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<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nSolutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of February 21, 2025.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review<\/em>, join Insight Jam<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.<\/p>\n Backblaze and Kandji’s solutions have already proven their value in Apple-focused IT environments. Companies like\u00a0Foojee, a managed IT provider specializing in Apple devices, rely on Kandji to deploy and manage those devices and Backblaze to protect their data.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n DDN has announced the Infinia 2.0 object store for AI training and inference, making big claims for up to 100x improvement in AI data acceleration and 10x gain in datacenter and cloud cost efficiency. Infinia is an object storage system designed from the ground up with a key-value-based foundation.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Of those surveyed, 97 percent said their company plans to either buy or build a GenAI solution to automate business processes or create new revenue streams. At the same time, 87 percent of security executives reported a breach in the past 12 months. Organizations must ultimately secure data across multiple owners, applications, environments, and geographies.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n JetProtect offers advanced coverage options, proactive maintenance, and strategic lifecycle management to help businesses mitigate downtime risk and streamline operational costs. By delivering priority support and regular health assessments, JetProtect ensures that JetStor systems deliver optimal performance throughout their extended service life.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n These additions align PAIG to the existing National Institute of Standards and Technology\u2019s (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework, offering a comprehensive, structured approach designed to improve trustworthiness in AI technologies while promoting innovation and mitigating risks.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Introduced in 2024, StorMagic SvHCI is a full-stack HCI software solution designed for the enterprise edge, ROBOs and SMBs. SvHCI combines the virtualized storage capabilities of SvSAN with a StorMagic hypervisor, virtualized networking and management components. SvHCI can be deployed on a single server, or on two servers to enable high availability and eliminate downtime.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Quest is redefining ITDR and disaster recovery standards by moving beyond detection and alerts, ensuring organizations can respond, disrupt, and recover faster than ever before. Security Guardian Shields Up <\/em>allows customers to temporarily freeze all changes to Tier 0 objects, disrupting attacks against Active Directory that involve lateral movement and persistence.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The system already supports real-time notification of data change events to\u00a0external Kafka clusters. Now, it has its own Kafka event broker, added to the DataEngine, to receive, store, and distribute such events.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n In a\u00a0survey announced last month<\/a>\u00a0co-developed by\u00a0Skillify<\/a>,\u00a0Solutions Review<\/em>, and\u00a0Insight Jam<\/em>, over 200 tech professionals, including senior leaders in areas like cybersecurity, information management, and data science, have underscored the escalating importance of soft skills during this AI moment.<\/p>\n Read on Insight Jam<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n In this month’s Jam Session, the panel discusses the growing trend of workload repatriation among enterprises. They’ll address questions like what factors are driving cloud repatriation, how do you decide what to repatriate, what does it take to repatriate an application or workload, and what can you do to avoid the cost and hassle of repatriation?<\/p>\n Watch free on Insight Jam<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n According to ESG research 81 percent of businesses agree immutable backup storage is the best defense against ransomware. However, not all backup storage solutions can deliver full immutability and enable the quick and complete recovery that is essential for ransomware resilience. With the next Solutions Spotlight event<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading Veeam storage provider Object First.<\/p>\n Register free on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading data security governance platform provider Concentric AI to provide viewers with a unique webinar called Modern Data Security Governance in the Generative AI Era<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Register free on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n Our expert panel discusses best practices for maintaining AI data system compliance amid evolving regulations. The experts explore automated compliance tools, data classification strategies, and the importance of comprehensive security measures while emphasizing that compliance requires both technical solutions and proper implementation.<\/p>\nTop Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of February 21, 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Backblaze Partners with Kandji<\/h4>\n
DDN Announces Infinia 2.0 Object Storage Platform<\/h4>\n
Fortanix Releases 2025 GenAI Data Security Report<\/h4>\n
JetStor Launches New JetProtect Offering<\/h4>\n
Privacera Updates its AI Governance Platform<\/h4>\n
StorMagic and Supermicro Announce Expanded Server Options<\/h4>\n
Quest Software Announces New Ransomware Recovery Features<\/h4>\n
VAST Data Adds Block Access to Existing File & Object Protocol Support<\/h4>\n
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