Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of October 9; Updates from Commvault, Object First, Scality & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of October 9, 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 9, 2026

Commvault Appoints Former Alteryx Customer Chief To Lead Global Customer Engineering

Commvault has appointed Matthew Stauble as chief customer officer, bringing together sales engineering, customer success, professional services, and support under his leadership across the full customer lifecycle. Stauble joins from Alteryx and previously led global customer services at Palo Alto Networks, adding experience in scaling enterprise software and cybersecurity customer organizations as Commvault pursues growing demand for AI resilience and cyber recovery.

Read on for more→ Commvault Appoints Matthew Stauble as Chief Customer Officer

Core6 And Armis Extend Cyber Exposure Monitoring To Storage And Backup Systems

Core6 has announced a partnership with Armis from ServiceNow to integrate its StorageGuard platform and extend continuous cyber-exposure monitoring to storage and backup infrastructure. The collaboration brings these systems into a broader security visibility framework, helping organizations address risks in the infrastructure that holds enterprise data and supports recovery after an attack.

Read on for more→ Core6 Announces Partnership With Armis From ServiceNow

HPE Introduces AMD-Powered Gen13 Servers With Greater AI Capacity And Automated Security

HPE has announced four ProLiant Gen13 systems powered by sixth-generation AMD EPYC processors, expanding compute density, memory bandwidth, and I/O for AI inference, analytics, virtualization, and HPC. The portfolio includes a GPU-oriented system supporting up to eight double-wide accelerators, a 1U server with up to 256 CPU cores, and two OCP-compliant high-density designs, alongside iLO 8 protections such as automatic drive encryption, two-person authorization, and expanded post-quantum readiness; availability begins later in 2026 and extends into 2027.

Read on for more→ HPE Accelerates Enterprise AI Innovation With Next-Generation AMD CPU-Powered Servers

Imply Positions Lumi As A Shared Data Foundation For AI-Driven Security Investigations

Imply has expanded its SIEM strategy around Lumi, a shared data layer that gives existing security tools and AI agents access to security data wherever it resides without first moving everything into a SIEM. By separating low-cost object storage from compute, the architecture is designed to help security teams retain more data and scale analytical resources on demand while preserving their current investigation tools and workflows.

Read on for more→ Imply Brings Modern Data Architecture to SIEM as AI Expands Security Data Demands

Nasuni Connects AI Agents And Enterprise Search To Live, Permission-Aware File Data

Nasuni has made AI Activate and Resilio 6.0 generally available, bringing governed MCP-based AI access and high-speed edge delivery to its operational file-data platform, with permission-aware Enterprise Search rolling out later this quarter. Combined with DryvIQ’s content classification and automated governance, the capabilities let people and agents work from current files in a single global namespace without creating a separate AI copy or rebuilding permissions; Nasuni says Resilio 6.0 can deliver file data at up to 200 Gbps on commodity hardware.

Read on for more→ Nasuni Delivers First-of-its-Kind Operational File Data Platform for the AI Era With the Additions of AI Activate, Enterprise Search, Resilio 6.0, and DryvIQ

New Relic Unifies Cloud Discovery, Dependencies, And Configuration Changes For Faster Incident Response

New Relic has introduced Infrastructure 360, giving platform engineering and operations teams a unified view of cloud resources, monitoring gaps, application dependencies, and configuration changes. The solution agentlessly discovers AWS and Azure resources, tracks property-level changes across cloud services and Kubernetes, and maps application-to-infrastructure relationships to accelerate troubleshooting and supply richer context to New Relic Autopilot’s SRE agents; public preview begins October 13.

Read on for more→ New Relic Unveils Infrastructure 360 to Provide Platform Engineers End-to-End Infrastructure Visibility to Power Reliable AI Workloads

OneTrust Connects AI Governance, Policy Controls, And Risk Oversight In A Unified Platform

OneTrust has unveiled platform innovations that combine CORIE, its AI Control Plane, and a Governance Command Center to help organizations manage privacy, consent, risk, data, and AI through shared intelligence and connected workflows. The platform is designed to move governance beyond periodic assessments toward continuous monitoring and enforceable controls, giving teams a coordinated way to put AI into production while retaining human oversight and managing enterprise risk.

Read on for more→ OneTrust Unveils Platform Innovations to Govern AI at Enterprise Scale

QuerySurge Links Data Mapping Documents To AI-Generated Tests And Validation Lineage

QuerySurge 15 is now available with Mapping Studio and Validation Lineage, connecting data-mapping documentation directly to automated validation tests and an interactive dependency graph. Teams can import Excel and CSV mappings, generate linked tests with QuerySurge AI, and identify coverage gaps or assess the impact of transformation changes; the release also adds native JSON and Parquet validation, Power BI paginated report testing, and IBM watsonx support as an AI endpoint.

Read on for more→ QuerySurge 15 Delivers Unified Environment for Data Mapping, Lineage, and Automated Validation

Riskonnect Finds AI Policies Are Outpacing Employee Training And Agent Risk Assessments

Riskonnect’s survey of more than 250 risk, compliance, and resilience professionals found that 72% of organizations have policies governing employee AI use, but only 46% have trained employees to evaluate which AI outputs to trust or challenge. Just 18% have briefed the entire company on agentic AI risks, and 58% of organizations considering agentic AI have not assessed those risks, exposing a gap between formal oversight and the practical skills needed to use AI responsibly.

Read on for more→ Less Than Half of Companies Have Trained Employees on How to Evaluate AI Outputs, New Riskonnect Research Finds

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: AI Ransomware Accelerates ─ Time to Hit the Breaks and Do More Than Just Backup by Infinidat’s Eric Herzog

Everything your enterprise does revolves around data, including those new AI workloads. If you don’t have cyber resilience across your AI workloads and the datasets that feed into those workloads, you are leaving yourself open to being deeply affected by a major cyber threat from cybercriminals, who will use AI-driven cyberattacks against you in a heartbeat.

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Editor’s Lens: Cybersecurity Vendors Claim They’re “AI-Native” by William Jepma

Open a dozen security product pages this quarter, and you will find the same two words stamped on nearly all of them: AI-native. It has become one of the default self-descriptions for everything from endpoint agents to identity platforms to the SOC tooling sitting above them. For a buyer working through a short list, the label is close to useless. After all, when every vendor claims the same ground, the claim stops carrying information.

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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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