Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of January 30; Updates from Druva, Core6, VAST Data & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of January 30, 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 January 30, 2026
Bedrock Data Extends DSPM to Atlassian Confluence, Mapping SaaS Data to AI Inference Risk
Bedrock Data has added native support for Atlassian Confluence to its DSPM platform so security teams can see not just what sensitive content lives in Confluence, but how that data flows into AI systems and what models could potentially expose at inference time. The integration auto-discovers spaces and content, resolves complex permission hierarchies, applies AI-driven classification for PII, secrets, and IP, and lets teams query Confluence risk alongside other SaaS and AI data sources, all using a least-privilege, read-only access model.
Read on for more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260128146101/en/Bedrock-Data-Extends-DSPM-to-Atlassian-Confluence-Mapping-SaaS-Data-to-AI-Inference-Risk
Cisco: AI Is Driving a Surge in Data Privacy Spend and Forcing Holistic Governance
Cisco’s 2026 Data and Privacy Benchmark Study reports that 90% of organizations have expanded their privacy programs and 93% plan to invest more, with 38% spending at least $5 million on privacy in the past year as AI adoption accelerates. While three-quarters now have some form of AI governance body, only 12% consider these structures mature, and 65% still struggle to access high-quality data—pushing companies toward more holistic governance of personal and non-personal data as a prerequisite for explainable, trusted AI at scale.
Read on for more → https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2026/m01/ai-data-privacy-investments-governance-cisco-report.html
Commvault Deepens Google Cloud Partnership for Air-Gapped Backups and Compliance-Ready Resilience
Commvault has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud to deliver immutable, virtually air‑gapped backups, compliance-ready archive tiers, and new search capabilities that strengthen data protection and cyber resilience for cloud-first and hybrid enterprises. The new features—centered on Commvault’s Air Gap Protect, Cloud Rewind, and enhanced Google Workspace protection—are designed to isolate backup data from production systems, speed recovery from ransomware and insider threats, and simplify regulatory retention within a single unified resilience platform.
Read on for more → https://www.commvault.com/news/commvault-expands-collaboration-with-google-cloud
Core6: Continuity Rebrands Around Autonomous Data Infrastructure Security
Continuity has rebranded as Core6, reflecting a strategic shift from general data infrastructure software to a security‑first company built around its rapidly growing StorageGuard business. The new identity underscores a focus on autonomously securing storage and backup systems against misconfigurations, ransomware, and other infrastructure‑level risks, while products, leadership, customers, and contracts remain unchanged.
Read on for more → https://www.core6.com/pressreleases/continuity-announces-strategic-repositioning-and-corporate-name-change-to-core6
Chainguard Factory 2.0 Introduces DriftlessAF, an Agentic Architecture for Secure Open Source Builds
Chainguard has unveiled Factory 2.0, powered by a new agentic framework called DriftlessAF, to modernize how its automated build system monitors, tests, and ships secure open source artifacts at massive scale. Factory 2.0 combines always-on automation with AI analysis of build logs and security signals so suspicious changes can be flagged and remediated quickly, giving customers more trustworthy containers, language libraries, and VM images for their software supply chains.
Read on for more → https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/driftlessaf-introducing-chainguard-factory-2-0
Cribl Achieves FedRAMP Authorization to Operate for Cribl.Cloud Government
Cribl has secured a Moderate FedRAMP Authority to Operate for its Cribl.Cloud Government suite, clearing U.S. federal agencies to procure its cloud services for managing IT and security telemetry. More than 20 agencies already use Cribl software, and the FedRAMP ATO now lets them consume the full portfolio—Stream, Edge, Search, Lake, and Lakehouse—in a compliant way to control data volume, routing, and cost as they modernize for the AI era.
Read on for more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cribl-achieves-fedramp-authority-operate-170000350.html
Descope and Skyflow Bring Identity and Data Guardrails to MCP Servers
Descope and Skyflow have partnered to provide an integrated identity and data control layer for MCP servers, giving AI agents first‑class identities, fine‑grained authorization, and runtime PII policy enforcement instead of coarse API keys and opaque data access. By combining Descope’s auth, token exchange, and consent flows with Skyflow’s privacy vault, masking, and row‑level security, enterprises can control which tools an agent can use and exactly what sensitive data it can see at query time, enabling secure, compliant agentic workflows like marketing campaigns, support lookups, and payments without rewriting app logic.
