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• August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16

  Nimble says customers quick to embrace all-flash

  Nimble Storage, which was relatively late selling all-flash arrays, is trying to make up for lost time since launching its Predictive Flash platform in February. The vendor received a jolt from ...

• August 23, 2016 23 Aug'16

  IBM flash storage expands with midrange all-flash products

  IBM's all-flash portfolio grows, with a new midrange and entry-level option, and the vendor adds a migration program aimed at EMC-Dell customers.

• August 19, 2016 19 Aug'16

  EMC: Commercial drone storage market primed for takeoff

  Commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, is just starting to emerge. Drone storage, on the other hand, isn’t getting as much attention. EMC wants to gain a toehold in the ...

• August 19, 2016 19 Aug'16

  NetApp sells more flash, spends less

  NetApp made great progress last quarter with its sales of all-flash storage, Clustered Data OnTap (CDOT) and cost-cutting measures. NetApp Wednesday reported better revenue and income results than ...

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Quobyte updates "Google-like" storage software

  The “Google-like” software storage system that Berlin-based Quobyte introduced last year is getting an update. With its new Quobyte 1.3 release, the German startup added space-saving erasure coding ...

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Nutanix lines up partners to sell on Cisco UCS

  Nutanix, which has OEM deals with server vendors Dell and Lenovo, is now selling its software on Cisco UCS servers through channel partners. Nutanix today revealed it has independently validated ...

• August 17, 2016 17 Aug'16

  Coho Data QoS lets multi-tenant storage neighbors peacefully coexist

  Coho Data's new version of its DataStream multi-tenant storage nodes natively integrate Hadoop Distributed File System to existing block, container and file storage.

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  VCE Vblocks help healthcare provider fix data center footprint issues

  When Molina Healthcare installed all-flash converged infrastructure, it was able to reclaim precious floor space in the data center while satisfying its most sensitive apps.

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  Rubrik grabs $61 million, aims for cloud

  Converged data protection startup Rubrik turned to the cloud with a software release that allows customers to use Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure as well as Rubrik's appliances to store data. Rubrik ...

• August 15, 2016 15 Aug'16

  HPE StoreVirtual entry-level arrays get makeover, price cut

  HPE StoreVirtual and MSA entry-level storage have new flash and hybrid models with lower prices as the vendor tries to expand its footprint outside of its enterprise 3PAR storage.

• August 12, 2016 12 Aug'16

  Solid-state drives bulk up for capacity

  SANTA CLARA, California -- Solid-state drives have been much faster than hard disk drives from the start, and now they’re dwarfing HDDs in capacity too. At Flash Memory Summit this week, Seagate ...

• August 12, 2016 12 Aug'16

  Cloudian and AWS team up for on-premise cloud storage

  Cloudian and Amazon Web Services are now offering a new service that allows customers to use Cloudian HyperStore Hybrid Storage offering that stores data locally but leverages the S3 object ...

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  Hubstor Microsoft public cloud archive goes cool, deep

  Hubstor is fine-tuning the Microsoft Azure-based cloud archive platform it launched in July. The Ontario, Canada, startup introduced CoolSearch, which it bills as searchable Microsoft ...

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  Panzura enables greater expansion of global file system controllers

  Panzura unveiled a new line of cloud storage controllers with global file system and high-performance data cache to help users collaborate across locations.

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  SCSI trade group claims new SAS has pluses over NVMe/PCIe

  NVMe and PCIe solid-state drives (SSDs) may be a hot topic at this week’s Flash Memory Summit, but the SCSI Trade Association is trying to remind everyone that new serial-attached SCSI (SAS) ...

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Facebook storage wish list calls for faster flash innovation

  Facebook's strategy for flash storage technology revolves around disaggregation, tiers and innovating in emerging tech, such as NVMe, QLC and 3D XPoint.

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Nimble SAN all-flash line gains building block, CS Series gets refresh

  Nimble Storage adds the AF1000 entry-level model to the Predictive Flash all-flash platform, coupled with a product refresh of its CS-Series Nimble SAN hybrid arrays.

• August 09, 2016 09 Aug'16

  Nimbus Data sticks its big nodes back into AFA market with ExaFlash

  Nimbus Data is ready to take on the all-flash big boys again with ExaFlash, a petabyte-scale architecture that breaks the $1 per gig barrier for raw SSD capacity.

• August 09, 2016 09 Aug'16

  HCI vendor Pivot3 reports more customers using more apps

  Pivot3 more than doubled its revenue in the first half of 2016 over 2015, which its CEO attributes to customers buying its hyper-converged appliances as a platform rather than for single ...

