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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of February 6, 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 Azure NetApp Files: Blueprint for Next-Gen Cloud Resilience<\/strong><\/p>\n A recent NetApp blog details how Azure NetApp Files underpins \u201cnext-generation resilience\u201d for modern cloud workloads by combining high-performance shared file storage with built-in snapshot, backup, replication, and application-consistent protection patterns. The post walks through reference architectures for mission-critical apps\u2014covering ransomware recovery, regional failover, and low-RPO\/low-RTO designs\u2014and argues that tightly integrated storage services like Azure NetApp Files are becoming central to resilient architectures in AI- and data-heavy environments.<\/p>\n Read on for more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/community.netapp.com\/t5\/Tech-ONTAP-Blogs\/Unlocking-Next-Generation-Resilience-How-Azure-NetApp-Files-Solves-Modern-Cloud\/bc-p\/465518<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Cohesity + Google Cloud: Sandboxing Hidden Malware in Backups Before You Restore<\/strong><\/p>\n Cohesity has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud by embedding Google Threat Intelligence and Google Private Scanning into Cohesity Data Cloud to hunt low-and-slow, polymorphic, and supply-chain malware hiding in backup data. New secure sandbox analysis detonates suspicious files in a private environment, delivering detailed behavioral reports (system changes, network activity, registry edits) so teams can judge risk and select clean restore points before reintroducing data into production, strengthening cyber-resilience at the moment of recovery.<\/p>\n Read on for more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260205915296\/en\/Cohesity-Collaborates-with-Google-Cloud-to-Deliver-Secure-Sandbox-Capabilities-and-Comprehensive-Threat-Insights-Designed-to-Eliminate-Hidden-Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Cyberhaven: Unified AI + Data Security Platform for the AI Era<\/strong><\/p>\n Cyberhaven has introduced a unified data security platform that merges DSPM, data loss prevention, insider risk management, and AI security in a single architecture built around deep data lineage across cloud, endpoint, and on-prem systems. By capturing full data flows and applying agentic AI to that context, the platform continuously discovers sensitive data, classifies it, detects risky movement, and stops data loss in real time\u2014aiming to cut false positives and make generative AI adoption safer without slowing the business.<\/p>\n Read on for more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cyberhaven-launches-unified-ai–data-security-platform-for-the-ai-era-302677180.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n DataBee RiskFlow: Agentic AI for Security and Compliance Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n DataBee, a Comcast company, has launched DataBee RiskFlow, an agentic AI capability that lets security, IT, and compliance teams ask conversational questions of their unified security and compliance data fabric and receive concise answers with full data lineage and rationale. Already adopted by most DataBee customers, RiskFlow is designed for use cases like identifying unremediated critical vulnerabilities, spotting risky login behavior across cloud and on\u2011prem, and assembling audit-ready MFA evidence, speeding investigations, audits, and control validation.<\/p>\n Read on for more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/databee-launches-databee-riskflow-breakthrough-130000688.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n HYCU and Assurestor Team Up to Power Next-Gen Managed Backup and DR<\/strong><\/p>\n HYCU has signed a technology agreement with UK-based Assurestor to make HYCU R-Cloud the foundation for Assurestor\u2019s new Backup2Cloud NG and SaaS2Cloud NG services, giving MSPs an easier way to deliver cyber-resilient backup and SaaS data protection across hybrid and multi\u2011cloud environments without running their own backup infrastructure. Assurestor chose HYCU for its broad workload and SaaS coverage from a single SaaS-native architecture, with the joint services promising faster time to market, lower operational complexity, and enterprise\u2011grade ransomware-ready protection for channel partners.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n Read on for more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/2026\/02\/05\/tmt-newswire\/globenewswire\/hycu-inks-technology-agreement-with-assurestor-to-power-modern-backup-and-disaster-recovery-services\/2272558<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ORION Security Raises $32M to Deliver Autonomous, Context-Aware DLP Without Policies<\/strong><\/p>\n ORION Security has closed a $32 million Series A led by Norwest, with IBM participating, to scale its AI-driven contextual data security platform that replaces thousands of brittle DLP rules with autonomous, agent-powered detection and prevention. Its specialized AI agents analyze data content, lineage, user identity, behavior, and environment in real time so enterprises can distinguish legitimate workflows from exfiltration attempts, cutting false positives while catching incidents legacy policy-based DLP tools routinely miss.