This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Datadobi launches Pre-Migration Assessment Service. Veritas acquires Globanet. Cohesity announces Automated Disaster Recovery. NETGEAR releases cable modem with WiFi 6 technology. Hammerspace is free up to 10TB. Synology adds new SSD and updates Active Backup for M365. Bamboo Systems raises $7 million in funding. Actifio announces two new solutions under OEM agreement. CTERA achieves AWS Digital Workplace Competency Status.
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Datadobi launches Pre-Migration Assessment Service. Veritas acquires Globanet. Cohesity announces Automated Disaster Recovery. NETGEAR releases cable modem with WiFi 6 technology. Hammerspace is free up to 10TB. Synology adds new SSD and updates Active Backup for M365. Bamboo Systems raises $7 million in funding. Actifio announces two new solutions under OEM agreement. CTERA achieves AWS Digital Workplace Competency Status.
Datadobi Launches Pre-Migration Assessment Service
Datadobi unveiled its Pre-Migration Assessment Service to deliver the most highly predictable and cost-effective NAS and object data migrations, with the fastest ROI possible. This builds off of the company’s DobiMigrate, scanning and assessing the data first allowing customers to decide what gets migrated.
Veritas Acquires Globanet
Veritas Technologies announced that is has acquired the privately held software company, Globanet. Globanet provides comprehensive compliance and intelligent communications solutions to enterprises, including Globanet Merge1. This acquisition will expand Veritas’s compliance and governance offerings. Benefits include:
- Give customers visibility and enable them to act on over 80 new content sources, including Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, Symphony, Bloomberg and more
- Simplify discovery and lifecycle management with richer content capture that shows archived content in a closer to native view
- Offer complete capture of Microsoft Office 365 content sources along with all other communication and file sources used by Veritas customers
- Enrich metadata with Veritas’ industry-leading classification engine across over 80 content sources
Cohesity Announces Automated Disaster Recovery
Cohesity announced SiteContinuity, its automated disaster recovery solution that is integrated with the company’s backup and continuous data protection capabilities. The new automated DR solution is all about minimizing application downtime and data loss. Joined benefits include:
- Simplified operations: Consolidate backup, continuous data protection and automated disaster recovery on a single platform, managed through one global UI and a unified policy framework, across application tiers, service levels, and environments.
- Near-zero application downtime and data loss: With just a few clicks, automatically orchestrate failover and failback of a single application or an entire site, ensuring minimum data loss and downtime as business applications are rapidly recovered in a disaster scenario.
- Flexible recovery: Journal-based recovery helps to meet varying service levels across application tiers by restoring to any point in time — including days or even seconds before the disaster hit, on-premises or to the public cloud.
- Machine learning-based ransomware detection and recommendation: At the time of failover and/or restore, Cohesity Helios’ machine learning algorithm helps identify a clean point in time to restore. This helps protect the DR site from malware impact during the failover process.
- Disaster testing: Meet DR compliance objectives with confidence through end-to-end automated non-disruptive disaster recovery testing, including complete audit trail reporting.
- Reduced TCO: Reduce costs by converging backup and DR, eliminating the need for separate point products and driving better storage efficiency. Further reduce data footprint and costs with global variable-length deduplication and compression across workloads. Additionally, there is no need to deploy dedicated virtual machines to support recovery of each ESXi host.
- Limitless scalability: The underlying web-scale architecture of the Cohesity platform enables organizations to scale BCDR capabilities limitlessly and painlessly.
NETGEAR Releases Cable Modem with WiFi 6 Technology
NETGEAR released a new version of their Orbi WiFi 6 Mesh system with a built-in Cable Modem, the CB752. It is available now starting at $450. Benefits include:
- Works with major US cable service providers: Use these new cable modems with any major US cable service provider, with any Internet speed tier.
- Latest WiFi 6 technology: WiFi 6 allows more devices to connect and stream simultaneously, without impacting speed or reliability, by efficiently packing and scheduling data.
- Built-in DOCSIS 3.1: Experience huge leaps in speed, performance, and reliability and the world’s fastest cable Internet download speed with built in DOCSIS 3.1.
- Automatic firmware updates: Stay up to date with automatic Orbi software updates for new router features and WiFi improvements.
- Advanced cyber protection: NETGEAR Armor has your home network & devices covered from attack.
- Saves money: Save up to $168 per year by eliminating monthly cable modem rental fees.
Hammerspace Is Free Up To 10TB
Hammerspace announced that it is offering a full-featured license, up to 10 TB, free for users in the public cloud. Hammerspace is in version 4.5. The free license includes the following:
- High-performance SMB and NFS file data services with scale-out architecture up to 60 data nodes
- Integrated backup capability using snapshots, stored deduplicated and compressed in S3, with integrated GUI for recovery
- Cloud-agnostic with cloud-to-cloud data mobility
- Automated tiering into S3 for inactive data
- Fully resilient with integrated high availability
- Data deduplication, compression and encryption supporting third-party key management systems
- Secure data against modifications or deletions with file-granular Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM)
- Leverage unique undelete functionality to protect against accidental deletes
- Global File System (early access) to deploy a single namespace across different sites. The data in global shares are available Read-Write on multiple sites at the same time.
- Data replication across regions and clouds
Synology Adds New SSD & Updates Active Backup for M365
Less of a new SSD and more of a higher capacity one, Synology added the 3.84TB SAT5200 to its line of SSDs giving users a higher capacity option for the flash storage. The company also updated its Active Backup for Business software to coincide with the recent changes for Office 365 to Microsoft 365. New features include: relinking backup tasks and data stored on a Synology NAS, support for backing up and restoring M365 Groups, Distribution List, and Security groups and more.
Bamboo Systems Raises $7 million In Funding
The Arm-only server vendor, Bamboo Systems, announced that they have secured $7 million in funding in a recent round. The round was led by Seraphim Capital and Opea Holding and with support from the UK’s £1.25 billion Future Fund, a government funding package designed to support startups driving innovation and development through the coronavirus outbreak. The funding will be used to expand R&D and the company’s go-to-market.
Actifio Announces Two New Solutions Under OEM Agreement
Actifio announced an OEM agreement with Dell Technologies around two of their new solutions that accelerate digital transformation. These new solutions include:
- Actifio Database Cloning Appliance (DCA) powered by Dell Technologies is a highly scalable copy data management platform, based on Actifio’s patented Virtual Data Pipeline technology and Dell Technologies software-defined and HCI platforms (Dell EMC PowerFlex & Dell EMC VxRail), that virtualize application data to improve the resiliency, agility and cloud mobility of organizations’ database environments. DCA allows database administrators (DBAs), testers or developers to make virtual full copies of their databases in minutes using a self-service model, on-premises or in any cloud. This efficient cloning process can serve numerous use cases including test & dev, UAT (user acceptance training), security patch testing, performance testing, and analytics.
- Actifio Cloud Connect radically improves the efficiency of moving workloads to the cloud, with Actifio’s patented OnVault incremental-forever, data-capture technology to minimize data transmission while delivering instant data access from any point in time without waiting for lengthy copy operations. Actifio Cloud Connect allows enterprises to take advantage of the benefits of object storage as a landing point for data traditionally stored on block storage arrays, without sacrificing accessibility.
CTERA Achieves AWS Digital Workplace Competency Status
CTERA announced that it has achieved AWS Digital Workspace Competency status meaning that CTERA as be recognized as having deep experience helping customers build a digital workplace on AWS to free end users from the office, allowing them to work securely on virtually any device, from anywhere, at any time. This will expand CTERA’s reach while providing AWS users with another edge-to-cloud file services offering.
