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Evaluating Storage & Data Protection this quarter? This page brings together what changed, which companies are most active, what practitioners are asking and how to build a shortlist.
Enterprise storage platforms, backup, recovery and ransomware resilience, and governed data access for AI.
What changed recently
Start with the news. These are the Storage & Data Protection stories getting the most attention right now, so you know what has shifted before you talk to anyone.
Storage & Data Protection
The Architecture Behind More Efficient AI Inference
The Architecture Behind More Efficient AI Inference by Everpure Blog Explore how shared KV caching, intelligent request routing, and hybrid model deployment can improve on-premises AI inference efficiency and reduce effective cost per token. The post The Architecture Behind More Efficient AI Inference appeared first on Everpure Blog .
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Why Your Computer Backup Strategy Determines Whether You Pay the Ransom
Ransomware recovery depends on more than having a backup. Learn how version history, deleted file retention, legal hold, and restore permissions shape your computer backup strategy, and how to test whether your team can actually recover when an attack hits. The post Why Your Computer Backup Strategy Determines Whether You Pay the Ransom appeared first on Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud…
Storage & Data Protection
Celebrating Our EMEA Award Winners at Pure Accelerate London
Celebrating Our EMEA Award Winners at Pure Accelerate London by Everpure Blog See this year's EMEA Award winners, recognized during the Partner Forum at Pure Accelerate London, and hear other highlights from the event. The post Celebrating Our EMEA Award Winners at Pure Accelerate London appeared first on Everpure Blog .
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Cyber Resilience by Design: From Threat Detection to Rapid Recovery
Cyber Resilience by Design: From Threat Detection to Rapid Recovery by Everpure Blog This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Everpure is focused on cyber resilience at the data layer. Explore capabilities that help make storage an active defender. The post Cyber Resilience by Design: From Threat Detection to Rapid Recovery appeared first on Everpure Blog .
Storage & Data Protection
Your Database Is Fine. Can You Prove It?
Your Database Is Fine. Can You Prove It? by Everpure Blog Explore why enterprise database management must evolve from configuration tracking to continuous outcome verification, with data primacy supporting business continuity. The post Your Database Is Fine. Can You Prove It? appeared first on Everpure Blog .
Storage & Data Protection
Cartridges: A Cache You Train, Not a Context You Fill
Cartridges: A Cache You Train, Not a Context You Fill by Everpure Blog This article explores what cartridges are, how they use compact KV caches to streamline long-context inference, and how they can help reduce resource demands. The post Cartridges: A Cache You Train, Not a Context You Fill appeared first on Everpure Blog .
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Cohesity strengthens cyber resilience capabilities for self-managed deployments
October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and this year CISA's theme, "Securing the Next 250," calls on organizations to strengthen the systems critical operations depend on. Organizations have long appreciated the deployment flexibility of Cohesity Data Cloud. Run our cyber resilience platform in your data center, manage it from your cloud tenant, or let Cohesity run it for you as a service.…
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Beyond Awareness: Why Cybersecurity Awareness Month Also Means Resilience
Beyond Awareness: Why Cybersecurity Awareness Month Also Means Resilience by Everpure Blog A Cybersecurity Awareness Month perspective from Rick Orloff, Chief Information Security Officer at Everpure. The post Beyond Awareness: Why Cybersecurity Awareness Month Also Means Resilience appeared first on Everpure Blog .
Companies to know in Storage & Data Protection
Those stories keep returning to the same names. These are the companies we track in this category; each profile has its news, solutions and published reviews.
Dell Technologies
Round Rock, Texas, USA
Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services, including PowerEdge servers, PowerStore, PowerScale and PowerMax storage, PowerProtect data protection and the Dell AI Factory. Dell was founded by Michael Dell in 1984; Dell Technologies was formed in 2016 when Dell acquired EMC. It is listed on the NYSE (DELL).
NetApp
San Jose, California, USA
NetApp is a data infrastructure company that sells unified storage systems, data management software and cloud storage services. Its ONTAP operating system powers AFF and FAS arrays and first-party cloud services such as Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Azure NetApp Files and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Founded in 1992 as Network Appliance, NetApp is listed on Nasdaq and headquartered in San Jose, California.
Everpure
Santa Clara, California, USA
Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is a data storage company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2009. It sells all-flash storage systems and software, including FlashArray block and file storage, FlashBlade unified file and object storage, the Purity operating environment, Portworx Kubernetes data services and Evergreen subscription models. Everpure is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
HPE
Spring (Houston), Texas, USA
HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services, including the HPE GreenLake cloud platform. Formed in 2015 when Hewlett-Packard split in two, HPE focuses on edge-to-cloud infrastructure and AI, and it expanded its networking business by acquiring Juniper Networks in July 2025.
