Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of May 15; Updates from NetApp, Red Hat, Scality & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of May 15, 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 15, 2026

Casepoint + Proofpoint Connect Communications Archiving Directly To Legal And Compliance Workflows

Casepoint and Proofpoint have formed a strategic partnership to close the gap between compliant communications archiving and downstream legal and regulatory response. Proofpoint will continue to capture, archive, and supervise communications data, while Casepoint provides eDiscovery, investigations, legal holds, and FOIA workflows in a single secure environment—streamlining preservations and collections from Proofpoint archives and reducing friction, handoffs, and risk during audits and litigation.

Read on for more→ Casepoint–Proofpoint strategic partnership

Celonis Buys MIT‑Linked Ikigai To Make Its Process “Context Model” A Real Decision Engine

Celonis has acquired MIT‑linked decision intelligence startup Ikigai Labs to bring advanced planning, simulation, and forecasting into its process mining‑driven context model, a real‑time digital twin of business operations. The deal gives Celonis exclusive rights to MIT‑owned patents previously licensed to Ikigai and folds in capabilities like time‑series modeling and causal inference, with the goal of eliminating AI “blind spots” in enterprise IT by pairing process visibility with richer decision intelligence.

Read on for more→ Celonis acquires Ikigai Labs

Cohesity And HPE Tighten Their Seven‑Year Alliance Around Cyber Resilience And Hybrid Cloud

Cohesity is significantly expanding its seven‑year strategic alliance with HPE to deliver stronger cyber resilience, data protection, and simplified hybrid‑cloud operations. The enhanced partnership adds new resell agreements, deeper technical integration with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and Enterprise Software, and joint go‑to‑market so customers can more easily deploy Cohesity’s AI‑powered data security and recovery across HPE’s private and hybrid cloud stack.

Read on for more→ Cohesity expands strategic alliance with HPE

Druva Brings SaaS‑Powered Cyber Resilience To Dell PowerProtect Data Domain

Druva has announced a new integration with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, letting enterprises pair fast local recovery from Data Domain with Druva’s cloud‑native, SaaS‑delivered cyber resilience. Organizations can now extend existing Data Domain environments with cloud‑scale data protection, centralized visibility, and flexible recovery paths—choosing to restore from on‑prem appliances or from Druva’s cloud to meet RTO and compliance requirements.

Read on for more→ Druva integrates with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain

HPE Wants One Private Cloud And One Data Platform To Feed Both Apps And AI

HPE is rolling out unified private cloud and data platform capabilities—spanning HPE GreenLake, Alletra Storage, and Ezmeral—to help enterprises modernize apps and get AI‑ready data without stitching together separate stacks. The updates add a richer unified data layer with native file and expanded scale‑out block storage plus agentic AI management, so organizations can manage, protect, and activate data consistently across on‑prem, colo, and public cloud environments.

Read on for more→ HPE delivers unified private clouds and data platforms

HYCU aiR Turns Backup Data Into An AI-Native Security, Compliance, And Risk Intelligence Layer

HYCU has launched HYCU aiR (AI Resilience), an AI‑native solution that lets organizations query and run agents against backup data across dozens of SaaS and cloud applications. aiR enables natural‑language search and purpose‑built agents to surface insider risk, sensitive data exposure, identity drift, and AI agent activity from backups—turning what was previously “cold storage” into a live intelligence layer for security, compliance, and IT teams with no extra configuration.

Read on for more→ HYCU aiR launch

Lonestar And NASA Ames Team Up To Turn The Moon Into The Ultimate Disaster-Recovery Site

Lonestar Data Holdings has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Ames Research Center to advance space-based supercomputing, data storage, and communications on and around the Moon. The collaboration focuses on developing “lunar-edge” data infrastructure and cislunar computing concepts so that, over time, critical government and enterprise data could live in sovereign, secure lunar data centers that provide an independently recoverable backup for Earth-based disasters.

Read on for more→ Lonestar–NASA Ames lunar edge data infrastructure agreement

MinIO Builds A Petabyte-Scale KV Cache So NVIDIA GPUs Don’t Choke On Context

MinIO has introduced MemKV, a petabyte-scale key-value caching system designed for NVIDIA GPU inference workloads and built to sit atop its AIStor object storage. MemKV extends the GPU KV cache hierarchy out of expensive HBM and host DRAM into SSDs managed on NVIDIA’s BlueField‑4 DPUs, using GPU‑native 2–16 MB block sizes and NVIDIA Spectrum‑X plus PCIe Gen6 to deliver near line‑rate throughput—essentially creating a vast, cheaper context memory tier that scales independently of the GPU cluster.

