Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of October 18; Updates from Arcserve, HYCU, Western Digital & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of October 18, 2024.
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 October 18, 2024
Arcserve Launches UDP 10
Arcserve UDP 10 is a unified data protection solution that offers backup, replication, high availability, and advanced ransomware detection. UDP 10 is easy to set up, as it seamlessly integrates with major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Wasabi. With smart deduplication and powerful data compression, UDP 10 is cost-effective to scale – and as it scales, Arcserve remains the single point of contact for maintenance and support.
Blue Mantis Partners with HYCU
This collaboration will help Blue Mantis clients using AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, as well as a broad array of leading SaaS platforms, to instantly identify and backup their cloud and SaaS applications, determine vulnerabilities and remediate compliance gaps.
Casper Labs Releases the Report: The Essential Role of Governance in Mitigating AI Risk
This report, commissioned by Prove AI and conducted by Zogby Analytics, uncovers the top AI challenges cited by global executives, including data integrity, security, and compliance with emerging regulations. It highlights the growing need for strong AI governance to de-risk systems and ensure long-term ROI.
Dell Unveils New Rack Systems, Server, Storage & Data Management Enhancements
The Dell Integrated Rack 7000 (IR7000) handles accelerated computing demands with superior density, more sustainable power management and advanced cooling technologies. This Open Compute Project (OCP) standards-based rack is ideal for large-scale deployment and features a futureproof design for multigeneration and heterogenous technology environments.
Lightmatter Raises $400 Million in Venture Capital Funding
Lightmatter’s Passage technology addresses this challenge by leveraging 3D-stacked photonics chips to move data. This breakthrough dramatically increases AI cluster bandwidth and performance, while reducing power consumption.
MinIO Selected for Intel Tiber AI Cloud
Within the AI Cloud, users can access Intel hardware, including GPUs, CPUs and Gaudi accelerators, along with a range of solutions that drive business value. Now, with the integration of MinIO's Enterprise Object Store, developers can more seamlessly scale AI workloads, enabling them to begin with a proof of concept and easily expand to using large scale AI data infrastructure.
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Quest Software Unveils: Entra ID Backup by the Numbers
Entra ID is the dominant cloud-based identity platform, connecting more than 610 million users across 800,000 organizations to their business-critical applications. So how are organizations backing up and recovering these users to minimize downtime in case of an accident or attack?
Rubrik Unveils Data Security Posture Management for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Customers can use it to prepare their Microsoft 365 environment for secure Copilot adoption. It can detect sensitive files with public or organization-wide access so customers can reduce excessive permissions and prevent the exposure of sensitive data to unauthorized users by Copilot.
Supermicro Integrates NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU to New Petascale JBOF Flash Storage
This JBOF (Just a Bunch of Flash) system utilizes up to four NVIDIA BlueField-3 data processing units (DPUs) in a 2U form factor to run software-defined storage workloads. Each BlueField-3 DPU features 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and hardware acceleration for high computation storage and networking workloads such as encryption, compression and erasure coding, as well as AI storage expansion.
Western Digital Begins Shipping UltraSMR HDD
For those who want a drop-in ready HDD for today’s data-intensive workloads, the company is also now shipping the world’s highest-capacity ePMR CMR HDD with up to 26TB for enterprise and channel customers. With the world’s first commercially available 11-disk design and field-proven technology, these new drives reinforce Western Digital's commitment to delivering HDD technology that raises the bar on capacity, reliability and innovation.
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Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for an Exclusive Spotlight Webinar on Green IT, October 31
Hear from industry experts Eric Herzog and Tim Dales and learn how Infinidat helps enterprises reduce both OPEX and their carbon footprints while ensuring unmatched real-world application performance, guaranteed 100 percent availability, and industry-leading cyber storage resilience and recovery.
Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for an Exclusive Spotlight on Next-Gen, Cyber-Centric Data Protection & Recovery, November 7
Enterprises need to prepare for the inevitable — adopting a cyber recovery-focused approach that emphasizes high-speed recovery with minimal application and workload disruption. Join Infinidat’s CMO, Eric Herzog, and Senior Solution Architect, Joe Roa, as they showcase the benefits of the new, cyber-first approach to data protection and recovery.
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