Now fully integrated with Veeam Data Cloud Vault v2, this latest update from Veeam provides instant access to secure, air-gapped, encrypted and immutable cloud storage that is predictably priced.
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