Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of March 27; Updates from Commvault, NetApp, Nasuni & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of March 27, 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 March 27, 2026

AskBigID GPT Makes BigID’s Security And Governance Stack Conversational

BigID has launched AskBigID GPT, a natural-language interface that gives security and data users direct access to DSPM, DAG, DAM, DLP, and AI features from inside BigID and via GPT-style interfaces. The product exposes a client API and MCP layer, letting authorized copilots and agents query inventory, access history, reports, and policy findings without requiring SQL or portal expertise. BigID is positioning the feature as a way to make data-security operations more usable while preserving role-based access controls and data-context awareness.

Read on for more→ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bigid-launches-askbigid-gpt-security-ai-simplified-302722238.html

Barracuda Expands Its Partner Program Around Platform Consolidation And MSP Growth

Barracuda has updated its cybersecurity platform and partner program to better support MSPs, resellers, and hybrid partners as they package more of the security stack under BarracudaONE. The company is adding new benefits, incentives, and tools aimed at accelerating partner growth while simplifying how partners sell, deploy, and manage security services. The message is less about a single product release and more about making Barracuda a broader platform business for channel-led security consumption.​

Read on for more→ https://www.barracuda.com/company/news/2026/barracuda-advances-cybersecurity-platform-partner-program

Commvault and NetApp Expand Closed-Loop Cyber Recovery Across Hybrid Clouds

NetApp and Commvault are extending their partnership to deliver a unified resilience and recovery workflow for enterprise data protection. The solution combines NetApp storage with Commvault’s cyber recovery capabilities so customers can detect threats, isolate clean copies, and restore data faster across on-prem and cloud environments. NetApp frames the offering as part of its broader push to make cyber resilience a native layer of the intelligent data infrastructure stack.​

Read on for more→ https://www.netapp.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-rel-20260324-247976.html

Dataminr Reframes Cyber Defense Around Real-Time Signal Fusion

Dataminr says its cyber-defense platform now blends external signals, internal telemetry, and AI to create client-tailored intelligence for security teams. The company is positioning the system as an autonomous threat and exposure management layer that can prioritize what matters and accelerate response without forcing analysts to stitch together multiple tools. The emphasis is on predictive, continuously updated intelligence rather than post-alert investigation alone.

Read on for more→ https://www.dataminr.com/press/announcement/dataminr-redefines-cyber-defense/

Dell Extends Cyber Resilience Into AI Data Platforms And Quantum-Ready Devices

Dell Technologies has expanded cybersecurity and resilience capabilities aimed at both AI-era threats and emerging quantum risks. The update adds quantum-ready protections to commercial PCs, AI-powered cyber-resilience tools to spot ransomware earlier and recover faster, and threat detection that extends into AI data platforms. Dell is emphasizing a layered defense model from endpoint to data center, with the goal of closing the visibility gaps attackers exploit in AI-heavy environments.

Read on for more→ https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/corporate/newsroom/announcements/detailpage.press-releases~usa~2026~03~dell-technologies-expands-cybersecurity-and-resilience-for-the-ai-era-and-emerging-quantum-risks.htm#/filter-on/Country:en-us

Nasuni And OCI Modernize File Management With Cloud-Native Scale And Familiar NAS Semantics

Nasuni has partnered with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to combine its File Data Platform with OCI’s object storage and cloud services. The integration is aimed at enterprises modernizing NAS and file-server estates, giving them cloud scale and durability without abandoning the familiar file experience users expect. Nasuni says the result is lower cost, lower risk, and a future-ready foundation for unstructured data across multicloud environments.

Read on for more→ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nasuni-partners-with-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-to-modernize-enterprise-file-management-302715584.html

NetApp And Elastio Add A Recovery Layer To Close The Gap Between Production And Backup Security

NetApp and Elastio have announced a layered cyber-resilience partnership that extends protection from production storage into recovery data. The integrated solution is designed to detect ransomware that has already slipped past prevention tools, including threats hidden in snapshots and backups, so teams can validate restore points before recovery. NetApp is positioning the alliance as a way to make data “always available, immutable, and recoverable” across hybrid environments.

Read on for more→ https://www.netapp.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-rel-20260324-609577/?nocache=1

Komprise Flash Stretch Maps NAS Data To Lower-Cost Tiers And Tries To Reclaim Flash Capacity

Komprise has launched Flash Stretch, an assessment service that analyzes NAS environments and estimates how much primary flash capacity can be freed by moving colder data to cloud or object tiers. The service is designed to show savings without the usual rehydration penalty associated with storage-vendor tiering, and Komprise says many environments could recover more than 70% of primary capacity depending on usage patterns. It also models downstream backup savings, making the pitch about both capacity relief and cost reduction across the file-data lifecycle.

Read on for more→ https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-management/2026/03/26/komprises-flash-stretch-tiers-nas-to-cloud-for-flash-capacity-savings/5211648

Proofpoint Reworks Email And Data Security For The Agentic Workspace

Proofpoint is unifying secure email gateway and API-based email protection into a single architecture while adding AI-driven data access governance for humans and agents. The company says the new model gives security teams visibility into human, non-human, and AI-agent access to sensitive data, with automated remediation for risky access and broader DSPM coverage across hybrid and cloud environments. Proofpoint is framing the “agentic workspace” as the place where collaboration security and data security now meet.

Read on for more→ https://www.proofpoint.com/us/newsroom/press-releases/proofpoint-redefines-email-and-data-security-agentic-workspace

Quantum And Pink Elephant Deliver Sovereign Archive Services With Cold-Tier Economics

Quantum and Pink Elephant have partnered to deploy sovereign archive services in the Netherlands using ActiveScale Cold Storage with an integrated tape cold tier. The service is designed for long-term retention, regulatory compliance, and low-cost durability, with data spread across multiple data centers for resilience. Quantum says the tape-based cold tier sharply reduces power, footprint, and operational costs versus disk-only alternatives while preserving continuous availability.

Read on for more→ https://investors.quantum.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/253/quantum-and-pink-elephant-partner-to-deliver-sovereign

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