This week VMware Inc. announced its intent to acquire the cloud-native security company, Octarine. This move gives VMware yet another notch in its Kubernetes belt. Octarine offers an innovative security platform for Kubernetes applications that helps simplify DevSecOps and enables cloud native environments to be more secure, from development through runtime.

Asigra has been backing up and, more importantly, enabling the restoration of data since 1986. In the past, Asigra has worked with a global network of IT service providers to deliver Asigra Cloud Backup as a public, private, and/or hybrid solution—but recently Asigra teamed up with iXsystems to offer Asigra’s software to the multitude of

Today, Clumio announced that it had added Microsoft 365 to its backup as a service strategy. With this joining, the company wants to provide other organizations running Microsoft 365 with a globally consolidated data protection service. Clumio provides backup as a service for enterprise and seeks to eliminate the complexity of infrastructure management.

Today Rubrik announced the latest release of its Cloud Data Management solution, Rubrik Andes 5.2. The latest update is said to come with the following benefits: “blazingly” fast VMware performance, improved control for Oracle DBAs, and additional enterprise advancements to address compliance within highly regulated industries. Rubrik goes on to state that Andes 5.2 will

Today Commvault announced the launch of NetApp Scale-out Data Protection (SDP). The idea behind SDP is to offer expanded rapid recovery support for critical data across NetApp’s hybrid-enabled storage systems. NetApp SDP is powered by Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery software, hence the launching from Commvault. This marks the continuing partnership of NetApp and Commvault

Today, Scality released a network-attached storage (NAS) archiver with built-in analytic and recommendation tools. Scality was founded in 2009. Prior to today’s release, the company had two major products. The first is RING, an object storage software platform. The second is the Zenko multi-cloud controller, available in open source and enterprise editions.

Today Cohesity announced that it has raised an additional $250 million through series E funding.  The latest funding round was led by DFJ Growth, Foundation Capital, Greenspring Associates, and Wing Venture Capital. DFJ Growth and Greenspring Associates are new investors as are Baillie Gifford and Sozo Ventures. With the $250 million, Cohesity’s total haul comes

Yesterday, Veeam marked the 10th anniversary of the Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) program. Along with this installation, Veeam announced the release of the program discounts and updates, as well as the release of the new Veeam Service Provider Console version 4. The company claims that the new capabilities included in the Veeam Service

Sliding out today, VMware Inc. announced that VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.3 (SRM) and vSphere Replication 8.3 are hitting generally availability. SRM and vSphere Replication 8.3 were announced earlier in the month along with announcements around vSphere, vSAN, and Tanzu. The company states that the above automation software integrates with an underlying replication technology to