Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of March 21; Updates from Hitachi Vantara, Infinidat, Pure Storage & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of March 21, 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 March 21, 2025
Auquan Unveils AI Agent for Risk Monitoring and Detection
Unlike other AI tools that merely assist analysts, Auquan’s AI agents independently execute workflows end-to-end, from data gathering through structured reporting, freeing professionals to focus on high-value work. 40 percent of top 50 global financial services firms trust Auquan’s AI agents to transform how their investment and credit teams work by eliminating manual effort.
Cisco Partners with NVIDIA on AI Data Center Architectures
Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia will help enterprises build and secure data centers to develop and run AI workloads, “dramatically” simplifying the process for these businesses, the two companies said. The new offering will “transform” AI factories meticulously designed to power AI workloads, using co-optimized architecture from Cisco and Nvidia.
Cohesity Partners with Glean’s Work AI Platform
The partnership enables mutual customers to leverage high-quality backup data from Cohesity-protected workloads within Glean’s platform, further expanding enterprise knowledge and AI-driven insights. The integration of Cohesity-protected data into the Glean platform is expected to be available for customers later this year.
Concentric AI Secures Patent for AI Data Security Governance
The new granted patent, titled “Method and Electronic Device for Managing Sensitive Data based on Semantic Categorization,” protects existing intellectual property for Concentric AI’s Semantic Intelligence data security governance platform.
CTERA is Now Available in Microsoft Azure
CTERA customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management. Two solutions are now offered: a fully-managed Hosted Data Service for quick deployment, and a self-hosted Private Data Service for enhanced control and flexibility.
DDN Launches New IndustrySync Solution
Powered by DDN’s Infinia Data Intelligence, IndustrySync delivers enterprise-grade AI solutions designed for AI Cloud and leading cloud providers, optimizing performance and accelerating time to insight with seamless scalability and efficiency.
Eon Unveils Cloud-Native Ransomware Protection & Recovery
By enabling smart restores of clean data in minutes, as opposed to hours or even days, Eon delivers unprecedented speed and security for modern cloud environments, effectively reducing the impact of ransomware by minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.
H2O.ai Partners with VAST Data on Domain-Specific Insights & Agentic AI
This joint solution combines VAST Data’s modern infrastructure for storing and managing all data types (video, audio, documents, sensor data) with H2O.ai’s enterprise h2oGPTe platform to deliver retrieval-augmented answers, powerful model fine-tuning options, and grounded insights for enterprise users across on-premise, airgapped, and private cloud deployments.
Hitachi Vantara Unveils Hitachi iQ M Series Infrastructure Storage
This new solution provides a lower entry cost with built-in adaptability and scalability as customer needs evolve. Integrating accelerated computing platforms with robust networking, Hitachi iQ M Series combines Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) storage, integrated file system choices, and optional NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into a scalable, adaptable, cost-effective AI infrastructure solution.
HP Launches Latest HP Threat Insights Report
The campaigns show attackers are capitalizing on people’s increasing familiarity with completing multiple authentication steps online – a trend HP calls ‘click tolerance.’ With analysis of real-world cyberattacks, the HP Threat Insights Report helps organizations to keep up with the latest techniques cybercriminals are using to evade detection and breach PCs.
IBM Set to Launch Content-Aware Storage with NVIDIA AI Data Platform
As part of today’s news, IBM is planning to launch a content-aware storage capability for its hybrid cloud infrastructure offering, IBM Fusion; intends to expand its watsonx integrations; and is introducing new IBM Consulting capabilities with NVIDIA to help drive AI innovation across the enterprise.
JetStor Announces JetStor Signature
As distributed storage becomes the backbone of modern infrastructure, enterprises need hardware designed to work in harmony with their software stack. JetStor Signature was created to provide bespoke, high-performance storage solutions that eliminate the inefficiencies of trying to retrofit traditional enterprise storage into cutting-edge architectures.
KnowBe4 Says Education Institutions Prime for Cyberattacks
Both oth primary and higher education institutions heavily rely on third-party vendors for software-as-a-service, cloud storage, and IT services. This creates a risk, as vulnerabilities or breaches within third-party systems could later affect all institutions using these services, which often goes on undetected.
LogicMonitor Uses AI to Enhance Data Center Transformations
Enhancing performance, reliability, and cost efficiency, this release empowers IT teams with full visibility into AI workloads and applications, and introduces upgrades to LogicMonitor’s flagship GenAI Agent, Edwin AI.
MinIO Announces NVIDIA-Powered AlStor
NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) initially required InfiniBand, which necessitates specialized hardware. NVIDIA has extended the benefits of GDS and InfiniBand to Ethernet networks. This innovation provides flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency, making it an ideal solution for accelerated AI adoption at scale for Enterprises.
NetApp is Set to Use the NVIDIA Data Platform Reference Design
By adopting an Intelligent Data Infrastructure framework, businesses will be able to operate under a unified vision that integrates metadata cataloging, automation, and hybrid cloud capabilities to eliminate siloes and deliver actionable insights at every stage of the AI pipeline.
NVIDIA Announces the AI Data Platform
Using the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, NVIDIA-Certified Storage providers can build infrastructure to speed AI reasoning workloads with specialized AI query agents. These agents help businesses generate insights from data in near real time, using NVIDIA AI Enterprise software — including NVIDIA NIM microservices for the new NVIDIA Llama Nemotron models with reasoning capabilities — as well as the new NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint.
Pure Storage Integrates NVIDIA into FlashBlade Platform
This announcement follows the launch of Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//EXA, the industry’s highest performing data storage platform engineered for the most demanding requirements of AI and high-performance computing.
Quobyte Expands ARM Support for Mixed-Architecture Storage Clusters
It will deliver the same high performance as Quobyte’s x86 offering as well as a complete set of features including RDMA support. Quobyte’s ARM packages support Rocky Linux 9 and Ubuntu 24.04. This will make Quobyte clusters even more scalable for AI applications. Moreover, they can be added with running clusters for a completely non-disruptive operation.
Supermicro Announces Optimized Storage Server for High-Performance
This first-of-its-class storage server from a major Tier 1 provider utilizes Supermicro’s system design expertise to create a high-density storage server for software-defined workloads found in AI and ML training and inferencing, analytics and enterprise storage workloads.
VAST Data Announces New InsightEngine with NVIDIA DGX
It converges instant automated data ingestion, exabyte-scale vector search, event-driven orchestration, and GPU-optimized inferencing into a single system with unified global enterprise-grade security – enabling businesses to efficiently accelerate AI adoption and time-to-value by unlocking AI-driven insights.
WEKA Integrates with NVIDIA AI Data Platform Reference Design
WEKA also unveiled its new Augmented Memory Grid capability, which integrates WEKA Data Platform software with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and enterprise software to accelerate AI inference, maximize the number of tokens processed per second, and dramatically increase token efficiency.
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Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for Exclusive Show on Reducing AI Response Times with Infinidat AI RAG Workflow Architecture on March 25
Hear from industry experts Eric Herzog, Bill Basinas, and Wei Wang. Learn how Infinidat’s enterprise-class storage makes specialized storage systems unnecessary for AI RAG deployments. Product demo included!
Insight Jam Panel Highlights: Does AI Fundamentally Change Data Architecture?
Our data architecture experts discuss how AI is fundamentally transforming enterprise data systems. The panel explores why organizations need to bring AI operations closer to data, the growing importance of semantic layers, and the rise of graph-based approaches. They address challenges in metadata management, data fragmentation, and the need for shared language across organizational silos. Essential viewing for data professionals planning AI-ready architectures.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.
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