Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of October 16; Updates from Commvault, IBM, Veeam & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of October 16, 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, education updates, and other noteworthy storage and data protection news items.

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Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of October 16, 2026

Astera Labs Designs Compute-Agnostic AI Racks Around PCIe Fabrics And Shared Memory

Astera Labs has introduced Orion, a modular rack-scale reference architecture that lets customers choose their CPUs and accelerators while pooling eight to 160 accelerators over a PCIe Gen 6 fabric. Six validated designs span rack, compute, fabric, and memory components, with CXL-attached memory targeting long-context inference’s KV-cache demands. Partner availability through Accton Technology and Hyve Solutions begins in Q1 2027; Futurum notes that rack-level performance and efficiency benchmarks remain unpublished, leaving Orion’s economic advantage to be demonstrated.

Read on for more→ Astera Labs Orion Reimagines the XPU Rack as a Compute-Agnostic Platform

Commvault Adds Threat Hunting And Sensitive-Data Discovery To Microsoft 365 Backups

Commvault has announced Threat Scan and Data Posture 360 for Microsoft 365, helping organizations locate sensitive information, uncover threats in protected Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams data, and identify clean recovery points. Teams can apply current threat intelligence to historical immutable backups to detect threats missed when the data was originally protected. Early-access previews are planned in the coming weeks, with general availability targeted for early 2027 as independently purchasable, paid add-ons to Commvault Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365.

Read on for more→ Commvault Brings Discover-to-Recover Resilience to Microsoft 365

LogicMonitor Centralizes Agent Inventory And Access Controls For Production IT Operations

LogicMonitor has introduced Agent Studio for Edwin AI, giving administrators a centralized interface to view agents, understand their roles, enable or disable them, and control access to approved Model Context Protocol tools. Futurum’s coverage highlights the distinction between an agent’s capabilities and its operational authority: investigating an incident and executing remediation require different permissions.

Read on for more→ LogicMonitor Makes Agent Governance a First-Class ITOps Discipline

IBM Storage Ceph Keeps Hot Metadata On Faster Media To Improve Cluster Performance

IBM has updated Storage Ceph with a BlueFS Spillover Cleaner that automatically promotes frequently accessed RocksDB metadata onto faster SSD or NVMe database devices while placing less-active data on lower-cost storage. The tiering manager aims to improve metadata access and deliver more consistent cluster performance and lower latency. Additional enhancements cover NVMe/TCP gateway administration, S3 object discovery and bulk management, dashboard-based virtual-host configuration, and CephFS subvolume quarantine following ransomware or malicious filesystem tampering.

Read on for more→ IBM Storage Ceph Accelerates Cluster Performance

VAST Data And DigitalOcean Unify Storage, Search, And Context For AI Agents

VAST Data and DigitalOcean have expanded their partnership to deploy the VAST AI Operating System within DigitalOcean’s AI-Native Cloud. The collaboration supports Agent Data Services, a managed layer where agents read enterprise context and write back what they learn, with documents, images, video, logs, and traces indexed as they arrive. A tenant-isolated catalog governs agent read and write permissions, while integrated storage, database, and vector-search capabilities reduce the need to assemble separate vector databases and ETL pipelines.

Read on for more→ VAST Data and DigitalOcean Expand Partnership to Give AI Agents Real-Time Context

Veeam Connects Microsoft 365 Agent Visibility, Data Governance, And Precision Recovery

Veeam has made Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 generally available as an add-on to Veeam Data Cloud, connecting production data and backup context through its DataAI Command Graph. Teams can discover AI agents, identify sensitive-data exposure and redundant content, and trace file-level changes to recover precisely what was affected. The service connects without data migration or re-architecture; Veeam also opened private previews for Veeam Data Platform and Okta, extending contextual visibility and recovery to infrastructure and identity systems.

Read on for more→ Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 Helps Customers Safely Use AI, Cut Storage Costs, and Recover With Precision

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.

Editor’s Lens: The Cybersecurity Landscape in 2026: AI Became the Foundation by William Jepma

That shift is the single most important thing to understand about the 2026 cybersecurity landscape, and it is easy to miss because it did not occur as a single event. No breach, product launch, or acquisition marked the line. The change was structural, and structural changes announce themselves slowly. By the time most organizations register that the floor has moved, they have usually been standing on it for a while.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Object First for Exclusive Spotlight Show “The Last Line of Defense: Data Resilience When Attackers Hold the Keys” on October 20

Join Anthony Cusimano, Chief Evangelist at Object First, as he looks at what happens after a breach. Using real-world examples and new research, Anthony will show how far a single attack can reach across an organization, what regulators and cyber insurers now expect from recovery, and the toll attacks take on the IT teams who have to respond.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Imply for Exclusive Spotlight Show “Federated Search Done Right: Build Security Data Lakes with Existing Tools” on October 21

See what federated search looks like when it’s done right: immediate access to security data across SIEMs and object storage, using the search languages and tools your teams already know. Learn how to extend retention and reduce costs without rehydrating data, defining schemas, or changing how your SOC operates. And, hear what our customers think.

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Contributor Series: The CISO’s AI Priority List: What Changes and What Doesn’t by Gigamon’s Grant Yacomeni

Recent developments are also showing how difficult that activity can be to control. This month, OpenAI disclosed that an internal research agent found a gap in its sandbox controls and reached an external chatbot despite restrictions on internet access. Anthropic separately reported malicious actors using agent swarms to divide and execute reconnaissance and post-exploitation tasks in parallel. For CISOs, these developments reinforce a challenge that is already taking shape.

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Mini Jam Q2, 2026: AI in Practice: How L&D Are Actually Changing Broadcasts June 25-26

AI is quickly moving from experimentation to operational reality across education, workforce development, and practitioner learning environments. What began as a conversation around tools has evolved into a much larger transformation involving skills, implementation strategies, institutional design, and the future structure of learning itself. All-in, Mini Jam Q2, 2026 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, engage with experts, and stay at the forefront of the conversation on the human impact of AI on education.

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Solutions Review Announces New EdTech Site on the Future of Work and Learning

The site will provide ongoing editorial, expert thought leadership, research-driven analysis on the state of EdTech, and awards programming through Mesh Awards to cover fully this transformation. Solutions Review EdTech will also house information gain from quarterly virtual events, expert panels, podcasts, and more from its sister brand Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube), the home for the human conversation.

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We Didn’t Build Solutions Review for AI, We Built it for Buyers by Tim King

A nuclear bomb has been exploded in not only digital marketing, but enterprise tech buying. Buyers increasingly discover information through AI search and their favorite GenAI bot, social media platforms like LinkedIn, and synthesized answers rather than lists of blue links. Visibility still matters, but the question is evolving from “Can you rank?” to “Can you be anchored as trusted a source?”

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Insight Jam’s Mesh Lab Episode 5 Now Available: Human-Centered Environments

The conversation shifts beyond standard pedagogy to address the existential crisis facing students and workers as AI disrupts traditional ideas of productivity and purpose. Panelists emphasize the urgent need to stop measuring final outputs and instead focus on the creative, collaborative process of learning. Ultimately, the group argues that to foster uniquely human skills like adaptability in students, educators must first be granted the autonomy to exercise those exact same skills.

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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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