Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of August 1; Updates from Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Scality & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of August 1, 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 August 1, 2025

Assured Data Protection Restructures Leadership Amidst Rapid Global Growth

Assured Data Protection has implemented key organizational changes to support ongoing international growth, appointing Stacy Hayes as Chief Strategy Officer—a newly created role overseeing global strategic initiatives, innovation, and new market expansion. Brian Dutton steps up as Chief Revenue Officer for the Americas, while Rob Mackle becomes CRO for EMEA. The reorganization is driven by rising demand for Assured’s cloud data protection and disaster recovery services, particularly as the company receives new investment and expands its partnership ecosystem.

Read the full story: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/assured-data-protection-announces-organizational-changes-in-response-to-strong-global-growth-302514153.html

Backblaze Enhances Enterprise Security with Latest Platform Update

Backblaze has rolled out new enterprise security features in its latest platform update, including advanced access controls, improved encryption management, and expanded audit logging. The update is designed to strengthen data protection, streamline compliance, and support business continuity for organizations of all sizes.

Read the full story: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250729882279/en/Backblaze-Advances-Key-Enterprise-Security-Features-in-Latest-Platform-Update

Ransomware Attacks on Governments Reach New Highs in H1 2025

A new Comparitech report finds that ransomware attacks against government entities have surged in the first half of 2025, with rising incidents, larger ransoms, and more frequent data exposures. The roundup includes detailed statistics on the scale of attacks, payment trends, and sector vulnerabilities, warning that public agencies must bolster cybersecurity to mitigate evolving threats.

Read the full story: https://www.comparitech.com/news/government-ransomware-roundup-h1-2025-stats-on-attacks-ransoms-and-data-breaches/

Hitachi Vantara Launches VSP One SDS on Google Cloud for Hybrid Cloud Management

Hitachi Vantara has introduced its Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) on Google Cloud Marketplace. The new release offers enterprise data features like two-way asynchronous replication, thin provisioning, and advanced compression, supporting simplified data mobility, disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud management. By enabling up to 40 percent lower storage costs and targeting 99.999 percent uptime, VSP One gives organizations a unified, flexible, and highly resilient data management solution across on-prem and cloud environments.

Read the full story: https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/news/gl250730

IBM Report: AI Now Speeds Up Data Breach Impact and Costs in 2025

IBM’s latest “Cost of a Data Breach” study highlights the escalating impact of AI: AI-powered attacks now reduce breach lifecycle by 17% but also raise the stakes, with average breach costs reaching new highs. The report emphasizes the dual role of AI as both a tool for attackers and defenders, underscoring the need for advanced AI-driven defenses as breaches become more complex and damaging.

Read the full story: https://www.ibm.com/think/x-force/2025-cost-of-a-data-breach-navigating-ai

US Signal Empowers Enterprises with New Infinidat-Backed Infrastructure Service Platform

US Signal has unveiled a modern Infrastructure Service Platform leveraging Infinidat’s technology to deliver high performance, availability, and cyber resilience for enterprise workloads. The collaboration offers customers robust multi-petabyte storage, seamless scalability, and instant cyber recovery—empowering businesses to securely manage growing data volumes and complex hybrid environments.

Read the full story: https://www.infinidat.com/en/news/press-releases/us-signal-empowers-enterprises-new-infrastructure-service-platform-leveraging

Invariant Labs Introduces ‘Toxic Flow Analysis’ for Proactive Risk Detection

Invariant Labs has published new research on ‘toxic flow analysis,’ a method aimed at identifying and mitigating harmful or noncompliant data flows within AI systems. This approach promises earlier detection of risk patterns and more effective security controls for organizations deploying advanced AI-driven processes.

Read the full story: https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/toxic-flow-analysis

KnowBe4 SecurityCoach Integrates with Microsoft Edge for Real-Time Risk Coaching

KnowBe4 has launched its SecurityCoach integration for Microsoft Edge for Business, transforming the enterprise browser into a real-time coaching platform for human risk management. The integration leverages native security signals to detect risky browser behaviors—including password reuse, visits to blocked sites, and attempts to bypass security warnings—and delivers immediate, in-the-moment guidance to users within the browser. This closes the gap between technology controls and user actions, helping organizations reduce threats posed by evolving browser-based attacks and foster stronger security habits across the workforce.

Read the full story: https://blog.knowbe4.com/boost-your-browsing-security-integrate-securitycoach-with-microsoft-edge-for-business

Lightbits Launches NVMe-over-TCP Platform for High-Performance, Scalable Storage

Lightbits has unveiled a new NVMe-over-TCP platform designed to deliver high performance, cost efficiency, and scalability for modern data centers. The solution simplifies storage infrastructure for AI, analytics, and cloud workloads, offering rapid provisioning, lower latency, and enhanced resilience without sacrificing flexibility.

Read the full story: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lightbits-launches-nvme-over-tcp-130000275.html

Scality Releases Open-Source COSI and CSI Drivers for Kubernetes Storage

Scality has released new open-source COSI and CSI drivers, allowing Kubernetes-native applications to seamlessly provision and manage both object (S3) and file storage directly from within Kubernetes. With these integrations, organizations can automate backend provisioning and streamline storage management for cloud-native development, supporting greater scale and transparency in enterprise environments.

Read the full story: https://www.manilatimes.net/2025/07/31/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/scality-releases-open-source-cosi-and-csi-drivers-to-streamline-kubernetes-object-and-file-storage-provisioning/2159748

Supermicro Open Storage Summit to Spotlight AI Workload’s Impact on Storage

Supermicro is set to host its sixth annual Open Storage Summit from August 12–28, featuring nine sessions and 40 expert speakers. This year’s virtual event zeroes in on the changing demands of AI workloads for modern storage infrastructure, covering distributed inference, agentic and generative AI, RAG, and software-defined storage. Attendees will gain practical guidance on storage-as-a-service and actionable insights from leaders across hardware, software, and cloud.

Read the full story: https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/supermicro-open-storage-summit-showcases-the-impact-of-ai-workloads-on-storage/

Expert Insights

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Episode 1 of The Cyber Circuit Featuring DayBlink Consulting Partner Michael Morgenstern: How AI Augments Security Decision-Making

In this inaugural episode of The Cyber Circuit, cybersecurity veteran Michael Morgenstern sits down with Blackwire Labs CEO Josh Ray to explore how AI-augmented decision support is revolutionizing enterprise security—from stopping breaches in 4 hours to transforming 3-month exercises into 1-hour sessions. Discover why leading CISOs treat AI as their newest team member, not their replacement, and learn how top enterprises are closing the gap between the 80 percent who say trustworthy AI is essential and the 25 percent who actually have governance in place.

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