Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of October 23; Updates from Apricorn, Everpure, Veeam & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of October 23, 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 23, 2026

Apricorn Survey Finds More U.S. Organizations Learn Of Breaches Through Outside Reporting

Apricorn’s research found that 49% of U.S. respondents became involved in breach reporting because another party reported the incident, up from 12% in 2025. Among U.S. respondents, 86% identified employees as their biggest cybersecurity threat, while third parties mishandling information ranked as the leading cited breach cause at 32%. Conducted by Censuswide among 200 U.S. and 200 U.K. IT security decision-makers, the survey highlights persistent visibility and control gaps despite widespread security policies and increased encryption deployment.

Read on for more→ Apricorn Research Finds Outside Reporting of Data Breaches Quadruples as U.S. Organizations Struggle With Visibility

Cisco And Fortanix Extend Verifiable Confidential AI To Kubernetes Workloads

Fortanix Confidential AI now supports CNCF Confidential Containers, adding attestation and controlled key release to Kubernetes workloads running inside hardware-based trusted execution environments. Within Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, the architecture verifies CPU, GPU, and software measurements before releasing decryption keys, protecting data and model weights while they are in use. Developers retain standard Kubernetes workflows, while security teams gain cryptographic evidence of runtime protections. Deployment options include SaaS, on-premises, and fully air-gapped environments for regulated and sovereign AI use cases.

Read on for more→ Cisco and Fortanix Help Make Confidential AI Verifiable From Data to Kubernetes

DDN And Nebul Reuse Model Context Across GPU Fleets To Accelerate Sovereign Inference

European AI cloud provider Nebul is using DDN Infinia to store and reuse inference KV cache across its NVIDIA-powered GPU fleet, reducing the need to recompute previously processed context. Vendor-reported testing showed nearly tenfold faster time to first token than Nebul’s CPU-and-memory cache, 2.5 times more input tokens per second from the same GPUs, and nearly 60% lower cost per million input tokens. Stored context retains tenant and dataset controls and can be restored when workloads move between GPU servers.

Read on for more→ DDN and Nebul Accelerate Sovereign AI Inference With DDN Infinia

Everpure Connects Governed Data Discovery With Faster Production AI Inference

Everpure has announced data-management capabilities that expose live enterprise catalogs through native MCP integration, helping agents locate relevant information and understand its sensitivity without custom API development. Privacy-first file intelligence identifies access exposure and stale shares without reading file contents, while PureKVA pre-stages context into GPU memory; Everpure claims up to 20 times faster time to first token. Originally announced September 30 with October availability planned, the updates also include an open-weight-model reference architecture designed to reduce reliance on external API tokens.

Read on for more→ Everpure Introduces New Data Management Capabilities to Support Production AI at Scale

Nutanix Expands AI Infrastructure Partnerships To Simplify Private Production Deployments

Nutanix has announced collaborations with NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Netris to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying production AI. Plans include Day Zero support for NVIDIA Vera CPUs with Nutanix Kubernetes Platform on bare metal, a jointly engineered Supermicro system for private inference, and Netris network automation for multitenant GPU infrastructure. The initiatives combine compute, storage, Kubernetes, security, and AI platform services, targeting enterprises and service providers that need predictable agent execution, tenant isolation, and simpler operations across virtualized and bare-metal environments.

Read on for more→ Nutanix Builds a Faster Foundation for Production AI

Proofpoint Agrees To Acquire Varonis In $6.3 Billion Data And AI Security Deal

Proofpoint has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Varonis in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6.3 billion, with shareholders receiving $49.75 per share. The companies plan to connect communications, identities, permissions, sensitive data, and AI activity in a unified security platform that helps organizations control access and prevent data loss. Following closing, Proofpoint intends to integrate capabilities and align go-to-market efforts, extending its human and agent cybersecurity business with Varonis’ data visibility, exposure reduction, and AI security technology.

Read on for more→ Proofpoint to Acquire Varonis in $6.3B Transaction

Veeam Connects Microsoft 365 Agent Activity With Data Governance And Precision Recovery

Veeam Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365 is now available as an add-on to Veeam Data Cloud, linking production data and backup context through its DataAI Command Graph. Teams can discover AI agents, identify sensitive-data exposure, quarantine redundant content, and trace unwanted changes down to individual files for targeted recovery. Available in Foundation and Advanced editions, the service is the first offering in a broader portfolio that includes private previews for Veeam Data Platform and Okta, with additional developer-platform and identity previews planned for Q4.

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.

Solutions Review Set to Host Kaseya for Exclusive Spotlight Show “Scale Fast, Stay Safe: The Playbook for the AI Era” on November 5

Johnny Ghibril, GM of Endpoint Solutions at Kaseya, shares a practical playbook for using AI without losing control. Learn why the RMM is the right place to start, how to progress from AI-assisted insights to verified remediation, and how to build in human approval points where they matter. See a live demo of a single-prompt ticket workflow, plus how the same approach extends to continuous compliance.

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Editor’s Lens: The Trends Reshaping the Cybersecurity Market Landscape in the Year Ahead by William Jepma

The trends shaping the year ahead are largely consequences of that transition—not new product categories, but pressures on how organizations evaluate, purchase, and operate cybersecurity technology. These are directional forecasts, not fixed timelines. The underlying changes are already taking shape, but adoption will vary across organizations and market segments. Where a prediction extends beyond those observable changes, that distinction matters.

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Mini Jam Q3, 2026 On-Demand: Education in the Age of Abundant Intelligence

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 Q3, 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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