• August 08, 2016 08 Aug'16

  NVMe over Fabrics gathers steam for flash and post-flash devices

  Industry players are demonstrating the new NVM Express over Fabrics network interconnect technology, but it's hard to say when it will gain widespread adoption.

• August 08, 2016 08 Aug'16

  E8 Storage brings out 'software-defined DSSD' NVMe array

  E8 Storage comes out of stealth promising to improve performance of direct-attached solid-state drives with new all-flash appliance.

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Caltech LIGO project uses Nexsan storage to prove Einstein right

  LIGO project observatories used Nexsan's high-density storage for up to 1.7 million files of raw data, collected from lasers that helped prove Einstein's theory of relativity.

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Pokémon Go's lessons for storage pros

  The Pokémon Go craze – mainly its augmented reality capability and server crashes – contains lessons for storage administrators. Pokémon Go demonstrates how next-generation applications can drive ...

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  EMC container plugin supports any block storage

  EMC has contributed an open source Apache Mesos container volume driver that supports any network-attached block storage system equipped with a Docker plugin, including storage of EMC competitors. ...

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  Ctera builds new data migration, ILM and security capabilities into its platform

  Ctera Networks recently unveiled new enhancements to its Enterprise File Service Platform that include the ability to migrate data from an on-premise cloud to the public cloud without disrupting ...

• August 03, 2016 03 Aug'16

  Diablo DMX software adds features to Memory1 memory channel storage

  Diablo Memory Expansion software adds predictive cache, prefetching and tiering to 128 GB Memory1 flash DIMMs. This gives 2 TB of persistent memory in a two-socket server.

• August 03, 2016 03 Aug'16

  Portworx champions container management with Docker storage

  Portworx PX-Enterprise containers share elastic block storage with attached Docker instances. The converged storage fabric runs on each physical Linux host in a cluster.

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  Seagate, WD see exabyte growth with high-capacity enterprise HDDs

  Unit shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) may be on the decline, but the exabytes that Seagate Technology and Western Digital are shipping with their high-capacity enterprise HDDs is spiking. ...

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  FalconStor's dating, seeking technology match

  There is a trend in storage for smaller vendors to band together to try and grow through mergers, for far different reasons than Dell and EMC are coming together. These mergers of small companies ...

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Quantum results indicate 'stable' backup market

  It’s no secret that storage sales have been hard to come by over the last year or two. Most of the large vendors experience product revenue decreases or small increases quarter after quarter. But ...

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Spectra Logic bolsters BlackPearl storage archive for Amazon cloud

  Backup tape specialist Spectra Logic has upgraded the operating software for its BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway appliance, allowing petabyte-scale enterprises to build a storage archive using ...

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  SolidFire CTO dishes on NetApp all-flash array strategy

  NetApp vet and SolidFire CTO Val Bercovici says NetApp will apply lessons learned from its Spinnaker Networks 'fiasco' while integrating its new all-flash platform.

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  New high-density IBM DeepFlash 150 targets big data

  New IBM flash storage product is a high-density JBOF system designed to work with Spectrum Scale software-defined storage to target big data.

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Commvault rallies ‘round the cloud

  Commvault increased its year-over-year revenues for the third straight quarter, with a big assist from the cloud. Like all storage vendors, Commvault is looking for a way to work with public cloud ...

• July 22, 2016 22 Jul'16

  Broadcom samples HBAs that support FC-NVMe to OEMs

  The pieces are starting to fall into place for even higher performing flash storage with lower latency through the use of Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fibre Channel (FC). Broadcom (part ...

• July 22, 2016 22 Jul'16

  RDMA over Fabrics: a big step for SSD access

  Shared storage access for servers has been the most basic requirement for storage networks. Performance demands for multiple systems accessing data continually increase due to improvements in ...

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  HubStor debuts cloud archive for Microsoft Azure file storage

  HubStor creates a dedicated cloud archive tenant in Microsoft’s public cloud. HubStor Connector Service performs enterprise-grade analytics, data governance and indexed search.

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  Veeam Software still outpacing data protection market

  Veeam Software continued impressive growth last quarter, increasing bookings revenue 38% over last year in a market that is barely growing one percent. Veeam Software remains a private company, but ...

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Seagate brings back Barracuda with new 10TB hard disk drives

  Seagate resurrected the BarraCuda brand name with its latest lineup of 10 TB hard disk drives. The high-capacity drives, unofficially called the Guardian series, include the BarraCuda computer hard ...

