Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of November 13; Updates from Commvault, Hitachi Vantara, Rubrik & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of November 13, 2026.

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SR Expert Network: High Availability is Not Set & Forget: How to Validate Before an Outage by SIOS Technology’s Cassius Rhue

From my view of the chess board, data sovereignty is usually explained through the lens of regulation and geography. That is, companies needed to know where sensitive information was stored, which jurisdiction governed it, and whether their infrastructure complied with applicable requirements.

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Solutions Review Hosted Kaseya for the Exclusive Spotlight Show “Scale Fast, Stay Safe: The Playbook for the AI Era” on November 5

Johnny Ghibril, GM of Endpoint Solutions at Kaseya, shared a practical playbook for using AI without losing control. Learn why the RMM is the right place to start, how to progress from AI-assisted insights to verified remediation, and how to build in human approval points where they matter. See a live demo of a single-prompt ticket workflow, plus how the same approach extends to continuous compliance.

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Data Protection News for the Week of November 13, 2026

Commvault Introduces Recovery Studio To Orchestrate Full Business-Service Restoration

Commvault has announced Recovery Studio, a runbook-driven approach that will restore applications, identities, infrastructure, configurations, and data in dependency order. Rather than treating recovery as a series of disconnected restores, it will automate reconstruction and validation across the components a business service needs to function. Threat scanning for supported resources will inform decisions before services return to production.

Read on for more→ Commvault Redefines Recovery in the AI Era: From Restoring Data to Restoring the Business

Dreeze Launches With $33 Million To Restore Complete Cloud Applications

Dreeze has emerged with $33 million in seed funding and made its Application Revival platform generally available. Co-led by Norwest and Bessemer Venture Partners, the round will fund product development and commercial expansion. The platform maps application dependencies, protects data alongside configurations, identities, keys, and connections, and orchestrates restoration in dependency order.

Read on for more→ Dreeze Raises $33m as Cloud Recovery Moves Beyond Data

Druva Adds Individual AI Agent Recovery And Expands Microsoft Workflow Protection

Druva has introduced Agent Recovery, starting with Microsoft Copilot Studio, to discover agents, maintain immutable backups, and restore individual agents without rolling back an entire environment. Copilot Studio protection and Power Automate support are in limited availability; Power Apps protection and Druva’s Microsoft 365 Copilot agent are generally available. An Azure SRE Agent integration is due at the end of November.

Read on for more→ Druva Expands AI Resilience to Recover AI Agents Across the Enterprise

Hitachi Vantara Brings In-Place Analytics And Expanded AI Governance To VSP One

Hitachi Vantara has expanded VSP One Object with a smaller four-node starting configuration and analytics that query supported Iceberg, Parquet, JSON, and CSV data directly on object storage. The company reports up to five times faster analytical queries with 80% fewer CPUs, reducing the need for separate data copies and pipelines. Related Hitachi iQ Studio updates add filesystem and NFS knowledge sources for retrieval-augmented generation, a governed model gateway, MCP connectivity, and ServiceNow support.

Read on for more→ Hitachi Vantara Expands VSP One for Enterprise AI With New Object Storage and Data Lakehouse Capabilities

Kioxia And Dell Demonstrate 157 Petabytes Of Raw Flash In One Rack

Kioxia and Dell Technologies have announced a single-rack object-storage configuration combining Dell ObjectScale with 640 Kioxia LC9 SSDs, each offering 245.76TB. Running across 16 PowerEdge R7725xd servers in a standard 42U rack, the configuration delivers approximately 157PB of raw capacity—not usable capacity after protection and formatting.

Read on for more→ KIOXIA and Dell Technologies Collaborate on the Industry’s First 157 PB Single-Rack Object Store, Redefining Storage Economics

Lenovo Adds NetApp-Based Block Arrays As Novus Targets Large-Scale AI Infrastructure

Lenovo has introduced ThinkSystem DE6500 and DE6800 block arrays based on NetApp’s EF50 and EF80 systems, targeting high-throughput, latency-sensitive workloads. The DE6800 offers roughly three times the IOPS and 2.7 times the throughput of the DE6500, positioning it for AI, HPC, and real-time analytics. Separately, NetApp’s generally available Novus disaggregated ONTAP platform is being deployed at European sovereign cloud provider Nebul.

Read on for more→ Lenovo OEMing Latest NetApp EF-Series Block Arrays as NetApp’s Novus Hits the Ground Running

Nexsan Packs Nearly 3 Petabytes Of Raw NVMe Flash Into A 2U System

Nexsan has introduced the Unity NV12000, a unified storage platform supporting 122.88TB QLC NVMe SSDs for nearly 3PB of raw capacity in a 2U head unit. Expansion enclosures raise that to approximately 15PB in 10U, targeting AI datasets, analytics, virtualization, and other capacity-intensive workloads. The system consolidates block, file, and S3-compatible object access, with immutable snapshots, object locking, and encryption supporting data protection.

Read on for more→ Nexsan Delivers Nearly 3 Petabytes of All-Flash NVMe Storage in a 2U System With Latest Addition to UNITY NV-Series

Rubrik Expands AWS And BigQuery Recovery With More Targeted Repairs Planned

Rubrik has made Autonomous Business Recovery for AWS Cloud Applications and agentless, immutable BigQuery backups generally available. AWS recovery restores application data and configurations in dependency order, while BigQuery protection supports dataset- and table-level recovery beyond its native seven-day time-travel window. Planned updates will add surgical recovery for cloud VMs and Azure DevOps/GitHub assets, aiming to remove malicious changes while preserving legitimate work.

Read on for more→ Rubrik Expands Cloud and DevOps Recovery Across AWS, Google Cloud and GitHub

Seagate Combines Replaceable HDD And SSD Storage With Automated Data Placement

Seagate’s FireCuda Forge pairs a high-capacity hard drive with a user-supplied NVMe SSD, presenting both as one external drive. Its new Alkemi platform uses machine learning to move data between tiers as workloads change, placing active or frequently used files on faster flash. Available with an 8TB HDD for $699 or a 20TB HDD for $899, the enclosure does not include the SSD.

Read on for more→ Seagate’s FireCuda Forge Moves Your Data Between a Hard Drive and SSD for Better Performance

TrueNAS Renames Upcoming Release To Match Its Primary Deployment Year

TrueNAS has renamed the release previously tested as TrueNAS 26 to TrueNAS 27, beginning with the October release candidate. The change aligns its name with the year most users are expected to deploy it and replaces year-and-month numbering with annual major versions and sequential point releases. Built on Linux kernel 6.18 and OpenZFS 2.4, TrueNAS 27.0 remains scheduled for early December 2026.

Read on for more→ TrueNAS 27 Is Here!

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