Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of May 9; Updates from Concentric AI, Infinidat, StorMagic & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of May 9, 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 May 9, 2025

Barracuda Drops New Multimodal AI-Powered Threat Detection Tools

Barracuda now uniquely delivers adaptive, context-aware protection against emerging attacks with unprecedented accuracy and speed by simultaneously correlating and analyzing diverse text and visual data types – including URLs, documents, images, QR codes, and more.

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Cohesity Announces New Cyber Resilience Capabilities at Nutanix .NEXT

By combining Cohesity DataProtect with NDB’s native time machine capabilities, customers now have seamless protection from everyday application and user-related errors and disasters like a complete site failure or malicious attack.

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Cyware Unveils New Threat Intelligence Tools for SLTT Governments

Cyware empowers SLTT cybersecurity teams with unified threat intelligence management, sharing capabilities, and hyper-orchestration and automation – enabling them to transform fragmented data into coordinated action and deliver collective defense for critical government services and communities.

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HighPoint Announces New PCIe Gen5 x16 M.2 Storage Acceleration Offering

The Rocket 1604A is a compact half-length NVMe Switch AIC that leverages a revolutionary PCIe Gen5 Switch Architecture. This cutting-edge technology, combined with four independent M.2 ports, enables the Rocket 1604A to directly host up to 32TB of storage or four M.2 accelerators. This makes it an ideal solution for high-demand AI, machine learning, and data-acquisition applications hosted by compact industrial and edge computing environments.

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Nutanix Launches Latest Version of Enterprise AI Platform

NAI is designed to accelerate the adoption of generative AI in the enterprise by simplifying how customers build, run, and securely manage models and inferencing services at the edge, in the data center, and in public clouds on any Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-certified Kubernetes environment.

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Outpost24 Intros New Social Media and Data Leakage Tools to EASM Platform

Combined with the Leaked Credentials and Dark Web modules, Social Media and Data Leakage empowers the Outpost24 EASM Platform with automated threat intelligence data. This level of monitoring enhances customers’ insights into their attack surface and lets them react to external threats quickly. Let’s walk through how each of the new modules work.

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Protect AI Releases New GPT-4.1 Vulnerability Assessment

OpenAI states that they focused on real-world capabilities by making the models more useful for developers while keeping costs low. Models in this series appear to outperform GPT‑4o and GPT‑4o Mini in multiple evaluations, while also reducing latency and cost.

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New Skiilify Survey Finds: AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might

As the first in an ongoing quarterly series of studies from Skiilify, the initial study finds that nearly all (94 percent) of technology leaders felt that resilience and other critical soft skills are required for the future, but many fail to get the proper training required. With AI, automation, and globalization reshaping the workforce, soft skills have emerged as the key differentiator for career advancement and organizational agility.

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StorMagic Launches New Global Chanel Partner Program

Built for value-added resellers (VARs), distributors, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators (SIs), agents and technical alliance partners, the enhanced program offers expanded benefits, sales tools and flexibility to meet customers’ needs today – especially as they seek alternatives to the Broadcom/VMware lock-in.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Radware for Exclusive Show on API Security in an AI-Driven World on April 29

Join us on Tuesday April 29th for an exclusive Solution Spotlight Event: API Security in an AI-Driven World: Stopping Business Logic Attacks. Hear from industry expert: Jeremie Ohavon Senior Product Manager at Radware. Live product demo and Q&A included!

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Solutions Review Set to Host Concentric AI for Exclusive Show on Data Security Readiness and ROI on May 14

Hear from industry Concentric AI’s Karthik Krishnan, 451 Research’s Justin Lam, and Southern Nevada Health’s Jason Frame to learn how to strengthen your own organization’s data security initiatives for improved resilience and increased ROI.

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