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  EMC shareholders OK Dell deal

  In a near unanimous vote, EMC shareholders today voted to approve the storage giant’s $67 billion merger with Dell. The shareholder vote was considered one of two remaining obstacles to the deal, ...

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  New Brocade director supports Gen 6 Fibre Channel

  Brocade ships new 32 Gbps Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors and extension blades targeting faster flash storage systems, and it adds new IO and VM Insight monitoring capabilities.

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  Cisco Metapod cloud integrates SwiftStack software

  Cisco and OpenStack-based object storage vendor SwiftStack have teamed on a highly dense, turnkey object storage appliance. It marks Cisco’s first foray into object storage software and gives ...

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  Syncplicity adds Office 365 support, Egnyte launches data governance solution

  Enterprise file sharing vendor Syncplicity  recently announced its software is now integrated with Microsoft Office 365, while competitor Egnyte rolled out its Egnyte Protect governance solution. ...

• July 15, 2016 15 Jul'16

  Diablo Technologies scores another court win over Netlist

  Diablo Technologies chalked up another legal victory over Netlist this week, although  Netlist’s separate patent infringement lawsuit remains unresolved. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  IDrive Vault hurdles into data protection market

  IDrive has opened its vault to offer a new hybrid backup appliance, touting the product as feature-rich but affordable data protection. The IDrive Vault, available now, provides 4 TB of local ...

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  StorageOS gives your Docker volume persistent container storage

  Startup StorageOS launches software-defined storage for containers. Development teams choose a targeted Docker volume in a container and provision storage and data services.

• July 13, 2016 13 Jul'16

  Rubrik, Pure Storage converge for performance

  Rubrik, a startup selling convergence for data management, is trying to piggy-back on the success of all-flash arrays through a partnership with Pure Storage. Rubrik’s early focus is on data ...

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  Backblaze B2 takes on Amazon, Google and Azure

  Cloud provider Backblaze has gone GA with B2 Cloud Storage, a cloud service that is trying to compete with heavy hitters such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft Azure at a cheaper cost. The Backblaze ...

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  Nimble SAN treats health clinic's DR condition

  Kansas health clinic installs Nimble SAN with Predictive Flash, Adaptive Flash arrays to boost performance of transactional databases, VMware storage and disaster recovery.

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Komprise unveils data management platform

  Komprise's data management platform appears as an NFS or SMB client. It crawls storage and points inactive file storage at object-based storage.

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Storage purchase intentions rise with new techs in sight

  Our annual storage purchasing survey finds that storage managers will have a bigger data storage budget to spend this year.

• July 05, 2016 05 Jul'16

  Golf association says it saves green with XtremIO flash array

  Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) moves tier 1 applications to EMC XtremIO flash-only array as key part of three-phase IT transformation project.

• July 01, 2016 01 Jul'16

  EMC to Nexsan: We said 'Unity' first

  In the latest shot fired in the David-and-Goliath dispute between Nexsan Technologies and EMC over the Unity trademark, EMC claimed it began using the Unity brand name in 2014. The first scheduled ...

• June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16

  Red Hat Storage VP sees different uses for Ceph, Gluster

  Red Hat Storage showed off updates to its Ceph and Gluster software and laid out its strategy for working with containers at this week’s Red Hat Summit in San Francisco. We caught up with Ranga ...

• June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16

  Turnaround specialist Walsh takes over IBM storage

  IBM is bringing in industry veteran Ed Walsh to try to light a fire under its struggling storage division. Walsh will take over as general manager of IBM Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure ...

• June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16

  Webscale Networks airs out multi-cloud DR

  Webscale Networks is well aware that its e-commerce customers can't tolerate much downtime. To that end, the website infrastructure provider recently expanded capabilities to build a multi-cloud ...

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  Veeam changes CEO; founder steps aside

  Veeam Software, which went from a niche virtual machine backup software vendor to an industry leader in less than a decade, changed its top leadership team Tuesday. The changes come as Veeam ...

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Zerto disaster recovery products get boost with $20M investment

  With a new round of $20 million in funding, business continuity/disaster recovery software vendor Zerto plans to double its engineering force by the end of the year to accelerate product releases. ...

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  EMC pitches isolated data recovery to thwart cyber attacks

  Who’s protecting the data in your data protection storage? That’s a question EMC wants you to think about as the scope of security threat increase. EMC recommends – and has customers using – an ...

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Red Hat Ceph receives object and management enhancements

  Red Hat showed off a major new Ceph storage release and a Gluster update more tightly integrated to work with application containers to launch its annual summit.

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Archive360 migrates archived email into Azure cloud

  Archive2Azure lets organizations move email archives to Microsoft Azure cloud storage. The product ensures chain of custody and data fidelity in e-discovery.

