There are numerous benefits to deploying a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) system: scalability, performance, flexibility, security, and in most cases, management. An HCI deployment is suitable for edge, remote, or branch-office environments or large enterprises with the ability to easily scale storage requirements from TBs to PBs. Even more importantly, HCI can be rolled out on-premises,

Ransomware attacks continue to haunt businesses of all sizes with losses estimated to exceed $20 billion in 2021. Quantum’s Scalar i3 and i6 tape libraries now offer a system with three escalating levels of protection for data stored on tape. These are Active Vault, Logical Tape Blocking, and Ransom Block, a portfolio of features that

Veritas has announced the latest version of NetBackup powered by Cloud Scale Technology during the Conquer Every Cloud 2022 event. The latest version and next generation of NetBackup is the foundation for Autonomous Data Management and multi-cloud data protection.

Dell Technologies hosted a digital event today, bringing together experts to discuss protection in the age of ransomware. Of course, the numbers are scary, the reports of ransomware are so common, most of us are numb to it. Ransomware is something that all organizations need to address though. So in addition to fearsome numbers about

Kasten and its K10 Platform have been around for about four years, primarily offering data protection for Kubernetes. The demand for protecting these emerging workloads was growing so fast that Veeam acquired Kasten. The net result is an increasingly integrated offering that addresses both virtualization and container data protection. Kasten keeps a rapid development cycle,

Summer is here, it’s hot, and the big companies are still swallowing up the smaller guys. In this case, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Zerto. This deal is reported to be for about $374 million. Zerto will be integrated into HPE GreenLake.

Last month, several QNAP users and their systems were hit with a ransomware attack. The main attack was known as Qlocker and did was ransomware does, encrypts users’ data until they pay a ransom to get it back. QNAP made an effort to stave off future attacks and remove any malware floating around on their

Here recently, Cigent Technology came out of the shadows and announced its breakthrough Cigent Data Defense plan. This plan is two-part, involving the company’s Dynamic Data Defense Engine (D3E) and its self-defending Cigent K2 Secure SSD. Both combined add to the best security, though the two components can be used separately as well.

In the last few months, it would seem that the evildoers that leverage ransomware to make money have turned their focus to NAS devices. The most recent example we saw was with QNAP and the Qlocker attack. Though TerraMaster recently had a security fault come to light and Synology was suffering attacks a few years