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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of April 17, 2026.<\/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 Cloud Storage Security\u2019s DataDefender Focuses DSPM On Cloud Storage Attack Paths<\/strong><\/p>\n Cloud Storage Security has officially launched DataDefender, a DSPM platform aimed specifically at data stored in cloud services like S3, EBS, EFS, and FSx. The agentless, in\u2011tenant tool combines inventory, sensitive\u2011data discovery, more than 90 security checks, and AI\u2011based multi\u2011stage attack detection to surface over 10,000 potential data compromise paths and detect both data infiltration and exfiltration in real time.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0DataDefender DSPM launch<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Cloudflare Mesh Creates A Private, Identity\u2011Aware Fabric For AI Agents Across Clouds<\/strong><\/p>\n Cloudflare has introduced Cloudflare Mesh, a private networking layer that unifies AI agents, humans, and multicloud infrastructure into a single secure fabric. Mesh gives every agent its own identity and policy envelope, lets teams spin up cross\u2011cloud private connectivity in minutes instead of days, and routes all private traffic over Cloudflare\u2019s global network so agents can reach internal services without ever exposing infrastructure to the public internet.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Cloudflare Mesh<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Commvault Flex Adds Hitachi Vantara And NetApp To Build Bigger, Faster AI-Scale Recovery Targets<\/strong><\/p>\n Commvault is expanding its Commvault Flex ecosystem to support Hitachi Vantara and NetApp storage, letting customers pair Flex software images with their preferred high\u2011performance flash arrays. The move extends existing partnerships with Everpure, HPE, and VAST Data so large, dynamic datasets can be protected on familiar storage platforms while still meeting aggressive cyber\u2011recovery performance objectives in the AI era.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Commvault Flex expansion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n NetApp And Google Cloud Tie Sovereign, Air\u2011Gapped Storage Directly Into Distributed Cloud For AI<\/strong><\/p>\n NetApp has signed a four\u2011year enterprise agreement with Google Cloud to embed NetApp AFF, StorageGRID, and Trident into Google Distributed Cloud\u2019s air\u2011gapped, sovereign environments delivered with WWT. The integrated stack provides an \u201cintelligent data infrastructure\u201d foundation for government and defense customers who need local data control, strong key management, and accredited AI workloads running directly inside fully private, disconnected clouds.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0NetApp announcement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n OpenText Brings Content, Security, And Service Management To AWS\u2019s European Sovereign Cloud<\/strong><\/p>\n OpenText will make several of its flagship enterprise data and AI solutions\u2014including Content Management, Documentum, Core Application Security, and Core Service Management\u2014available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. The move gives regulated EU organizations a hybrid sovereign cloud option where AI\u2011ready content and security services run on EU\u2011operated infrastructure, aligning strict data residency and operational autonomy demands with modern analytics and automation needs.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0OpenText on AWS European Sovereign Cloud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Quest Security Management Platform Unifies ITDR, Migration, And Recovery For Microsoft Identities<\/strong><\/p>\n Quest Software has launched the Quest Security Management Platform, a unified, AI\u2011powered identity security solution that combines Identity Threat Detection and Response with secure migration and recovery for Active Directory and Entra ID. The platform\u2019s Quest Identity Defense and Quest Identity Recovery capabilities deliver continuous risk detection, automated containment, and attack\u2011tested recovery\u2014claiming up to 90% faster identity recovery and a 44% improvement in mean time to respond across more than 60 billion protected Entra ID objects.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Quest Security Management Platform<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n StorMagic Marks 20 Years As Edge Virtualization Alternative, Posts 36% ARR Growth<\/strong><\/p>\n StorMagic is celebrating its 20\u2011year anniversary as demand grows for simpler, more affordable edge virtualization options versus traditional hypervisor stacks. The company reports 36% ARR growth despite hardware constraints and is leaning into lightweight HCI (SvHCI) and SvSAN offerings that run on modest infrastructure, aiming to power AI and data workloads at retail, manufacturing, and remote sites without hyperscaler\u2011level complexity.