Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of August 21; Updates from Commvault, HYCU, Infinidat & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of August 21, 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 August 21, 2026

Broadcom Previews VMware Explore Training For Private AI Cloud And Agentic Innovation

Broadcom has detailed VMware Explore 2026, taking place August 31 through September 3 in Las Vegas, with more than 400 technical sessions, hands-on labs, and certification opportunities centered on VMware Cloud Foundation. The event will cover private AI cloud, security, application modernization, and infrastructure operations, while a keynote led by Broadcom Infrastructure Software Group President Ram Velaga will focus on agentic innovation and modern data-center strategy.

Read on for more→ Broadcom Details VMware Explore 2026 Sessions, Labs and Certifications

Cohesity Catalyst 2026 to Focus On Data Security and Cyber Resilience

Cohesity has outlined Catalyst 2026 as a forum for customers and partners to explore cyber resilience, data security, and modern approaches to protecting enterprise data. The event will spotlight the operational and strategic role of clean recovery, data intelligence, and AI-driven resilience as organizations confront ransomware and an expanding hybrid data footprint.

Read on for more→ Cohesity Catalyst 2026: Spotlight on Resilience

Cribl Acquires AI SOC Technology To Run Threat Investigations On Unified Telemetry

Cribl has acquired technology assets from Radiant Security to add AI-native alert triage, investigation, and remediation capabilities to its telemetry platform. Rather than depending on static playbooks or another standalone security tool, the company plans to let the AI SOC application generate investigation logic for each alert and query telemetry data wherever it resides, helping teams reduce false positives and speed incident response.

Read on for more→ Cribl Advances AI-Powered Security Operations with New AI SOC Acquisition

HYCU Names Veteran Cloud And AI Product Leader to Drive Resilience Strategy

HYCU has appointed former Google Cloud, HPE, BlueData, and Pivotal executive Anant Chintamaneni as chief product officer following the launch of its HYCU aiR offering. He will lead product management and marketing as the company expands protection and recoverability across more than 100 AI, SaaS, cloud, and on-premises workloads, with an emphasis on the data-control demands created by agentic AI.

Read on for more→ Following HYCU aiR Launch, HYCU Names Anant Chintamaneni Chief Product Officer to Accelerate AI Resilience Strategy

Nutanix And ChronoScale Combine On-Premises AI Controls With Elastic GPU Capacity

Nutanix and ChronoScale have formed a strategic partnership to integrate Nutanix’s agentic AI software with ChronoScale GPU-as-a-Service, prepaid inference tokens, and locally deployed AI Foundry environments. The planned offering aims to give enterprises one control plane for on-premises and external GPU capacity while keeping agents, data, and workflow state within customer boundaries for sovereign, governed AI deployments.

Read on for more→ Nutanix and ChronoScale Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption

Purdue And SanDisk Launch Online Course Covering Memory Technologies From DRAM To 3D NAND

Purdue University and SanDisk have introduced Semiconductor Memory 101, a 20-hour online course covering DRAM, SRAM, NOR and NAND Flash, memory hierarchies, scaling, packaging, manufacturing, reliability, and emerging memory technologies. Developed with contributions from university researchers and SanDisk engineers, the $20 program offers joint Purdue–SanDisk certification for professionals seeking foundational knowledge of the semiconductor-memory industry.

Read on for more→ Semiconductor Memory 101

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 Set to Host Illumio for Exclusive Spotlight Show “AI-Era Network Posture” on August 25

In their presentation, Sarah Hyatt and Jake Reinders—two XBOW experts—will showcase how to test a web application, follow attack paths, adapt when an approach fails, and validate a working exploit with supporting evidence. They’ll also demonstrate how the Public API brings assessments and results into existing security workflows.

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Solutions Review Set to Host XBOW for Exclusive Spotlight Show “Drowning in Findings” on August 27

In their presentation, Sarah Hyatt and Jake Reinders—two XBOW experts—will showcase how to test a web application, follow attack paths, adapt when an approach fails, and validate a working exploit with supporting evidence. They’ll also demonstrate how the Public API brings assessments and results into existing security workflows.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for Exclusive Spotlight Show “Prepare for AI-Powered Cyberattacks” on September 2

Join enterprise cyber storage leader Infinidat as we discuss how IT teams can proactively combat agentic AI and other cyber threats, ensuring their organizations are prepared to recover quickly when the inevitable attack strikes. You’ll discover how to easily build and manage cyber-resilient enterprise storage environments, reduce the threat window by automating cyber protection across your data center, and identify compromised data using advanced AI-based cyber detection.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for Exclusive Spotlight Show “Maximizing Value in a Volatile Storage Market” on October 7

Learn how to turn these disruptions into opportunities for innovation and efficiency with Infinidat’s intelligent, hybrid storage solutions. In this webinar, you’ll discover how to navigate the surge in flash and DRAM pricing, build powerful solutions leveraging extreme-performance flash and high-performance hybrid intelligent storage platforms that provide “the right tool for the right job,” and consolidate workloads and eliminate storage sprawl to reclaim valuable data center space.

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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.