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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 15, 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 Casepoint + Proofpoint Connect Communications Archiving Directly To Legal And Compliance Workflows<\/strong><\/p>\n Casepoint and Proofpoint have formed a strategic partnership to close the gap between compliant communications archiving and downstream legal and regulatory response. Proofpoint will continue to capture, archive, and supervise communications data, while Casepoint provides eDiscovery, investigations, legal holds, and FOIA workflows in a single secure environment\u2014streamlining preservations and collections from Proofpoint archives and reducing friction, handoffs, and risk during audits and litigation.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Casepoint\u2013Proofpoint strategic partnership<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Celonis Buys MIT\u2011Linked Ikigai To Make Its Process \u201cContext Model\u201d A Real Decision Engine<\/strong><\/p>\n Celonis has acquired MIT\u2011linked decision intelligence startup\u00a0Ikigai Labs\u00a0to bring advanced planning, simulation, and forecasting into its process mining\u2011driven\u00a0context model, a real\u2011time digital twin of business operations. The deal gives Celonis exclusive rights to MIT\u2011owned patents previously licensed to Ikigai and folds in capabilities like time\u2011series modeling and causal inference, with the goal of eliminating AI \u201cblind spots\u201d in enterprise IT by pairing process visibility with richer decision intelligence.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Celonis acquires Ikigai Labs<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Cohesity And HPE Tighten Their Seven\u2011Year Alliance Around Cyber Resilience And Hybrid Cloud<\/strong><\/p>\n Cohesity is significantly expanding its seven\u2011year strategic alliance with HPE to deliver stronger cyber resilience, data protection, and simplified hybrid\u2011cloud operations. The enhanced partnership adds new resell agreements, deeper technical integration with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials and Enterprise Software, and joint go\u2011to\u2011market so customers can more easily deploy Cohesity\u2019s AI\u2011powered data security and recovery across HPE\u2019s private and hybrid cloud stack.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Cohesity expands strategic alliance with HPE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Druva Brings SaaS\u2011Powered Cyber Resilience To Dell PowerProtect Data Domain<\/strong><\/p>\n Druva has announced a new integration with\u00a0Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, letting enterprises pair fast local recovery from Data Domain with Druva\u2019s cloud\u2011native, SaaS\u2011delivered cyber resilience. Organizations can now extend existing Data Domain environments with cloud\u2011scale data protection, centralized visibility, and flexible recovery paths\u2014choosing to restore from on\u2011prem appliances or from Druva\u2019s cloud to meet RTO and compliance requirements.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Druva integrates with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n HPE Wants One Private Cloud And One Data Platform To Feed Both Apps And AI<\/strong><\/p>\n HPE is rolling out unified private cloud and data platform capabilities\u2014spanning HPE GreenLake, Alletra Storage, and Ezmeral\u2014to help enterprises modernize apps and get AI\u2011ready data without stitching together separate stacks. The updates add a richer unified data layer with native file and expanded scale\u2011out block storage plus agentic AI management, so organizations can manage, protect, and activate data consistently across on\u2011prem, colo, and public cloud environments.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0HPE delivers unified private clouds and data platforms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n HYCU aiR Turns Backup Data Into An AI-Native Security, Compliance, And Risk Intelligence Layer<\/strong><\/p>\n HYCU has launched\u00a0HYCU aiR (AI Resilience)<\/strong>, an AI\u2011native solution that lets organizations query and run agents against backup data across dozens of SaaS and cloud applications. aiR enables natural\u2011language search and purpose\u2011built agents to surface insider risk, sensitive data exposure, identity drift, and AI agent activity from backups\u2014turning what was previously \u201ccold storage\u201d into a live intelligence layer for security, compliance, and IT teams with no extra configuration.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0HYCU aiR launch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Lonestar And NASA Ames Team Up To Turn The Moon Into The Ultimate Disaster-Recovery Site<\/strong><\/p>\n Lonestar Data Holdings has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center to advance space-based supercomputing, data storage, and communications on and around the Moon. The collaboration focuses on developing \u201clunar-edge\u201d data infrastructure and cislunar computing concepts so that, over time, critical government and enterprise data could live in sovereign, secure lunar data centers that provide an independently recoverable backup for Earth-based disasters.