Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of April 17; Updates from Commvault, IBM, OneTrust & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of April 17, 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 April 17, 2026

Cloud Storage Security’s DataDefender Focuses DSPM On Cloud Storage Attack Paths

Cloud Storage Security has officially launched DataDefender, a DSPM platform aimed specifically at data stored in cloud services like S3, EBS, EFS, and FSx. The agentless, in‑tenant tool combines inventory, sensitive‑data discovery, more than 90 security checks, and AI‑based multi‑stage attack detection to surface over 10,000 potential data compromise paths and detect both data infiltration and exfiltration in real time.

Read on for more→ DataDefender DSPM launch

Cloudflare Mesh Creates A Private, Identity‑Aware Fabric For AI Agents Across Clouds

Cloudflare has introduced Cloudflare Mesh, a private networking layer that unifies AI agents, humans, and multicloud infrastructure into a single secure fabric. Mesh gives every agent its own identity and policy envelope, lets teams spin up cross‑cloud private connectivity in minutes instead of days, and routes all private traffic over Cloudflare’s global network so agents can reach internal services without ever exposing infrastructure to the public internet.

Read on for more→ Cloudflare Mesh

Commvault Flex Adds Hitachi Vantara And NetApp To Build Bigger, Faster AI-Scale Recovery Targets

Commvault is expanding its Commvault Flex ecosystem to support Hitachi Vantara and NetApp storage, letting customers pair Flex software images with their preferred high‑performance flash arrays. The move extends existing partnerships with Everpure, HPE, and VAST Data so large, dynamic datasets can be protected on familiar storage platforms while still meeting aggressive cyber‑recovery performance objectives in the AI era.

Read on for more→ Commvault Flex expansion

NetApp And Google Cloud Tie Sovereign, Air‑Gapped Storage Directly Into Distributed Cloud For AI

NetApp has signed a four‑year enterprise agreement with Google Cloud to embed NetApp AFF, StorageGRID, and Trident into Google Distributed Cloud’s air‑gapped, sovereign environments delivered with WWT. The integrated stack provides an “intelligent data infrastructure” foundation for government and defense customers who need local data control, strong key management, and accredited AI workloads running directly inside fully private, disconnected clouds.

Read on for more→ NetApp announcement

OpenText Brings Content, Security, And Service Management To AWS’s European Sovereign Cloud

OpenText will make several of its flagship enterprise data and AI solutions—including Content Management, Documentum, Core Application Security, and Core Service Management—available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. The move gives regulated EU organizations a hybrid sovereign cloud option where AI‑ready content and security services run on EU‑operated infrastructure, aligning strict data residency and operational autonomy demands with modern analytics and automation needs.

Read on for more→ OpenText on AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Quest Security Management Platform Unifies ITDR, Migration, And Recovery For Microsoft Identities

Quest Software has launched the Quest Security Management Platform, a unified, AI‑powered identity security solution that combines Identity Threat Detection and Response with secure migration and recovery for Active Directory and Entra ID. The platform’s Quest Identity Defense and Quest Identity Recovery capabilities deliver continuous risk detection, automated containment, and attack‑tested recovery—claiming up to 90% faster identity recovery and a 44% improvement in mean time to respond across more than 60 billion protected Entra ID objects.

Read on for more→ Quest Security Management Platform

StorMagic Marks 20 Years As Edge Virtualization Alternative, Posts 36% ARR Growth

StorMagic is celebrating its 20‑year anniversary as demand grows for simpler, more affordable edge virtualization options versus traditional hypervisor stacks. The company reports 36% ARR growth despite hardware constraints and is leaning into lightweight HCI (SvHCI) and SvSAN offerings that run on modest infrastructure, aiming to power AI and data workloads at retail, manufacturing, and remote sites without hyperscaler‑level complexity.

