Storage news ticker - 22 October ConnectWise shut down its Cloud Backup service after attackers used a stolen vendor credential to access 173 Microsoft 365 customer tenants on October 15, and the company said on October 22 that restoration would take several more days. ConnectWise also pulled SaaS Security and Cloud Management as a precaution, leaving MSPs unable to back up data, reach archives or restore files; the company said existing backup archives "remain encrypted, isolated and preserved, with no indication of compromise." The same ticker reported Couchbase's AI Data Plane update adding native Amazon Bedrock integration with semantic caching, managed Agent Memory and a managed MCP server on AWS, plus Egnyte's Context Studio and AI Control Center for governing agent access to business content. Storage news ticker - 22 October Data protector Acronis has a new CEO Prakash Panjwani, joining this month. A prior CEO Ezequiel Steiner left a year ago. He was replaced by Jan-Jaap Jager, coming from being President and CEO at Virtuozzo. Panjwani previously served as CEO of WatchGuard Technologies for about a decade, transforming it from a firewall specialist into a broader AI-powered cybersecurity platform and of SafeNet. Jager remains an Acronis shareholder. … ConnectWise https://www.connectwise.com/ shut down Cloud Backup after attackers used a stolen vendor credential to access 173 Microsoft 365 customer tenants on October 15. They also pulled SaaS Security and Cloud Management as a precaution. That means MSPs relying on those tools could not back up data, reach archives, or restore files. As of Oct 22, :”As previously reported, we identified unauthorized access to application credentials associated with Cloud Backup, formerly SkyKick. Our teams and independent specialists continue advancing phased restoration, completing the security validation required at each step. We will share service-specific availability and reconnection instructions as they are confirmed. Previously published findings and partner guidance remain current. We recognize the continued disruption to your business and customers and remain focused on restoring service safely. Keep affected connections disabled until formal instructions apply to your service.” “Existing backup archives remain encrypted, isolated and preserved, with no indication of compromise.” Expect to wait several more days until normal service is restored. … Couchbase , calling itself the Operational Data Platform for AI, today announced an update of its AI Data Plane with new capabilities including native Amazon Bedrock integration with semantic caching, managed Agent Memory and a managed MCP server on AWS, in addition to vector search within Couchbase Operational Insights. Together, these innovations give enterprise teams a single governed platform to replace fragmented data services that slow agent deployments, reducing both infrastructure burden and the cost of running production AI at scale. Couchbase unifies key-value, SQL, full-text search, vector search, and real-time columnar analytics on a single JSON data set, so agents get operational and historical context in one call instead of a round trip through separate systems. … DDN has a new CMO, Adam Berlew, and says he brings experience across cloud, AI, hardware, software and services, with a career spanning marketing, go-to-market and product leadership roles at companies including Equinix CMO , Atlassian, Google Cloud, Broadcom and Dell. He will lead DDNs global marketing organisation as it looks to strengthen its brand, accelerate customer acquisition and connect more organisations with infrastructure designed to support AI workloads. Prior CMO Jyothi Swaroop left in April to be SMO at ChargePoint. … Collaboration supplier Egnyte announced announced Context Studio and AI Control Center; two new platform capabilities designed to help organizations improve how AI uses business context while strengthening control over agent access. Context Studio enables teams to visualize, manage, and optimize the business context behind their AI agents' improving accuracy and reducing AI costs. AI Control Center gives IT administrators a single dashboard to discover every AI agent connected to company content, see what sensitive data each one can reach, and restrict or re-scope that access. To learn more, visit the Context Studio https://www.egnyte.com/products/context-studio and AI Control Center https://www.egnyte.com/products/ai-control-center webpages or watch the State of Egnyte: Fall 2026 https://pages.egnyte.com/state-of-egnyte-fall-2026.html?utm source=event&utm medium=website&utm campaign=state-of-egnyte-fall-2026 virtual event for a detailed walkthrough of Context Studio, AI Control Center, and Egnyte’s AI journey. … JEDEC has established a new task group focused on advancing industry standards for LPDDR persistent memory, with MRAM developer Everspin chairing the effort. The group will focus on simplifying integration and enabling broader adoption of persistent memory across compatible system architectures. Everspin's Steffen Hellmold, VP of corporate strategy, is chairing the task group and brings more than 30 years of experience participating in JEDEC standards activities. The work is intended to enable controller support for both DRAM and persistent memory, as well as approaches that enable LPDDR DRAM and persistent memory from multiple vendors to operate within compatible system architectures. … Austrian banking IT Services provider Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH & Co KG, has implemented a cyber resiliency architecture for its mainframe environment in partnership with Hitachi Vantara . Powered by Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform VSP and based on immutable snapshots, the solution reduces recovery time in the worst-case scenario — the total loss of all storage systems across both data center sites — from an estimated seven days to between one and two hours. It also limits potential data loss to two hours. Raiffeisen’s mainframe environment processes approximately one billion transactions per month for more than 1.25 million end customers. Raiffeisen Informatik operates the IT infrastructure for central institutions of the Raiffeisen Banking Group, including Raiffeisen Bank International RBI , Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien, Raiffeisenlandesbank Burgenland, Raiffeisen Landesbank Vorarlberg, and the UNIQA insurance group. Before the project, Raiffeisen Informatik operated two production storage systems across two data center sites, supported by daily FlashCopies and batch backups written to a virtual tape library. The architecture met the four-hour recovery time objectives for standard failure scenarios. Now the firm can cope with an attacker destroying all storage systems across both data centers simultaneously. … IBM announced Q4 fy2026 results with $17.1 billion revenues, up 5% Y/Y, and $2.2 billion GAAP net income. - Software BU revenue up 8 percent to $7.8 billion. - Consulting BU revenue flat at $5.3 billion. - Infrastructure BU revenue of $3.7 billion, up 4 percent, It said storage hardware, in the distributed infrastructure segment - where revenues grew 32%, delivered record revenue growth for its Infrastructure BU, gaining market share across the portfolio. CEO Arvind Krishna said: “AI continues to increase demand for storage and we are gaining share through differentiated offerings across Flash, Fusion, tape, and IBM Z storage, including AI-enabled capabilities that help clients scale and manage data for AI.” CFO Jim Kavanaugh said: “Strength across Storage and Power reflects the growing importance of differentiated infrastructure as clients modernize their environments, address data growth, and support AI at scale. With a sizable backlog in Distributed Infrastructure exiting the quarter, we are well positioned for continued momentum in the fourth quarter. “ In the software BU Kavanaugh said: “Data grew 20%, driven by another strong performance from Confluent, with bookings growth of about 20%.” … A labor union in Taiwan carried out the first-ever strike there, with a small number of workers at Micron’s Taoyuan plant, wanting a profit-sharing scheme for employees. This follows a similar union-employer dispute in South Korea where Samsung agreed to a profits sharing deal with employees. Micron said it wanted to maintain a communications dialog with its employees. … mountOS https://mountos.io/ is a cross-platform, forkable, time-traveling distributed filesystem over S3-compatible object storage. It provides native, POSIX-compliant filesystem access across macOS, Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes, allowing applications to work directly with object-backed storage without requiring a complete local copy. Unlike traditional fixed-capacity volumes, mountOS uses object storage as its underlying storage layer, with local SSD caching and replicated write handling for low-latency access. It also supports point-in-time filesystem views and writable forks. The system is designed for deployment on infrastructure operated by cloud providers, storage vendors, and enterprises. More information here