Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 11; Updates from Commvault, Infinidat, Object First & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of September 11, 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 September 11, 2026

Backblaze And WEKA Partner To Simplify High-Performance Data Management For AI Workloads

Backblaze and WEKA have partnered to combine WEKA’s high-performance data platform with Backblaze B2 object storage, giving organizations a more streamlined way to manage data across AI, analytics, and cloud environments. The integration is designed to pair fast access to active data with lower-cost, scalable object storage for long-term retention and broader data-lifecycle management.

Read on for more→ Backblaze and WEKA Simplify Data Management for AI Workloads

Commvault Prepares Clean Active Directory Failover To Reduce Identity Recovery Time

Commvault has introduced Active Directory Pre Recover, which continuously creates and scans a clean standby copy of Active Directory in an isolated, air-gapped Commvault Cleanroom environment. Rather than waiting for a full forest recovery after a cyberattack or disruption, organizations can fail over to the verified copy in minutes; the capability will enter early access in the coming months and be included for existing enterprise Active Directory customers.

Read on for more→ Commvault Introduces Active Directory Pre Recover

HP Extends Its Enterprise AI Architecture From Data Centers To Edge Environments

HP has expanded its AI infrastructure strategy beyond centralized data centers, bringing enterprise AI capabilities closer to where operational data is generated and used. The approach is designed to support lower-latency AI applications, distributed inference, and more controlled deployment of AI workloads across branch, industrial, and edge environments while retaining centralized management and security.

Read on for more→ HP Extends Data Center AI Architecture to the Edge

Pinecone Makes Full-Text Search Generally Available For Hybrid AI Retrieval

Pinecone has made full-text search generally available in Pinecone Database, expanding its retrieval platform beyond vector search to support hybrid queries that combine semantic similarity with exact keyword matching. The capability gives developers another way to improve retrieval quality for enterprise AI applications where users need both conceptual relevance and precision for product names, codes, technical terms, and other exact-match language.

Read on for more→ Pinecone Newsroom

Quantum Automates Data Placement To Cut Storage Costs And Improve AI Readiness

Quantum has introduced Autonomous Data Management, a platform that analyzes enterprise data to identify inactive, duplicate, outdated, orphaned, and risk-sensitive content, then applies policy-driven automation to optimize placement and management across storage environments. The offering is designed to reclaim primary capacity, reduce storage and backup spending, lower exposure to sensitive data, and improve governance and availability as organizations retain growing data volumes for AI, analytics, and compliance.

Read on for more→ Quantum Introduces Autonomous Data Management, Dramatically Reducing Storage Costs While Increasing Efficiency and Availability

RavenDB Adds AI Context Layer To Existing SQL Databases Without Data Migration

RavenDB has launched Quill, a context layer that connects AI agents to existing PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL environments without moving the system of record or requiring enterprises to build a bespoke AI stack. The offering is designed to let organizations deploy production agents against live SQL data in weeks while preserving cloud or on-premises deployment options for data residency and regulatory requirements.markets.

Read on for more→ RavenDB Launches Quill to Bring Production AI Agents to Enterprise SQL Systems, No Migration Required

Rubrik Adds Iceberg-Aware Backup And Recovery For AWS Lakehouse Data

Rubrik has launched Apache Iceberg Protection for AWS, backing up both Iceberg table data and the metadata required to recover complete, immediately queryable tables after deletion, corruption, ransomware, or an erroneous AI-driven operation. The offering supports tables in AWS Glue Data Catalog and Amazon S3 Tables, enables immutable backups in a customer’s own AWS account or Rubrik Cloud Vault, and uses forever-incremental protection to control backup windows at petabyte scale.

Read on for more→ Rubrik Launches Lakehouse Protection with Apache Iceberg Data on AWS

Wasabi Forms Dedicated AI Storage Business To Target Labs, Startups, And Neoclouds

Wasabi Technologies has created a dedicated Silicon Valley-based AI business and appointed semiconductor and storage executive Pinaki Mukherjee as senior vice president and general manager to lead it. Wasabi says it already stores hundreds of petabytes of AI data and will focus its strategy, partnerships, and go-to-market efforts on independent object storage for training and inference workloads, emphasizing predictable pricing without egress or API fees as customers move data among GPU compute environments.

Read on for more→ Wasabi Establishes AI Business in Silicon Valley, Taps Pinaki Mukherjee to Lead as Senior Vice President & General Manager

Western Digital And IDC Say AI Is Extending Data Retention And Increasing Storage Demand

Western Digital and IDC highlight how AI adoption is increasing both the volume of enterprise data that organizations need to retain and the duration for which it must remain accessible. As enterprises preserve more training, operational, compliance, and analytical data, the findings point to growing demand for scalable, cost-efficient storage architectures that can support AI workloads without compromising data availability or governance.

Read on for more→ Western Digital and IDC Examine How AI Is Reshaping Data Retention and Storage Demand

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 Illumio for Exclusive Spotlight Show “AI-Era Network Posture” on August 25

In their presentation, Sarah Hyatt and Jake Reinders—two XBOW experts—will showcase how to test a web application, follow attack paths, adapt when an approach fails, and validate a working exploit with supporting evidence. They’ll also demonstrate how the Public API brings assessments and results into existing security workflows.

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Solutions Review Set to Host XBOW for Exclusive Spotlight Show “Drowning in Findings” on August 27

In their presentation, Sarah Hyatt and Jake Reinders—two XBOW experts—will showcase how to test a web application, follow attack paths, adapt when an approach fails, and validate a working exploit with supporting evidence. They’ll also demonstrate how the Public API brings assessments and results into existing security workflows.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for Exclusive Spotlight Show “Prepare for AI-Powered Cyberattacks” on September 2

Join enterprise cyber storage leader Infinidat as we discuss how IT teams can proactively combat agentic AI and other cyber threats, ensuring their organizations are prepared to recover quickly when the inevitable attack strikes. You’ll discover how to easily build and manage cyber-resilient enterprise storage environments, reduce the threat window by automating cyber protection across your data center, and identify compromised data using advanced AI-based cyber detection.

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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.

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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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