<\/p>\n Read on for more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/orion-security-closes-32-million-in-funding-ushering-in-autonomous-data-loss-prevention-without-reliance-on-policies-302676870.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n MinIO AIStor Tables GA: One High-Performance Store for Tables + Objects<\/strong><\/p>\n MinIO has made AIStor Tables generally available, unifying tabular and object data in a single, high\u2011performance, Iceberg\u2011native data store built for agentic AI. By eliminating silos between databases and object storage under one data plane and security model, AIStor Tables lets enterprises treat \u201call data as AI data\u201d and run analytics, data science, and AI agents directly on the same authoritative dataset with consistent governance from small to exabyte scale.<\/p>\n Read on for more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260203064684\/en\/MinIO-Introduces-GA-of-AIStor-Tables-Unifying-Enterprise-Data-for-Agentic-AI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Netskope One Data Lineage: Putting Provenance at the Center of AI-Ready Data Security<\/strong><\/p>\n Netskope has introduced One Data Lineage, a new capability in the Netskope One platform that tracks the full provenance and lifecycle of sensitive data at rest, in motion, and in use so teams can see exactly where data originated, how it moves, who accessed it, and how it changes over time. The feature lets policies \u201cstick\u201d to data as it\u2019s transformed across files and formats, strengthening insider-threat detection, post\u2011incident forensics, and AI governance by giving enterprises the audit trails they need to safely train and run AI on sensitive information.<\/p>\n Read on for more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.hpcwire.com\/bigdatawire\/this-just-in\/netskope-advances-ai-ready-data-security-with-visibility-and-analytics-of-data-lineage\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Operant AI Agent Protector: Real-Time Zero-Trust Security for AI Agents and MCP<\/strong><\/p>\n Operant AI has launched Agent Protector, a security platform purpose-built for the agentic AI era that continuously discovers AI agents (including \u201cshadow\u201d agents), analyzes their behavior, and enforces zero-trust guardrails in real time. It detects rogue intent, privilege escalation, lateral movement, data exfiltration, prompt and memory poisoning, and 0\u2011click attacks across agents, tools, and MCP servers, providing inline blocking, rate limiting, and auto-redaction so organizations can safely scale autonomous agents without losing control.<\/p>\n Read on for more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.operant.ai\/art-kubed\/introducing-agent-protector<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Vantage Brings AWS Database Savings Plans: Flexible Discounts for RDS & Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n Vantage\u2019s explainer on AWS Database Savings Plans outlines how the new commitment model lets customers save up to roughly 35% on services like RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and others by committing to an hourly spend instead of specific instances. Compared with traditional Reserved Instances (which can reach higher headline discounts but are rigid and hard to manage at scale), Database Savings Plans trade a bit of maximum savings for far more flexibility across engines, instance families, sizes, regions, and even serverless configurations.<\/p>\n Read on for more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.vantage.sh\/blog\/aws-database-savings-plans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Western Digital Unveils High-Bandwidth and Power-Optimized HDDs to Keep Disks Competitive in the AI Era<\/strong><\/p>\n cWestern Digital has outlined two new HDD families: High\u2011Bandwidth drives that double performance today via multiple heads and dual actuators\u2014with a roadmap to 8\u00d7 bandwidth and 4\u00d7 I\/O\u2014and Power\u2011Optimized drives that cut power use by about 20% for \u201cactive cold\u201d storage tiers. The company positions these architectures to keep HDDs relevant against QLC SSDs in AI data centers by delivering flash\u2011like throughput and cheaper, lower\u2011power capacity for large datasets, checkpoints, and logs that must stay quickly accessible but are too costly to hold on SSDs.