Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of June 12; Updates from Datadog, StorONE, Zscaler & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of June 12, 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 June 12, 2026

Arcserve – UDP 11 And ShadowProtect 8.0 Push Toward Simpler, AI-Aware Data Resilience Across Hybrid Estates

Arcserve’s latest releases underscore how quickly backup is becoming a full “data resilience” layer rather than just insurance. Unified Data Protection (UDP) 11 adds AI-enabled risk insights and broader workload coverage to simplify protection across hybrid environments, while ShadowProtect 8.0 plus Cloud Cyber Resilient Storage give MSPs immutable, 3‑2‑1‑1‑0‑aligned backups for Hyper‑V, physical, and cloud workloads—baked into a stack designed to deliver verified, ransomware‑resilient recovery, not just stored copies.

Read on for more→ Arcserve UDP 11: simplifying data protection, strengthening recovery and Arcserve ShadowProtect 8.0 with Cloud Cyber Resilient Storage

DāSTOR – “Ransom Immunity” BaaS Shows How Storage, Backup, And Cyberstart Blurring Together

DāSTOR’s new partnership with Myota to enhance its Backup as a Service offering is a textbook example of cyberstorage eating classic backup. By integrating Myota’s data‑shredding, distributed storage technology into its BaaS platform, DāSTOR is promising “ransom immunity”—immutable, scattered data shards that are useless to attackers, fast recovery, and better storage efficiency—effectively turning backup targets into an active cyber‑resilience layer rather than a passive repository.

Read on for more→ DāSTOR enhances BaaS through Myota partnership

Datadog – FedRAMP High Gives Public-Sector Buyers A Stronger Signal On Sensitive Data Handling

Datadog’s FedRAMP High certification is not this week’s newest announcement, but it remains highly relevant context because it signals the company can support one of the U.S. government’s strictest cloud security baselines for controlled unclassified information. For enterprises and agencies alike, that kind of certification is now part of the buying conversation around breach containment, monitoring, and secure handling of high-impact workloads—not just a compliance badge to stick in the footer.

Read on for more→ Datadog secures FedRAMP High certification

NetApp – Data Protection Is Being Baked Into Intelligent Data Infrastructure For AI, Not Bolted On

NetApp’s latest offerings and commentary underline that, in the AI era, cyber‑resilient storage and continuous data protection are core features of the data infrastructure, not separate products. Between its continuous data protection portfolio, BlueXP ransomware protection updates, and reference architectures for secure AI infrastructure with partners like Vultr, NetApp is pushing a model where snapshots, immutable copies, and multi‑site rollback are just “how storage works,” giving enterprises a unified way to defend, detect, and recover without designing bespoke protection schemes for each AI and analytics deployment.

Read on for more→ NetApp continuous data protection and Building secure AI infrastructure with NetApp

StorONE – Modern Backup Storage Is Being Framed Less As Capacity And More As Ransomware Survival

StorONE doesn’t have a brand-new June 8–12 release in the results, but its backup-storage positioning is directly on theme for this week’s issue: immutable, fast-recovery backup storage designed to blunt ransomware impact. StorONE’s approach centers on ransomware‑aware backup targets, rapid ingest, automated tiering from flash to high-capacity disk, and instant-recovery potential from clustered standby systems—exactly the kind of architecture buyers are now looking at when they realize “having backups” and “recovering cleanly under attack” are not the same thing.

Read on for more→ StorONE and modern backup storage for ransomware resilience

Zscaler – AI Security Report Shows The Data Protection Problem Is Now Flowing Straight Through AI Apps

Zscaler’s AI security findings remain one of the clearest data‑protection warnings in the market: enterprise AI usage is surging, and sensitive data is going with it. Zscaler reported a 91% year-over-year rise in enterprise AI and ML transactions across its platform, 18,033 TB of enterprise data transferred to AI/ML apps, and 410 million DLP policy violations tied to ChatGPT alone, including attempts to share source code, Social Security numbers, and medical records—turning AI access control into a frontline privacy and breach-prevention issue.

Read on for more→ Zscaler 2026 AI Threat Report

Expert Insights

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Object First for the Spotlight event: Assume Breach, Prepare for Recovery on May 21

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with Object First, an on-premises backup storage for Veeam customers. In the hour-long webinar, the company’s Senior Director of Solutions Marketing will delve into the latest research and trends around data resilience, provide an example of a real-life ransomware attack, share practical steps for preparing for a worst-case scenario, and use a live product demo to showcase how Object First can help teams protect themselves.

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Information Gain Series: The SaaS Data Protection Problem Most Organizations Don’t Know They Have

Most IT leaders feel reasonably confident about their data protection posture. They have backup strategies for virtual machines, immutable storage for critical systems, and recovery playbooks that have been tested and refined over the years. What many of them haven’t fully reckoned with is that a tremendous amount of corporate data now lives entirely outside those systems, spread across hundreds of SaaS applications that most organizations haven’t mapped, let alone protected.

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Information Gain Series: AI Governance in Cybersecurity Has a Leadership Problem

This is the central argument that emerged from a recent episode of The Cyber Circuit podcast on Insight Jam, featuring former CISO Manju Mude and cybersecurity advisor Michael Morgenstern. The conversation is worth your time. But the conclusions it surfaces point to a broader structural problem that deserves sustained editorial attention.

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Contributor Series: Redefining Risk in an Era of Geopolitical Cyber Threats

In a rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape, this is a reality we increasingly find businesses coming up against. As it stands, most enterprise risk models were built around ransomware and data theft and fail to account for that kind of impact. As this trend spreads, more businesses are reframing their response to threats.

Read on Insight Jam

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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.

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