# Storage News Ticker - 31 July > Source: > Published: 2026-07-31 16:11:03+00:00 # Storage News Ticker - 31 July Open data mover and connector supplier **Airbyte** has a new workspaces feature added to its Airbyte Agents Platform which delivers finite controls for organizing users, data connectors, and AI agents – providing organizations with a new level of governance for their AI usage. Each workspace can have its own users and defined access to specific data connectors with the ability to add and remove users from different workspaces, as needed. It has expanded write capabilities for HubSpot meaning AI agents can now create and update contacts, companies, deals, and tickets. These capabilities advance Airbyte's vision of creating the industry's leading data platform for agentic AI. Go [here](https://app.airbyte.ai/sign-in) for a free trial of Airbyte Agents. …. Netflix is[ reportedly being sued for $105m](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/30/netflix-sued-nicolas-cage-war-thriller?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us) due to the theft of a number of hard drives containing unreleased content including a copy of Fortitude, a Nicholas Cage film that took more than seven years to bring to the screen. Jon Fielding, Managing Director, EMEA, at **Apricorn,** said: “That content has seen time and money invested in its production, upwards of millions of dollars, all of which can go to waste if its leaked online as we saw with the Sony Pictures hack back in 2014. Then the Guardians of Peace claimed to have obtained over 100 terabytes of data, some of which was then leaked online including unreleased films and the attack also scuttled the launch of 'The Interview’ due to the pro-North Korean sentiments of the group. “The film industry will always need high capacity portable media but it must focus more on how that media is protected. If those drives had used properly implemented hardware-based encryption, that data would not be at risk. Delete mechanisms for repeated password attempts could also have provided additional assurance that the data would not be recoverable by the thieves. The cost to Netflix would then run into a few hundred dollars as opposed to the $105m law suit they are facing today.” … Cloud storage provider **Backblaze** published its Q2 2026 Network Stats report which shows that neocloud and hyperscaler traffic behave nothing like the traditional CDN, hosting, and ISP traffic that has moved across the internet for decades. AI traffic is fundamentally more volatile than traditional internet traffic. "What defines AI traffic isn't volume. It's timing. Traditional internet traffic stays smooth because it's millions of requests happening at different times. A GPU cluster is the opposite: tens of thousands of machines moving data at the same instant, so the peaks never average out," said Dan Spraggins, CTO, Backblaze. "That's why we run these workloads over private network interconnects. We can engineer each one on its own terms, and one customer's burst never lands on another's traffic." The full report, a somewhat lengthy read, including detailed variance charts, traffic-type breakdowns, and geographic heatmaps, is available on the Backblaze blog: [Network Stats for Q2 2026: All Eyes on Neocloud Traffic Variance](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/network-stats-for-q2-2026-all-eyes-on-neocloud-traffic-variance/ ). … Data protector **Catalogic Software **announced DPX 4.16, the latest release of its enterprise backup and recovery platform, adding agentless protection for Proxmox virtual machines and new cyber resilience, compliance, and disaster recovery capabilities. Custmers can protect Proxmox alongside VMware, Hyper-V, physical servers, and cloud workloads through a single platform. DPX 4.16 also adds end-to-end audit logging in vStor, backup and recovery support for VMware workloads protected by Virtual Trusted Platform Module encryption, and enhancements to multi-VM recovery, tape management, and platform maintenance. DPX 4.16 is generally available and more information can be found - - [here](https://docs.catalogicsoftware.com/release-notes/). … At FMS 2026, Aug 4-6, Sant Clara, CA, **Cerabyte** will introduce its vision for "The Missing Tier," exploring why long-term data preservation may require an entirely new storage tier. It says long-term storage is getting more expensive to manage. Its laser-etched, ceramic-coated glass tablets, provide rapid data access, immutability and ultra-low energy consumption. Christian Pflaum, Cerabyte CEO, said: “The lifecycle of the vast majority of data stored in secondary storage far exceeds the lifetime of the media. Cerabyte-based storage delivers that missing tier and establishes a new standard for accessible, permanent data preservation.” Its storage technology combines massive write-and-read parallelization with fast, random data access. Hundreds of ceramic-on-glass sheets can be stored in cartridges, while optical writing and reading systems process millions of bits in parallel to support gigabyte-per-second throughput and retrieval within seconds. … If everyone's suddenly running agents, what are they supposed to use to talk to each other? Cloud file system services supplier **CTERA** says the file system is already the AI coordination layer. A file system already carries permissions and audit logs, it's where humans already hand off work. Extend that to agents and coordination scales without a brittle pipeline wiring everyone to everyone. CTERA's content services layer consists of three services: Search, Classify, and Experts. They watch a folder