Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of August 28; Updates from Arcitecta, HYCU, Infinidat & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of August 2, 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 28, 2026

Arcitecta Helps Universities Control Microsoft 365 Storage Costs Without Deleting Research Data

Arcitecta has launched Mediaflux Connect 365, an active data-management offering for universities facing Microsoft 365 Education’s shift from unlimited cloud storage to pooled tenant limits. The platform analyzes and classifies OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams data, then moves content into vendor-neutral on-premises, cloud, or hybrid storage while preserving searchable metadata, governance, and accessibility—helping institutions reduce rising storage costs and prepare data for analytics and AI.

Read on for more→ Arcitecta Launches Active Data Management Solution for Universities Facing Microsoft 365 Education Storage Policy Changes

Cisco Expands Its Secure AI Factory To Protect AI Infrastructure From Silicon To Agents

Cisco is expanding its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to combine Cisco networking, NVIDIA AI infrastructure, and Supermicro rack-scale compute with security and resiliency controls across the AI stack. The architecture is designed for enterprise, neocloud, and sovereign-cloud deployments, with Cisco positioning AI Defense, Secure Access, Hypershield, firewalls, and Splunk observability as integrated protections for users, applications, data, and increasingly autonomous agents.

Read on for more→ Cisco Expands Secure AI Factory: Can it Outpace PANW & FTNT?

Glean Expands Its Enterprise AI Platform With Desktop Agents, Cost Controls, And Threat Detection

At its Glean:GO conference, Glean introduced Glean Tau, an upcoming desktop workspace that combines its enterprise context layer with local files, applications, code, and current AI models to execute multistep work. The company also expanded model-routing and usage-governance capabilities, added collaborative AI features and interactive dashboards, and previewed context-aware detection of agent behaviors such as data harvesting or exfiltration; Glean says its internal benchmark showed an 81% reduction in token costs versus Claude Cowork.

Read on for more→ Glean Takes On Enterprise AI’s Biggest Bottlenecks: Context Gaps, Rising Costs, and AI Sprawl

HYCU Earns Record G2 Recognition For Multi-Cloud Data Protection And Recovery

HYCU reported a record number of distinctions in G2’s Fall 2026 Grid Reports, highlighting customer feedback and market presence for its multi-cloud data-protection, backup, disaster-recovery, and ransomware-recovery offerings. The recognition reflects the company’s growing coverage for SaaS, cloud, and on-premises workloads as enterprises prioritize cyber resilience and data recoverability.

Read on for more→ HYCU Expands G2 Presence With Record Report Recognition in Fall 2026

Kyndryl And Broadcom Expand VMware Services For Sovereign, AI-Ready Private Clouds

Kyndryl has expanded its alliance with Broadcom to provide end-to-end consulting and managed services for VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Tanzu, supporting private and hybrid-cloud modernization for regulated enterprises. The companies will train several thousand Kyndryl specialists and combine VCF with Kyndryl’s Agentic AI Framework, policy-as-code controls, AIOps, cyber recovery, and secure provisioning practices to support governed AI inference and agentic workflows alongside virtualized and containerized workloads.

Read on for more→ Kyndryl Expands Alliance With Broadcom

Nasuni Acquires DryvIQ To Govern Unstructured Data Before It Reaches AI Systems

Nasuni has acquired DryvIQ, adding AI-powered content discovery, classification, sensitivity detection, and automated governance to its unstructured-data platform. The combined offering is intended to give enterprises visibility and policy controls across more than 40 cloud and on-premises repositories, helping them identify PII, PHI, PCI, redundant data, and access risks before activating file data for AI workloads.

Read on for more→ Nasuni Acquires DryvIQ, Enabling Organizations to Classify, Secure, and Activate Unstructured Data to Unlock AI Business Value

Rackspace Launches Fully Managed Multitenant Cloud Built On VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

Rackspace Technology has launched Rackspace Cloud, a fully managed multitenant private-cloud platform built on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1. The service is designed to give organizations a managed path for operating traditional and modern workloads, including AI initiatives, on a VMware-based cloud foundation with integrated infrastructure operations and support.

Read on for more→ Rackspace Technology Launches Rackspace Cloud, Among the First Fully Managed Multitenant Cloud Platforms Built on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

Sophos Finds Identity Compromise Behind 85% Of Education Ransomware Incidents

Sophos’ State of Ransomware in Education 2026 report found that identity-based techniques—including malicious email, phishing, compromised credentials, and brute-force attacks—were involved in 85% of ransomware incidents reported by education organizations, versus 79% across all sectors. The study of 226 affected IT and cybersecurity leaders also found that 58% of education ransomware attacks resulted in encrypted data, average recovery costs reached $2.26 million, and 26% of organizations needed one to three months for full recovery, strengthening the case for identity security, integrated detection and response, and tested backups.

Read on for more→ Identity-Based Attacks Are Responsible for 85% of Ransomware in Education

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.

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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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