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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of March 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 Unlike other AI tools that merely assist analysts, Auquan’s AI agents independently execute workflows end-to-end, from data gathering through structured reporting, freeing professionals to focus on high-value work. 40 percent of top 50 global financial services firms trust Auquan’s AI agents to transform how their investment and credit teams work by eliminating manual effort.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia will help enterprises build and secure data centers to develop and run AI workloads, \u201cdramatically\u201d simplifying the process for these businesses, the two companies said. The new offering will \u201ctransform\u201d AI factories meticulously designed to power AI workloads, using co-optimized architecture from Cisco and Nvidia.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The partnership enables mutual customers to leverage high-quality backup data from Cohesity-protected workloads within Glean\u2019s platform, further expanding enterprise knowledge and AI-driven insights. The integration of Cohesity-protected data into the Glean platform is expected to be available for customers later this year.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The new granted patent, titled \u201cMethod and Electronic Device for Managing Sensitive Data based on Semantic Categorization,\u201d protects existing intellectual property for Concentric AI\u2019s Semantic Intelligence data security governance platform.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n CTERA customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management. Two solutions are now offered: a fully-managed Hosted Data Service for quick deployment, and a self-hosted Private Data Service for enhanced control and flexibility.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Powered by DDN\u2019s Infinia Data Intelligence, IndustrySync delivers enterprise-grade AI solutions designed for AI Cloud and leading cloud providers, optimizing performance and accelerating time to insight with seamless scalability and efficiency.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n By enabling smart restores of clean data in minutes, as opposed to hours or even days, Eon delivers unprecedented speed and security for modern cloud environments, effectively reducing the impact of ransomware by minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n This joint solution combines VAST Data\u2019s modern infrastructure for storing and managing all data types (video, audio, documents, sensor data) with H2O.ai\u2019s enterprise h2oGPTe platform to deliver retrieval-augmented answers, powerful model fine-tuning options, and grounded insights for enterprise users across on-premise, airgapped, and private cloud deployments.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n This new solution provides a lower entry cost with built-in adaptability and scalability as customer needs evolve. Integrating accelerated computing platforms with robust networking, Hitachi iQ M Series combines Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) storage, integrated file system choices, and optional\u00a0NVIDIA AI Enterprise\u00a0software into a scalable, adaptable, cost-effective AI infrastructure solution.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The campaigns show attackers are capitalizing on people\u2019s increasing familiarity with completing multiple authentication steps online \u2013 a trend HP calls \u2018click tolerance.’ With analysis of real-world cyberattacks, the HP Threat Insights Report helps organizations to keep up with the latest techniques cybercriminals are using to evade detection and breach PCs.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n As part of today’s news, IBM is planning to launch a content-aware storage capability for its hybrid cloud infrastructure offering, IBM Fusion; intends to expand its watsonx integrations; and is introducing new IBM Consulting capabilities with NVIDIA to help drive AI innovation across the enterprise.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n As distributed storage becomes the backbone of modern infrastructure, enterprises need hardware designed to work in harmony with their software stack. JetStor Signature was created to provide bespoke, high-performance storage solutions that eliminate the inefficiencies of trying to retrofit traditional enterprise storage into cutting-edge architectures.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Both oth primary and higher education institutions heavily rely on third-party vendors for software-as-a-service, cloud storage, and IT services. This creates a risk, as vulnerabilities or breaches within third-party systems could later affect all institutions using these services, which often goes on undetected.