Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of March 6; Updates from Nasuni, Object First, Scality & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of March 6, 2026.
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 March 6, 2026
apexanalytix Launches Risk Response Agent To Turn Supplier Risk Signals Into Policy-Aligned Actions
apexanalytix has introduced an AI-powered Risk Response Agent that sits on top of its supplier cyber and third-party risk platform to summarize supplier risk profiles and recommend specific responses for each alert. The agent generates concise risk profile summaries, highlights vulnerabilities, and produces policy-aligned remediation recommendations so teams can react quickly to issues exposed by continuous monitoring and dark web, compliance, or financial signals. It’s designed to close the gap between detection and action, moving risk management from static dashboards to automated workflows aligned with company policies.
Read on for more→ https://www.apexanalytix.com/resources/news/risk-response-agent/
Barracuda Warns Pirate Software Is A Fast Track To Ransomware And Credential Theft
Barracuda’s latest Threat Spotlight highlights a spike in employees attempting to download and activate cracked software on corporate endpoints, often for “free” productivity tools or game mods. The company notes that up to 80% of pirate or cracked software carries malicious payloads and that these programs cannot be patched, leaving persistent security gaps that can lead to malware, credential theft, cryptomining, session hijacking, and ransomware. Barracuda urges organizations to combine strict software installation controls, monitoring for suspicious executables, and user education to reduce the risk from seemingly harmless downloads.
Read on for more→ https://blog.barracuda.com/2026/03/04/threat-spotlight-business-risks-pirate-software
Commvault–CloudSEK Integration Targets Dark-Web Credential Leaks Before Attackers Strike
Commvault is integrating CloudSEK’s predictive threat intelligence into its Active Directory Vulnerability Assessments and Advanced Audit and Anomaly Detection solutions to combat identity-based, AI-driven cyberattacks. The integration pulls real-time dark web credential exposure data into Commvault, correlates it with internal identity telemetry, and automatically scores and prioritizes risks so teams can disable, lock, or reset compromised accounts and roll back malicious AD changes before attackers escalate. Offered at no additional charge for existing AD assessment customers this summer, the joint solution aims to shift identity defense from reactive breach response to proactive disruption of exposed credential attack paths.
Read on for more→ https://ir.commvault.com/news-releases/news-release-details/commvault-and-cloudsek-join-forces-address-growing-and-rapidly
ConnectWise MSP Threat Report: Identity Abuse Has Become The Primary Attack Vector
ConnectWise’s 2026 MSP Threat Report, based on investigations by its Cyber Research Unit, finds that in 2025 attackers “didn’t break in, they logged in,” abusing legitimate identities, VPNs, RMM tools, and trusted automation to compromise MSPs and their clients. The report details how tactics like credential stuffing, token theft, misuse of tools such as ScreenConnect, and “ClickFix” techniques allowed adversaries to bypass endpoint and email defenses without zero-day exploits. ConnectWise urges MSPs to prioritize identity and access controls, continuous monitoring, and zero-trust principles to reduce blast radius as identity abuse reshapes MSP risk.
MinIO’s AIStor Table Sharing Connects Databricks Directly To On-Prem Data Via Delta Sharing
MinIO has introduced AIStor Table Sharing, a new capability in MinIO AIStor that exposes on-premises data as Delta Sharing tables directly consumable by Databricks. The feature embeds the Delta Sharing 1.0 protocol into the object store, supports both Delta and Apache Iceberg tables, and lets organizations publish governed table shares without extra catalogs or data copies. The goal is to enable in-place analytics and AI on live on-prem data from Databricks workspaces, cutting costs, reducing data duplication, and preserving local performance and sovereignty.
Read on for more→ https://www.storagereview.com/news/minio-introduces-aistor-table-sharing-for-direct-on-premises-data-access-from-databricks
Nasuni Buys Resilio To Turbocharge Global File Access And Edge Data Orchestration
Nasuni has acquired Resilio, bringing its high-performance synchronization and edge caching technology into the Nasuni File Data Platform to speed up access to shared files for distributed teams. The combined platform aims to eliminate reliance on VPNs and brittle point tools by delivering fast, resilient file access across offices, remote sites, and low‑bandwidth locations under a single, cloud-native control plane. Nasuni also sees the Resilio tech as a way to better feed AI and analytics workloads with up-to-date file data wherever it’s created and consumed.
Proofpoint’s Nuclei Suite Brings AI-Powered Archiving And Supervision To SMBs
Proofpoint has introduced the Nuclei Suite, an AI-enabled discovery and archive offering that unifies archiving, search, and communications intelligence for small and mid-sized businesses. The cloud service offers fast deployment, intuitive e-discovery search, litigation hold, export without extra fees, and built-in health and ingestion reporting, aiming to replace complex, legacy archives. Optional AI-based supervision helps SMBs monitor email and digital communications for compliance and risk without maintaining lexicon rules or large compliance teams.