IBM
Armonk, New York, USA
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform, IBM Z mainframes and Power servers, IBM Storage, Db2 databases, and automation and observability software such as Instana and HashiCorp Terraform. Founded in 1911 and headquartered in Armonk, New York, IBM is listed on the NYSE.
Hitachi Vantara
Santa Clara, California, USA
Hitachi Vantara is the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud subsidiary of Japan's Hitachi, Ltd. It sells the Virtual Storage Platform (VSP One) family of block, file and object storage, Hitachi Content Platform, data protection software and managed services. Formed in 2017 from Hitachi Data Systems and related units, Hitachi Vantara is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Huawei
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Huawei is a Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment, consumer devices, cloud services, data storage and AI processors. Its portfolio includes 5G and optical network infrastructure, CloudEngine switches, OceanStor storage, Huawei Cloud and Ascend AI chips. Founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei and headquartered in Shenzhen, Huawei is privately held and employee-owned through a trade union structure.
Lenovo
Hong Kong, China
Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers, ThinkAgile hyperconverged systems, ThinkSystem storage and Neptune liquid-cooled systems for HPC and AI. Founded in Beijing in 1984, Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and acquired IBM's PC business in 2005 and x86 server business in 2014.
Nutanix
San Jose, California, USA
Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage, Kubernetes management and database services. It serves enterprises running applications across data centres, edge sites and public clouds, including through NC2 on AWS and Azure. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix is listed on Nasdaq.
Commvault
Tinton Falls, New Jersey, USA
Commvault is an American data protection and cyber-resilience software company headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Its Commvault Cloud platform provides backup, recovery, ransomware protection and data management across on-premises, cloud and SaaS workloads, delivered as software or as a service. Commvault originated in 1988 as a development group within Bell Labs, was incorporated in 1996 and is listed on Nasdaq (CVLT).
Veeam
Veeam is a data protection and data resilience software company founded in 2006 by Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov. It sells the Veeam Data Platform, including Veeam Backup & Replication, for backup, recovery and ransomware resilience across virtual, physical, cloud, SaaS and Kubernetes workloads, plus Veeam Data Cloud as a service. Veeam is privately held, majority owned by Insight Partners since 2020.
Cohesity
San Jose, California, USA
Cohesity is a data security and data management company founded in 2013 by Mohit Aron and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its portfolio covers backup and recovery, cyber resilience, and AI-powered data search, including Cohesity DataProtect, NetBackup and Gaia. In December 2024 Cohesity completed its combination with Veritas Technologies' enterprise data protection business. The company is privately held.
Rubrik
Palo Alto, California, USA
Rubrik is a cybersecurity and data protection company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2014. Its Rubrik Security Cloud combines backup and recovery, immutable data protection, data security posture management, threat detection and cyber recovery across enterprise, cloud and SaaS data. Rubrik listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2024.
Qumulo
Seattle, Washington, USA
Qumulo is a data storage software company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2012. It develops a scale-out file and data platform for large volumes of unstructured data that runs on commodity hardware from multiple server vendors and natively in public clouds such as AWS and Microsoft Azure. Qumulo serves media, research, healthcare and other data-intensive organisations.
VAST Data
New York City, New York, USA
VAST Data is a US data infrastructure company founded in 2016 by Renen Hallak, Shachar Fienblit and Jeff Denworth, and headquartered in New York City. Its VAST Data Platform, built on a disaggregated shared-everything (DASE) architecture using all-flash storage, unifies file, object and block storage with a database and compute engine for AI, analytics and high-performance computing workloads.
DDN
Chatsworth, California, USA
DDN (DataDirect Networks) is a data storage company founded in 1998 by Alex Bouzari and Paul Bloch and headquartered in Chatsworth, California. It builds high-performance storage for AI, high-performance computing and data-intensive workloads, including EXAScaler parallel file systems based on Lustre, AI400X appliances and the Infinia data intelligence platform. DDN also owns Tintri. The company is privately held.
Wasabi
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Wasabi is a US cloud object storage company, Wasabi Technologies, founded in 2015 by David Friend and Jeff Flowers, co-founders of Carbonite, and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It sells S3-compatible hot cloud storage with a single storage tier and no fees for egress or API requests, used for backup, archiving, media and surveillance data, largely through channel partners.
Backblaze
San Mateo, California, USA
Backblaze is a US cloud storage company founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. It offers B2 Cloud Storage, an S3-compatible object storage service, and Backblaze Computer Backup for individuals and businesses. It is known for publishing its hard drive reliability statistics. Backblaze has been listed on Nasdaq since 2021.
MinIO
MinIO is a software company that develops high-performance, S3-compatible object storage designed for private cloud, hybrid cloud and AI data workloads. Its commercial product, AIStor, targets large-scale analytics and machine learning data lakes, while the original MinIO server is licensed under the GNU AGPLv3. MinIO was founded in 2014 by Anand Babu Periasamy, Garima Kapoor and Harshavardhana.