Read on for more→ MinIO adds petabyte-scale MemKV cache for NVIDIA GPU inference

Network Storage Advisors Maps The 2026 AI Storage Landscape Around NVIDIA DGX Reference Architectures

Network Storage Advisors has released its 70‑page 2026 Strategic Landscape for Enterprise AI Storage Systems, benchmarking AI storage offerings from DDN, Dell, Everpure, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, IBM, NetApp, VAST Data, and WEKA. The report includes dashboards comparing performance, capacity, power, and space characteristics across vendors and aligns those profiles to NVIDIA‑certified DGX BasePOD and SuperPOD configurations so buyers can right‑size storage for GPU‑dense AI clusters.

Read on for more→ 2026 Strategic Landscape for Enterprise AI Storage Systems

NTT DATA: Enterprise AI Has Hit The Wall Of Privacy, Sovereignty, And Jurisdiction

New NTT DATA research argues that enterprise AI is now constrained less by models and more by architectures built for centralized, borderless data flows that no longer match tightening privacy and sovereignty rules. The report finds a widening gap between organizations redesigning early for locality, control, and security—treating jurisdiction as a core design parameter—and those still layering AI onto legacy, globally integrated systems, with the former showing measurably better AI readiness and scalability.

Read on for more→ Enterprise AI hits the wall

Portworx By Everpure Makes Storage, Protection, And DR First-Class Citizens Inside Red Hat OpenShift

Portworx by Everpure is rolling out new capabilities that make data management feel native inside Red Hat OpenShift, letting teams manage storage, data protection, and disaster recovery directly from the OpenShift console. The Portworx Plugin 2.2 for OpenShift, Portworx Enterprise 3.6, and Portworx Backup 2.11 bring a single pane of glass for VMs and containers, plus a new Portworx for Edge option that delivers encrypted, compliant data management for tiny two‑to‑five node clusters running AI and other workloads at the edge.

Read on for more→ Portworx makes data management native to Red Hat OpenShift

NetApp Bakes More AI And Hybrid Cloud Automation Into Its Intelligent Data Infrastructure

NetApp is updating its Intelligent Data Infrastructure portfolio to address AI‑era data challenges, building on its AI Data Engine work with NVIDIA to better manage and govern unstructured data across complex hybrid environments. The latest release focuses on automating how data is stored, prepared, and served for AI workloads—especially GenAI, databases, and VMware—so enterprises can orchestrate data across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with more consistent security, performance, and cost controls.

Read on for more→ NetApp expands intelligent data infrastructure for cloud and AI

SANS Publishes An AI Security Maturity Model That Finally Treats Agentic AI As A First-Class Risk

The SANS Institute has released the SANS AI Security Maturity Model, a staged operational framework that maps AI security to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and OWASP while adding original guidance for agentic AI. Built on three pillars (Protect AI, Utilize AI, Govern AI) and five maturity stages, the model includes program and people indicators, metrics, a target‑setting guide, and evidence‑based scoring—emphasizing that a smaller organization at a well‑documented Stage 2 can be more secure than a larger one claiming Stage 3 without proof.

Read on for more→ SANS AI Security Maturity Model

Secludy Raises $4M To Turn Privacy-Safe Synthetic Data Into The Front Door For GenAI In Finance

Secludy has raised $4 million in seed funding to help banks, payments firms, and fintechs train and evaluate GenAI models on privacy‑guaranteed synthetic data instead of raw customer records. The platform runs inside a customer’s own cloud and uses differential privacy to generate synthetic datasets that preserve utility while complying with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, so teams can move vendor evaluations and internal AI projects from months of review to days without exposing sensitive financial data.

Read on for more→ Secludy raises $4M to safely unlock proprietary data for GenAI

Scality ADI Promises Autonomous, Open-Code Data Infrastructure For AI At Multi-Petabyte Scale

Scality has introduced Scality ADI (Autonomous Data Infrastructure), a sustainable, AI-era data platform that layers an AI-powered operations engine called Guardian on top of Scality’s object storage to deliver self‑optimizing storage at multi‑petabyte to exabyte scale. ADI unifies flash, disk, and other media under one namespace with policy-driven lifecycle management and exposes an MCP extensibility model so customers can plug in their own AI tools, while shipping as open‑code software with outcome‑based SLAs tailored to large enterprises, governments, and sovereign environments that demand inspectability and long-term resilience.

Read on for more→ Scality ADI: Autonomous data infrastructure for enterprise AI

Veeam Data Platform v13.1 Adds A DataAI Resilience Module To Tie Backup Closer To AI Trust

Veeam previewed Veeam Data Platform v13.1 alongside a new DataAI Resilience Module in the DataAI Command Platform, advancing its secure‑by‑design data resilience story. With more than 70 new features and enhancements, v13.1 plus the new module aim to simplify operations for large, distributed enterprises, support multi‑team and multi‑region compliance needs, and establish a unified data‑trust foundation that can grow with more intelligence, automation, and assessment‑driven improvements over time.

Read on for more→ Veeam previews new Veeam Data Platform release

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.

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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Solutions Review Editors Launch New ‘Human-AI Ledger’ Newsletter to Chronicle the Human Impact of AI

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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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