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Lonestar\u2013NASA Ames lunar edge data infrastructure agreement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n MinIO Builds A Petabyte-Scale KV Cache So NVIDIA GPUs Don\u2019t Choke On Context<\/strong><\/p>\n MinIO has introduced\u00a0MemKV, a petabyte-scale key-value caching system designed for NVIDIA GPU inference workloads and built to sit atop its AIStor object storage. MemKV extends the GPU KV cache hierarchy out of expensive HBM and host DRAM into SSDs managed on NVIDIA\u2019s BlueField\u20114 DPUs, using GPU\u2011native 2\u201316 MB block sizes and NVIDIA Spectrum\u2011X plus PCIe Gen6 to deliver near line\u2011rate throughput\u2014essentially creating a vast, cheaper context memory tier that scales independently of the GPU cluster.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0MinIO adds petabyte-scale MemKV cache for NVIDIA GPU inference<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Network Storage Advisors Maps The 2026 AI Storage Landscape Around NVIDIA DGX Reference Architectures<\/strong><\/p>\n Network Storage Advisors has released its 70\u2011page\u00a02026 Strategic Landscape for Enterprise AI Storage Systems, benchmarking AI storage offerings from DDN, Dell, Everpure, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, IBM, NetApp, VAST Data, and WEKA. The report includes dashboards comparing performance, capacity, power, and space characteristics across vendors and aligns those profiles to NVIDIA\u2011certified DGX BasePOD and SuperPOD configurations so buyers can right\u2011size storage for GPU\u2011dense AI clusters.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a02026 Strategic Landscape for Enterprise AI Storage Systems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n NTT DATA: Enterprise AI Has Hit The Wall Of Privacy, Sovereignty, And Jurisdiction<\/strong><\/p>\n New NTT DATA research argues that enterprise AI is now constrained less by models and more by architectures built for centralized, borderless data flows that no longer match tightening privacy and sovereignty rules. The report finds a widening gap between organizations redesigning early for locality, control, and security\u2014treating jurisdiction as a core design parameter\u2014and those still layering AI onto legacy, globally integrated systems, with the former showing measurably better AI readiness and scalability.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Enterprise AI hits the wall<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Portworx By Everpure Makes Storage, Protection, And DR First-Class Citizens Inside Red Hat OpenShift<\/strong><\/p>\n Portworx by Everpure is rolling out new capabilities that make data management feel native inside Red Hat OpenShift, letting teams manage storage, data protection, and disaster recovery directly from the OpenShift console. The Portworx Plugin 2.2 for OpenShift, Portworx Enterprise 3.6, and Portworx Backup 2.11 bring a single pane of glass for VMs and containers, plus a new Portworx for Edge option that delivers encrypted, compliant data management for tiny two\u2011to\u2011five node clusters running AI and other workloads at the edge.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Portworx makes data management native to Red Hat OpenShift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n NetApp Bakes More AI And Hybrid Cloud Automation Into Its Intelligent Data Infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n NetApp is updating its Intelligent Data Infrastructure portfolio to address AI\u2011era data challenges, building on its AI Data Engine work with NVIDIA to better manage and govern unstructured data across complex hybrid environments. The latest release focuses on automating how data is stored, prepared, and served for AI workloads\u2014especially GenAI, databases, and VMware\u2014so enterprises can orchestrate data across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with more consistent security, performance, and cost controls.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0NetApp expands intelligent data infrastructure for cloud and AI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n SANS Publishes An AI Security Maturity Model That Finally Treats Agentic AI As A First-Class Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n The SANS Institute has released the\u00a0SANS AI Security Maturity Model, a staged operational framework that maps AI security to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and OWASP while adding original guidance for agentic AI. Built on three pillars (Protect AI, Utilize AI, Govern AI) and five maturity stages, the model includes program and people indicators, metrics, a target\u2011setting guide, and evidence\u2011based scoring\u2014emphasizing that a smaller organization at a well\u2011documented Stage 2 can be more secure than a larger one claiming Stage 3 without proof.