Read on for more→ https://www.proofpoint.com/us/newsroom/press-releases/proofpoint-launches-ai-enabled-discovery-archive-suite-small-medium
Red Hat And Telenor Launch Sovereign AI Factory For Production-Grade Agents
Red Hat and Telenor have teamed up to power the Telenor AI Factory, a sovereign AI platform for the Nordics built on Red Hat OpenShift AI, OpenShift Platform Plus, and Ansible, and powered by NVIDIA infrastructure. The factory is designed to take customers from AI blueprints to production, supporting multi-tenant RAG and agentic workloads with strict data residency, governance, and security controls to meet national and EU sovereignty requirements. By standardizing on an open, vendor-neutral stack that can run any model on any accelerator, the partners aim to give enterprises freedom of choice while maintaining operational consistency and auditability.
Read on for more→ https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-telenor-ai-factory-bring-scale-sovereignty-and-control-production-ai
Seagate’s Mozaic 4+ HAMR Drives Hit 44TB To Feed The AI Data Surge
Seagate has announced its next-generation Mozaic 4+ platform, the industry’s only heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) hard drive platform deployed at scale, now qualified and in production with two leading hyperscalers. The drives support capacities up to 44TB per unit and can deliver roughly 47% better infrastructure efficiency and up to 0.8 million kWh in annual energy savings per exabyte compared with 30TB drives, according to Seagate. The company is targeting data center, AI training, and archival workloads where massive capacity and efficiency gains are critical as data volumes keep climbing.
Read on for more→ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260309717474/en/Seagate-Delivers-Industrys-Highest-Capacity-Hard-Drives-with-Next-Generation-Mozaic-4
Scality Offers A $100K Cyber Guarantee For ARTESCA Immutable Backup Stores
Scality has introduced the ARTESCA Cyber Guarantee, pledging a direct $100,000 payout to any ARTESCA customer whose data is destroyed or encrypted by an external cyberattack despite being stored immutably with Object Lock in compliance mode. The guarantee is deliberately simple and mid‑market friendly—no premium support contracts or massive spend thresholds—provided customers run ARTESCA 4.1.3 or later, protect at least 50 TB, keep software current, and follow recommended hardening practices. Scality ties the offer to the latest ARTESCA 4.1 release, which adds enhanced certificate and trust management, stronger replication, and expanded immutability features to support ransomware‑resilient backup architectures.
Read on for more→ https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/this-just-in/scality-announces-100000-cyber-guarantee-for-artesca-object-storage-users/
Wasabi Survey: Most AI Projects Lose Money Today, But Infrastructure Spend Keeps Climbing
Wasabi’s 2026 Global Cloud Storage Index reports that only 32% of organizations say their AI projects currently deliver positive ROI, even as 60% plan to increase AI infrastructure spending and just 3% expect cuts. Roughly two-thirds of AI budgets are now going to data, storage, and compute, with only one-third earmarked for software and SaaS tools, highlighting how critical scalable infrastructure has become for AI initiatives. Looking ahead 12 months, respondents expect the share of AI projects with positive ROI to jump to 51%, tightening the window for teams to prove value as boards grow less tolerant of open‑ended “experimentation.”
Read on for more→ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/only-one-third-ai-projects-140000807.html
Expert Insights
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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Object First for the Exclusive Session ‘Zero Trust: Good, But Not Good Enough?’ on March 12
In the hour-long webinar, two Object First experts will discuss the importance of data resilience in cybersecurity and examine how an evolved Zero Trust approach can empower organizations to achieve genuine data resilience in the face of emerging threats. The event also includes a demo of Object First’s on-prem backup storage solution.
Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Everpure for the Exclusive Session ‘Beyond Infrastructure: Managing Data Sovereignty in the Agentic AI Era’ on March 17
Solutions Review team has partnered with Everpure to demonstrate how its Enterprise Data Cloud offering can replace manual “ticket-based” workflows with automated, self-service data delivery to provide teams with the data sovereignty and massive agility they need for the era of AI. Reserve your spot now for the hour-long Q&A and demo to gain valuable insights for elevating your AI ventures to the next level!
NEW Episode of the Cyber Circuit with Michael Morgenstern: Why Traditional Security Frameworks Can’t Handle AI
Michael Morgenstern sits down with Manju Mude, a cybersecurity executive with over 25 years of experience, to explore why traditional compliance frameworks are breaking down in the age of autonomous agents. The conversation covers why executives focus on AI opportunities while risk conversations lag behind, how auditors are overwhelmed by machine-speed decision-making, and why waiting for regulations to catch up is a losing strategy.
Contributor Series: The Great Neocloud Consolidation Has Already Started
The cloud services market, once dominated by hyperscalers, is now crowded with alternative “neoclouds” that promise greater agility and lightweight solutions for enterprises seeking more efficient cloud infrastructure. But by the end of 2026, there will be far fewer neoclouds than there were at the start.
Contributor Series: Where the Leverage Lives in Modern Security Operations
Proactive security is having a moment, rightfully so. Organizations have built impressive security stacks, each tool serving controls for a specific domain: endpoint protection, identity management, cloud security, vulnerability scanning, and network monitoring. These investments are working. The coverage is broad, the telemetry is rich, and the compensating controls are doing their jobs. But here’s the catch: exposures don’t respect domain boundaries.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor covering the human impact of AI on the future of work and learning. He is also the Media Strategist behind Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube) events and programming. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in multiple categories, Tim is a recognized thought leader in enterprise tech and AI.
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