<\/p>\n Read on for more \u2192\u00a0https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/pc-components\/hdds\/western-digital-doubles-the-performance-of-hard-drives-with-dual-actuator-high-bandwidth-with-path-to-8x-performance-increase-power-optimized-hdds-will-reduce-power-by-20-percent<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Insight Jam<\/em> Launches New “Mesh Lab” to Build a Framework for Work & Learning in the Age of AI<\/strong><\/p>\n Insight Jam<\/em> Mesh Lab is a year-long, monthly series of expert-led discussions<\/a><\/strong><\/span> dedicated to exploring and shaping the next generation of frameworks for work and learning in the age of AI. Rather than reacting to tools or trends, Mesh Lab is designed to initiate a sustained, cross-sector conversation about how human capability itself must be re-architected as AI becomes embedded across education, enterprise, and leadership.<\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n The Cyber Circuit <\/i>with Michael Morgenstern: How AI is Breaking Your Data Loss Prevention Strategy Featuring Marc Ashworth<\/b><\/p>\n The conversation dives into how employees using ChatGPT, Copilot, and other AI tools are creating new vectors for data exposure, why browser-based controls have become the critical chokepoint for DLP strategy, and how CISOs can balance enabling business innovation with protecting regulated data. Marc offers a prioritized framework for tackling AI-related data risks: know your assets, implement browser controls, manage data retention, and build automation that scales.<\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Solutions Review<\/i> is Getting Set to Host Pathlock for the Exclusive Session ‘Governing Access in a World of 100+ Apps and 1M Identities’ on February 12<\/strong><\/p>\n Modern organizations operate in an identity environment defined by scale and complexity: hundreds of applications, millions of human and non-human identities, and an expanding identity-driven attack surface. At the same time, many identity governance programs still rely on manual reviews, static roles, and fragmented access models that were never designed to operate at this level.<\/p>\n Register on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n Solutions Review<\/i> is Getting Set to Host Nutanix and Northeastern University for the Exclusive Session ‘Cloud-Native for the AI-Powered, Innovation-Ready Enterprise Masterclass’ on February 19<\/strong><\/p>\n Join us for the Nutanix Cloud Native Masterclass, an exclusive event for C-level executives, where attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion from Northeastern University, recognizing their expertise in cloud native strategies. In this Masterclass we\u2019ll explore how cloud native architecture is reshaping enterprise IT. Unlike traditional monolithic applications \u2014 which are slow to evolve, difficult to scale, and operationally complex \u2014 cloud native applications are composed of independent, loosely coupled components. Built on microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and API-driven design, they are optimized for dynamic, distributed environments.<\/p>\n Register on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n Expert Wrap: Data Privacy Week 2026 – Key Insights from The Field’s Greatest Thinkers<\/b><\/p>\n This roundup features insights from leading experts who dissect the\u00a0nuances of data privacy<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0today. They explore the challenges we face in safeguarding digital identities, the emerging threats to our online spaces, and the\u00a0innovative strategies being developed<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to secure personal information against unauthorized access.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Contributor Series – The Cloud is Not Your Business Continuity Plan by ZOI North America’s Danilo Kirschner<\/strong><\/p>\n For the last decade, \u201cmoving to the cloud\u201d was synonymous with resilience. We\u2019ve been lulled into a false sense of security, believing that massive hyperscalers are immune to failure. Business continuity (BC) measures were paramount\u2014remember the DAT cassettes you brought to the secure off-site location every week?<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Solutions Review<\/em> Editors Launch New ‘Human-AI Ledger’ Newsletter to Chronicle the Human Impact of AI<\/strong><\/p>\n Artificial intelligence is everywhere\u2014but understanding its human impact has never been more urgent. That’s where Solutions Review<\/em>‘s latest newsletter, The Human-AI Ledger<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, 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\u2014the non-technical, deeply human dimensions that determine whether this technological revolution helps us thrive or leaves us behind.<\/span><\/p>\nTop Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of February 6, 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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