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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of May 1, 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 AvePoint Adds Agent Guardrails And \u201cMinimum Viable Company\u201d Recovery To Its Confidence Platform<\/strong><\/p>\n AvePoint is expanding its Confidence Platform with features that simultaneously harden AI agent governance and deepen multicloud ransomware resilience. New capabilities include a Rapid Recovery System that focuses restoration on \u201cMinimum Viable Company\u201d operations first, Express Recovery for fast Microsoft 365 restores, protection for Azure PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB, and stronger policy enforcement for AI agents\u2014moving customers from mere visibility into agent and cloud activity to active, automated guardrails across tenants, workloads, and MSP\u2011managed environments.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0AvePoint agentic AI and resilience<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Barracuda\u2019s Saiga 2FA Phishing Kit Shows Boutique, Highly Configurable MFA Attacks Are On The Rise<\/strong><\/p>\n Barracuda researchers are spotlighting Saiga 2FA, a sophisticated but low\u2011volume phishing kit targeting MFA\u2011protected accounts, which has ramped up activity since February 2026. Saiga 2FA uses modular, infrastructure\u2011driven design, hides behind \u201clorem ipsum\u201d metadata to avoid detection, and supports runtime configuration for different brands and flows, underscoring the need for phishing\u2011resistant authentication (like FIDO2), careful URL verification, and layered defenses against session\u2011stealing attacks.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Saiga 2FA threat spotlight<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n CSAI Foundation Moves To Issue CVEs For AI, Standardize Agent Trust, And Align With NIST, EU AI Act, ISO 42001<\/strong><\/p>\n The CSAI Foundation (from the Cloud Security Alliance) has outlined new milestones for \u201csecuring the agentic control plane,\u201d including becoming a CVE Numbering Authority so it can issue CVEs for AI and agentic systems, not just traditional software. A four\u2011phase rollout beginning June 2026 will align its Agentic Trust Framework and assurance programs with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act, and ISO\/IEC 42001, creating shared foundations for identity, authorization, orchestration, and runtime behavior across autonomous AI ecosystems.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0CSAI Foundation milestones<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Druva Brings Cloud-Native Backup And Cyber Resilience To Microsoft Power Platform, Starting With Power BI<\/strong><\/p>\n Druva is extending its data security cloud to Microsoft Power Platform, starting with full backup and recovery for Power BI workspaces. The new support brings automated discovery, policy\u2011based backups, and granular restore of reports, datasets, semantic models, dashboards, dataflows, and apps\u2014so organizations can protect the analytics and AI\u2011driven dashboards executives rely on, alongside existing Druva protections for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Dynamics 365, and Azure services.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Druva support for Microsoft Power Platform<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n HPE\u2019s New Ruggedized ProLiant Platforms Push AI And Mission-Critical Apps To The Harshest Edges<\/strong><\/p>\n HPE is expanding its ProLiant edge portfolio with the new ProLiant Compute EL2000 chassis (supporting two Gen12 servers) and an enhanced ProLiant DL145 Gen11, all available with ruggedization kits for extreme environments. Designed for edge-native industries like energy, manufacturing, and defense, the systems support AI inferencing and mission-critical workloads in remote, high-heat, high-altitude, or otherwise harsh sites, with centralized management and compliance-ready security delivered through HPE iLO and Compute Ops Management.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0HPE ruggedized AI edge platforms<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n LogicGate Promotes Diego Panama To CEO As It Leans Harder Into AI-Driven GRC<\/strong><\/p>\n LogicGate has named President and COO Diego Panama as its next Chief Executive Officer, effective July 2026, with co-founder Matt Kunkel moving into the Executive Chairman role. Panama, who previously helped scale Olo to $284 million in revenue and LiveRamp from under $20 million to over $500 million, will lead LogicGate\u2019s next phase of growth as it positions its AI-first governance, risk, and compliance platform as a core control plane for enterprise AI and regulatory change.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0LogicGate CEO transition<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n LogicMonitor Leans Into \u201cAutonomous IT\u201d: AI That Sees, Reasons, And Acts Across Infra To UX<\/strong><\/p>\n LogicMonitor is expanding its AI\u2011first observability platform to underpin what it calls the Autonomous IT era, where AI doesn\u2019t just alert but also diagnoses and remediates issues under guardrails. By integrating Catchpoint\u2019s end\u2011user and Internet visibility with infrastructure and app telemetry, LogicMonitor aims to \u201csee, reason, and act\u201d: correlate signals across the full stack, propose or execute playbooks, and help enterprises run complex hybrid environments with fewer blind spots and faster MTTR.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0LogicMonitor Autonomous IT<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n OCP\u2019s Open Data Center Ecosystem For AI Links Racks, Power, And Grids Around Open Standards<\/strong><\/p>\n The Open Compute Project Foundation is advancing its Open Data Center Ecosystem for AI initiative with newly approved contributions, projects, and alliances aimed at AI\u2011scale facilities. The effort spans open data center reference designs, energy and grid solutions, telemetry and management tools, and power\u2011estimation methodologies, and includes an AI Computing Continuum project plus collaborations with the Electric Power Research Institute and the IOWN Global Forum to ensure AI data centers can act as flexible grid resources rather than just massive new loads.