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Nasuni customers hit with cloud outage

  Cloud provider Nasuni Corp. experienced two cloud disruptions recently that affected about 20 percent of its customers and about 10 percent of workloads, according to company spokesperson Fred ...

• June 24, 2016 24 Jun'16

  HPE, Western Digital launch VMware VSAN-based flash node

  Western Digital is bringing out flash storage products based on SanDisk technology. It partnered with HPE and VMware on a VSAN-based node, adding Flash Virtualization System.

• June 24, 2016 24 Jun'16

  Datera CEO: SAN array can't scale for today's data center

  Startup Datera enlists the former Pure vice president to spur the growth of its Amazon Elastic Block Storage-like system geared for use with OpenStack, containers and DevOps.

• June 23, 2016 23 Jun'16

  Dell extends Nutanix hyper-converged OEM deal

  LAS VEGAS -- Dell answered one question about its post-EMC merger product lineup Wednesday at the Nutanix .NEXT conference. Alan Atkinson, Dell vice president of storage, appeared on stage ...

• June 22, 2016 22 Jun'16

  DDN enlarges capacity of ExaScaler Lustre file system array

  Data Direct Networks' ExaScaler array embeds the Lustre file system software within its controller. The flagship ES14K array scales to petabytes of capacity in two racks.

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  Tegile, Pure take steps to make flash upgrades easier

  Tegile Systems and Pure Storage are pushing more cost-effective flash upgrade programs that are customized for the IT utility model for all-flash arrays.

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  EMC, Veritas lead in worldwide PBBA revenues

  Unlike overall disk storage, purpose-built backup appliances' total worldwide factory revenue increased in the first quarter of 2016, according to International data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide ...

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  CMA speeds Oracle clusters with EMC DSSD D5 all-flash system

  CMA Consulting customers running thousands of queries a day on its Oracle RAC will now get a performance boost from EMC's recently added DSSD rack-scale flash system.

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  Reduxio CEO asserts all-flash will not rule primary storage

  Hybrid storage startup's CEO says all-flash or 'all-anything' will not rule primary storage; he foresees a mix of technologies with different classes of service.

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  Storage Spaces Direct builds on Windows Storage Spaces

  With the new Direct feature, Windows Storage Spaces can use local storage for failover clusters. It also supports JBOD storage.

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  Cavium pays $1 billion for QLogic, storage

  After months of shopping itself, storage networking vendor QLogic has a buyer. Networking semiconductor vendor Wednesday said it will pay $1 billion for the FC and Ethernet adapter company in a ...

• June 10, 2016 10 Jun'16

  IDC: NetApp jumps to No. 2 in Q1 all-flash

  EMC remained No. 1 and NetApp jumped to No. 2 in all-flash array (AFA) revenue for the first quarter of 2016, according to IDC’s new market share statistics. EMC had $245.6 million in revenue and ...

• June 10, 2016 10 Jun'16

  HDS storage 'freezing' really a focus on future

  There has been some noise in the storage space lately, based on the English translation of a Japanese IT website that said Hitachi Data Systems was "freezing" investment in its high-end storage ...

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Formation Data Systems can help recapture unused storage

  Startup Formation Data releases new feature for FormationOne software-defined storage to enable users to recapture unused storage capacity in their VMware environments.

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Iguaz.io promises AWS-like storage in the data center

  Newcomer iguaz.io is the latest software startup that will try and deliver the Holy Grail of storage  -- the ability to provision and manage on-premise capacity the same way as in Amazon Web ...

• June 07, 2016 07 Jun'16

  Data Dynamics StorageX adds data protection module

  Data Dynamics has released the latest version of its StorageX platform with a data protection module and DR capabilities that bring the software beyond file management.

• June 06, 2016 06 Jun'16

  Servers and storage become inextricably linked

  The rise of flash storage and convergence technologies makes it tougher to see storage and servers as separate entities in a software-defined world.

• June 03, 2016 03 Jun'16

  IDC: Q1 HPE storage sales soared, rivals tanked

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) bucked the trend of storage revenue declines in the first quarter of 2016, according to IDC’s quarter enterprise storage systems tracker. HPE was the only member of ...

• June 03, 2016 03 Jun'16

  Qumulo pockets $32.5M to fund data-aware storage

  Qumulo, the scale-out data-aware NAS startup founded by Isilon veterans, today added $32.5 million in funding to expand its sales operation. Qumulo’s C funding round brings its total funding to ...

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  IBM Spectrum Storage platform adds analytics software

  The new Spectrum Computing platform highlights IBM's strategy to bring together compute and storage management for file and object scale-out environments.

