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  • The Next Evolution of Cyber Defense: Ransomware-proof Object Storage

    Object First’s vice president of product marketing, Tony Liau describes how critical it is for organizations to invest in data protection in a world where data is constantly evolving. Data protection used to be a director or vice president-level decision, and with the exponential rise of ransomware, data protection has become a C-level or board-level discussion for every business. While the best-case scenario is stopping a ransomware attack before it hits production environments, that’s not always possible. Therefore, organizations must back up their data.

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    Security Magazine by Tony Liau
  • Emerging Tech to Help Guard Against the Malevolence of Cloud Outages

    Here’s a different spin on old tech to add faster bounce to your bounce-back plans for dealing with a cloud outage. While object storage itself has been around for 20+ years, only now are we seeing the consideration and optimization of object storage for backup and recovery, explains Tony Liau, vice president of product marketing at Object First, a provider of object-based storage. The optimized performance enables the ability to run failed workloads directly from backup, ensuring companies are business as usual within minutes during any outages.

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    AntInformationWeek by Pam Baker
  • Object First Exits Stealth, Focuses Exclusively On Veeam Environments

    Object First has exited stealth with $12.5 million in investment and a simple focus on providing a high-performance tier of protection for data managed by Veeam. The tie to Veeam is no accident given that the co-founders of Object First, Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov, were also co-founders of Veeam, and continued to support Veeam after it was acquired in early 2020 by Insight Partners.

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    CRN by Joseph F. Kovar
  • Object First Launches With Appliance for Veeam Backup Storage

    A new venture from Veeam’s founders gives users a back-end hardware option that’s specifically designed for Veeam backup storage. Object First comes out of stealth and starts in beta Tuesday. The company, created by Veeam co-founders Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov, targets the midmarket with its object storage-based backup hardware.

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    TechTarget by Paul Crocetti