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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.
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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.
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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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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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Why Desktops Matter in Today’s AI-Driven Workplace
Fixed-location roles need more from their desktops. See how Dell Pro Desktops deliver for AI-era work.
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How To Measure Your Laptop Size The Right Way
Learn how to measure your laptop size, look up specs, and choose a bag that fits and protects your device.
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.
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Everpure Brings Carrier-Grade Storage to Red Hat’s Telco Cloud Reference Architecture
Everpure Brings Carrier-Grade Storage to Red Hat’s Telco Cloud Reference Architecture by Everpure Blog Learn how Everpure provides a validated data layer for the Red Hat telco network cloud, helping service providers streamline cloud-native operations. The post Everpure Brings Carrier-Grade Storage to Red Hat’s Telco Cloud Reference Architecture appeared first on Everpure Blog .
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Why the Everpure Growth Equation Has Changed
Why the Everpure Growth Equation Has Changed by Everpure Blog Everpure is at an inflection point. The post Why the Everpure Growth Equation Has Changed appeared first on Everpure Blog .
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The Market Has Spoken: QLC’s Hyperscale Moment Has Arrived
The Market Has Spoken: QLC’s Hyperscale Moment Has Arrived by Everpure Blog Hyperscale computing powers a massive share of the world's workloads, and today it forms the physical backbone of the AI revolution. The post The Market Has Spoken: QLC’s Hyperscale Moment Has Arrived appeared first on Everpure Blog .
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Everpure Cloud and Azure Red Hat OpenShift: A New Path from ‘Move and Improve’ to Modernization
Everpure Cloud and Azure Red Hat OpenShift: A New Path from ‘Move and Improve’ to Modernization by Everpure Blog Discover how Everpure Cloud with Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) helps organizations modernize VMs, optimize storage costs, and run containers on Azure. The post Everpure Cloud and Azure Red Hat OpenShift: A New Path from ‘Move and Improve’ to Modernization appeared first on Everpure…
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What IT Teams Get Wrong About Immutable Backups and Object Lock
Object lock can create false confidence when bucket settings, backup software, retention periods, and lifecycle rules are misaligned. Learn the most common immutable backup mistakes—and how to configure ransomware-resistant storage correctly without unexpected access, capacity, or operational transaction-cost surprises. The post What IT Teams Get Wrong About Immutable Backups and Object Lock…
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Cohesity FortKnox integrates clean room recovery
Cohesity FortKnox, our cyber vaulting solution, helps organizations maintain a trusted recovery copy even if production environments and backup infrastructure have been compromised. FortKnox delivers the essential controls organizations need for effective cyber vaulting: An isolated, immutable copy that stays out of reach of attackers. Quorum-based approvals that prevent any single user from…
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Zero-Touch or It Doesn’t Scale: The New Standard for Mac Fleet Backup
For lean IT teams, zero-touch Mac backup deployment is no longer optional. Learn what truly silent installation requires and how Backblaze helps admins protect every device across Jamf, Kandji, Addigy, and other MDM-managed fleets without user interaction or follow-up work. The post Zero-Touch or It Doesn’t Scale: The New Standard for Mac Fleet Backup appeared first on Backblaze Blog | Cloud…
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Cohesity Agent Resilience: A leading way to discover, protect, and recover your AI agents
Today, Cohesity is introducing Cohesity Agent Resilience, a new capability in Cohesity Data Cloud that helps organizations protect agent state and recover AI agents to a trusted version when something goes wrong. AI agents are changing enterprise operations. Unlike AI assistants that help people complete tasks, enterprise AI agents execute multi-step workflows without a human reviewing every…
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Tutorial: Autonomous Cyber Resilience with Cohesity Data Cloud and DSPM
While enhancements will continue to be added, the foundational capabilities are available today. In this tutorial, we show you how Cohesity Data Cloud and Cohesity DSPM work together to help you discover and protect all data automatically. Take action as you uncover new and sensitive data We all know that enterprise data volumes are growing. To keep up with protecting and securing your estate,…
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Pacing the AI frontier is important. Building a resilient enterprise is urgent.
I recently read Dario Amodei's essay “We Must Pace the Frontier.” He argues that AI capabilities are advancing faster than alignment, interpretability, and evaluation can keep up. His three-step plan begins with independent evaluators who have ongoing, employee-like access to verify how frontier labs operate. I agree with the principle behind his argument: the ability of AI to act should not…
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Backblaze B2 x Suite Studios: S3 Native File Streaming Turns B2 Cloud Storage Into a High-Performance Drive
Backblaze B2 now integrates with Suite Studios S3 Native File Streaming, giving teams high-performance, drive-like access to cloud data. Work directly with standard S3-compatible objects across media, scientific, geospatial, and engineering workflows without duplicating datasets or creating new storage silos. The post Backblaze B2 x Suite Studios: S3 Native File Streaming Turns B2 Cloud Storage…
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Introducing the Backblaze B2 MCP Server
The Backblaze B2 MCP Server gives AI agents a safe, standard way to operate cloud object storage. Connect MCP-compatible clients to scoped B2 application keys, manage files and buckets, move large objects directly, and control destructive actions with configurable safeguards. The post Introducing the Backblaze B2 MCP Server appeared first on Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
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Built With AI Clouds: Multitenancy That Scales and Economics That Finally Work
The leading AI cloud providers — including CoreWeave, Firmus, Lambda Labs, Nebius, and many others — have built businesses on the promise of shared, high-performance AI infrastructure. Delivering on that promise at scale means solving two problems simultaneously: giving every tenant the isolation they need to trust shared infrastructure, and keeping the economics efficient enough The post Built…
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How AI’s Memory Wall Is Reshaping Infrastructure Strategy Beyond GPUs
The AI infrastructure crisis is here, and its cause might not be what you think. While the industry scrambles to secure scarce chips and expand data center capacity as AI workloads grow exponentially, a more fundamental problem is hiding in plain sight: the AI memory wall. And it’s draining billions of dollars from AI initiatives. The post How AI’s Memory Wall Is Reshaping Infrastructure Strategy…
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AI Workflows in Financial Services: How Storage Makes or Breaks Your Models
In high-performance financial services modeling, data latency isn’t just technical debt, it’s lost revenue opportunities. NeuralMesh™ flips the script and helps FinTech organizations increase profitability. AI adoption in FinServ is accelerating, but storage infrastructure is holding groups back from profitability The silent performance killer, idle GPUs lead to fewer simulations and slower…
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Your Kubernetes Workloads Aren’t CPU Bound — They’re Waiting on Storage
TL;DR Kubernetes workloads that scale compute without scaling storage become I/O bound — CPU stays low, but performance degrades. The symptoms are measurable: rising I/O wait, GPU idle time, and flat throughput despite adding pods. Traditional centralized storage suffers from controller and metadata bottlenecks, and limited parallel throughput, which compound at scale. Disaggregated,…