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Rubrik, Veeam, Commvault, Cohesity, Dell, and Druva lead Gartner's newly renamed 2025 Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. The report marks a major shift toward cyberresilient, AI-driven architectures that extend far beyond traditional backup and recovery -- prioritizing GenAI, SaaS coverage, and unified hybrid cloud operations.
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Veteran cloud architect Joey D’Antoni outlined a five-point plan for truly resilient cloud architectures in his latest Virtualization & Cloud Review summit session, “Disaster-Proofing Your Cloud: Data-Loss Prevention Tactics That Actually Work.”
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Karen Lopez exposes why traditional disaster recovery strategies fall short in today’s cloud-first, threat-heavy world -- and what modern orgs must do instead.
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Karen Lopez (@datachick) breaks down modern disaster recovery with a restore-first mindset, immutable storage, and dark data awareness.
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Veeam unveiled dual innovations to strengthen enterprise cyber resilience: an AI integration with Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to transform backup data into actionable intelligence, and Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID to safeguard identity systems.
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For disaster recovery, Amazon recently introduced a time-based copy feature that allows you to tie the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) copy duration to your Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
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Enhanced integration allows customers to secure and protect data from virtual machines (VMs) and containers within their Red Hat OpenShift environments using Cohesity DataProtect and NetBackup.
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Rubrik announced a raft of cybersecurity features, including protection for GitHub, which has become a prime target for threat actors.
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"Don't think your company's too small to be cyberattacked, because you're not," says disaster recovery expert Joey D'Antoni. "It just means they haven't decided to try you yet."
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Data security specialist Rubrik is speeding up the threat hunting process in its software by allowing for quicker recoveries in the familiar backup & recovery process.
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Expert guidance abounds for enterprises to protect themselves against ransomware, phishing and other cyberattacks, but sometimes that advice is more effective when dispensed with real-world examples for specific scenarios.
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Rubrik says it's brining cyber posture and cyber recovery to provide Microsoft Azure Blob Storage customers further visibility into their cloud data, enabling business agility and resilience.
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Data resilience specialist Veeam Software updated its Data Cloud Vault with two new pricing tiers and enhanced integration with the Veeam Data Platform.
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Data security specialist Druva announced extended support in Microsoft environments, specifically Microsoft 365 Dynamics Sales and Customer Service CRM modules.
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"Our latest collaboration with CrowdStrike allows customers to bring their own (BYO) cyber threat intelligence."
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In quickly changing market, Veeam leads the execution axis and Rubrik leads the vision axis.
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Data management/governance specialist AvePoint announced the general availability of Cloud Backup Express, designed to use the new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage service recently made available for third-party integrations.
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On the same day that Microsoft shipped a new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage service for third-party integrations, launch partner Veeam announced just such integration with its Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365.
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Ransomware specialist Veeam Software announced a new cloud storage service to securely store backup data off-site in an always-immutable and encrypted format, just as the firm published a new ransomware trends report.
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Veeam Software has entered an AI-centric partnership with Microsoft that sees the companies jointly developing new AI solutions around Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant and Veeam's new Data Cloud.
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Veeam Software today announced its new Data Cloud offering, providing its data protection and ransomware recovery platform as a cloud service built on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform.
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Ransomware is still plaguing IT -- it's still the No. 1 cause of outages -- but dissatisfied data protection pros seeking new jobs present a new concern, a new survey-based report indicates.
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Druva, provider of a data resiliency SaaS platform, this week expanded its multi-cloud protection capabilities for the Azure cloud after previously unveiling an AI-powered copilot called "Dru" to help with backups.
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Veeam, specializing in data protection and ransomware recovery, announced updates to two major offerings during recent tech events, along with a partnership with Sophos.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom pushes the personal cloud storage device beyond its intended use case to act as a repository for VMs while seeing if it can be used as shared storage for running VMs.