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  SolidFire Element X adds software-only pricing model

  In its first product launch since becoming part of NetApp, SolidFire adds a new all-flash appliance, upgrades its Element OS and adds a software-only pricing model around Element X.

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  Kaminario storage hopes rest on beating legacy vendors

  Kaminario was among the all-flash pioneers, and now it finds itself battling against storage giants who have pushed aggressively into selling arrays without hard disk drives.

• May 31, 2016 31 May'16

  Analyst: 3D NAND technology could stick around for 20 years

  3D NAND flash will probably stick around for 20 years, despite continued higher cost-per-GB of NAND flash vs. hard disk drives, says semiconductor analyst Jim Handy.

• May 27, 2016 27 May'16

  Pure Storage's impressive sales growth diluted by losses

  Pure Storage is finding that it’s expensive to grow sales in the all-flash storage market these days. While Pure increased revenue last quarter by 89% year-over-year, it was unable to reduce its ...

• May 27, 2016 27 May'16

  Data storage technology trends debated in inaugural Tweet Chat

  Data storage industry professionals discussed the appeal of technologies such as all-flash arrays, hyper-convergence and cloud storage during the first SearchStorage Tweet Chat.

• May 26, 2016 26 May'16

  Symbolic IO's IRIS makes eyes at in-memory storage

  Symbolic IO emerges from stealth, with a claim that its IRIS product can shrink memory-based storage, rehydrate it quickly in RAM and preserve it intact.

• May 26, 2016 26 May'16

  NetApp launches Ontap 9 for flash, cloud

  With the worst part of its Clustered Data Ontap (CDOT) challenges behind it, NetApp is bringing out the next version of its Ontap storage operating system. Ontap 9 will focus on flash, coming as ...

• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  Violin Memory's struggles continue

  Violin Memory had little to show for its turnaround efforts last quarter. The all-flash vendor’s revenue declined and it continue to lose money, prompting the CEO to tell investors he feels their ...

• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  Investment firm picks Infinidat storage to boost performance

  Meitav Dash Investments experienced problematic latency with its applications using NetApp filers before turning to newcomer Infinidat's hyperscale hybrid storage.

• May 24, 2016 24 May'16

  Permabit looks to reduce Linux storage in hybrid clouds

  Permabit optimizes backup and chases enterprises that are building Linux storage clouds with its latest Virtual Data Optimizer deduplication software release.

• May 24, 2016 24 May'16

  Datrium says new twist makes DVX run crazy fast

  Datrium has added an “Insane Mode” feature that the startup claims can double host storage performance on the fly. Datrium took the Insane Mode tag from Tesla’s rapid acceleration technique for its ...

• May 23, 2016 23 May'16

  Violin plans to stay competitive in all-flash array market

  CEO Kevin DeNuccio said sales of the Violin Memory FSP are on pace to generate 25%-35% year-on-year revenue growth in 2016. Violin is pinning its hopes on FSP after failing to find a buyer.

• May 20, 2016 20 May'16

  Brocade FC storage sales down, and will stay there for now

  Brocade’s earnings for last quarter show a decline in storage sales consistent with what large array vendors have reported. The Fibre Channel switch vendor’s forecast for this quarter shows that ...

• May 20, 2016 20 May'16

  OpenIO joins object storage cloud scrum

  European startup OpenIO looks to take on a slew of mature object storage vendors with its storage aimed at messaging, video and hyperscale data centers.

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  New Dell SC Series operating system adds dedupe, QoS

  Dell launches an operating system update for its SC Series storage arrays, featuring dedupe, QoS, Live Migrate, VVOLs support and new management capabilities.

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  IBM claims breakthrough with TLC phase-change memory

  IBM Research claims memory milestone with new three-bits-per-cell phase-change technology, seeks to collaborate with memory maker to bring TLC PCM to market for servers, storage.

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  New CEO talks Panzura cloud controller, Nirvanix downfall

  Nirvanix founder and new Panzura CEO Harr says his company is in the sweet spot for expanding the use of cloud storage and seeks to double business over the next year.

• May 17, 2016 17 May'16

  DDN Flashscale all-flash storage array introduced for big data

  DataDirect Networks leverages PCIe and NVMe in its Flashscale all-flash storage array. The system targets mixed workloads that need a balance of high performance and capacity.

• May 16, 2016 16 May'16

  EMC Unity dashboard demo reveals management features

  Stefan Voss, a member of EMC's technical marketing team, offers a preview of the storage provisioning and data protection features available in the Unity dashboard.