We are very happy to announce that Object First was distinguished with Intellyx’s 2022 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award! As an industry analyst firm that focuses on enterprise digital transformation, Intellyx interacts with numerous firms in the enterprise IT marketplace. After rigorous selections, the leading edge vendors are recognized for impact in this field.
insideBIGDATA dedicated its latest column “Heard on the Street” to cybersecurity, drawing on commentary from various thought leaders in data protection. Here, ObjectFirst’s Director of Technical Marketing, Anthony Cusimano, emphasized how lately, ransomware actors tended to corrupt exfiltrated data and then return it like that to the victim company after the received ransom. Immutable backups are the only way to prevent that.
Rising inflation is growing at its fastest pace in over 40 years, quickly increasing the cost of cloud services and tightening organizations’ IT budgets. More money spent on cloud services means less budget spent elsewhere, thus presenting the dilemma: sacrifice security or your IT budget? The answer is neither, thanks to object storage, says Anthony Cusimano, director of technical marketing at Object First.
As students are returning to classrooms all over the country, hackers are coming back as well. A string of ransomware attacks just recently hit several schools, which makes for a reasonable question of what to do to prevent such danger. In this article by Anthony Cusimano, you can find out how object storage as a primary backup can keep schools’ data safer.
David Bennet, CEO at Object First, described ransomware as the modern-day version of “hostage taking” in a bank robbery to facilitate an outcome. “Now you can essentially expand ‘bank robbing’ to a wide market with the click of a mouse,” Bennet said.