Read on for more → https://www.descope.com/blog/post/descope-skyflow-mcp
Druva Launches Threat Watch for Continuous Threat Detection in Backup Data
Druva has launched Threat Watch, a zero‑touch, cloud‑native capability that continuously scans backup snapshots in its Data Security Cloud to detect dormant threats and indicators of compromise, reducing breach dwell time and speeding cyber‑recovery. By leveraging a curated IOC library (including CISA and Google Mandiant), in‑place scanning, and integration with Druva’s Recovery Intelligence and DruAI, Threat Watch helps customers quickly understand blast radius, identify clean restore points, and generate compliance‑ready continuous‑monitoring reports mapped to NIST, ISO, and DORA.
Read on for more → https://www.druva.com/about/press-releases/threat-detection-through-druva-threat-watch
KIOXIA Debuts QLC UFS 4.1 Embedded Flash for AI-Ready Mobile and Connected Devices
KIOXIA America has begun sampling new UFS 4.1 embedded memory devices built with QLC (4‑bit‑per‑cell) technology, combining its BiCS FLASH 3D NAND with an integrated controller for smartphones, tablets, PCs, networking gear, AR/VR, IoT, and AI‑enabled devices. Offered in 512 GB and 1 TB capacities with a smaller 9×13 mm package, the devices target higher‑capacity, high‑performance storage in increasingly compact designs as vendors push more AI processing to the edge.
Read on for more → https://americas.kioxia.com/en-us/business/news/2026/memory-20260127-1.html
LogicGate Expands Spark AI to Automate GRC Reporting and Evidence Testing
LogicGate has expanded its Spark AI feature set with Spark AI Reporting Insights and Spark AI Automated Evidence Testing to help enterprises automate repetitive GRC work, speed reviews, and shorten time‑to‑insight. Spark AI Automated Evidence Testing uses agentic actions to automatically assess control evidence as it’s collected, producing pass/fail/incomplete judgments with rationale, flagging gaps at machine speed, and feeding results into existing workflows so teams can move from annual, point‑in‑time checks to near‑real‑time risk monitoring and audit readiness.
Read on for more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/logicgate-continues-to-redefine-grc-processes-with-ai-powered-reporting-insights-and-automated-evidence-testing-302672588.html
Mantas Raises $1.77M to Turn Cloud Downtime into an Insurable Risk
UAE insurtech Mantas has raised $1.77 million in seed funding to offer parametric cloud outage insurance backed by real-time monitoring for digital-first, cloud-dependent businesses. By treating outages at providers like AWS and Azure as a measurable, automatically triggered risk rather than a pure technical issue, Mantas aims to give fintechs, SaaS firms, airlines, and e-commerce platforms predictable financial protection as AI and cloud reliance grow.
Read on for more → https://fintech.global/2026/01/27/mantas-raises-1-77m-to-bring-parametric-insurance-to-cloud-downtime/
VAST Data Launches Amplify to Reclaim Stranded NVMe Capacity
VAST Data’s Amplify program offers a free assessment to measure how much additional usable flash capacity customers can unlock by moving their existing NVMe SSDs under VAST’s data‑reduction and data‑protection software, instead of buying more drives in a tight SSD market. By combining lower‑overhead erasure coding (around 12% protection overhead) with global compression and deduplication, VAST claims many fleets can achieve 4–6x effective capacity versus traditional all‑flash systems, helping organizations ride out NAND shortages and rising prices without sacrificing performance.
Read on for more → https://blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/27/vast-amplify-scheme/
Veeam Adds Senior Leaders to Advance “Trusted Data Platform for Safe AI at Scale”
Veeam has made three senior leadership appointments—Brandt Urban as Chief Business Development Officer, Tony Colon as Chief Customer Officer, and Michael Rau as Vice President of Worldwide Partners—to accelerate its strategy around data resilience and safe AI. The reshaped team is charged with deepening alliances, sharpening customer experience, and expanding partner impact as Veeam positions its data protection portfolio as the foundation for securely unlocking AI value from enterprise data.
