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

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (DR) is an on-demand disaster recovery service (DRaaS) that lives in VMware Cloud on AWS. The product is an evolution of the Datrium offering, which VMware acquired last summer. Launched last October, VMware Cloud DR has a very intuitive mission. That is to deliver a simple to use DR solution with

We’re all well aware that unstructured data continues to grow not just throughout the enterprise data center but throughout every small office in the world as well. That notion holds true even in our small office. While already a Veeam v11 user for our virtualized environment, we hadn’t yet adopted Veeam NAS backup and recovery

Recently we reviewed TrueNAS CORE 12 on our HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus, where we focused on the performance of both hard drives as well as flash, over SMB and iSCSI shares. An important aspect of this comparison was analyzing the performance hit of stronger compression as well as enabling deduplication with TrueNAS. While performance is

Last year, with the launch of Veeam Backup & Replication v10, the company announced the general availability of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure delivers enterprise-ready Azure backup, so customers can protect their workloads and overcome any risk of data loss. This solution was an excellent achievement for Veeam, which gradually