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Enhancing performance, reliability, and cost efficiency, this release empowers IT teams with full visibility into AI workloads and applications, and introduces upgrades to LogicMonitor\u2019s flagship GenAI Agent, Edwin AI.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) initially required InfiniBand, which necessitates specialized hardware. NVIDIA has extended the benefits of GDS and InfiniBand to Ethernet networks. This innovation provides flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency, making it an ideal solution for accelerated AI adoption at scale for Enterprises.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n By adopting an Intelligent Data Infrastructure framework, businesses will be able to operate under a unified vision that integrates metadata cataloging, automation, and hybrid cloud capabilities to eliminate siloes and deliver actionable insights at every stage of the AI pipeline.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Using the NVIDIA AI Data Platform,\u00a0NVIDIA-Certified Storage\u00a0providers can build infrastructure to speed AI reasoning workloads with specialized AI query agents. These agents help businesses generate insights from data in near real time, using\u00a0NVIDIA AI Enterprise\u00a0software \u2014 including\u00a0NVIDIA NIM\u00a0microservices for the new\u00a0NVIDIA Llama Nemotron models\u00a0with reasoning capabilities \u2014 as well as the new\u00a0NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n This announcement follows the launch of Pure Storage’s FlashBlade\/\/EXA, the industry’s highest performing data storage platform engineered for the most demanding requirements of AI and high-performance computing.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n It will deliver the same high performance as Quobyte\u2019s x86 offering as well as a complete set of features including RDMA support. Quobyte\u2019s ARM packages support Rocky Linux 9 and Ubuntu 24.04. This will make Quobyte clusters even more scalable for AI applications. Moreover, they can be added with running clusters for a completely non-disruptive operation.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n This first-of-its-class storage server from a major Tier 1 provider utilizes Supermicro\u2019s system design expertise to create a high-density storage server for software-defined workloads found in AI and ML training and inferencing, analytics and enterprise storage workloads.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n It converges instant automated data ingestion, exabyte-scale vector search, event-driven orchestration, and GPU-optimized inferencing into a single system with unified global enterprise-grade security \u2013 enabling businesses to efficiently accelerate AI adoption and time-to-value by unlocking AI-driven insights.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n WEKA also unveiled its new Augmented Memory Grid capability, which integrates WEKA Data Platform software with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and enterprise software to accelerate AI inference, maximize the number of tokens processed per second, and dramatically increase token efficiency.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Hear from industry experts Eric Herzog, Bill Basinas, and Wei Wang. Learn how Infinidat\u2019s enterprise-class storage makes specialized storage systems unnecessary for AI RAG deployments. Product demo included!<\/p>\nTop Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of March 21, 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Auquan Unveils AI Agent for Risk Monitoring and Detection<\/h4>\n
Cisco Partners with NVIDIA on AI Data Center Architectures<\/h4>\n
Cohesity Partners with Glean’s Work AI Platform<\/h4>\n
Concentric AI Secures Patent for AI Data Security Governance<\/h4>\n
CTERA is Now Available in Microsoft Azure<\/h4>\n
DDN Launches New IndustrySync Solution<\/h4>\n
Eon Unveils Cloud-Native Ransomware Protection & Recovery<\/h4>\n
H2O.ai Partners with VAST Data on Domain-Specific Insights & Agentic AI<\/h4>\n
Hitachi Vantara Unveils Hitachi iQ M Series Infrastructure Storage<\/h4>\n
HP Launches Latest HP Threat Insights Report<\/h4>\n
IBM Set to Launch Content-Aware Storage with NVIDIA AI Data Platform<\/h4>\n
JetStor Announces JetStor Signature<\/h4>\n
KnowBe4 Says Education Institutions Prime for Cyberattacks<\/h4>\n
LogicMonitor Uses AI to Enhance Data Center Transformations<\/h4>\n
MinIO Announces NVIDIA-Powered AlStor<\/h4>\n
NetApp is Set to Use the NVIDIA Data Platform Reference Design<\/h4>\n
NVIDIA Announces the AI Data Platform<\/h4>\n
Pure Storage Integrates NVIDIA into FlashBlade Platform<\/h4>\n
Quobyte Expands ARM Support for Mixed-Architecture Storage Clusters<\/h4>\n
Supermicro Announces Optimized Storage Server for High-Performance<\/h4>\n
VAST Data Announces New InsightEngine with NVIDIA DGX<\/h4>\n
WEKA Integrates with NVIDIA AI Data Platform Reference Design<\/h4>\n
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