{"slug": "storage-news-ticker-15-may", "title": "Storage news ticker - 15 May", "summary": "Alation launched Alation AI Governance, a system that registers AI models, agents, and tools into a single inventory and maps them to applicable regulations to help enterprises comply with the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and emerging U.S. state-level AI laws. Druva announced an integration with Dell PowerProtect/Data Domain that adds a SaaS control plane for simplified management and cyber resilience across hybrid environments, creating an isolated, immutable data copy in the Druva Data Security Cloud. French open-source virtualization company Vates joined the Everpure Technology Alliance Program to provide validated architectures for evolving virtualization stacks independently of Everpure storage infrastructure.", "body_md": "data protection\n\n# Storage news ticker - 15 May\n\nAlation introduced Alation AI Governance to give enterprises a system of record they are missing for AI compliance. It registers every AI model, agent, and tool into a single inventory, maps each to applicable regulations, generates evidence-backed model cards, routes approvals through regulation-aware workflows, and produces a live compliance posture for the executive team on demand.\n\nAlation says the EU AI Act binds documentation requirements for high-risk AI systems. NIST AI RMF is becoming a U.S. procurement baseline. ISO 42001 is a growing certification target. U.S. state-level AI acts are arriving across jurisdictions. For enterprises operating across regions, each new regulation adds another set of requirements to track and audit obligations to satisfy. Manual processes cannot keep up. Read a [blog](https://www.alation.com/blog/ai-governance-enterprise-compliance/) to find out more.\n\n…\n\nDruva announced an integration with Dell PowerProtect/Data Domain, enabling enterprises to extend their Data Domain environments with SaaS-powered cyber resilience. With Druva, customers can continue using existing Data Domain systems in the data center and remote and branch offices (ROBO), while extending that foundation with a SaaS control plane for simplified management, flexible recovery, and stronger cyber resilience across hybrid environments. Data is also automatically protected in the Druva Data Security Cloud, creating an isolated, immutable copy that supports faster investigation, response, and recovery.\n\nDruva says what PowerProtect has historically lacked is a lightweight management layer that scales without adding software overhead. This integration provides that layer, a [cloud-native](https://www.druva.com/use-cases/cloud-native) control plane that sits above the hardware, handling orchestration, updates, and visibility without requiring teams to maintain the hardware and software stack required for on-premises data protection infrastructure that typically surrounds it.\n\nIt’s integration with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain is in limited availability and will be generally available this year. Read more in a [blog](https://www.druva.com/blog/druva-dell-data-domain-integration?utm_source=press-release&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=hybrid-cloud-non-veeam).\n\n…\n\nFrench open-source virtualization software company [Vates](https://vates.tech/en/about-vates/) has joined the Everpure Technology Alliance Program (TAP), formalizing a technical partnership between Vates VMS and Everpure (formerly Pure Storage). Enterprises running virtualized environments on top of Everpure storage are facing a growing dilemma: how to change one layer without breaking the other. This collaboration answers that question directly, giving organizations a structured, validated path to evolve their virtualization stack independently of their storage infrastructure, through tested, documented, and reproducible architectures designed for production environments.\n\n…\n\nLenovo high-end storage business Infinidat was given a 5 stars across-the-board rating for its InfiniBox enterprise storage array on the Gartner Peer Insights for Primary Storage Platforms end-user review website. Infinidat tells us the average rating for Infinidat on the Gartner Peer Insights site is 4.9 (out of 5 possible stars) overall, spanning hundreds of reviews and ratings from Global Fortune 500 and large enterprise customers across many different industries. Some of the customer quotes are amazing. Eg; \"Infinidat's performance and reliability set them apart from the competition significantly. Of all the vendors we deal with, Infinidat is the best for support, supporting our strategic direction, and responding to our needs. The storage is the most performant and the most stable of any I've experienced in 30 years of industry experience.