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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of July 31, 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 Catalogic Software Expands DPX Support For Proxmox To Strengthen Data Protection In Virtualized Environments<\/strong><\/p>\n Catalogic Software has expanded its DPX data protection platform to support Proxmox virtual environments.2800<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> The update gives organizations using Proxmox more options for backup and recovery, helping them protect virtual machines and workloads with enterprise-grade data management while keeping flexibility in their hypervisor choices.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192 Catalogic Software expands DPX Proxmox support<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n CTERA Extends Microsoft 365 Copilot To Enterprise File Data With Permission-Aware AI Responses<\/strong><\/p>\n CTERA has added support for Microsoft Copilot, enabling organizations to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams Copilot beyond native Microsoft repositories to governed enterprise file data managed by CTERA across edge, data center, and cloud environments. Using the Model Context Protocol and CTERA\u2019s Global File System, the integration lets users retrieve accurate, source-cited answers based only on files they are authorized to access, with data staying in place and existing permissions and governance policies preserved to reduce oversharing risk.finance.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192 CTERA extends Microsoft 365 Copilot to the enterprise file layer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ExaGrid Releases Version 8.1 To Improve Backup Performance And Manageability<\/strong><\/p>\n ExaGrid has released version 8.1 of its backup platform with enhancements aimed at performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.2800<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> The update focuses on improving how organizations manage large-scale backup environments, with features that support faster backups, better resource utilization, and simplified administration for teams protecting growing data volumes.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192 ExaGrid releases version 8.1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Kioxia Advances Memory Technology To Support Next-Gen AI And Data Center Platforms<\/strong><\/p>\n Kioxia has announced new memory innovations aimed at next-generation AI and data center platforms.2800<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> The developments focus on higher performance, capacity, and efficiency to meet the demands of large-scale AI training and inference workloads, reinforcing memory as a critical enabler of AI infrastructure as models and datasets continue to grow.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192 Kioxia memory announcement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Mend.io Enhances AI Application Security To Help Organizations Move Faster Than AI-Driven Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n Mend.io has enhanced its AI application security capabilities to help teams identify meaningful risk, reduce manual investigation, and accelerate response across the AI lifecycle. The updates extend AI protection into runtime with agent configuration risk scans and real-time guardrails that inspect prompts and responses for issues like prompt injection, jailbreaks, and sensitive-data exposure, while also expanding container risk coverage and integrating with developer workflows to speed remediation.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192 Mend.io enhances AI application security to help organizations move faster than AI-driven risk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n MiniOS Launches Aistor Memory To Give AI Agents Organizational Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n MiniOS has introduced Aistor Memory, a capability designed to let AI agents inherit and use organizational memory rather than operating with only short-term context.2800<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> The system aims to capture decisions, interactions, and knowledge over time so agents can act with more continuity and institutional awareness, reducing repetitive work and improving the quality of automated workflows in complex enterprise environments.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192 MiniOS Aistor memory enables agents to inherit organizational memory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n SIOS Technology Announces LifeKeeper v10.1 With AIOps-Ready Automation For High Availability And Disaster Recovery<\/strong><\/p>\n SIOS Technology has released LifeKeeper v10.1, adding AIOps-ready automation capabilities to streamline deployment and management of high availability and disaster recovery for critical applications. The update includes fully validated, out-of-the-box protection for Microsoft SQL Server 2025, a new SIOS Oracle Recovery Kit, Windows CLI enhancements, and improved AWS and OCI security, helping organizations reduce manual effort and improve resilience for AI-era workloads.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192 SIOS Technology announces LifeKeeper v10.1<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Veeam Data Platform V13.1 Adds Features To Help Organizations Recover Clean And Fast From Cyber Disruption<\/strong><\/p>\n Veeam Data Platform v13.1 is now available with new features aimed at helping organizations recover cleanly and quickly from cyber disruption.2800<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> The update focuses on improving ransomware resilience, recovery speed, and data integrity checks so that teams can restore operations with greater confidence that their data is clean, consistent, and protected against increasingly sophisticated attacks.