WEKA
Campbell, California, USA
WEKA (WekaIO) is a data platform and storage software company founded in 2013, with headquarters in Campbell, California and research and development in Israel. Its software-defined parallel file system and data platform, now branded NeuralMesh, delivers high-performance storage for AI training and inference, HPC and data-intensive workloads on-premises and in public clouds.
What practitioners are asking
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Cohesity Identity Resilience automates the last mile of AD recovery
Today we’re bringing two new major enhancements to how organizations use Cohesity Identity Resilience: Active Directory Forest Recovery (ADFR) powered by Semperis is now built directly into the self-managed deployment of Helios, and every recovery is now automated end to end. These enhancements accelerate the “last mile” of AD recovery. Your identity, security, and backup teams can now move with…
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Sovereignty’s Data Imperative
Sovereignty’s Data Imperative by Everpure Blog Without a strong data foundation, sovereignty is a claim, not a strategy The post Sovereignty’s Data Imperative appeared first on Everpure Blog .
Storage & Data Protection
Stronger Sovereignty, Better AI: It Starts with Controlling Your Data
Stronger Sovereignty, Better AI: It Starts with Controlling Your Data by Everpure Blog Data primacy produces data sovereignty you can act on and AI you can budget for. The post Stronger Sovereignty, Better AI: It Starts with Controlling Your Data appeared first on Everpure Blog .
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026
We analyzed 354,415 data drives for Q2 2026, revealing a 1.73% quarterly annualized failure rate and a 1.41% lifetime rate. Explore standout models, high-capacity drive deployment, and what CMR, SMR, and HAMR could mean for future data center storage strategies. The post Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026 appeared first on Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Storage & Data Protection
The Best AI Data Architecture Fits the Estate You Already Have
Every data platform on your shortlist claims to be modern. The harder question is: How much of your existing environment must change before AI can work? Get the answer wrong, and it’s the platform - not your strategy - dictates how much of your environment you must rebuild.
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How to Integrate LMCache with FlashBlade for Faster LLM Inference
How to Integrate LMCache with FlashBlade for Faster LLM Inference by Everpure Blog Explore how LMCache and Everpure FlashBlade can enable persistent KV caching to help reduce time to first token and increase LLM inference throughput. The post How to Integrate LMCache with FlashBlade for Faster LLM Inference appeared first on Everpure Blog .
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A New Era of AI Agents Demands a New Security Model
Securing autonomous AI agents requires more than a prompt. It requires enforcement at the runtime, network and silicon layers.
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Cohesity Data Cloud introduces deferred execution for quorum
Consider this scenario. It’s Tuesday, and your change advisory board (CAB) signs off on revoking a service account's elevated privileges, rotating an encryption key, or clearing a legal hold. But the actual change cannot touch production until the Saturday night maintenance window. That is when you have support personnel on standby to troubleshoot or perform a rollback if required. In the…
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Making Sustainability Count: Turning Environmental Impact into Business Insight
Making Sustainability Count: Turning Environmental Impact into Business Insight by Everpure Blog Impact accounting translates environmental and social impacts into monetary value, helping organizations like Everpure make more informed sustainability decisions. The post Making Sustainability Count: Turning Environmental Impact into Business Insight appeared first on Everpure Blog .
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Sovereign AI Is a Control Problem, not a Location Problem
Data sovereignty is an architectural constraint for 50% of firms, yet only 10% budget for it, a critical gap where enterprise risk quietly accumulates.
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Resilience Debt: Why AI Recovery Is More Than a Model
AI recovery takes more than restoring the model. Its data, instructions and settings must be restored too.
Storage & Data Protection
Beyond the Purchase: Services That Make New Business Laptops Work on Day One
New laptops sitting in boxes don't move your business forward. Here's how deployment, support and security services turn a hardware purchase into day-one productivity and long-term value.
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From AI Experimentation to Institutional Impact at EDUCAUSE 2026
Explore how Dell and NVIDIA are helping institutions scale AI securely, strategically, and responsibly at EDUCAUSE 2026.
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Why the Best AI Clouds Don’t Run on Flash Alone
AI training needs flash, but the rest of the AI lifecycle does not. See how tiered storage helps neoclouds lower costs, keep data close to GPUs, avoid hyperscaler lock-in, and retain more of the customer relationship across every workload stage. The post Why the Best AI Clouds Don’t Run on Flash Alone appeared first on Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
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The Race to Encrypt Everything Has a Hidden Cost
Encrypt where it protects the data without sacrificing the efficiency of the infrastructure underneath it.
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What Is the Best Way to Run Agentic AI Locally?
Running agentic AI locally gives you speed, privacy and predictable costs. Here's the best way to do it.