Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of April 25; Updates from HYCU, Infinidat, Scality & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of April 25, 2025.

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.

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Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of April 25, 2025

Confidencial.io Set to Unveils Preview of AI Data Governance

Purpose-built for enterprise-scale AI, Confidencial serves as a governance layer seamlessly embedded within AI frameworks, covering AI workflows, Agentic AI systems, training workflows, and operations to ensure only authorized data flows through.

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Cohesity Unveils New RecoveryAgent

RecoveryAgent automates cyber recovery preparation, testing, compliance, and response, enabling customers to recover from cyber incidents faster. It offers intelligent, customizable recovery blueprints and enables rigorous testing of recovery processes in a non-production environment, giving customers more confidence in their ability to respond to proliferating cyberattacks.

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Cyera Unveils New Omni Tool for Data Loss Prevention

For years, data loss prevention (DLP) has been synonymous with pain: ineffective, noisy, reactive, and nearly impossible to operationalize. Omni DLP changes the game by layering intelligence across the data security stack, empowering security teams to focus on the real threats, not countless false positives.

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Hitachi Vantara Announces New Storage SLA Guarantees

The cyber resilience guarantee helps organizations mitigate downtime and data loss by taking advantage of immutable snapshots, as well as AI-driven ransomware detection the CyberSense solution from Index Engines.

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HYCU Drops New R-Shield Cyber Resilience

R-Shield is designed to protect and provide always-on detection and recovery capabilities for customers that need to combat cyber criminals who exploit fragmented IT environments with purpose-built attacks targeting VMs, data warehouses, finance applications, storage buckets, and git repositories as well as disruption from simple human error. 

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Lenovo Unveils New AI-Optimized Storage Offerings

Using the solutions, businesses can easily run AI and data modernization workloads on the next generation of trusted Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile infrastructure, unleashing data to power real-time reasoning and confidently deploying AI and data modernization workloads at scale.

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Object First Launches New Pay-Per-Use Model

Customers, Resellers, and Service Providers now have the flexibility to choose the traditional CapEx model or the modern pay-per-use Consumption model, which offers secure, simple and powerful immutable backup storage without any up-front investments or hardware lifecycle costs.

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Rubrik Zero Labs Releases State of Data Security 2025 Report

Protecting sensitive data across multiple systems has become increasingly nuanced as the widespread adoption of AI has significantly exacerbated the challenge of data sprawl. An overwhelming 90 percent of IT and security leaders report managing hybrid cloud environments, and half of IT leaders say the majority of their workloads are now cloud-based.

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Scality Releases New ARTESCA+ Veeam Appliance

The solution completely eliminates the need for separate (physical or virtual) infrastructure for Veeam, thereby reducing deployment complexity, time, and cost by up to 30 percent. The solution can be deployed on the customer’s choice of hardware platforms, such as HPE, Supermicro, and Lenovo.

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StorONE Extends its Partnership with Phison Technologies

The partnership between StorONE and Phison aims to empower enterprises and research teams to train and deploy large language models (LLMs) on-premises, using secure, high-throughput storage enhanced with conversational AI interfaces for simple management and optimization.

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Veeam Launches New Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID

Support for Entra ID is the latest extension of Veeam Data Cloud, a powerful, unified and intuitive cloud platform. Delivered with the simplicity of SaaS, Veeam Data Cloud integrates modern cloud-native technologies and AI acceleration to protect, secure, and manage data on-premises and in the cloud to enhance business continuity and usability while driving greater efficiencies.

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WEKA Announces New CRO, CPO & CSO Appointments

The company welcomed Ajay Singh as its new Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Brian Froehling as its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Nilesh Patel, formerly WEKA’s Chief Product Officer, was named Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and General Manager of Alliances and Corporate Development. Singh, Froehling, and Patel will all report to WEKA cofounder and Chief Executive Officer Liran Zvibel.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Radware for Exclusive Show on API Security in an AI-Driven World on April 29

Join us on Tuesday April 29th for an exclusive Solution Spotlight Event: API Security in an AI-Driven World: Stopping Business Logic Attacks. Hear from industry expert: Jeremie Ohavon Senior Product Manager at Radware. Live product demo and Q&A included!

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Solutions Review Set to Host Concentric AI for Exclusive Show on Data Security Readiness and ROI on May 14

Hear from industry Concentric AI’s Karthik Krishnan, 451 Research’s Justin Lam, and Southern Nevada Health’s Jason Frame to learn how to strengthen your own organization’s data security initiatives for improved resilience and increased ROI.

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