and generate derivative artifacts next to each file: a transcript, a JSON metadata file, a summary, and tags. That’s done once at ingestion, meaning a hundred different agents don’t need to re-parse the same file. Find out more from CTERA’s Tech Field Day [presentation](https://techfieldday.com/appearance/ctera-presents-at-ai-infrastructure-field-day-5/ ). … CTERA announced support for Microsoft Copilot, enabling organizations to securely extend 365 Copilot and Teams Copilot beyond Microsoft 365 repositories to governed enterprise file data managed by CTERA across edge locations, data centers, and cloud environments. The CTERA Intelligent Data Platform securely connects Microsoft Copilot to enterprise file data through MCP and CTERA Content into a secure Global File System, allowing end users to retrieve accurate, source-cited answers based on the files they are authorized to access. Enterprise data remains in place, existing permissions are preserved, and organizations avoid costly migrations or custom retrievals. Organizations can use CTERA Classify to enrich enterprise data with semantic understanding, metadata, and classification while ensuring every AI response respects existing access controls and governance policies. Read a [blog](https://www.ctera.com/blog/microsoft-copilot-cant-see-your-best-enterprise-data-and-metadata-heres-how-to-fix-it-and-make-it-ai-ready/) to find out more. … Data and AI security company **Cyera** is acquiring non-human identity specialist Oasis Security in a $1 billion deal, in a move to bring data security and identity management under one platform.Agents are increasingly reasoning, deciding and acting across the systems that run a business, and each one is effectively an identity requesting access to data. Cyera is pairing its data intelligence layer with Oasis's identity layer to cover both sides of that problem. It says non-human identities in Fortune 500 companies grew 480% in the last six months alone, now the fastest-growing identity type in the enterprise. Combined, the data security and identity security markets represent over $125 bn in TAM. Cyera says the move positions it as the leading platform in agentic security … Purpose-built backup target appliance supplier **ExaGrid** announced the release of ExaGrid software version 8.1. It has: Support for Cohesity DataProtect Uses S3 protocol. Supports Cohesity Cloud Archive Direct. ExaGrid further deduplicates Cohesity deduplicated data, cutting the storage footprint in half. ExaGrid works with Cohesity NetBackup for mixed NetBackup and DataProtect environments. V8.1 also features: Available for backup apps that support NFS encryption over the wire. ExaGrid already supports encryption over the wire with other protocols such as the Veeam Data Mover, CIFS, and S3. Share Quota - ExaGrid already tracks how much data is going into each share. Now, a Managed Service Provider (MSP) can set a quota to match what the customer contract is. The MSP can set the share quota to match the amount in the contract. If the quota is exceeded, ExaGrid sends an alert that the share quota has been exceeded. (Backups are not interrupted, just an alert is sent.) … **HighPoint Technologies** announced the launch of its Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Nvidia GPU Direct Storage (GDS) hardware system portfolio. Engineered specifically for AI inference, autonomous data logging, and real-time edge processing, this new lineup enables regional Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), and system integrators to instantly deploy hyper-scaler tier AI data paths using standard, off-the-shelf "White-Box" server hardware and NVMe storage. HighPoint's P2P and GDS solutions utilize high-lane-count Broadcom PEX89048 (Gen5) and PEX88048 (Gen4) PCIe switch engines to deliver up to 64 GB/s of real-world transfer bandwidth and microsecond-level latency, split across two primary hardware topologies: High-Density Storage Feeders (Motherboard CPU-Routed) and Balanced Compute & Storage Loops (Hardware-Isolated). The Rocket brand kit is available now. For more information, product specifications, and concrete architectural blueprints, please visit [https://www.highpoint-tech.com/](https://tracking.us.nylas.com/l/0b7c0c79e97547898eaffee3b485853a/1/cc8977f04a9e8381d7c4aaf39bb0eba216c1bdba247257b25e896682e15411cd?cache_buster=1784697619). … **HPE** has appointed David Goulden to its board. He joins the Board’s Finance & Investment Committee and HR & Compensation Committee. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Booking Holdings Inc., the global online travel company and parent of brands including Booking.com, Priceline, and Kayak. Goulden previously spent more than a decade in senior leadership roles at EMC Corp, during which time it was bought by Dell n 2016, where he served as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer of EMC's Information Infrastructure business. He helped manage integration efforts after the EMC transaction, which at the time was the largest technology merger in history. … The** IBM** Fusion Storage Node CS1 is a purpose-built storage platform delivering a uniquely integrated and optimized experience for IBM Storage Ceph customers. Powered by IBM FlashCore Module 5 (FCM5) technology, the Fusion Storage Node CS1 delivers exceptional performance, industry-leading data efficiency, and intelligent data reduction capabilities. It has a high-density architecture featuring 2 nodes per 2U and support for up to 32 drives, and is optimized to deliver predictable performance for Ceph-intensive workloads. IBM Fusion Storage Node CS1 features: 2 canisters in a