Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of July 31; Updates from Catalogic, MinIO, Veeam & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of July 31, 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 31, 2026

Catalogic Software Expands DPX Support For Proxmox To Strengthen Data Protection In Virtualized Environments

Catalogic Software has expanded its DPX data protection platform to support Proxmox virtual environments.2800 The update gives organizations using Proxmox more options for backup and recovery, helping them protect virtual machines and workloads with enterprise-grade data management while keeping flexibility in their hypervisor choices.

Read on for more→ Catalogic Software expands DPX Proxmox support

CTERA Extends Microsoft 365 Copilot To Enterprise File Data With Permission-Aware AI Responses

CTERA has added support for Microsoft Copilot, enabling organizations to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams Copilot beyond native Microsoft repositories to governed enterprise file data managed by CTERA across edge, data center, and cloud environments. Using the Model Context Protocol and CTERA’s Global File System, the integration lets users retrieve accurate, source-cited answers based only on files they are authorized to access, with data staying in place and existing permissions and governance policies preserved to reduce oversharing risk.finance.

Read on for more→ CTERA extends Microsoft 365 Copilot to the enterprise file layer

ExaGrid Releases Version 8.1 To Improve Backup Performance And Manageability

ExaGrid has released version 8.1 of its backup platform with enhancements aimed at performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.2800 The update focuses on improving how organizations manage large-scale backup environments, with features that support faster backups, better resource utilization, and simplified administration for teams protecting growing data volumes.

Read on for more→ ExaGrid releases version 8.1

Kioxia Advances Memory Technology To Support Next-Gen AI And Data Center Platforms

Kioxia has announced new memory innovations aimed at next-generation AI and data center platforms.2800 The developments focus on higher performance, capacity, and efficiency to meet the demands of large-scale AI training and inference workloads, reinforcing memory as a critical enabler of AI infrastructure as models and datasets continue to grow.

Read on for more→ Kioxia memory announcement

Mend.io Enhances AI Application Security To Help Organizations Move Faster Than AI-Driven Risk

Mend.io has enhanced its AI application security capabilities to help teams identify meaningful risk, reduce manual investigation, and accelerate response across the AI lifecycle. The updates extend AI protection into runtime with agent configuration risk scans and real-time guardrails that inspect prompts and responses for issues like prompt injection, jailbreaks, and sensitive-data exposure, while also expanding container risk coverage and integrating with developer workflows to speed remediation.

Read on for more→ Mend.io enhances AI application security to help organizations move faster than AI-driven risk

MiniOS Launches Aistor Memory To Give AI Agents Organizational Memory

MiniOS has introduced Aistor Memory, a capability designed to let AI agents inherit and use organizational memory rather than operating with only short-term context.2800 The system aims to capture decisions, interactions, and knowledge over time so agents can act with more continuity and institutional awareness, reducing repetitive work and improving the quality of automated workflows in complex enterprise environments.

Read on for more→ MiniOS Aistor memory enables agents to inherit organizational memory

SIOS Technology Announces LifeKeeper v10.1 With AIOps-Ready Automation For High Availability And Disaster Recovery

SIOS Technology has released LifeKeeper v10.1, adding AIOps-ready automation capabilities to streamline deployment and management of high availability and disaster recovery for critical applications. The update includes fully validated, out-of-the-box protection for Microsoft SQL Server 2025, a new SIOS Oracle Recovery Kit, Windows CLI enhancements, and improved AWS and OCI security, helping organizations reduce manual effort and improve resilience for AI-era workloads.

Read on for more→ SIOS Technology announces LifeKeeper v10.1

Veeam Data Platform V13.1 Adds Features To Help Organizations Recover Clean And Fast From Cyber Disruption

Veeam Data Platform v13.1 is now available with new features aimed at helping organizations recover cleanly and quickly from cyber disruption.2800 The update focuses on improving ransomware resilience, recovery speed, and data integrity checks so that teams can restore operations with greater confidence that their data is clean, consistent, and protected against increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Read on for more→ Veeam Data Platform v13.1 now available helping organizations recover clean and fast from cyber disruption

WEKA And Andromeda Partner To Power AI Workloads At Global Scale With NeuralMesh Storage

WEKA and Andromeda are partnering to make WEKA’s NeuralMesh platform a core AI data storage layer for Andromeda’s managed GPU clusters across its global provider network. Andromeda customers can deploy dedicated NeuralMesh or GPU-native NeuralMesh Axon configurations to get consistent, high-performance storage on any cluster running on any hyperscaler or AI cloud, reducing the total cost of innovation by decoupling GPU provisioning from storage performance tuning and enabling more predictable, scalable AI pipelines.

Read on for more→ WEKA and Andromeda partner to power AI workloads at global scale

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 2026

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.

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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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