Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of February 14; Updates from Commvault, Lucidity, NetApp & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of February 14, 2025.

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 February 14, 2025

Backblaze Releases Quarterly Disk Drive Stats Report

The company had 301,120 hard drives used to store data as of the end of last year. A chart of the Q4 2024 disk drive annual failure rates (AFR) for various suppliers’ drive types shows a pronounced 4.5-plus percent AFR for four drives. These outliers were a 12 TB HGST model (HUH7212ALN604) and three Seagate drives with 10 (ST10000NM0086), 12 (ST12000NM0007), and 14 TB (ST14000NM0138) capacities.

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Commvault Announces CIS-Hardened Images

These CIS-hardened images are pre-configured with CIS-recommended settings and controls and will be available on the following marketplaces: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and VMware. CIS-hardened images are software files that are pre-configured to align with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks.

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Datadobi Announces StorageMAP 7.0

This technology equips customers with the tools to make informed, data-driven decisions that can foster innovation and create competitive advantages, whilst also managing the risks and costs associated with unstructured data.

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Experian Partners with ValidMind

The partnership combines the advanced data, analytics and modelling power of the Experian Ascend Platform with ValidMind’s leading solution for model governance and documentation automation. The integrated solution addresses some of the most pressing challenges that financial institutions face, including regulatory compliance, operational inefficiencies, and the need for scalable governance solutions.

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Hitachi Vantara Partners with BMC

This partnership will improve enterprises’ operational capabilities with a suite of easily deployable solutions tailored for hybrid cloud environments. The combination of the BMC AMI mainframe software portfolio with Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One and Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) will provide robust features designed to streamline operations across mainframes and reduce operating costs.

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HPE Launches ProLiant Gen12 Servers

With this launch, HPE has a number of new servers. The first two are single-socket servers. HPE told Serve the Home they are seeing a slow migration towards single CPU server designs as processors get more cores. The first is the 1U HPE ProLiant DL320 Gen12.

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Lucidity Raises $21 Million in Funding for Multi-Cloud Storage Management

Alongside the announcement of new cyber resiliency capabilities, these systems enable customers to create silo-free data infrastructure that both runs on and is built for intelligence. The new high-performance NetApp ASA A20, A30, and A50 systems make block storage available to companies of every size for mission-critical apps like databases and virtual machines.

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NetApp Updates Enterprise Storage Portfolio

Alongside the announcement of new cyber resiliency capabilities, these systems enable customers to create silo-free data infrastructure that both runs on and is built for intelligence. The new high-performance NetApp ASA A20, A30, and A50 systems make block storage available to companies of every size for mission-critical apps like databases and virtual machines.

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Expert Insights Section

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NEW Episode of Insight AI: The Battle for AI Supremacy Featuring Doug Shannon

Doug and Doug explore the implications of China’s Deep Seek AI announcement and its potential impact as an “AI Sputnik moment.” They discuss Project Stargate, the U.S. government’s $500 billion AI initiative, and examine how AI agents are poised to transform the workplace.

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February 21! The Jam Session: Why Enterprises are Abandoning the Public Cloud Featuring Robert Eve, Philip Rusom, Ph.D., Tredence’s Arnab Sen & Flexera’s Brian Adler

In this month’s Jam Session, the panel discusses the growing trend of workload repatriation among enterprises. They’ll address questions like what factors are driving cloud repatriation, how do you decide what to repatriate, what does it take to repatriate an application or workload, and what can you do to avoid the cost and hassle of repatriation?

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Solutions Review Editors Announce New e-Book: 5 Career Strategies for IT Pros to Survive & Thrive in the AI Revolution – Exclusively on Insight Jam

Drawing from industry insights and real-world examples from tech giants like IBM, Cisco, and Microsoft, this e-book offers practical guidance for IT professionals looking to remain competitive and relevant as AI continues to reshape the technology sector.

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