Average ransomware payment now $1.1M: Coveware charts rise of data exfiltration
Veeam’s Coveware business unit has released its Q2 ransomware report showing average ransomware payments are double last quarter’s amount at $1.13 million.
Data protector Veeam bought the Coveware business, with...
Index Engines developing CyberSense service for channel sales
Interview. CyberSense is an Index Engines’ malware hunting and detection technology that it sells through an OEM channel with Dell (Cyber Vault), Hitachi Vantara, IBM and Infinidat. But resellers...
HPE claims ‘world’s fastest’ backup storage with Alletra X10000 upgrade
HPE has announced high-speed backup ingest for its Alletra Storage MP X10000 array along with Zerto disaster recovery integration features at Black Hat USA 2025.
The Alletra Storage MP X10000 is...
Storage news ticker – 4 August
Data manager and protector Arctera has updated its Arctera Insight Platform to reduce the compliance risks associated with AI deployments. The new capabilities enable organisations to capture the input and output...
Commvault buys AI data security biz Satori Cyber
Commvault is buying Israeli startup Satori Cyber, expanding into data flow monitoring and AI security.
Once a data protection supplier rebrands itself as a cyber resilience provider – as Commvault...
Storage news ticker – July 25
A 45Drives four-part video series, led by Chief Solutions Architect and Ceph Foundation board member Mitch Hall, documents the design, build, tuning, and real-world benchmarking of an all-NVMe Ceph cluster...
Storage news ticker – July 22
Adeptia Connect is a business data exchange software moving data between applications, partners, and customers, supporting data integration, application integration, and B2B/EDI processes. It can be single or multi-tenant...
ADP plots next move beyond Rubrik and Nutanix
Storage array customers, like those using Rubrik and Nutanix, increasingly require as-a-service backup and disaster recovery. ADP is looking to expand into this area, and is also exploring how...
Storage news ticker – July 18
AWS said customers can boot Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on AWS Outposts using boot volumes backed by NetApp on-premises enterprise storage arrays and Pure Storage FlashArray,...
Big orgs still treating storage security as an afterthought
Just over half of enterprises with more than 10,000 employees have integrated storage security into their overall cybersecurity strategy, with another fifth planning to do so.
The finding was revealed...
Index Engines patents continuous AI training against active cyber threats
Index Engines has a newly patented process for continuous training of AI/ML models on real-world attack patterns.
The company supplies a CyberSense product that uses AI and machine learning analysis...
Simulated ransomware attack reveals gaps in recovery planning
Participating in a simulated ransomware attack showed up the glaring need for attack response playbooks and insulated clean room recovery facilities, as even immutable backups could contain undetected ransomware-infected...