Datadobi announced it has added support for Azure Blob storage in DobiProtect 5.11, enabling customers to protect their data from any NAS or cloud filesystem to Microsoft's cloud-based object storage solution. As unstructured data continues to grow rapidly, Datadobi allows enterprises to protect against cyberthreats, ransomware, accidental deletions, and software vulnerabilities with a simple, quick, and cost-effective solution.

Azure Blob storage is a massively scalable and secure object storage service for data lakes, archives, cloud-native workloads, analytics, and machine learning. Using Datadobi, organizations can now maintain protection copies of their file data in Azure Blob Storage.

Carl D'Halluin, CTO, of Datadobi commented, "We're seeing a massive shift of customers moving to and protecting data in the cloud and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage is clearly a leading and trusted cloud solution. With the addition of Datadobi solutions, Azure customers can host and protect their unstructured data in the cloud, optimizing storage investment and with one hundred percent data accuracy and integrity."

"We're pleased to welcome Datadobi to the growing Microsoft Azure ecosystem," said Vamshi Kommineni, group product manager, Azure Storage. "Azure Blob Storage provides a powerful, secure, and cost-effective solution for unstructured data. This addition will address growing demand from our customers for large scale migrations of unstructured data to public cloud along with providing the protection needed in an age of widespread threats and vulnerabilities."