Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of May 23; Updates from HYCU, Rubrik, VAST Data & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of May 23, 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 23, 2025

Commvault Extends Support for Red Hat OpenShift

Commvault addresses this by enabling customers to automatically discover, protect, and recover VMs running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization alongside their containerized workloads, all through the Commvault Cloud platform. These capabilities can be particularly valuable for DevOps, SRE, IT/backup admins, and technology leaders (CIOs, CISOs, CTOs) that are managing cloud-native estates.

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Concentric AI Names Lane Sullivan Chief Information Security & Strategy Officer

Mr. Sullivan has 25+ years of experience leading enterprise-wide security transformations and guiding organizations through high-stakes incidents, including ransomware breaches. His most recent position was SVP, Chief Information Security Officer at Magellan Health, where he led the cybersecurity, physical security, and data governance programs.

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DDN Partners with NVIDIA

DDN solutions built with the design in collaboration with NVIDIA empower organizations to unlock the business potential of generative AI by simplifying how they store, access, and activate their most valuable asset: unstructured data.

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Dynatrace Partners with NVIDIA on Observability for AI

This enables enterprises using NVIDIA’s validated design for NVIDIA RTX PRO servers and other NVIDIA Blackwell infrastructure to deploy their own on-premises AI factory with real-time observability and AI-driven insights delivered by the Dynatrace platform.

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HYCU Announces Enhanced Support for DellPowerProtect Data Domain Virtual

Enhanced support empowers customers to safeguard their cloud data with comprehensive solutions, including backup, disaster recovery, data retention, and offline recovery. These measures are designed to protect against internal, external, and supply chain risks, leveraging the exceptional power, cost-efficiency, and reliability of Dell PowerProtect Data Domain.

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KIOXIA ad Wasabi Announce Intelligent Cloud Object Storage

Since 2022, KIOXIA has worked closely with Wasabi to provide SAS and NVMe SSDs for highly performant cloud storage services. As part of this ongoing collaboration, Wasabi is utilizing high-performance enterprise and data center-class NVMe SSDs from KIOXIA for its Hot Cloud Storage Service.

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VAST Data Unveils New VAST AI Operating System

The VAST AI Operating System is the product of nearly ten years of engineering toward a single purpose: to create an intelligent platform architecture that can harness this new generation of AI supercomputing machinery and unlock the potential of AI at scale. Developed from a clean sheet of paper, the platform is built on VAST’s groundbreaking Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture.

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Expert Insights

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Paula Caligiuri, PhD.: The Curiosity Deficit: Why Tech Teams Are Getting Smarter But Less Innovative

According to our April 2025 report, a staggering 93 percent of tech professionals agree that curiosity is “very” or “extremely” important. But nearly half (47 percent) say they struggle to find the time to explore new tools, processes, or ideas.  In the report, tech professionals also cite difficulty identifying which ideas are worth pursuing, fear of wasting time on dead ends, and limited opportunities to experiment in their roles.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Revenera, GTC Law Group & OSS Consultants for Exclusive Show on How to Manage Open-Source Risk in M&A on June 10

When it comes to transactions (including mergers and acquisitions), open-source-related issues are sometimes overlooked, often not well understood, and almost always addressed much later than they should be. In this session, we’ll explain the issues, provide ways to mitigate risk (whether you are sell-side or buy-side) and break down why being proactive is critical.

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