Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of July 17; Updates from Commvault, Infinidat, XenData & More

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

Cloudflare Introduces Precursor For One-Click Behavioral Defense Against Modern Bots

Cloudflare has launched Precursor, a one-click behavioral defense system that injects a compact, dynamic script into customer traffic to detect and block modern bots based on how they behave, not just static signatures. Precursor continuously analyzes interaction patterns to distinguish real users from advanced automated attacks, giving organizations a simpler way to protect login flows, APIs, and digital experiences without complex tuning or heavy client-side integrations.

Read on for more→ Cloudflare introduces Precursor: one-click behavioral defense against modern bots

Commvault Research Finds Identity Management Is The Critical Gap In Agentic AI Resilience Operations

Commvault, working with IDC, has released research showing that identity management is emerging as the biggest gap in resilience operations for organizations adopting agentic AI. Among 539 IT and resilience decision makers surveyed, 90% said they need to improve identity management for human and non‑human identities, and nearly 59% reported that significant improvements or a complete overhaul are required as AI agents, machine identities, and autonomous workflows begin to outnumber humans and demand stronger governance.

Read on for more→ Identity management found to be critical gap in agentic AI resilience

Fortinet Enhances FortiEndpoint With AI Security, Data Protection, And Endpoint Risk Management

Fortinet has expanded its FortiEndpoint offering with new AI-driven security, data protection, and endpoint risk management capabilities. The enhancements are designed to better detect and respond to sophisticated threats, protect sensitive data on endpoints, and give security teams clearer visibility into endpoint posture, helping organizations tighten their last‑mile defense as AI-enabled attacks and complex ransomware campaigns continue to grow.

Read on for more→ Fortinet enhances FortiEndpoint with AI security, data protection and endpoint risk management

GigaOm Radar Highlights Infinidat As A Strong Player In Object Storage For Cyber-Resilient Data Protection

The latest GigaOm Radar report for object storage v7 places Infinidat prominently among leading providers, underscoring its role in cyber‑resilient data protection. Infinidat’s object storage is recognized for performance, scalability, and enterprise features that support backup, archive, and ransomware recovery scenarios, complementing its InfiniBox platform in environments that need both high-speed primary storage and durable secondary tiers.

Read on for more→ GigaOm Radar for Object Storage v7 – Infinidat reprint

IBM Launches New Power Systems And Software Built For Enterprises To Address Risk, Productivity, And Flexibility

IBM has introduced new IBM Power Systems and Power software aimed at helping enterprises tackle operational risk, boost productivity, and gain flexibility as they modernize core workloads. The launches focus on secure, resilient infrastructure for AI, analytics, and mission‑critical applications, combining hardware, operating systems, and tools that support hybrid deployments and advanced security controls while keeping long‑lived workloads protected.

Read on for more→ IBM launches new Power Systems and software built for enterprises to address risk, productivity, and flexibility

XenData Appliances Combine Files And Objects In A Single Tape Archive For Long-Term, Cost-Efficient Protection

XenData has released appliances that unify file and object data into a single tape archive, bringing both interfaces together on cost‑efficient, long‑term media. By exposing tape‑backed storage as accessible file shares and S3‑compatible object stores, the appliances aim to simplify archival workflows and data protection strategies for organizations dealing with large volumes of cold data that must remain retrievable and tamper‑resistant for many years.

Read on for more→ XenData appliances combine files and objects in single tape archive

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.

Contributor Series: The Data Center Build-Out Needs Better Operations Software by Robert Mostachetti

Most of the facilities management and integrated workplace management system (IWMS) platforms in use today were designed for a different kind of building. Corporate offices, hospitals, universities and logistics facilities are all complex in their own way, but they operate under a fundamentally different risk profile than a data center.

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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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On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosted Object First for the Spotlight event: Uncovering Veeam’s Hidden Gems

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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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.

Sign up now to get a weekly debrief of the latest human-centric news, insights, and commentary coming out of this emerging discussion.

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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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For consideration in future data protection news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.