Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Swissbit promotes a real security product line
This security solution line targets authentication, access control and identify management leveraging flash and ubiquitous devices. It means also to secure data and process such as secure boot or encryption to guarantee safe IT operations against cyberattacks.
And it makes really sense when you consider some synergies with embedded storage in automative vehicles for instance. all info is stored on plenty dispersed small devices and requires some security techniques both on the storage aspect but also on the access one.
The German company developed a MFA - multi-factor authentication - aligned with FIDO2. It is instantiated with iShield Key FIDO2 and Pro flavors and the new coming one, the iShield Key MIFARE. Force to comply with US, European and global regulations, the firm has released a security upgrade kit with encryption and access control for MicroSD/SD cards. The encryption uses a real time AES 256 bits and also the memory is based on industrial grade pSLC to improve endurance.
For government segments, RSA and Swissbit join forces to provide the RSA iShield Key 2 series and we expect new models in 2025.
Friday, November 01, 2024
Some directions for ExaGrid
ExaGrid, a reference in secondary storage, will add soon 2 key product iterations. Bill Andrews, CEO, shared with The IT Press Tour group 2 additional flavors related, first, to some deep integrations with Rubrik in addition to Veeam, Veritas and Commvault and classic support via S3, NFS or SMB. The team picked Rubrik instead of Cohesity as Veritas will join officially them very soon now. It means that ExaGrid will cover deeply the 4 top data protection products and thus increase its market footprint significantly. The second news is about the release of a Flash-based appliance at least for the landing zone to boost backup and recovery times. IT was not clear of the company will develop a full flash systems. Great news.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Wasabi AiR to leverage content
The video below illustrates the immediate gain users receives with AiR.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
HYCU is ready for DORA and NIS2
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Some directions for Wasabi
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
HYCU restores data everywhere
Friday, October 11, 2024
ExaGrid, a leader a bit confidential
- +150 new customers for a total of 4,400+ and 48 of these new ones passing the 6 and 7-figure deals,
- New major product release with ExaGrid 7.0.0,
- Support of Commvault Metallic in addition to the top 3 Veeam, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault classic product,
- 95% net customer retention,
- NPS score of +81.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Wasabi, the cloud storage gem
We had the privilege to be with David Friend, CEO and co-founder, to present and discuss with us. The company, founded in 2015, has raised more then $500 million and is of course included in the Storage Unicorn Club published bi-annually by Coldago Research for several years.
With more 100,000 customers attached to 14 storage regions and 15,000+ partners of all kind, several exabyte are stored with for example more of 1EB of Veeam pushed data. Wasabi is used by various industries with a real partnership effort pushing a channel first approach. All storage sites are co-located with local internet, data centers and cloud service providers.
The Wasabi offering is pretty simple in its concept with of course a real complexity in its deployment but it is completely masked to users and consumers. The idea was to leverage S3 API as the de-facto standard for universal data access to cost effective cloud storage. In other words, build a 100% compatible solution with AWS S3 storage that invites users to select or switch in favor of Wasabi at an attractive cost, 805 less than Amazon. Of course users continue to own their data in a very secure way and can predict cost. With AWS S3 and other similar services, traffic costs increase the final bill and it is very difficult to anticipate the real final cost. With Wasabi this traffic is reduced to zero so users pay only for capacity per month.
Performance is also pretty good and data is immutable, protected by erasure coding in each site and replicated across regions projected 11 9's of durability. Encryption is done in-flight and at-rest with strong identity and access management (IAM), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and multi-user authorization (MUA).
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
R-Cloud covers the highest number of applications
Launched with the tour last year, R-Cloud has radically changed how users approach SaaS applications data protection. It was clear yesterday that the product team has significantly increased the number of applications supported with 80+ applications. As the IT companies landscape has been highly modified if you compare with the last 10-20 years, the vast majority of applications used by enterprises are SaaS-based.
It is good for HYCU to be listed in some analysts reports even if Gartner has lost its credibility for several years confirmed by recent crazy MQs. I invite the readers to check my various comments and analysis of these Gartner strange documents.
The recent SaaS survey was an interesting source of informations that illustrate that SaaS service feed a scandal without a real serious protection while users don't really know what they use.
R-Cloud has made real progress while competition still focus on classic SaaS applications with an average of 9 supported. And the idea for HYCU is to cover the entire stack to be really considered as a universal or horizontal solution. The last news shared yesterday is related to new applications. In the domain, HYCU now adds:
- Protected infrastructure services with AWS S3 Express Zone, Cloud Formation, Lambda and Google Cloud Run,
- ITSM: ClickUp, Docusign and iManage,
- DevOps: GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, Terraform, CircleCI, Jira Product Discovery and Google Artifact Registry,
- IAM: Microsoft Entra ID, Okta Customer Identity Cloud, AWS IAM, VPC, WAF, KMS, Parameter Store and Route 53,
- Data Management & Analytics: Google Big Table, Cloud Functions, Artifact Registry, Firestore, Redis and Pinecone,
- Collaborative Work Management: Box, Monday, Podio and Wrike.