Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 4; Updates from Cohesity, Infinidat, VDURA & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of September 4, 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, and other noteworthy storage and data protection news items.

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Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 4, 2026

Broadcom Combines Private AI, Agent Governance, And Traditional Workloads On VMware Cloud Foundation

Broadcom has introduced VMware Private AI Cloud, a VMware Cloud Foundation-based platform for operating AI inference, agentic applications, containers, and traditional enterprise workloads in the same private-cloud environment where data resides. The platform includes VMware AI Factory to automate infrastructure-to-model deployment, AgentMinder for agent discovery and governance, AI cost monitoring and model routing features, and support for more than 150 models—positioning private infrastructure as a controlled alternative for data-sensitive AI deployments.

Read on for more→ Broadcom Introduces VMware Private AI Cloud

Clumio Achieves FedRAMP Moderate Ready Status For Cloud-Native Cyber Resilience

Clumio, a Commvault company, has achieved FedRAMP Class C Moderate Ready status and is listed in the FedRAMP Marketplace as Legacy FedRAMP Ready, marking progress toward future Class C certification. The milestone gives federal agencies and regulated organizations greater procurement visibility for Clumio’s cloud-native, multi-cloud protection and cyber-resilience capabilities, complementing Commvault’s broader government-cloud portfolio.

Read on for more→ Clumio Achieves FedRAMP Class C (Moderate) Ready Milestone

Cohesity And HCLTech Add Managed Clean Room Services To VaultNXT Cyber Recovery

Cohesity has integrated its Clean Room solution and AI-powered data-security capabilities into HCLTech VaultNXT, creating a fully managed, isolated environment for cyberattack investigation, containment, validation, and recovery. The offering combines immutable recovery copies, policy-driven vaulting, governed access, automated workflows, and audit-ready processes to help customers support DORA, NIS2, and other resilience requirements while restoring trusted data more quickly after ransomware incidents.

Read on for more→ Cohesity Delivers New Managed Clean Room Capability to Enhance HCLTech VaultNXT

Compu Dynamics Modular Introduces Pre-Engineered Data Center Infrastructure For AI Growth

Compu Dynamics Modular has launched a scalable, modular infrastructure platform for next-generation AI data centers, designed to accelerate the rollout of high-density compute capacity while reducing the complexity of traditional construction. The offering packages prefabricated power, cooling, and supporting infrastructure into repeatable modules that can be deployed and expanded as GPU-driven AI workloads increase demand for energy-dense, resilient data center environments.

Read on for more→ Compu Dynamics Modular Launches Scalable AI Infrastructure Platform for Next-Generation Data Centers

Everpure Leads MLPerf Storage Results For Large-Model Checkpointing And KV Cache

Everpure says its FlashBlade//EXA platform ranked first across 405 billion- and 1.25 trillion-parameter model checkpointing and KV-cache categories in MLPerf Storage v3.0. In the 1.25 trillion-parameter checkpointing test using 1,024 simulated accelerators, the system delivered 877.52 GiB/s write throughput and 588.28 GiB/s read throughput with 30 data nodes; it also reported 85,736 tokens per second for an 8B Llama 3.1 storage-only KV-cache workload, illustrating the growing importance of scalable storage performance in AI training and inference pipelines.

Read on for more→ Everpure Leads MLPerf Storage Tests for Large-Model Checkpointing and KV Cache

NetApp Storage Becomes A Native Target For Agentic AWS Migration Workflows

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now supported by AWS Transform, allowing organizations to migrate compute, networking, attached block storage, and database workloads together into managed ONTAP storage on AWS. AWS Transform applies agentic AI to workload discovery, migration planning, and execution, eliminating the need for separate storage-migration tools or intermediate platforms and extending the service to existing ONTAP and non-NetApp on-premises block storage environments.

Read on for more→ NetApp Expands AWS Transform Support to Accelerate Enterprise Storage Migrations

Rubrik And CrowdStrike Automate Identity Attack Detection, Containment, And Recovery

Rubrik and CrowdStrike are integrating Rubrik Identity Resilience with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security and Charlotte Agentic SOAR to create closed-loop response workflows for identity-based attacks. CrowdStrike detects and contains malicious activity while Rubrik correlates identity and backup data, scans supporting HRIS and IGA records, and can reverse unauthorized Active Directory changes, remove malicious files, or trigger forest recovery—aiming to reduce recovery time from days to hours.

Read on for more→ Rubrik and CrowdStrike Bring Agentic Automation to Identity Attack Resilience

SIOS Finds HA And DR Spending Has Not Eliminated Application Downtime

SIOS’ 2026 State of Application Resilience survey of more than 250 IT leaders in North America and the UK found that 76% experienced at least one outage lasting more than 10 minutes during the past year despite having HA/DR technologies in place. Nearly 70% run critical workloads across hybrid infrastructure, but only 7% test disaster recovery monthly, while configuration and management complexity now ranks as the largest HA/DR challenge—underscoring the need for more application-aware, cross-platform resilience operations.

Read on for more→ SIOS Survey Reveals Enterprises Are Struggling to Keep Mission-Critical Applications Resilient Despite Widespread HA/DR Investments

VAST Data And CrowdStrike Join Storage Intelligence With AI Security Telemetry

VAST Data and CrowdStrike have integrated their platforms to bring CrowdStrike security telemetry and threat intelligence into VAST’s enterprise AI data infrastructure. The collaboration is intended to help organizations detect, investigate, and respond to threats across data pipelines and AI environments, providing greater visibility and protection for the high-value datasets that feed modern analytics and AI workloads.

Read on for more→ VAST Data and CrowdStrike Integrate Security Into Enterprise AI Infrastructure Data

VDURA Deploys Tiered High-Performance Storage For AI And HPC Research At New Mexico State

VDURA has placed its software-defined data platform into production at New Mexico State University, creating a shared storage environment for the institution’s AI and HPC research programs. The deployment presents NVMe flash and high-density HDD tiers through a single global namespace across NMSU’s InfiniBand fabric, allowing the university to scale performance and capacity independently as workloads grow across aerospace, cybersecurity, agriculture, water science, and biomedical research.

Read on for more→ VDURA Deploys High-Performance Storage Platform for AI and HPC at New Mexico State University

VMware Cloud Foundation Validates Major AI Models For Private-Cloud Inference

Broadcom has validated AI models from NVIDIA, Google, NEC, Alibaba Cloud, and Z.ai—including Nemotron 3, Gemma 4, cotomi, Qwen 3.7-Max, and GLM 5.2—for deployment on VMware Cloud Foundation. The private-cloud platform supports mixed AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA infrastructure and uses vLLM as its default runtime for more than 150 open-source models, providing enterprises a route to deploy model-as-a-service capabilities on premises for data sovereignty, governance, and AI-cost management.

Read on for more→ VMware Cloud Foundation Brings Leading AI Models to the Private AI Cloud

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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