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0StorMagic 20\u2011year milestone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Veeam Data Trust Report: 90% Are Confident In Recovery, But Only 28% Fully Restore After Ransomware<\/strong><\/p>\n Veeam\u2019s 2026 Data Trust and Resilience Report shows a sharp gap between perception and reality: 90% of security leaders say they\u2019re confident in cyber\u2011recovery, yet only 28% fully restore data after a ransomware attack. As AI adoption increases data sprawl and risk, the report argues that organizations must move from \u201crecovery confidence\u201d to demonstrable data resilience\u2014investing in immutable storage, automated recovery verification, and AI\u2011driven visibility into where data lives, who uses which AI tools, and how quickly clean copies can be proven and restored.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Veeam Data Trust & Resilience Report<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n VergeOS Implements oVirt So VMware Customers Can Switch Hypervisors And Keep Their Backup Stack<\/strong><\/p>\n VergeOS 26.1.2 now implements the oVirt API natively, the same standard interface many backup platforms (including Veeam) already support for KVM environments. That means organizations exiting VMware can point existing oVirt\u2011compatible backup jobs at VergeOS with no custom integrations or vendor swaps, preserving prior backup investments while they modernize virtualization.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0VergeOS oVirt standard<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Solutions Review<\/em> is Getting Set to Host P0 Security for the Spotlight event: Top Five Production Risks Lurking in Privileged Access on April 23<\/strong><\/p>\n Modern engineering teams ship constantly. The cloud changes daily. Pipelines run all day. On-call needs access right now. And now agentic apps are starting to act on their own. Most privileged access controls weren\u2019t built for that pace. So teams do what they have to do: grant broad permissions, reuse credentials, leave access in place \u201cjust in case.\u201d Those shortcuts don\u2019t fail loudly. They quietly turn into unmanaged paths into production.<\/p>\n In this session, Neha Duggal and Kelsey Brazill will walk through five production resources where standing privilege creates outsized risk:<\/p>\n Register on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n Solutions Review<\/em> is Getting Set to Host P0 Security for the Spotlight event: Top Five Production Risks Lurking in Privileged Access on April 23<\/strong><\/p>\n In the hour-long webinar, two experts from P0 Security will outline how standing privilege in cloud infrastructure, databases with sensitive data, code repos, deployment workflows, agentic applications, servers, and automated applications can create risks. Viewers will also learn how to identify the most common \u201cstanding privilege signals\u201d in each of those areas, why legacy models break down, how to reduce blast radius, make ownership and accountability less painful, and more.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Solutions Review<\/em> is Getting Set to Host OneTrust for the Spotlight event: AI Arms Race: The Survival and Reinvention of Privacy on May 12<\/strong><\/p>\n Viewers will learn why AI introduces long-term ambiguity, not just complexity, and how privacy leaders must redesign their strategies and programs to handle probabilistic systems; see how risk is increasingly transferred from the technology provider to the enterprise; and review why accountability becomes a litmus test for the long-term viability of any privacy program or control.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n The Editors Lens: The AI-Native Endpoint Security Stack by William Jepma<\/strong><\/p>\n The \u201cbest\u201d identity security platform used to mean the one with the deepest Active Directory integration, the most flexible MFA policy engine, and the strongest enterprise sales relationships. Those criteria are not wrong, but they are increasingly insufficient as evaluation criteria.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Mini Jam, Q1 2026 On-Demand: The Skills Reckoning on March 31<\/b><\/p>\n This program is designed not simply to comment on change, but to explore the structural redesign of education and workforce systems now required to keep pace with it. For leaders operating at the intersection of AI, education, upskilling, and L&D, the Q1 Mini Jam offers a clear view into the forces reshaping how capability is defined, developed, and deployed in the years ahead.<\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Solutions Review <\/i>Surpasses 250K on YouTube to Power Unmatched Media Momentum in Enterprise Tech & the Human Impact of AI<\/b><\/p>\n Solutions Review<\/em>\u00a0has officially surpassed\u00a0250,000 subscribers on YouTube<\/a><\/strong>, a milestone that\u2019s about more than just the number. This moment marks the payoff of a deliberate, two-year strategy\u00a0centered on authoritative video<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0human-led insight<\/a><\/strong>, and an early recognition of how AI search engines ingest information, assign trust, and surface sources at scale.<\/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>\n Sign up now to get a weekly debrief of the latest human-centric news, insights, and commentary coming out of this emerging discussion.<\/span><\/p>\nTop Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of April 17, 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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