Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of July 10; Updates from Rubrik, Scality, WEKA & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of July 10, 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 July 10, 2026

Coforge Launches AI-Powered SecureEdge2Cloud Zero Trust Offering Built On The Zscaler Platform

Coforge has introduced SecureEdge2Cloud, an AI-powered zero trust solution built on the Zscaler platform to protect data and applications across hybrid environments. The offering combines cloud-native security controls, AI-driven threat detection, and policy-based access with Coforge’s integration and managed services, helping enterprises secure data flows from edge devices into cloud applications while reducing reliance on traditional perimeter‑based security.

Read on for more→ Coforge launches AI-powered SecureEdge2Cloud zero trust offering

DDN Launches Infinia 2.4 To Power Enterprise And Sovereign AI Factories With Tiered, Resilient Storage

DDN has released Infinia 2.4, designed as a storage backbone for enterprise and sovereign AI factories that need both extreme performance and strong data protection. Infinia 2.4 adds enhanced multi‑tenant isolation, policy‑driven data placement across tiers, and integrated cyber‑resilience features that support rapid recovery and secure retention of training data, model artifacts, and operational logs—even in regulated environments with strict sovereignty requirements.

Read on for more→ DDN launches Infinia 2.4 for enterprise and sovereign AI factories

DLR And LRZ Extend TerraByte Partnership With Planned Storage And Compute Upgrades To Protect And Scale Scientific Data

Germany’s aerospace center DLR and supercomputing center LRZ are extending their TerraByte partnership with new storage and compute upgrades to handle growing volumes of scientific data. The expansion will increase capacity and resilience for data‑intensive research workloads, pairing high‑performance compute with robust storage and data protection measures so large observational and simulation datasets can be preserved, shared, and analyzed securely over the long term.

Read on for more→ DLR and LRZ extend TerraByte partnership with planned storage and compute upgrades

Rubrik Joins Coalition For Health AI To Advance Responsible, Secure AI In Healthcare

Rubrik has joined the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), an industry‑led group focused on developing best practices and frameworks for safe, secure, and responsible AI in healthcare. As a Security and AI Operations company, Rubrik will contribute data protection and cyber resilience expertise to help ensure that AI systems used in clinical and operational contexts are built on protected, governed data and can withstand cyber threats without compromising patient safety.

Read on for more→ Rubrik joins Coalition for Health AI to advance responsible AI in health

Rubrik Security Cloud Launches On AWS European Sovereign Cloud To Combine Cyber Resilience With Data Sovereignty

Rubrik Security Cloud is now available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, giving organizations in the EU a way to combine Rubrik’s data security and cyber recovery capabilities with strict sovereignty and residency controls. The launch enables customers to protect, monitor, and rapidly recover data across hybrid environments while ensuring that sensitive data stays within EU jurisdictions, aligning ransomware resilience and AI‑driven security analytics with evolving regulatory requirements.

Read on for more→ Rubrik Security Cloud launches on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Scality And WEKA Deepen Partnership To Accelerate Secure Enterprise AI Adoption With Tiered Storage And High-Performance File

Scality and WEKA are expanding their partnership to give enterprises a combined platform that pairs Scality’s object storage with WEKA’s high‑performance file system for AI workloads. The joint solution lets organizations keep large AI datasets on durable, cost‑efficient object storage while serving hot data to GPU clusters via WEKA’s file system, all within a design that emphasizes data protection, resilience, and scalable recovery for mission‑critical AI applications.

Read on for more→ Scality and WEKA deepen partnership to accelerate enterprise AI adoption

Veeam Appoints Michelle Graff As SVP Of Global Partners And Channel To Strengthen Cyber Resilience Ecosystem

Veeam has appointed Michelle Graff as Senior Vice President of Global Partners and Channel, signaling a renewed focus on the partner ecosystem that underpins its data protection and cyber resilience offerings. With experience across channel strategy and go‑to‑market, Graff’s role will be to help partners build and deliver integrated backup, recovery, and security solutions—often combining Veeam with storage, cloud, and cybersecurity products—to protect customer data across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments.

Read on for more→ Veeam appoints Michelle Graff as SVP of Global Partners and Channel

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.

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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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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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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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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We Didn’t Build Solutions Review for AI, We Built it for Buyers by Tim King

A nuclear bomb has been exploded in not only digital marketing, but enterprise tech buying. Buyers increasingly discover information through AI search and their favorite GenAI bot, social media platforms like LinkedIn, and synthesized answers rather than lists of blue links. Visibility still matters, but the question is evolving from “Can you rank?” to “Can you be anchored as trusted a source?”

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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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