Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of May 1; Updates from AvePoint, Druva, LogicMonitor & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of May 1, 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 May 1, 2026

AvePoint Adds Agent Guardrails And “Minimum Viable Company” Recovery To Its Confidence Platform

AvePoint is expanding its Confidence Platform with features that simultaneously harden AI agent governance and deepen multicloud ransomware resilience. New capabilities include a Rapid Recovery System that focuses restoration on “Minimum Viable Company” operations first, Express Recovery for fast Microsoft 365 restores, protection for Azure PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB, and stronger policy enforcement for AI agents—moving customers from mere visibility into agent and cloud activity to active, automated guardrails across tenants, workloads, and MSP‑managed environments.

Read on for more→ AvePoint agentic AI and resilience

Barracuda’s Saiga 2FA Phishing Kit Shows Boutique, Highly Configurable MFA Attacks Are On The Rise

Barracuda researchers are spotlighting Saiga 2FA, a sophisticated but low‑volume phishing kit targeting MFA‑protected accounts, which has ramped up activity since February 2026. Saiga 2FA uses modular, infrastructure‑driven design, hides behind “lorem ipsum” metadata to avoid detection, and supports runtime configuration for different brands and flows, underscoring the need for phishing‑resistant authentication (like FIDO2), careful URL verification, and layered defenses against session‑stealing attacks.

Read on for more→ Saiga 2FA threat spotlight

CSAI Foundation Moves To Issue CVEs For AI, Standardize Agent Trust, And Align With NIST, EU AI Act, ISO 42001

The CSAI Foundation (from the Cloud Security Alliance) has outlined new milestones for “securing the agentic control plane,” including becoming a CVE Numbering Authority so it can issue CVEs for AI and agentic systems, not just traditional software. A four‑phase rollout beginning June 2026 will align its Agentic Trust Framework and assurance programs with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act, and ISO/IEC 42001, creating shared foundations for identity, authorization, orchestration, and runtime behavior across autonomous AI ecosystems.

Read on for more→ CSAI Foundation milestones

Druva Brings Cloud-Native Backup And Cyber Resilience To Microsoft Power Platform, Starting With Power BI

Druva is extending its data security cloud to Microsoft Power Platform, starting with full backup and recovery for Power BI workspaces. The new support brings automated discovery, policy‑based backups, and granular restore of reports, datasets, semantic models, dashboards, dataflows, and apps—so organizations can protect the analytics and AI‑driven dashboards executives rely on, alongside existing Druva protections for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Dynamics 365, and Azure services.

Read on for more→ Druva support for Microsoft Power Platform

HPE’s New Ruggedized ProLiant Platforms Push AI And Mission-Critical Apps To The Harshest Edges

HPE is expanding its ProLiant edge portfolio with the new ProLiant Compute EL2000 chassis (supporting two Gen12 servers) and an enhanced ProLiant DL145 Gen11, all available with ruggedization kits for extreme environments. Designed for edge-native industries like energy, manufacturing, and defense, the systems support AI inferencing and mission-critical workloads in remote, high-heat, high-altitude, or otherwise harsh sites, with centralized management and compliance-ready security delivered through HPE iLO and Compute Ops Management.

Read on for more→ HPE ruggedized AI edge platforms

LogicGate Promotes Diego Panama To CEO As It Leans Harder Into AI-Driven GRC

LogicGate has named President and COO Diego Panama as its next Chief Executive Officer, effective July 2026, with co-founder Matt Kunkel moving into the Executive Chairman role. Panama, who previously helped scale Olo to $284 million in revenue and LiveRamp from under $20 million to over $500 million, will lead LogicGate’s next phase of growth as it positions its AI-first governance, risk, and compliance platform as a core control plane for enterprise AI and regulatory change.

Read on for more→ LogicGate CEO transition

LogicMonitor Leans Into “Autonomous IT”: AI That Sees, Reasons, And Acts Across Infra To UX

LogicMonitor is expanding its AI‑first observability platform to underpin what it calls the Autonomous IT era, where AI doesn’t just alert but also diagnoses and remediates issues under guardrails. By integrating Catchpoint’s end‑user and Internet visibility with infrastructure and app telemetry, LogicMonitor aims to “see, reason, and act”: correlate signals across the full stack, propose or execute playbooks, and help enterprises run complex hybrid environments with fewer blind spots and faster MTTR.

Read on for more→ LogicMonitor Autonomous IT

OCP’s Open Data Center Ecosystem For AI Links Racks, Power, And Grids Around Open Standards

The Open Compute Project Foundation is advancing its Open Data Center Ecosystem for AI initiative with newly approved contributions, projects, and alliances aimed at AI‑scale facilities. The effort spans open data center reference designs, energy and grid solutions, telemetry and management tools, and power‑estimation methodologies, and includes an AI Computing Continuum project plus collaborations with the Electric Power Research Institute and the IOWN Global Forum to ensure AI data centers can act as flexible grid resources rather than just massive new loads.

