Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of January 30; Updates from Druva, Core6, VAST Data & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of January 30, 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 January 30, 2026

VAST Data Launches Amplify to Reclaim Stranded NVMe Capacity

VAST Data’s Amplify program offers a free assessment to measure how much additional usable flash capacity customers can unlock by moving their existing NVMe SSDs under VAST’s data‑reduction and data‑protection software, instead of buying more drives in a tight SSD market. By combining lower‑overhead erasure coding (around 12% protection overhead) with global compression and deduplication, VAST claims many fleets can achieve 4–6x effective capacity versus traditional all‑flash systems, helping organizations ride out NAND shortages and rising prices without sacrificing performance.​

Read on for more → https://blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/27/vast-amplify-scheme/

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.

Insight Jam Launches Year-Long “Mesh Lab” to Build a Framework for Work & Learning in the Age of AI

Insight Jam Mesh Lab is a year-long, monthly series of expert-led discussions dedicated to exploring and shaping the next generation of frameworks for work and learning in the age of AI. Rather than reacting to tools or trends, Mesh Lab is designed to initiate a sustained, cross-sector conversation about how human capability itself must be re-architected as AI becomes embedded across education, enterprise, and leadership.

Episode 1 featuring Michelle Ament, EdD, T. Scott Clendaniel, Sandra Watts, PhD, Stefan Bauschard, Ben Tasker, and Center for Compassionate Leadership will be available next week.

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Expert Wrap: Data Privacy Week 2026 – Key Insights from The Field’s Greatest Thinkers

This roundup features insights from leading experts who dissect the nuances of data privacy today. They explore the challenges we face in safeguarding digital identities, the emerging threats to our online spaces, and the innovative strategies being developed to secure personal information against unauthorized access.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Pathlock for the Exclusive Session ‘Governing Access in a World of 100+ Apps and 1M Identities’ on February 12

Modern organizations operate in an identity environment defined by scale and complexity: hundreds of applications, millions of human and non-human identities, and an expanding identity-driven attack surface. At the same time, many identity governance programs still rely on manual reviews, static roles, and fragmented access models that were never designed to operate at this level.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Nutanix and Northeastern University for the Exclusive Session ‘Cloud-Native for the AI-Powered, Innovation-Ready Enterprise Masterclass’ on February 19

Join us for the Nutanix Cloud Native Masterclass, an exclusive event for C-level executives, where attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion from Northeastern University, recognizing their expertise in cloud native strategies. In this Masterclass we’ll explore how cloud native architecture is reshaping enterprise IT. Unlike traditional monolithic applications — which are slow to evolve, difficult to scale, and operationally complex — cloud native applications are composed of independent, loosely coupled components. Built on microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and API-driven design, they are optimized for dynamic, distributed environments.

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Contributor Series: Shadow AI and the Leadership Gap: Scaling AI to Your Advantage

This rise of decentralized AI adoption – or shadow AI – is not new, but rather a growing trend that poses significant risks to a corporate entity’s organizational security and operations. According to MIT’s Project NANDA study, roughly 90% of employees report using AI tools without informing their IT departments.

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Contributor Series: The AI Code Generation Governance Gap is a Security Gap

As organizations race to adopt generative AI, a critical governance gap is widening. According to data from Gartner, only 23% of IT leaders feel confident managing AI governance, and violations could spur a 30% rise in legal disputes by 2028.

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Contributor Series: Debunking 4 Myths About HDDs

Keeping pace with this exponential growth will require continually evolving storage solutions. HDDs – long valued for their massive capacity, cost-effectiveness and low total cost of ownership (TCO) – are rising to the challenge. Today, nearly 80% of data stored in the cloud is on HDDs. Still, misconceptions persist. As storage demands grow more complex, it’s important to separate fact from fiction. Here are four common myths about HDDs and the truth behind them.

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Contributor Series: The AI Compliance Trap: Why Checklist Governance Won’t Save You from the EU AI Act

The era of moving fast and break things is officially over. With the enforcement of the EU AI Act and the rapid maturation of global regulatory frameworks, the mantra for the next decade of Artificial Intelligence is “prove it is safe, or don’t deploy it.”

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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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For consideration in future data protection news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.