VDURA Launches Flash Relief Program to Undercut All-Flash Rivals Amid SSD Price Surge
VDURA has launched a Flash Relief Program that promises to match or beat performance and capacity from rivals like VAST Data and WEKA while cutting total cost roughly in half for organizations hurt by soaring SSD prices and long lead times. Leveraging its Hydra mixed flash/disk architecture and parallel file system, VDURA argues it can keep GPUs fed while sidestepping a flash crisis where 30 TB SSD prices have jumped 257% between Q2 2025 and Q1 2026, with VAST calling it the worst storage crunch in 40+ years.
Read on for more → https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/this-just-in/vdura-launches-flash-relief-program-amid-surge-in-ssd-prices/
Expert Insights
Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.
Insight Jam Launches Year-Long “Mesh Lab” to Build a Framework for Work & Learning in the Age of AI
Insight Jam Mesh Lab is a year-long, monthly series of expert-led discussions dedicated to exploring and shaping the next generation of frameworks for work and learning in the age of AI. Rather than reacting to tools or trends, Mesh Lab is designed to initiate a sustained, cross-sector conversation about how human capability itself must be re-architected as AI becomes embedded across education, enterprise, and leadership.
Episode 1 featuring Michelle Ament, EdD, T. Scott Clendaniel, Sandra Watts, PhD, Stefan Bauschard, Ben Tasker, and Center for Compassionate Leadership will be available next week.
Expert Wrap: Data Privacy Week 2026 – Key Insights from The Field’s Greatest Thinkers
This roundup features insights from leading experts who dissect the nuances of data privacy today. They explore the challenges we face in safeguarding digital identities, the emerging threats to our online spaces, and the innovative strategies being developed to secure personal information against unauthorized access.
Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Pathlock for the Exclusive Session ‘Governing Access in a World of 100+ Apps and 1M Identities’ on February 12
Modern organizations operate in an identity environment defined by scale and complexity: hundreds of applications, millions of human and non-human identities, and an expanding identity-driven attack surface. At the same time, many identity governance programs still rely on manual reviews, static roles, and fragmented access models that were never designed to operate at this level.
Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Nutanix and Northeastern University for the Exclusive Session ‘Cloud-Native for the AI-Powered, Innovation-Ready Enterprise Masterclass’ on February 19
Join us for the Nutanix Cloud Native Masterclass, an exclusive event for C-level executives, where attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion from Northeastern University, recognizing their expertise in cloud native strategies. In this Masterclass we’ll explore how cloud native architecture is reshaping enterprise IT. Unlike traditional monolithic applications — which are slow to evolve, difficult to scale, and operationally complex — cloud native applications are composed of independent, loosely coupled components. Built on microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and API-driven design, they are optimized for dynamic, distributed environments.
Contributor Series: Shadow AI and the Leadership Gap: Scaling AI to Your Advantage
This rise of decentralized AI adoption – or shadow AI – is not new, but rather a growing trend that poses significant risks to a corporate entity’s organizational security and operations. According to MIT’s Project NANDA study, roughly 90% of employees report using AI tools without informing their IT departments.
Contributor Series: The AI Code Generation Governance Gap is a Security Gap
As organizations race to adopt generative AI, a critical governance gap is widening. According to data from Gartner, only 23% of IT leaders feel confident managing AI governance, and violations could spur a 30% rise in legal disputes by 2028.
Contributor Series: Debunking 4 Myths About HDDs
Keeping pace with this exponential growth will require continually evolving storage solutions. HDDs – long valued for their massive capacity, cost-effectiveness and low total cost of ownership (TCO) – are rising to the challenge. Today, nearly 80% of data stored in the cloud is on HDDs. Still, misconceptions persist. As storage demands grow more complex, it’s important to separate fact from fiction. Here are four common myths about HDDs and the truth behind them.
Contributor Series: The AI Compliance Trap: Why Checklist Governance Won’t Save You from the EU AI Act
The era of moving fast and break things is officially over. With the enforcement of the EU AI Act and the rapid maturation of global regulatory frameworks, the mantra for the next decade of Artificial Intelligence is “prove it is safe, or don’t deploy it.”
Solutions Review Editors Launch New ‘Human-AI Ledger’ Newsletter to Chronicle the Human Impact of AI
Artificial intelligence is everywhere—but understanding its human impact has never been more urgent. That’s where Solutions Review‘s latest newsletter, The Human-AI Ledger, comes in. Designed to chronicle how AI is reshaping the way we learn, work, lead, and live, this newsletter explores the soft side of AI—the non-technical, deeply human dimensions that determine whether this technological revolution helps us thrive or leaves us behind.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.
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