Want to protect your health data? Read the fine print
Jonathan Lomurro, partner at Lomurro Law, sits down with Tonya Hall to talk about steps that individuals need to take in order to protect their health data.
The world of data protection — once considered a static and back-office service — is changing considerably. There’s been a lot of momentum in this marketplace over the past few years, especially with new approaches and models that serve enterprise requirements. Multiple business imperatives have affected this industry, including business leaders who expect IO pros to help firms recover from a ransomware attack and IO pros who want to consolidate experiences that impact their purchase decisions. Vendors such as Cohesity and Rubrik have addressed that market with an integrated, well-functioning appliance-based offering. Commvault made a similar attempt with an appliance-based solution launched nearly two years ago. This offering garnered some traction, but it required some fundamental capabilities, such as having a scale-out storage foundation.
The gap needed plugging. Yesterday, Commvault announced its plan to acquire Hedvig in a $225 million deal. Commvault’s stake in the ground in the appliances market is rooted in Hedvig’s native capability — software-defined scale-out storage. Forrester expects Commvault to integrate Hedvig’s business and offering by:
Enterprises will see an improved solution from Commvault. But note that scale-out storage isn’t a panacea in this fast-changing enterprise IT environment. Commvault needs to innovate on a few more areas within its solution to deliver a modern, robust solution and continue to serve new enterprise use cases as strongly as it has.
This post was written by Senior Analyst Naveen Chhabra, and originally appeared here.
Article source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-data-protection-market-is-reforming-hedvig-is-commvaults-stake-in-the-ground/#ftag=RSSbaffb68