Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of May 2; Updates from Rackspace, Infinidat, Rubrik & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of May 2, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy storage and data protection news items.

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Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of May 2, 2025

Arctera Announces New FY26 Channel Partner Program

The latest Arctera channel program extends the most successful elements of previous programs across all three of the business units. This includes offering deal registration benefits to partners reselling Backup Exec solutions from Arctera Data Protection.

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Backblaze Intros New ‘Fast’ B2 Storage Tier

The basic B2 cloud storage service has an object lock immutability feature and a 99.9 percent uptime service level agreement. Backblaze says it provides 100 percent performance at a fifth of the AWS S3 cost and free egress for up to three times the user’s average monthly storage amount.

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BigID Brings New Data Labeling Features to Vector Databases

This latest innovation extends BigID’s industry-leading data labeling, powered by its award-winning data discovery and classification, to a critical and growing AI infrastructure component – vector databases, such as MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and Elasticsearch.

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Cribl Partners with Palo Alto Networks on AI SecOps

With this partnership, Cribl has a new integration with Cortex XSIAM, giving customers the choice and flexibility to further accelerate data onboarding, simplify proof of concept (POC) assessments, and make SOC transformation easier and more secure than ever.

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DDN Partners with Nebius on AI Infrastructure

As an elite AI cloud provider, Nebius is building some of the world’s most highly performant infrastructure to power AI innovation. Recognizing the increasing demand for ultra-fast, scalable AI infrastructure, Nebius sought out a best-in-class data intelligence platform to empower enterprises in training, inferencing, and real-time AI applications.

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Flex Extends Liquid Cooling for AI & HPC

JetCool’s SmartSense CDU delivers up to 300kW per rack and over 2MW at the row level, enabling true “free cooling” with inlet temperatures above 60°C — eliminating the need for chillers and reducing both energy and water consumption.

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Forcepoint Releases New Data Security Cloud

By consolidating solutions on the Forcepoint Data Security Cloud, users can reduce the number of data security policies by up to 90 percent and save operational costs by as much as 31 percent, streamlining operations and compliance while accelerating innovation.

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DCIG Names Infinidat’s InfiniBox G4 Family a Top Cybersecure Sub-10PB NAS Solution

This DCIG TOP 5 report identifies Infinidat’s InfiniSafe Automated Cyber Protection (ACP), InfiniSafe Cyber Detection, and InfiniVerse platform as the key factors that “distinguish the Infinidat InfiniBox G4 from the other TOP 5 solutions.”

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KnowBe4 Taps Bryan Palma for Chief Executive Role

With more than 25 years’ industry experience, Palma arrives with a track record of scaling global technology enterprises through driving profitable growth, improving the customer experience, as well as delivering operational agility, KnowBe4 said.

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NetApp Unveils New Security Features for the Storage Layer

While much of cybersecurity has traditionally focused on network and endpoint defenses, storage infrastructure represents a critical last line of defense for sensitive data. NetApp’s latest updates extend security beyond backup and recovery, positioning storage itself as an active participant in threat detection, resilience, and response.

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NOVA Infrastructure Invests in DartPoints

NOVA’s investment includes a significant growth capital component designed to scale DartPoints’ platform and expand its footprint through targeted investments in capacity expansion and strategic M&A to meet market demand.

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Panzura Announces Latest Evolution of Hybrid Cloud File Services Platform

The release of CloudFS 8.5.1 Adapt isn’t just about incremental improvements; it introduces key performance enhancements that fundamentally empower your data fabric to become more autonomic and resilient.

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Quobyte Launches Version 4 of Next-Gen Storage Platform

Quobyte 4 allows ARM-based servers and clients to run seamlessly alongside existing x86 clusters, ensuring investment protection and flexibility. Quobyte 4 introduces complete end-to-end monitoring across application, network, and storage layers as well.

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Rackspace Partners with Rubrik on Enterprise Cyber Resilience

By combining Rubrik’s data protection and cyber recovery software with Rackspace’s hybrid cloud expertise and global data center footprint, this partnership addresses immediate cyber recovery needs and empowers businesses to reduce their operational risk as a competitive advantage.

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Superna Launches New Data Attack Surface Manager

Superna Data Attack Surface Manager extends the value of existing scanners by delivering real-time data-layer intelligence, content-aware risk scoring, and preemptive security posture enforcement, enabling security teams to reduce exposure, focus remediation where it counts, and protect data with speed and precision.

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Wind River Extends its Partnership with Capgemini

This new partnership delivers a compelling value proposition for enterprises across industries seeking to accelerate time to market and derive more impactful business outcomes, including aerospace, automotive, defense, financial services, manufacturing, and retail.

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WitnessAI Announces Version 2.0 of AI Regulatory Compliance Offering

WitnessAI is designed to address unique and ongoing compliance challenges of AI in regulated environments, offering a platform that will evolve with AI regulations as they emerge. The WitnessAI Secure AI Enablement Platform was recognized as a 2025 SC Awards finalist in the “Best Compliance Solution” category.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Radware for Exclusive Show on API Security in an AI-Driven World on April 29

Join us on Tuesday April 29th for an exclusive Solution Spotlight Event: API Security in an AI-Driven World: Stopping Business Logic Attacks. Hear from industry expert: Jeremie Ohavon Senior Product Manager at Radware. Live product demo and Q&A included!

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Solutions Review Set to Host Concentric AI for Exclusive Show on Data Security Readiness and ROI on May 14

Hear from industry Concentric AI’s Karthik Krishnan, 451 Research’s Justin Lam, and Southern Nevada Health’s Jason Frame to learn how to strengthen your own organization’s data security initiatives for improved resilience and increased ROI.

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