Security News
While there's lots of bustle around protecting data that resides in on-premises apps, when it comes to protecting data in SaaS apps, it's pretty much crickets. One way they can better protect and preserve crucial SaaS app data is by having the right backup in place.
Veeam Software announced general availability of new Veeam Backup & Replication v11, enabling the most advanced data protection solution for cloud, virtual, physical and enterprise workloads. "Veeam released V10 with more than 150 new enhancements just 12 months ago, and now has more than 700,000 downloads. Being able to launch the next version - Veeam Backup & Replication v11 - with an additional 200 new and powerful backup, cloud, DR, security and automation enhancements speaks volumes to Veeam's speed of innovation, as well as our strong commitment to the needs and data reliability demands of our customers and partners," said Danny Allan, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Veeam.
If you think your backup strategy means you're protected from the worst that cyber-criminals can throw at you, we've got some bad news. If you are unlucky enough to get a "Pay up or else" notice, there's a very good chance that the attacker in question has already been stealthily working their way through your systems for some time, ensuring your recovery data has already been comprehensively trashed.
Actiphy announces the release of the next generation of ActiveVisor, a centralized management solution for ActiveImage Protector backup clients, with many new features including enhanced integration with Microsoft's Active Directory Services. ActiveVisor is a centralized backup management console for ActiveImage Protector backup clients providing a visual representation of statistical data, real-time monitoring of backup status and storage space availability, and deploy agents, backup tasks, and schedules.
You can pay up, hoping that you will indeed get your data back quickly, while knowing that the ransom is then likely to fund other nefarious activities. Assuming the extortionists haven't gotten to the backups first, that is.
Wherever you're heading, are you sure that your legacy data protection solution is going to keep pace? If your current enterprise backup operation is, shall we say, spotty at best, and tortuously slow at worst, how's it going to perform in the future? Come on, be honest. If you want to find out what data management should look like today, and in the future, you should really join us on January 26 at 0900 PST, for a webcast that examines How backup modernization changes the ransomware game.
Backup-as-a-service provider Rewind on Tuesday announced it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2015, the Ottawa, Canada-based company helps customers secure business-critical software-as-a-service application and cloud data, and claims more than 80,000 organizations in over 100 countries rely on its solutions.
ExaGrid announced its new line of Tiered Backup Storage appliances, which increases the overall size of a full backup in single system. The new line continues ExaGrid's unique scale-out approach to backup storage architecture, allowing customers to mix and match appliances of any size or age into a single scale-out system, so that customers can grow their systems as their data grows.
Asigra software version 14.2 support for the Microsoft software suite empowers solution providers to significantly lower cybersecurity threats targeting backup repositories with MS Office 365 data. Asigra Cloud Backup with Deep MFA allows users to easily schedule the creation of point-in-time backup copies of mailboxes and corporate data residing in Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business - with no limitations on data volumes or number of mailboxes.
Veeam Software announced the general availability of new Veeam Backup for AWS v3 - a fully automated and native backup and disaster recovery solution built on Amazon Web Services, designed to effortlessly provide additional protection and management capabilities for Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute and Amazon Relational Database Service. Veeam Backup for AWS, a standalone AWS backup and recovery solution for protecting data on AWS. Veeam Backup & Replication, unifying AWS backup and recovery with other cloud, virtual or physical data and unlimited data portability to, from and across clouds.