Read on for more→ OCP open data center ecosystem for AI

Qdrant Speeds Up Vector Indexing And Adds 3-Way Clusters And Audit Logs For Production AI Search

Vector database provider Qdrant is rolling out faster GPU‑accelerated indexing, three‑way clustering for instant failover, and comprehensive audit logging across Qdrant Cloud. Multi‑AZ clusters on the Premium tier now offer up to 99.95% uptime SLAs, while new audit trails track every query and change for compliance, giving enterprises performance, availability, and traceability for mission‑critical RAG and agent search workloads.

Read on for more→ Qdrant AI vector search update

Scality + Veeam Bundle A High-Availability Backup Appliance For Mid-Market Organizations

Scality has launched ARTESCA+ Veeam HA, a unified backup appliance that combines Veeam Data Platform v13 and the Veeam Software Appliance with Scality ARTESCA object storage in a multi‑node design. Aimed at mid‑size firms, the system removes single points of failure across backup software, metadata database, and storage, scales from 50 TB to 10 PB, and runs on standard x86 gear from vendors like Supermicro, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco, and Dell—bringing large‑enterprise‑grade cyber‑resilience to customers with smaller IT teams.

Read on for more→ Scality ARTESCA+ Veeam HA appliance

Team Cymru’s Pure Signal MCP Server Plugs Any Claude/Copilot-Style Agent Directly Into A Massive Threat-Intel “Data Ocean”

Team Cymru has launched the Pure Signal MCP Server, the first production‑grade Model Context Protocol server purpose‑built for threat intelligence. Any MCP‑compatible AI agent—including Claude, Microsoft Security Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and custom SOC assistants—can now connect directly to Pure Signal, the world’s largest context‑rich telemetry “data ocean,” so agents can enrich detections, trace adversary infrastructure, and generate investigations with live internet‑scale signals instead of static intel feeds.

Read on for more→ Pure Signal MCP Server

Trust3 AI (Privacera) And Dell Embed Unified Governance Into The Dell Data Lakehouse For AI Factories

Trust3 AI, formerly Privacera, is expanding its collaboration with Dell Technologies to integrate its unified agentic governance platform directly into Dell’s Data Lakehouse and AI Factory infrastructure. The joint solution adds automated sensitive‑data discovery, write‑once‑apply‑everywhere policy enforcement, dynamic masking and encryption, and detailed AI auditing across Dell ECS, ObjectScale, and PowerScale, aiming to close the “governance friction gap” so regulated industries can feed Gemini, Anthropic, and other AI models with clean, compliant data.

Read on for more→ Trust3 AI–Dell AI-ready lakehouse

Veeam Data Platform Wins 2026 SC Award For Best Business Continuity And Ransomware Recovery

Veeam Data Platform has been named the 2026 SC Award winner for Best Business Continuity, Disaster and Ransomware Recovery Solution at RSAC 2026. Judges highlighted its latest capabilities, including Recon Scanner 3.0 for real‑time threat visibility in backups and its broader AI‑powered resilience stack (Malware Threat Analysis Agent and Deep Data Analysis Agent) that helps organizations detect compromise, validate clean restore points, and recover critical data quickly during cyber incidents.

Read on for more→ Veeam latest press releases

Expert Insights

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The Editors Lens: AI Asset Management in Cybersecurity: Why Visibility is the New Perimeter by William Jepma

What has historically been called “asset management” in cybersecurity is largely a device-centric discipline. Endpoint management platforms, vulnerability scanners, and CMDBs were designed to track hardware and software on networks. That was already an incomplete model before the cloud era. After the cloud, it became clearly inadequate. With AI, it risks becoming unworkable.

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Contributor Series: Ransomware Demands More Than Backups by Badri Raghunathan

Ransomware’s gotten easier to launch and harder to contain. Even teams with solid controls can still end up with encrypted systems and reinfections upon recovery. That’s not a reason to give up on prevention. It’s a reason to stop treating backup and recovery as a compliance-driven insurance problem and start treating it as an operational capability. 

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Contributor Series: The Data Center Boom Could Become Tomorrow’s Ghost Town Problem by Jonathan Schaeffer

For the last couple of years, there has been a kind of industrial fever dream around AI infrastructure. Everywhere you look, the assumption is the same: build more, build bigger, build faster. More land. More power. More cooling. More concrete. More servers. More money. The logic seems obvious enough. AI models require enormous computing resources, so of course, the future belongs to massive data centers. Case closed.

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Contributor Series: How Flexible Load Management is Reshaping Energy Strategy for IT Leaders by Ramsey Chambers

According to OBM’s State of Flexible Load Management report, 64 percent of U.S. energy professionals claim that rising data center demand is changing how they manage flexible load and demand response, the ability to dynamically adjust power consumption based on grid conditions and market signals. This reflects a shift from long-range grid planning to real-time operational coordination, where flexibility is becoming embedded in day-to-day decision making.

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