Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of July 24; Updates from Druva, Infinidat, Keepit & More

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

Druva Advances AI Resilience To Protect Data, Identity, And Recovery Workflows

Druva has introduced new AI resilience capabilities aimed at protecting the data and identity layers behind enterprise AI systems. The company is positioning resilience as more than backup, emphasizing the need to secure AI inputs, preserve recoverability, and maintain governance across the lifecycle of data used by agents and models.

Read on for more→ Druva advances AI resilience

Forcepoint Defines How Agentic Enterprises Control Data With AI Data Security

Forcepoint has launched AI Data Security, a cloud platform that unifies data protection and AI governance across autonomous agents, shadow AI, and sanctioned AI applications. The platform uses real-time prompt and response inspection, inline shadow AI controls, and an embedded natural-language policy assistant to follow sensitive data wherever it moves, while Forcepoint says customers can cut policy-management effort and reduce operating costs by consolidating controls into one platform.

Read on for more→ Forcepoint defines how agentic enterprises control data with AI data security launch

Infinidat’s InfiniGuard Named One Of The Top 5 Cyber-Resilient Purpose-Built Backup Appliances

Infinidat’s InfiniGuard has been named one of DCIG’s Top 5 cyber-resilient purpose-built backup appliances in the 3PB+ category. The recognition reflects the appliance’s enterprise backup, restore, and cyber-storage resilience capabilities, including high-speed ingest and recovery features that position InfiniGuard as a strong fit for organizations that need backup infrastructure to be both fast and resilient.

Read on for more→ Infinidat’s InfiniGuard® Named One of the TOP 5 Cyber Resilient Purpose Built Backup Appliance 3PB+

Keepit Brings SaaS Data Protection Into Focus For AI-Era Resilience

Keepit is emphasizing SaaS data protection as part of broader AI-era resilience planning. The message is that as organizations rely more heavily on SaaS applications and AI-assisted workflows, they need durable recovery, retention, and governance capabilities for cloud application data—not just endpoint or infrastructure backup.

Read on for more→ Keepit brings SaaS data protection

Perforce Finds A Confidence Versus Reality Gap In Data Protection

Perforce’s latest survey suggests many organizations believe they are better protected than they actually are, exposing a confidence-versus-reality gap in data protection. The findings point to persistent gaps in backup verification, recovery readiness, and operational discipline, especially as more teams depend on complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Read on for more→ Perforce’s latest survey finds confidence vs. reality gap with data protection

WEKA Debuts NeuralMesh 6 To Drive Production-Scale Enterprise And Agentic AI Workloads

WEKA has launched NeuralMesh 6, a major software release designed to run production AI training, inference, and accelerated compute workloads on a single unified stack. New capabilities include native hyperscale multi-tenancy, full S3 support on NVMe, metadata-first data mobility, always-on data reduction with guarantees, Kubernetes-native operations, and unified observability, all intended to improve inference economics and token throughput for AI factories, frontier model providers, and large enterprises.

Read on for more→ WEKA debuts NeuralMesh 6 to power enterprise and agentic AI workloads at production scale

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.

Contributor Series: The Data Center Build-Out Needs Better Operations Software by Robert Mostachetti

Most of the facilities management and integrated workplace management system (IWMS) platforms in use today were designed for a different kind of building. Corporate offices, hospitals, universities and logistics facilities are all complex in their own way, but they operate under a fundamentally different risk profile than a data center.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Native Security for the Spotlight event: Architecture for Active Defense in the Cloud: A Live Conversation on July 21

Native co-founder and CPO Gal Ordo opens with the architecture model and the three layers that active defense rests on. From there, the session moves into a live demo led by Native’s team. You’ll see security intent expressed in plain language, watch Native compile it into the correct provider-native controls for each cloud, simulate the impact against real historical activity before anything ships, and deploy with rollback built in.

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Solutions Review Announces New State of Cybersecurity Report, Publishing August 2026

With this report, Solutions Review reintroduces its Vendor Map presentation model, providing security buyers with an at-a-glance reference to the leading and emerging players across the cybersecurity marketplace. For this report, the Vendor Maps focus specifically on AI-native cybersecurity vendors across four categories that define how the market is organizing today: Endpoint Security, Cloud and Network Security, Data and Application Security, and Identity Security.  

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On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosted Object First for the Spotlight event: Uncovering Veeam’s Hidden Gems

Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) is constantly updating, with a wealth of new features that can be easily overlooked. Join ObjectFirst’s Matt Price, Senior Technical Solutions Manager, and Geoff Burke, Senior Technology Advisor, as they cover some of the new features in the latest versions of VBR and see how they can be applied to improve your data resilience.

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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.

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