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0SANS AI Security Maturity Model<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Secludy Raises $4M To Turn Privacy-Safe Synthetic Data Into The Front Door For GenAI In Finance<\/strong><\/p>\n Secludy has raised\u00a0$4 million\u00a0in seed funding to help banks, payments firms, and fintechs train and evaluate GenAI models on privacy\u2011guaranteed synthetic data instead of raw customer records. The platform runs inside a customer\u2019s own cloud and uses differential privacy to generate synthetic datasets that preserve utility while complying with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, so teams can move vendor evaluations and internal AI projects from months of review to days without exposing sensitive financial data.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Secludy raises $4M to safely unlock proprietary data for GenAI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Scality ADI Promises Autonomous, Open-Code Data Infrastructure For AI At Multi-Petabyte Scale<\/strong><\/p>\n Scality has introduced\u00a0Scality ADI (Autonomous Data Infrastructure), a sustainable, AI-era data platform that layers an AI-powered operations engine called Guardian on top of Scality\u2019s object storage to deliver self\u2011optimizing storage at multi\u2011petabyte to exabyte scale. ADI unifies flash, disk, and other media under one namespace with policy-driven lifecycle management and exposes an MCP extensibility model so customers can plug in their own AI tools, while shipping as open\u2011code software with outcome\u2011based SLAs tailored to large enterprises, governments, and sovereign environments that demand inspectability and long-term resilience.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Scality ADI: Autonomous data infrastructure for enterprise AI<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Veeam Data Platform v13.1 Adds A DataAI Resilience Module To Tie Backup Closer To AI Trust<\/strong><\/p>\n Veeam previewed\u00a0Veeam Data Platform v13.1\u00a0alongside a new\u00a0DataAI Resilience Module\u00a0in the DataAI Command Platform, advancing its secure\u2011by\u2011design data resilience story. With more than 70 new features and enhancements, v13.1 plus the new module aim to simplify operations for large, distributed enterprises, support multi\u2011team and multi\u2011region compliance needs, and establish a unified data\u2011trust foundation that can grow with more intelligence, automation, and assessment\u2011driven improvements over time.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192\u00a0Veeam previews new Veeam Data Platform release<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Solutions Review<\/em> is Getting Set to Host Object First for the Spotlight event: Assume Breach, Prepare for Recovery on May 21<\/strong><\/p>\n For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with Object First, an on-premises backup storage for Veeam customers. In the hour-long webinar, the company\u2019s Senior Director of Solutions Marketing will delve into the latest research and trends around data resilience, provide an example of a real-life ransomware attack, share practical steps for preparing for a worst-case scenario, and use a live product demo to showcase how Object First can help teams protect themselves.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Information Gain Series: The SaaS Data Protection Problem Most Organizations Don’t Know They Have<\/strong><\/p>\n Most IT leaders feel reasonably confident about their\u00a0data protection posture<\/a>. They have backup strategies for virtual machines, immutable storage for critical systems, and recovery playbooks that have been tested and refined over the years. What many of them haven\u2019t fully reckoned with is that a tremendous amount of corporate data now lives entirely outside those systems, spread across hundreds of SaaS applications that most organizations haven\u2019t mapped, let alone protected.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Information Gain Series: AI Governance in Cybersecurity Has a Leadership Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n This is the central argument that emerged from a recent episode of\u00a0The Cyber Circuit<\/em>\u00a0podcast on Insight Jam<\/a>, featuring former CISO\u00a0Manju Mude<\/a>\u00a0and cybersecurity advisor\u00a0Michael Morgenstern<\/a>. The conversation is worth your time. But the conclusions it surfaces point to a broader structural problem that deserves sustained editorial attention.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Contributor Series: Redefining Risk in an Era of Geopolitical Cyber Threats<\/strong><\/p>\n In a rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape, this is a reality we increasingly find businesses coming up against. As it stands, most enterprise risk models were built around ransomware and data theft and fail to account for that kind of impact. As this trend spreads, more businesses are reframing their response to threats.<\/p>\n Read on Insight Jam<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n –<\/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 15, 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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