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0OCP open data center ecosystem for AI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Qdrant Speeds Up Vector Indexing And Adds 3-Way Clusters And Audit Logs For Production AI Search<\/strong><\/p>\n Vector database provider Qdrant is rolling out faster GPU\u2011accelerated indexing, three\u2011way clustering for instant failover, and comprehensive audit logging across Qdrant Cloud. Multi\u2011AZ clusters on the Premium tier now offer up to 99.95% uptime SLAs, while new audit trails track every query and change for compliance, giving enterprises performance, availability, and traceability for mission\u2011critical RAG and agent search workloads.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Qdrant AI vector search update<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Scality + Veeam Bundle A High-Availability Backup Appliance For Mid-Market Organizations<\/strong><\/p>\n Scality has launched ARTESCA+ Veeam HA, a unified backup appliance that combines Veeam Data Platform v13 and the Veeam Software Appliance with Scality ARTESCA object storage in a multi\u2011node design. Aimed at mid\u2011size firms, the system removes single points of failure across backup software, metadata database, and storage, scales from 50 TB to 10 PB, and runs on standard x86 gear from vendors like Supermicro, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco, and Dell\u2014bringing large\u2011enterprise\u2011grade cyber\u2011resilience to customers with smaller IT teams.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Scality ARTESCA+ Veeam HA appliance<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Team Cymru\u2019s Pure Signal MCP Server Plugs Any Claude\/Copilot-Style Agent Directly Into A Massive Threat-Intel \u201cData Ocean\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Team Cymru has launched the Pure Signal MCP Server, the first production\u2011grade Model Context Protocol server purpose\u2011built for threat intelligence. Any MCP\u2011compatible AI agent\u2014including Claude, Microsoft Security Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and custom SOC assistants\u2014can now connect directly to Pure Signal, the world\u2019s largest context\u2011rich telemetry \u201cdata ocean,\u201d so agents can enrich detections, trace adversary infrastructure, and generate investigations with live internet\u2011scale signals instead of static intel feeds.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Pure Signal MCP Server<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Trust3 AI (Privacera) And Dell Embed Unified Governance Into The Dell Data Lakehouse For AI Factories<\/strong><\/p>\n Trust3 AI, formerly Privacera, is expanding its collaboration with Dell Technologies to integrate its unified agentic governance platform directly into Dell\u2019s Data Lakehouse and AI Factory infrastructure. The joint solution adds automated sensitive\u2011data discovery, write\u2011once\u2011apply\u2011everywhere policy enforcement, dynamic masking and encryption, and detailed AI auditing across Dell ECS, ObjectScale, and PowerScale, aiming to close the \u201cgovernance friction gap\u201d so regulated industries can feed Gemini, Anthropic, and other AI models with clean, compliant data.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Trust3 AI\u2013Dell AI-ready lakehouse<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Veeam Data Platform Wins 2026 SC Award For Best Business Continuity And Ransomware Recovery<\/strong><\/p>\n Veeam Data Platform has been named the 2026 SC Award winner for Best Business Continuity, Disaster and Ransomware Recovery Solution at RSAC 2026. Judges highlighted its latest capabilities, including Recon Scanner 3.0 for real\u2011time threat visibility in backups and its broader AI\u2011powered resilience stack (Malware Threat Analysis Agent and Deep Data Analysis Agent) that helps organizations detect compromise, validate clean restore points, and recover critical data quickly during cyber incidents.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Veeam latest press releases<\/span><\/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: AI Asset Management in Cybersecurity: Why Visibility is the New Perimeter by William Jepma<\/strong><\/p>\n What has historically been called \u201casset management\u201d in cybersecurity is largely a device-centric discipline.\u00a0Endpoint management platforms<\/a>, vulnerability scanners, and CMDBs were designed to track hardware and software on networks. That was already an incomplete model before the cloud era. After the cloud, it became clearly inadequate. With AI, it risks becoming unworkable.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Contributor Series: Ransomware Demands More Than Backups by Badri Raghunathan<\/strong><\/p>\n Ransomware\u2019s gotten easier to launch and harder to contain. Even teams with solid controls can still end up with encrypted systems and reinfections upon recovery. That\u2019s not a reason to give up on prevention. It\u2019s a reason to stop treating backup and recovery as a compliance-driven insurance problem and start treating it as an operational capability.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Contributor Series: The Data Center Boom Could Become Tomorrow’s Ghost Town Problem by Jonathan Schaeffer<\/strong><\/p>\n For the last couple of years, there has been a kind of industrial fever dream around AI infrastructure. Everywhere you look, the assumption is the same: build more, build bigger, build faster. More land. More power. More cooling. More concrete. More servers. More money. The logic seems obvious enough. AI models require enormous computing resources, so of course, the future belongs to massive data centers. Case closed.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Contributor Series: How Flexible Load Management is Reshaping Energy Strategy for IT Leaders by Ramsey Chambers<\/strong><\/p>\n According to\u00a0OBM\u2019s State of Flexible Load Management<\/a>\u00a0report, 64 percent of U.S. energy professionals claim that rising data center demand is changing how they manage flexible load and demand response, the ability to dynamically adjust power consumption based on grid conditions and market signals. This reflects a shift from long-range grid planning to real-time operational coordination, where flexibility is becoming embedded in day-to-day decision making.<\/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 May 1, 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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