Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of June 26; Updates from Backblaze, Cohesity, NetApp & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of June 26, 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 June 26, 2026

Backblaze Signs $335 Million CoreWeave AI Storage Deal And Adds Unified Backup Observability With Bocada

Backblaze has announced a five‑year, multi‑exabyte, $335 million agreement to provide cost‑efficient, HDD‑based B2 Cloud Storage capacity underpinning portions of CoreWeave’s AI Object Storage across performance tiers, giving CoreWeave customers access to new storage tiers without changing application code and cementing Backblaze as a key storage provider for AI workloads.

Read on for more→ Backblaze announces multi-exabyte CoreWeave agreement and Bocada and Backblaze announce strategic partnership

Cohesity Wins Google Cloud Partner Of The Year For Disaster Recovery And Embeds Headless Data Security Into Enterprise AI

Cohesity has received the 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award for Infrastructure Modernization: Disaster Recovery/Backup, recognizing its work with Google Cloud to strengthen cyber resilience across cloud, hybrid, and SaaS environments via Cohesity Cloud Services and native protection for Google Workspace, BigQuery, and Vertex AI.

Read on for more→ Cohesity wins a 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award

DDN Scales High-Performance Storage And Data Protection For AI And HPC Workloads

DDN continues to expand its EXAScaler and data protection offerings to support AI and HPC environments that demand both extreme performance and robust resilience. Integrations with leading backup and archive solutions, plus features for multi‑site replication and snapshot‑based recovery, position DDN as a storage foundation for organizations that need to protect massive training datasets, research data, and simulation outputs without sacrificing throughput.

Read on for more→ DDN storage and data protection updates for AI and HPC

Komprise Aims To Make Messy Unstructured Data Securely Accessible To Lakehouses Without Bulk Copies Or Governance Gaps

Komprise’s Transparent File Tables index distributed file and object data into a global metadatabase that can be exposed to lakehouses like Databricks and Snowflake as Apache Iceberg tables, making petabytes of unstructured data queryable without bulk migration. With Komprise AI Preparation and Process Automation (KAPPA) and Transparent Move Technology, organizations can filter out low‑quality and sensitive data during ingest.

Read on for more→ Komprise aims to make messy, unstructured data accessible without hassle

NetApp Deepens Ransomware Defense In Depth With Elastio And Advances Cyber Resilience With Commvault

NetApp has announced a partnership with Elastio to embed Elastio’s Provable Recovery Control—with deep file inspection of ONTAP snapshots for stealth ransomware and corruption—directly into the NetApp Ransomware Resilience Service. The combined service uses Autonomous Ransomware Protection for real‑time behavioral detection, immutable snapshots, and continuous verification of clean recovery points, giving enterprises end‑to‑end resilience from data‑layer detection through guided recovery.

Read on for more→ NetApp and Elastio announce partnership to deliver defense-in-depth ransomware resilience

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Solutions Review Announces New State of Cybersecurity Report, Publishing August 1

With this report, Solutions Review reintroduces its Vendor Map presentation model, providing security buyers with an at-a-glance reference to the leading and emerging players across the cybersecurity marketplace. For this report, the Vendor Maps focus specifically on AI-native cybersecurity vendors across four categories that define how the market is organizing today: Endpoint Security, Cloud and Network Security, Data and Application Security, and Identity Security.  

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Object First for the Spotlight event: Uncovering Veeam’s Hidden Gems on July 16

Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) is constantly updating, with a wealth of new features that can be easily overlooked. Join ObjectFirst’s Matt Price, Senior Technical Solutions Manager, and Geoff Burke, Senior Technology Advisor, as they cover some of the new features in the latest versions of VBR and see how they can be applied to improve your data resilience.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Native Security for the Spotlight event: Architecture for Active Defense in the Cloud: A Live Conversation on July 21

Native co-founder and CPO Gal Ordo opens with the architecture model and the three layers that active defense rests on. From there, the session moves into a live demo led by Native’s team. You’ll see security intent expressed in plain language, watch Native compile it into the correct provider-native controls for each cloud, simulate the impact against real historical activity before anything ships, and deploy with rollback built in.

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Contributor Series: Independent Schools Face Enterprise-Level Cyber Risk with Limited Resources by Aaron Puckett

Many independent schools now operate technology environments that rival those of mid-sized businesses. They manage cloud platforms, student information systems, learning management tools, financial applications, donor databases, access control systems, cybersecurity platforms, and countless third-party integrations. Yet many schools continue to rely on a Director of Technology and perhaps one or two additional staff members to oversee it all.

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Solutions Review Announces New EdTech Site on the Future of Work and Learning

The site will provide ongoing editorial, expert thought leadership, research-driven analysis on the state of EdTech, and awards programming through Mesh Awards to cover fully this transformation. Solutions Review EdTech will also house information gain from quarterly virtual events, expert panels, podcasts, and more from its sister brand Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube), the home for the human conversation.

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Mini Jam Q2, 2026: AI in Practice: How L&D Are Actually Changing Broadcasts June 25-26

AI is quickly moving from experimentation to operational reality across education, workforce development, and practitioner learning environments. What began as a conversation around tools has evolved into a much larger transformation involving skills, implementation strategies, institutional design, and the future structure of learning itself. All-in, Mini Jam Q2, 2026 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, engage with experts, and stay at the forefront of the conversation on the human impact of AI on education.

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Insight Jam’s Mesh Lab Episode 5 Now Available: Human-Centered Environments

The conversation shifts beyond standard pedagogy to address the existential crisis facing students and workers as AI disrupts traditional ideas of productivity and purpose. Panelists emphasize the urgent need to stop measuring final outputs and instead focus on the creative, collaborative process of learning. Ultimately, the group argues that to foster uniquely human skills like adaptability in students, educators must first be granted the autonomy to exercise those exact same skills.

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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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