Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of October 2; Updates from Commvault, Everpure, NetApp & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of October 2, 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 2, 2026
Auvik And Acronis Combine Network And Endpoint Management In One RMM Console
Auvik and Acronis have formed an OEM partnership that will natively embed Auvik’s network monitoring and management capabilities into Acronis RMM within Acronis Cyber Protect. Expected in January 2027, the integration will let MSPs and corporate IT teams manage network infrastructure, endpoints, and servers through a single platform, reducing tool sprawl while giving service providers a simpler way to add managed network services.
Read on for more→ Auvik Announces New Strategic Partnership with Acronis
Commvault Extends Endpoint Recovery To Agent Configurations And Local AI Context
Commvault is adding discovery, protection, and recovery for locally stored agent configurations and AI-generated work associated with Claude Cowork, Claude Code, and OpenClaw on managed Windows and macOS devices. The capability will help IT teams recover prompt libraries, custom instructions, AI-generated content, and tool-specific context after a laptop loss or disruption, while giving security teams a centralized view of supported AI tools installed across endpoints to identify potential shadow AI; discovery of the ChatGPT desktop app is available now, with broader support planned in coming months.
Read on for more→ Commvault Protects and Recovers Agent Configurations and AI Data that Employees Can’t Afford to Lose on Their Laptops
Everpure Adds Governed Data Discovery, Faster Inference, And Cost Controls For Production AI
Everpure has introduced new data-management capabilities aimed at moving enterprise AI beyond pilots, including Data Intelligence with native MCP support so agents can query live data catalogs and sensitivity classifications through natural language. The updates also add simplified deployment through Pure1, privacy-first file intelligence, FlashBlade PureKVA technology that pre-stages context into GPU memory for up to 20x faster time to first token, always-on DeepReduce compression, and a reference architecture for reducing dependence on external-model API tokens.
Read on for more→ Everpure Announces New Data Management Capabilities for Production AI at Scale
NetApp Adds European Sovereignty Controls To Its Keystone Storage Service
NetApp has introduced Keystone Sovereign, a planned storage-as-a-service offering for qualified European customers that adds regional controls for data residency, logs, backups, telemetry, support, escalation, and operational access. Initial pilots will launch in Germany and France, providing regulated organizations a cloud-like consumption model while keeping data and support operations within specified geographic and legal boundaries.
Read on for more→ NetApp Enhances Data Sovereignty Controls to Keystone
NetApp And Oracle Plan Managed ONTAP Storage Service For OCI AI And Enterprise Workloads
NetApp and Oracle plan to launch OCI NetApp Storage Service, a fully managed OCI-native offering that brings ONTAP data-management capabilities to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Expected to reach general availability within 12 months, the service will support migrations and operations for databases, enterprise applications, virtualized environments, EDA and HPC workloads, regulated applications, and AI data pipelines while preserving familiar ONTAP APIs, workflows, protection, governance, and multiprotocol access.
Read on for more→ NetApp and Oracle to Launch Fully Managed Cloud Storage Service for Demanding AI and Enterprise Workloads
VDURA Ships Multi-Tenant Storage Platform For GPU Clouds And AI Factories
VDURA has made version 12 of its Data Platform generally available for V5000 systems, delivering a software-defined storage service that scales from eight to 100,000 GPUs on a shared flash-and-HDD data plane. The release adds tenant-specific quality of service, namespaces, encryption keys, VLAN isolation, API-first provisioning, persistent KV-cache storage, context-aware tiering, RDMA data paths, unified file and S3 access, accelerated metadata, and proactive Sentinel support for neocloud, AI-factory, and HPC deployments.
Read on for more→ VDURA Gallops Into GPU-Using Neocloud and Enterprise Market
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.
Thought Leaders: Masterclass 101: How to Calculate the Value of Enterprise Storage by Lenovo Infinidat’s Eric Herzog
Consider an enterprise storage buyer who is evaluating two different enterprise storage systems from two different vendors. One system has a payback of 3.4 years before it pays for itself, while the other system has a payback of under 9 months – yes, months, not years. Which one demonstrates better business value? The answer is clear. For payback, you calculate the amount of time it takes for cumulative savings to offset the amount of money you spent on the purchase of the system.
Contributor Series: The Microsoft 365 Migration Deadline MSPs Can’t Afford to Put Off by BitTitan’s Stacey Farrar
Microsoft’s retirement of Exchange Web Services in Exchange Online is approaching, with the first phase beginning in October 2026 and full retirement scheduled for April 2027. For managed service providers (MSPs), the larger issue is whether the tools, workflows and application dependencies supporting their Microsoft 365 migrations will continue to function as the platform changes.
Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for Exclusive Spotlight Show “Maximizing Value in a Volatile Storage Market” on October 7
Learn how to turn these disruptions into opportunities for innovation and efficiency with Infinidat’s intelligent, hybrid storage solutions. In this webinar, you’ll discover how to navigate the surge in flash and DRAM pricing, build powerful solutions leveraging extreme-performance flash and high-performance hybrid intelligent storage platforms that provide “the right tool for the right job,” and consolidate workloads and eliminate storage sprawl to reclaim valuable data center space.
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.
NEW Episode of The Cyber Circuit with Mike Morgenstern Featuring TPO Group’s Munish Walther-Puri
Munish Walther-Puri, Head of Critical Digital Infrastructure at TPO Group, joins Michael Morgenstern to explore how deepfakes are evolving from consumer nuisances into sophisticated enterprise and infrastructure threats. The conversation covers why our multi-factor authentication model is fundamentally breaking down, how deepfake campaigns are targeting critical infrastructure approval workflows, and what security leaders should actually be doing in the next 30 days to protect their organizations.
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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.
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.
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?”
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.
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.
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.
Sign up now to get a weekly debrief of the latest human-centric news, insights, and commentary coming out of this emerging discussion.
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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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor covering the human impact of AI on the future of work and learning. He is also the Media Strategist behind Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube) events and programming. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in multiple categories, Tim is a recognized thought leader in enterprise tech and AI.
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