Storage & Data Protection: September 2026
Press summary
In September 2026, Techarda published 83 stories about Storage & Data Protection from 24 companies, 388% more than in August 2026. Reading figures are withheld this month because fewer than 5 people are behind them. AI engines requested Storage & Data Protection pages 437 times. The most frequent theme was Backup & recovery (23 stories).
This report is for anyone tracking Storage & Data Protection: buyers, analysts and journalists. It counts what companies published on Techarda and what technologists read and did with it. Every figure is a plain count for one calendar month; the method is at the end.
Reading figures for Storage & Data Protection this month rest on fewer than 5 people, so they are withheld and this issue is below our bar for a full report. The publication figures below still stand.
Key figures
The month at a glance, with the change on August 2026 where both months can be published.
Stories published
83
388% more than in August 2026
Companies publishing
24
With at least one story this month.
Reads and actions
Withheld
Fewer than 5 people, so we don't publish it.
AI engine reads
437
Requests from identified AI crawlers and assistants.
Supply and demand
Supply is what companies published; demand is what people read and acted on. Comparing each as a share of all Techarda categories shows whether Storage & Data Protection gets more or less attention than its volume of news.
Storage & Data Protection accounted for 3.2% of the stories published across all categories this month. The demand side is withheld this month because fewer than 5 people are behind it.
Themes on the rise
The topics that came up most in this month's published Storage & Data Protection stories, with August 2026 alongside.
- Backup & recovery23 (3 in August 2026)
- Kubernetes5 (new this month)
- AI agents4 (2 in August 2026)
- Generative AI3 (2 in August 2026)
- GPUs3 (1 in August 2026)
- CI/CD2 (1 in August 2026)
- Postgres2 (new this month)
- Ransomware2 (1 in August 2026)
- Sovereign cloud2 (new this month)
- Vulnerabilities2 (new this month)
Launches, deals and partnerships
Notable moves from the month's published stories. Each title links to the Techarda summary, which links to the original.
Launches
- Storage-optimized Z4D machine family, now GA, is designed for IO-intensive workloads · Google Cloud, 28 September 2026
- Cohesity Data Cloud introduces deferred execution for quorum · Cohesity, 25 September 2026
- The Next Step for Mission-Critical Workloads: Managed Databases Advanced Edition · DigitalOcean, 17 September 2026
- New in CoreWeave AI Object Storage: Cross-Region Writes and Archive Storage · CoreWeave, 16 September 2026
- Cohesity Agent Resilience: A leading way to discover, protect, and recover your AI agents · Cohesity, 16 September 2026
Partnerships
- Wasabi Joins the Vultr Cloud Alliance to Deliver Greater Cloud Flexibility and Better Economics · Vultr, 29 September 2026
- Backblaze B2 x Suite Studios: S3 Native File Streaming Turns B2 Cloud Storage Into a High-Performance Drive · Backblaze, 10 September 2026
Who published
24 companies published Storage & Data Protection stories this month, and the five busiest accounted for 71.1% of them. These are counts of published stories only: Techarda never publishes how many people read a particular company.
- Everpure23 stories
- Dell Technologies15 stories
- Cohesity10 stories
- Backblaze7 stories
- Megaport4 stories
- CoreWeave3 stories
- Nutanix2 stories
- Google Cloud2 stories
- Amazon Web Services2 stories
- SUSE1 story
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Methodology
- Stories published counts stories a Techarda editor approved, in Storage & Data Protection as their main category or as a tagged one, dated by when the source published them. A story tagged to two categories counts in both.
- Reads and actions counts page views, follows, saves and click-throughs to the source by people on techarda.com. Signed-in Techarda staff are left out, and AI crawler traffic is counted separately.
- AI engine reads counts requests from identified AI crawlers, assistants acting for a person and the Techarda agent API.
- Themes come from automatic topic tags on published stories. Launches, deals and partnerships are stories tagged that way.
- Any figure that describes people is published only when at least 5 people are behind it. A full report also needs 20 or more published stories in the month.
- The figures are fixed when the month is issued, early in the following month, so they don't drift as late stories arrive.
The full method is under how the Category Pulse is put together. Spotted something wrong? Email engage@techarda.com.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the Techarda Category Pulse?
A monthly report for each technology category on Techarda: how many stories companies published, how much technologists read and acted on, which themes rose and the launches and deals that mattered. Each issue covers one complete calendar month (UTC).
Why are some figures withheld?
Anything that describes people is only published when at least 5 people are behind it. Below that we leave the figure out and say so, rather than show a number that could point to an individual.
Can I quote the Storage & Data Protection figures?
Yes. Cite "Techarda Category Pulse, Storage & Data Protection, September 2026" and link to this page. The CSV and JSON downloads hold the same public figures.
Techarda Category Pulse · techarda.com/reports/category-pulse/storage/2026-09 · Published 22 October 2026 · engage@techarda.com