Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of April 24; Updates from Scality, Splunk, VAST Data & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of April 24, 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 April 24, 2026

Cloudflare Mesh + Wiz Link AI Network Guardrails With Cloud Risk Maps To Close “Shadow AI” Gaps

Cloudflare is targeting AI security blind spots with its new Mesh private networking fabric and an integration with Wiz’s Security Graph. Mesh encrypts and routes traffic between AI agents, apps, and multicloud workloads over Cloudflare’s global network, while Wiz maps AI‑related data flows and endpoints and verifies that Cloudflare AI Security for Apps guardrails are in place, giving security teams one view of AI attack surface and a way to prioritize and fix unprotected, high‑risk AI endpoints.

Read on for more→ Cloudflare Mesh + Wiz

Cyera Buys Ryft To Turn Secure AI Data Lakes Into The Control Plane For Agentic AI Security

Cyera has acquired Ryft, a secure, automated AI data lake designed for AI agents, to extend its agentic AI security platform. The deal brings together Cyera’s data security posture management and Ryft’s AI‑ready, policy‑driven data environment so enterprises can give autonomous agents instantly traceable, governed access to the data they need while Cyera works toward a unified control plane for safe, large‑scale agentic AI adoption.

Read on for more→ Cyera–Ryft acquisition

DDN And Google Cloud’s Managed Lustre Hit 10 TB/s And Double As A Shared KV Cache For AI Inference

DDN is rolling out major enhancements to Google Cloud Managed Lustre—powered by its EXAScaler technology—delivering up to 10 TB/s throughput and 80 PB capacity for AI and HPC workloads. Beyond classic training and simulation, the companies are showcasing Managed Lustre as a shared KV cache for inference, using its POSIX parallel file system to avoid redundant computation and scale LLM inference, RAG, and KV‑cache workloads across clusters with virtually unlimited shared cache capacity.

Read on for more→ DDN–Google Cloud Managed Lustre

Exabeam Extends Agent Behavior Analytics Across Google’s Agent Ecosystem To Catch Risky Agent Workflows

Exabeam is extending its Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA) to cover agents built with Google Cloud’s Agent Development Kit and those orchestrated via Google Agent Gateway, including Gemini Enterprise and custom multi‑agent systems. ABA baselines normal agent behavior, correlates actions across agents, and analyzes agent‑to‑agent interactions so security teams can spot anomalies, coordinated misbehavior, or unintended emergent risks as organizations roll out more agentic workflows.

Read on for more→ Exabeam Agent Behavior Analytics

Hitachi Vantara’s FY2025 ESG Report Centers On Energy-Efficient Storage For AI Workloads

Hitachi Vantara’s FY2025 Sustainability Report highlights progress on energy‑efficient data infrastructure as AI and data‑intensive workloads push global data center power demand toward 1,000 TWh. Key moves include the VSP One Block High End platform engineered to cut power and cooling needs for AI workloads, expanded lifecycle assessments across storage portfolios, a Clear Sight dashboard for energy and carbon visibility, and product designs that incorporate up to 50% recycled content while sending less than 0.3% of materials to landfill.

Read on for more→ Hitachi Vantara FY2025 sustainability

Pure’s Giancarlo Warns AI Boom Has Triggered A New, Longer-Lasting IT Supply Chain Crisis

Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo has issued an open letter explaining how surging AI demand has created the third “once‑in‑a‑decade” supply chain crisis in 10 years—and why this one may last longer than the COVID shock. As chip makers shift limited fab capacity toward high‑margin AI components, prices for non‑AI silicon have doubled or tripled since late 2025, forcing Pure (now Everpure) to source alternatives at higher cost and making it harder to hold pricing; Giancarlo pledges continued transparency on lead times and margins but cautions that elevated input costs could persist for years unless AI demand cools.

Read on for more→ Pure Storage supply chain letter

Scality Offers $100K “Cyber Guarantee” To ARTESCA Customers As Ransomware Pressures Grow

Scality’s latest press update highlights an industry‑first $100,000 cyber guarantee for all ARTESCA customers, backing its cyber‑resilient object storage with a financial commitment if the platform fails to perform during a ransomware attack. The program, tied to recent ARTESCA software enhancements, is aimed at MSPs and enterprises that need immutable, air‑gapped backup targets but also want a vendor willing to share downside risk when recoveries are on the line.

Read on for more→ Scality press releases

VAST Data Raises $1B Series F At $30B Valuation To Be The “AI Operating System” For GPUs

VAST Data has closed a $1 billion Series F round—mixing primary and secondary capital—at a $30 billion valuation, more than tripling its $9.1 billion valuation from 2023. Positioned as an “AI Operating System” that feeds and orchestrates massive GPU clusters, VAST reports roughly tripled revenue year over year, over $4 billion in cumulative bookings, more than $500 million in committed ARR, and marquee customers such as xAI’s 200,000‑GPU Colossus cluster and CoreWeave’s $1.17 billion agreement.

Read on for more→ VAST Data $1B Series F

Wasabi Secures $250M Credit Facility To Scale “Hot Cloud” Storage As AI Lifts Capacity Demand

Wasabi Technologies has closed a $250 million credit facility led by Bain Capital’s Private Credit Group to fund expansion of its S3‑compatible “hot cloud” storage platform, infrastructure, and global footprint. The financing follows its acquisition of Seagate’s Lyve Cloud business and a recent $70 million equity round that valued Wasabi at $1.8 billion, bringing total funding above $700 million as it positions itself as a pure‑play alternative to hyperscalers for AI‑era storage.

Read on for more→ Wasabi $250M facility

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The Editors Lens: How AI is Shifting Cybersecurity from Reactive to Proactive by William Jepma

or most of its history, cybersecurity has been a discipline defined by reaction. As such, defenders are perpetually behind, building detection capabilities for threats already in the wild, patching vulnerabilities that have already been exploited, and writing playbooks for attack patterns that have already done damage. The structural asymmetry between attackers and defenders has been so persistent that many practitioners simply accepted it as a feature of the landscape rather than a problem to solve.

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For years, organizations approached migration as a milestone. The goal was to move workloads to the cloud, modernize infrastructure, and decommission legacy systems. That model made sense when cloud adoption itself was the primary objective. Today, however, most enterprises have already crossed that threshold. According to McKinsey, only 10 percent of organizations report capturing cloud value at scale, despite widespread adoption. 

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Organizations are racing to bring generative AI (GenAI) into their operations, but many are learning that experimentation is the easy part. The real challenge is converting pilots into sustained, measurable business value. A Project NANDA report underscores the gap: “Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, 95 percent of organizations are getting zero return. Just 5 percent of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value, while the vast majority remain stuck with no measurable P&L impact.”

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Contributor Series: When Your AI Assistant Starts Plating a Role: The Hidden Security Problem of Persona-Driven LLMs by Renato Vicente

Enterprise security teams have spent the last few years building guardrails around Large Language Models (LLMs): prompt filters, output classifiers, content policies, and red-team exercises. Most of this work assumes a reasonably stable target, that a model’s underlying moral judgments will remain broadly consistent, and the job is to keep users from jailbreaking those values.

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