Read on for more→ StorMagic 20‑year milestone

Veeam Data Trust Report: 90% Are Confident In Recovery, But Only 28% Fully Restore After Ransomware

Veeam’s 2026 Data Trust and Resilience Report shows a sharp gap between perception and reality: 90% of security leaders say they’re confident in cyber‑recovery, yet only 28% fully restore data after a ransomware attack. As AI adoption increases data sprawl and risk, the report argues that organizations must move from “recovery confidence” to demonstrable data resilience—investing in immutable storage, automated recovery verification, and AI‑driven visibility into where data lives, who uses which AI tools, and how quickly clean copies can be proven and restored.

Read on for more→ Veeam Data Trust & Resilience Report

VergeOS Implements oVirt So VMware Customers Can Switch Hypervisors And Keep Their Backup Stack

VergeOS 26.1.2 now implements the oVirt API natively, the same standard interface many backup platforms (including Veeam) already support for KVM environments. That means organizations exiting VMware can point existing oVirt‑compatible backup jobs at VergeOS with no custom integrations or vendor swaps, preserving prior backup investments while they modernize virtualization.

Read on for more→ VergeOS oVirt standard

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host P0 Security for the Spotlight event: Top Five Production Risks Lurking in Privileged Access on April 23

Modern engineering teams ship constantly. The cloud changes daily. Pipelines run all day. On-call needs access right now. And now agentic apps are starting to act on their own. Most privileged access controls weren’t built for that pace. So teams do what they have to do: grant broad permissions, reuse credentials, leave access in place “just in case.” Those shortcuts don’t fail loudly. They quietly turn into unmanaged paths into production.

In this session, Neha Duggal and Kelsey Brazill will walk through five production resources where standing privilege creates outsized risk:

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host P0 Security for the Spotlight event: Top Five Production Risks Lurking in Privileged Access on April 23

In the hour-long webinar, two experts from P0 Security will outline how standing privilege in cloud infrastructure, databases with sensitive data, code repos, deployment workflows, agentic applications, servers, and automated applications can create risks. Viewers will also learn how to identify the most common “standing privilege signals” in each of those areas, why legacy models break down, how to reduce blast radius, make ownership and accountability less painful, and more.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host OneTrust for the Spotlight event: AI Arms Race: The Survival and Reinvention of Privacy on May 12

Viewers will learn why AI introduces long-term ambiguity, not just complexity, and how privacy leaders must redesign their strategies and programs to handle probabilistic systems; see how risk is increasingly transferred from the technology provider to the enterprise; and review why accountability becomes a litmus test for the long-term viability of any privacy program or control.

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The Editors Lens: The AI-Native Endpoint Security Stack by William Jepma

The “best” identity security platform used to mean the one with the deepest Active Directory integration, the most flexible MFA policy engine, and the strongest enterprise sales relationships. Those criteria are not wrong, but they are increasingly insufficient as evaluation criteria.

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Mini Jam, Q1 2026 On-Demand: The Skills Reckoning on March 31

This program is designed not simply to comment on change, but to explore the structural redesign of education and workforce systems now required to keep pace with it. For leaders operating at the intersection of AI, education, upskilling, and L&D, the Q1 Mini Jam offers a clear view into the forces reshaping how capability is defined, developed, and deployed in the years ahead.

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Solutions Review Surpasses 250K on YouTube to Power Unmatched Media Momentum in Enterprise Tech & the Human Impact of AI

Solutions Review has officially surpassed 250,000 subscribers on YouTube, a milestone that’s about more than just the number. This moment marks the payoff of a deliberate, two-year strategy centered on authoritative video, human-led insight, and an early recognition of how AI search engines ingest information, assign trust, and surface sources at scale.

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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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How One Solutions Review Article Reshaped AI Answers Across an Entire Software Category

Something just happened in the AI search landscape that most companies will miss. But the ones who understand it will have a multi-year advantage. In January, Solutions Review recorded a 324 percent increase in media domain citations across AI answer engines in less than 30 days.

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