Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of May 8; Updates from LogicMonitor, Object First, Scality & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of May 8, 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 8, 2026

Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Targets “Production AI” With Secure, Cost-Optimized Infrastructure

Broadcom has released VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, positioning it as a secure, cost‑effective foundation for production AI workloads. The new release focuses on hardened infrastructure, improved lifecycle management, and cost controls so enterprises can run GPU‑accelerated AI on‑premises or in sovereign environments with consistent operations and security, rather than stitching together ad hoc clusters.

Read on for more→ Broadcom VCF 9.1 for production AI

Gigamon: AI Is Already Involved In 83% Of Breaches As Attackers Outpace Defenders’ Visibility

Gigamon’s 2026 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey finds AI is now involved in 83% of reported security breaches, letting attackers move faster and at greater scale than defenders can match. Despite increased spending on tools and governance, 65% of organizations suffered a breach in the last year—up 40% over three years—highlighting how adversaries’ use of AI is outpacing enterprises’ fragmented visibility across hybrid networks.

Read on for more→ Gigamon 2026 AI-and-breaches survey

Imply Lumi Enterprise Brings The “Observability Warehouse” Into Your Own AWS Account

Imply has introduced Lumi Enterprise, a bring‑your‑own‑cloud edition of its Lumi Observability Warehouse that runs entirely inside a customer’s AWS environment. Organizations with strict data sovereignty and security needs can now keep logs and observability data within their own VPCs while using Lumi’s high‑performance Apache Druid engine, MSK, EKS, and Aurora MySQL stack—managed via Terraform—to decouple expensive observability tools from storage and feed long‑term telemetry directly into analytics and AI without extra ETL.

Read on for more→ Imply Lumi Enterprise BYOC for observability

LogicGate Adds Edwin Ng As CISO While Deepening Its AI-First GRC Push

LogicGate has appointed Edwin Ng as Chief Information Security Officer, tasking him with leading global digital resilience and strengthening the security posture of the Risk Cloud platform. The move reinforces LogicGate’s positioning as an AI‑driven GRC control plane, pairing its recent CEO transition with an experienced security leader to oversee internal systems and give customers more confidence in the platform that’s increasingly used to govern enterprise AI risk.

Read on for more→ LogicGate names Edwin Ng CISO

Object First Fleet Manager Centralizes Operations For Distributed, Immutable Veeam Backup Clusters

Object First has made Fleet Manager generally available, a secure cloud service to manage distributed Ootbi backup storage for Veeam environments from a single console. Included at no extra cost for customers with active support, Fleet Manager provides zero‑trust remote access, unified monitoring across multiple clusters and tenants, and better visibility into capacity and security events—simplifying operations for enterprises and service providers running ransomware‑resilient backups at many sites.

Read on for more→ Object First Fleet Manager

Panzura Nexus Makes CloudFS Files First-Class Citizens For Microsoft 365 Copilot And Agents

Panzura Nexus now exposes CloudFS file content, metadata, and permissions to Microsoft 365 Copilot via a Microsoft Graph connector, so Copilot and future Copilot Studio agents can “see” and query Panzura data as if it lived natively in Microsoft 365. The event‑driven connector streams file and ACL changes in real time, preserving CloudFS security policies and eliminating the need for ETL pipelines while enabling conversational search and agentic reasoning across millions of enterprise files.

Read on for more→ Panzura Nexus for Copilot and agents

Proofpoint’s Prism Investigator Uses Agentic AI To Reconstruct Cross-Channel Events For Highly Regulated Orgs

Proofpoint has unveiled Prism Investigator, a source‑agnostic, agentic AI investigations platform in its Digital Communications Governance portfolio. Built for highly regulated and highly litigious organizations, Prism connects directly to M365 communications, archives, and business records, then uses Human Communications Agents to correlate messages, trade data, logs, and other signals into explainable, defensible narratives that slash investigation times from weeks to minutes while maintaining full audit trails of AI reasoning.

Read on for more→ Proofpoint Prism Investigator

Sysdig’s Headless Cloud Security Lets AI Coding Agents Drive CNAPP Workflows At Machine Speed

Sysdig has introduced Headless Cloud Security, described as the first cloud‑native application protection platform (CNAPP) built for the agentic AI era. Instead of a one‑size‑fits‑all UI, Sysdig exposes its runtime intelligence and full CNAPP stack directly to AI coding agents and existing tools, enabling hyper‑personalized, continuously learning security workflows where agents investigate issues, generate fixes, and coordinate responses in Slack, CI/CD, and cloud platforms—while Sysdig still monitors the agents themselves for risky behavior.

Read on for more→ Sysdig headless cloud security

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 OneTrust for the Spotlight event: AI Arms Race: The Survival and Reinvention of Privacy on May 12

Viewers will learn why AI introduces long-term ambiguity, not just complexity, and how privacy leaders must redesign their strategies and programs to handle probabilistic systems; see how risk is increasingly transferred from the technology provider to the enterprise; and review why accountability becomes a litmus test for the long-term viability of any privacy program or control.

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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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The Editors Lens: World Password Day Quotes from Industry Experts for 2026 by William Jepma

As part of this year’s World Password Day, we called for the industry’s best and brightest in Identity and Access Management and the broader cybersecurity market to share best practices, predictions for the future of passwords, and personal anecdotes. The experts featured represent some of the top influencers, consultants, and solution providers with experience in these marketplaces, and each projection has been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value. The list is organized alphabetically by company name.

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Mini Jam, Q1 2026 On-Demand: The Skills Reckoning on March 31

This program is designed not simply to comment on change, but to explore the structural redesign of education and workforce systems now required to keep pace with it. For leaders operating at the intersection of AI, education, upskilling, and L&D, the Q1 Mini Jam offers a clear view into the forces reshaping how capability is defined, developed, and deployed in the years ahead.

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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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How One Solutions Review Article Reshaped AI Answers Across an Entire Software Category

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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