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192 Veeam Data Platform v13.1 now available helping organizations recover clean and fast from cyber disruption<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n WEKA And Andromeda Partner To Power AI Workloads At Global Scale With NeuralMesh Storage<\/strong><\/p>\n WEKA and Andromeda are partnering to make WEKA\u2019s NeuralMesh platform a core AI data storage layer for Andromeda\u2019s managed GPU clusters across its global provider network. Andromeda customers can deploy dedicated NeuralMesh or GPU-native NeuralMesh Axon configurations to get consistent, high-performance storage on any cluster running on any hyperscaler or AI cloud, reducing the total cost of innovation by decoupling GPU provisioning from storage performance tuning and enabling more predictable, scalable AI pipelines.<\/p>\n Read on for more\u2192 WEKA and Andromeda partner to power AI workloads at global scale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Contributor Series: The Data Center Build-Out Needs Better Operations Software by Robert Mostachetti<\/strong><\/p>\n Most of the facilities management and integrated workplace management system (IWMS) platforms in use today were designed for a different kind of building. Corporate offices, hospitals, universities and logistics facilities are all complex in their own way, but they operate under a fundamentally different risk profile than a data center.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Solutions Review<\/em> is Getting Set to Host Native Security for the Spotlight event: Architecture for Active Defense in the Cloud: A Live Conversation on July 21<\/strong><\/p>\n Native co-founder and CPO Gal Ordo opens with the architecture model and the three layers that active defense rests on. From there, the session moves into a live demo led by Native’s team. You’ll see security intent expressed in plain language, watch Native compile it into the correct provider-native controls for each cloud, simulate the impact against real historical activity before anything ships, and deploy with rollback built in.<\/p>\n Register on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n Solutions Review<\/em> Announces New State of Cybersecurity Report, Publishing August 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n With this report, Solutions Review reintroduces its\u00a0Vendor Map\u00a0presentation model,\u00a0providing security buyers with an at-a-glance reference to the leading and emerging players\u00a0across the cybersecurity marketplace.\u00a0For this report, the\u00a0Vendor Maps\u00a0focus specifically on AI-native cybersecurity vendors across four categories that define how the market is organizing today: Endpoint Security, Cloud and Network Security, Data and Application Security, and Identity Security.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n On-Demand: Solutions Review<\/em> Hosted Object First for the Spotlight event: Uncovering Veeam’s Hidden Gems<\/strong><\/p>\n Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) is constantly updating, with a wealth of new features that can be easily overlooked. Join ObjectFirst\u2019s Matt Price, Senior Technical Solutions Manager, and Geoff Burke, Senior Technology Advisor, as they cover some of the new features in the latest versions of VBR and see how they can be applied to improve your data resilience.<\/p>\n Watch on-demand on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Mini Jam Q2, 2026: <\/i>AI in Practice: How L&D Are Actually<\/em> Changing Broadcasts June 25-26<\/b><\/p>\n AI\u00a0is quickly moving from experimentation to operational reality across education, workforce development, and practitioner\u00a0learning environments. What began as a conversation around tools has evolved into a much\u00a0larger\u00a0transformation\u00a0involving\u00a0skills<\/a><\/strong>, implementation strategies, institutional design, and\u00a0the future structure of learning itself<\/a><\/strong>. All-in, Mini Jam Q2, 2026 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, engage with experts, and stay at the forefront of the conversation on the human impact of AI on education.<\/span><\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Solutions Review<\/em> Announces New EdTech Site on the Future of Work and Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n The site will provide\u00a0ongoing editorial<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0expert thought leadership<\/a><\/strong>, research-driven analysis on\u00a0the state of EdTech<\/a><\/strong>, and awards programming through\u00a0Mesh Awards<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to cover fully this transformation.\u00a0Solutions Review<\/em>\u00a0EdTech<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0will also house\u00a0information gain<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0quarterly virtual events<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0expert panels<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0podcasts<\/a><\/strong>, and more from its sister brand\u00a0Insight Jam<\/em>\u00a0(1M+ on YouTube<\/a><\/strong>), the\u00a0home for the human conversation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n We Didn’t Build Solutions Review for AI, We Built it for Buyers by Tim King<\/strong><\/p>\n A nuclear bomb has been exploded in not only digital marketing, but enterprise tech buying. Buyers increasingly discover information through AI search and their favorite GenAI bot, social media platforms like LinkedIn, and synthesized answers rather than lists of blue links. Visibility still matters, but the question is evolving from \u201cCan you rank?\u201d to \u201cCan you be\u00a0anchored as trusted a source<\/a><\/strong>?\u201d<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Insight Jam’s <\/em>Mesh Lab Episode 5 Now Available: Human-Centered Environments<\/strong><\/p>\n The conversation shifts beyond standard pedagogy to address the existential crisis facing students and workers as AI disrupts traditional ideas of productivity and purpose. Panelists emphasize the urgent need to stop measuring final outputs and instead focus on the creative, collaborative process of learning. Ultimately, the group argues that to foster uniquely human skills like adaptability in students, educators must first be granted the autonomy to exercise those exact same skills.<\/p>\n Watch on Insight Jam<\/em><\/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 July 31, 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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