Around this time last year, commentators across the industry predicted that 2018 was going to be the ‘year of data protection’, and it was. Even halfway through the year, we had seen a number of high profile data breaches and the public’s awareness of the value and vulnerability of their sensitive data skyrocketed.

Value-added distributor (VAD) Exclusive Group has teamed up with INFINIDAT in a new strategic distribution partnership that will provide partners with access to the InfiniBox platform. The enterprise storage provider will now form part of Exclusive Group’s BigTec cloud transformation division, as the cooperation targets deeper market penetration across EMEA and Asia – particularly in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand in the Asia Pacific region, as well as the UK, the DACH region and France in EMEA.

Among the enterprise storage arrays, the Infinidat InfiniBox is a disk-based system swimming in an ocean of flash. The InfiniBox design hinges on machine learning algorithms that extract high performance from commodity-priced capacity spinning media. Infinidat's system only includes about 3% of flash to support its neural caching system, giving it the potential for seven nines of availability at petabyte scale. The latest version of InfiniBox system software supports more than 8 PB of effective capacity in a 42U rack.

As an Amazon Web Services Inc. technology partner, Infinidat Inc. wants businesses to be able to consume differentiated data services in whatever modality they prefer. Whether that is an on-premises infrastructure piece, a backup-optimized environment, or even a public cloud service, it shouldn’t matter.

To this end, Infinidat announced the release of Neutrix Cloud 2.0 in November, the latest iteration of the company’s enterprise-class storage service for multicloud computing. Clients now have support for cross-regional data replication, a new web-based graphical user interface with voice control for Amazon Alexa, and additional cloud integrations.

Senwes, the South African agriculture firm, has begun using an enterprise data storage array provided by INFINIDAT. The storage solution promises to deliver faster-than-all-flash performance, high availability and multi-petabyte scale capacity. With the new offering, Senwes aims to future-proof its storage growth through improved performance, reduced costs, and increase reliability.

The need for companies to balance the costs, performance and capacity of their data storage resources has resulted in a complex mix of storage tiers, which also limits the benefits that can be derived from the faster access and analysis of data.

However, software-defined storage solutions can help to manage the complexity and, thereby, make data available when and where it is needed in business processes. This type of solution improves data management and stewardship, which also facilitates data protection compliance and improves security, says enterprise storage multinational Infinidat South Africa country manager Hayden Sadler.

INFINIDAT, provider of enterprise-class data storage solutions, announced release of Neutrix Cloud 2.0 storage service for multicloud computing. With this new release, Neutrix Cloud will support cross-regional data replication, a new web-based GUI, voice control with Amazon Alexa and additional cloud integrations.

With a record number of highly publicized career-ending data breaches, it has been a difficult time to be a CIO / CISO over the past 12 months, and there are no signs of things getting easier in the near future. The industry is facing the coming together of two key trends in data security: stronger regulatory requirements from authorities across the globe, and increasing levels of sophistication shown in the tactics of malicious hackers. Regulations such as GDPR in the EU and HIPAA in the US healthcare industry have redefined what is considered a data breach, and the threats to businesses are increasingly involving human targeting and social engineering to gain access to valuable personal data.

InfiniGuard from Waltham, Mass.-based Infinidat is an application-aware business continuity offering that provides effective capacity of over 20 PB with fast restores. InfiniGuard combines the technology and features of its InfiniBox appliance with industry-hardened deduplication technology. InfiniGuard is powered by the same Neural Cache software architecture that powers InfiniBox to help boost restore performance and deliver high-performance reliability, availability, and service expected for data protection and business continuity.

The rapidly increasing number of businesses storing data in the virtual space has propelled a revolution in backup and recovery. While nearly every enterprise is embracing modernization, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. In order to help every customer find their right-sized data storage strategy, Infinidat Inc. takes a collaborative, adaptable approach to business, according to Brian Carmody (pictured, left), chief technology officer of Infinidat Inc.