\"\n\nClick [here ](https://www.infinidat.com/en/blog/global-enterprises-give-infinidat-top-marks-enterprise-storage-market)for the full text of the news blog.\n\n…\n\nSingapore-based [KAYTUS](https://www.kaytus.com/) has launched an All-QLC Flash Storage Solution, engineered to deliver high performance, massive scalability, and cost efficiency for 10,000-GPU clusters. The solution addresses data-delivery bottlenecks in ultra-large-scale AI training, helping maximize GPU resource utilization. KATUS says large-scale AI model training features highly read-intensive workloads that require tens of thousands of GPUs to concurrently access exabyte-scale datasets with sub-millisecond latency. Verified test-data shows that, at exabyte-scale deployment, the system delivers 10 TB/s aggregate bandwidth and 100 million IOPS. In addition, it reduces five-year TCO by 70% compared with traditional TLC-based products\n\nThe disaggregated architecture system features PCIe gen5 QLC drives, NUMA-balanced optimization, AI-native parallel file system, NFS over RDMA and native GPU Direct Storage technology.\n\nKAYTUS offers a comprehensive QLC product portfolio supporting single-drive capacities of up to 122.88 TB.\n\n- KR1180 (1U10) — High-Density Excellence: Delivers 1 PB of capacity and 140 GB/s bandwidth in a 1U chassis, featuring optimized air cooling and 18% latency improvement under GPU workloads.\n- KR2280 (2U24) — Versatile Flagship: Supports 24 QLC drives and seven PCIe 5.0 slots. It is compatible with both Intel and AMD platforms and offers liquid-cooling options for high-efficiency data centers.\n- KR4266 (4U60) — Big Data Massive Storage: Offers industry-leading physical density with up to 7 PB per unit, delivering 260 GB/s sequential read bandwidth and 20 million IOPS.\n\nKAYTUS is, we understand, an international-facing brand/ entity closely tied to China’s Inspur, and its name refers to the mountain K2. It was registered in Singapore in 2022. nCheck out its storage line - - [here](https://www.kaytus.com/product/storage/).\n\n…\n\nA South Korean analyst [says](https://x.com/jukan05/status/2054232729613742464) Samsung is gradually halting old 2D NAND technology production at Line 12 of its Hwaseong campus, converting the facility into an End Fab for advanced 1c DRAM production. He notes Kioxia notified customers in March of its plan to phase out 2D NAND and old 3rd-generation BiCS Flash products. Also Micron, meanwhile, is maintaining MLC NAND production only at levels sufficient to meet existing customer demand, and has also announced the wind-down of its consumer brand Crucial. As low-density commodity NAND volumes rapidly disappear from the market, the supply cliff is deepening. MLC 64Gb spot prices recently traded in the $20–$28 range, more than 300% higher than year-end 2024 levels.\n\n…\n\nVergeIO, positioning itself as the Private Cloud Operating System company, announced general availability of Kubernetes support in VergeOS. The release adds a CSI storage driver, Cloud Controller Manager, Cluster Autoscaler, and Rancher node driver with UI extension, all distributed as Helm charts from the verge-io repository on GitHub. Together, the components let VMware customers running Kubernetes collapse three separate licensing taxes — vSphere, a Kubernetes distribution, and overlay storage — into a single platform.\n\nIt says VMware shops running Kubernetes today pay three separate vendors to do one job. They pay Broadcom for vSphere licensing to host cluster nodes. They pay a Kubernetes distribution tax — Tanzu, OpenShift, or Rancher Prime. Many pay a third tax for overlay storage like Longhorn or Portworx because vSphere storage policies do not extend cleanly into Kubernetes without commercial Tanzu add-ons. VergeOS now handles all three layers natively.\n\nRead a white paper about this [here](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https://www.verge.io/white-paper-collapsing-the-kubernetes-stack/&esheet=54533934&newsitemid=20260512587935&lan=en-US&anchor=Get+the+paper&index=2&md5=60b3d1594c6b3756de60ceded2eae559).\n\n…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/storage-news-ticker-15-may", "canonical_source": "https://www.blocksandfiles.com/data-protection/2026/05/15/storage-news-ticker-15-may/5241334", "published_at": "2026-05-15 15:48:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-25 21:10:13.215601+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Alation", "EU AI Act", "NIST AI RMF", "ISO 42001", "Druva", "Dell PowerProtect", "Data Domain", "Druva Data Security Cloud"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/storage-news-ticker-15-may", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/storage-news-ticker-15-may.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/storage-news-ticker-15-may.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/storage-news-ticker-15-may.jsonld"}}