compact 2U, 19-inch rack mount enclosure Each node equipped with a 48-core processor 1 TiB base cache (512 GiB per canister) upgradable to 3 TiB (1.5 TiB per canister) Supports up to 32 EDSFF E3.L NVMe drives (each canister with access to 16 drives) IBM FlashCore Modules (FCM5) available in capacities from 26.4 TB to 105.6 TB for ultra-high capacity deployments. It has a maximum total capacity of 3.37 PB raw in a 2U enclosure (1.68 PB raw per canister), offering unmatched density and flexibility. More information [here](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/storage-offers-fusion-storage-node-cs1). … **Kioxia** announced sample shipments of 1Tb (terabit) Triple-Level Cell (TLC) memory devices incorporating its 9th-gen BiCS FLASH 3D flash, designed to support applications such as AI-enabled PCs and smartphones with low- to mid-level storage capacities that require high performance. Kioxia is simultaneously advancing two distinct product lines: its 9th-gen 230-layer tech, which delivers high performance at relatively low cost of investing, and its 10th-gen 332-layer tech, which leverages advanced layer stacking to achieve massive capacity and superior performance. It says this is its dual-axis strategy. Gen 9 devices, using CMOS directly Bonded to Array (CBA) and On-Pitch Select Gate Drain (OPS) technology. They provide 4.8 Gb/s, a 33% improvement over gen 8 (218-layer) devices, matching the performance of 10th-gen devices. … [ Leaseweb](https://viczzmoab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001MABJOArOVcm7WRjbRLT33YSiW64tXeNpSgcOt1Ruj-gKKOJ61LCg1pgUbDTzy-7h6LL2MMSrbjEOdou6xGF7YiiZ4F3IFkqN3d5yCY46AqHudDtMxNDqyENT6gl6zOWmSV1ENCYVX4fhWLkvxaR2zGIVORfTxmab32_FA3IlMR0=&c=18oAzXLFPSYNuKONr_Y6hKVjg30J5KhyMfV7qSwCu5ZVcjdGobc3Tg==&ch=Pjx3s7hePHsNWjqj4Onr4mZUD1jyFBYrI7sSC4FCNVA__Gn6FX1sfA==), a cloud services and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, has announced the acquisition of the Broadcom VMware white label VCSP customer base of ITQ, a leading European Broadcom IT Services company. The move follows the recently announced [strategic partnership](https://viczzmoab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001MABJOArOVcm7WRjbRLT33YSiW64tXeNpSgcOt1Ruj-gKKOJ61LCg1l_ZzsJWWJnWsBPIaShW9ZK58WAmIATCvmHVfisPr-EjlXojslYuU9-tcp-2q21ioINKRlgui9ALqeMtOck6HhVAEsOuIbpfp2diZvt5fbq45wYA2igrAwBp7t5oZWfSg44ldshOWGMw-aBvx1a8DeRULO4UgPbMJWcYge0zXdfnIdZhUDBRecsfwEyPOYOtKwoEgP27oaSMNHo7u57xIXjJCjHrAF0H3BJtIQxDSH3vEOC-v-NkIwY=&c=18oAzXLFPSYNuKONr_Y6hKVjg30J5KhyMfV7qSwCu5ZVcjdGobc3Tg==&ch=Pjx3s7hePHsNWjqj4Onr4mZUD1jyFBYrI7sSC4FCNVA__Gn6FX1sfA==)between the two companies, under which ITQ selected Leaseweb as its infrastructure partner for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) services for its VCSP partners, in a significant expansion of Leaseweb's VCF platform across Europe. … **MaxLinear **will showcase its Panther Storage Accelerator platform at Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2026, held August 4–6 in Santa Clara, California. Panther provides hardware-accelerated compression, delivering up to a 3× compression ratio on AI data. This increased efficiency can enable up to 2.2× greater effective KV cache capacity, helping systems support up to 2.2× more AI agents within existing infrastructure. Panther combines hardware-accelerated compression, encryption, erasure coding, data integrity services, and high-speed data movement in a single accelerator platform. By offloading these data-intensive functions from host CPUs, Panther helps organizations increase effective storage capacity, improve infrastructure utilization, reduce power consumption, and accelerate AI and storage workloads while lowering overall infrastructure costs. … MSP-focused data protector and cyber security suppler **N-able** has expanded its strategic relationship with international specialty technology distributor Climb Channel Solutions by appointing it N-able’s UK and Ireland distributor to accelerate growth across the reseller channel. … SIOS Technology announced the availability of LifeKeeper v10.1 which introduces AIOps-ready automation capabilities that help organizations streamline the deployment and management of HA/DR environments while strengthening cloud security and expanding support for modern enterprise infrastructures. LifeKeeper v10.1 includes a new Windows command-line interface for automated cluster management, support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025, and enhanced integrations for AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). More information [here](https://us.sios.com). … **SK Hynix **plans to begin mass-producing and shipping LPDDR6, its next-generation low-power mobile DRAM, in the second half of this year, intending to make its first shipment to China’s Xiaomi for use in mobile devices. SK Hynix’s LPDDR6 uses its sixth-generation 10nm-class (1c) process, offering improved data-transfer speeds and power efficiency over the previous generation. Citrini analyst Jukan [says](https://x.com/jukan05/status/2081909569706762520) the launch is expected to further intensify competition among the three major memory manufacturers—Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron—in SOCAMM, a next-generation, LPDDR-based low-power memory module for AI servers. The Xiaomi deal is expected to pave the way for SK Hynix to expand LPDDR6 shipments to other Chinese smartphone manufacturers, including Vivo and Oppo. Jukan says Nvidia recently unveiled Vera, its first internally designed CPU for AI servers. If HBM is the GPU’s natural partner, LPDDR is the CPU’s. As the AI market becomes increasingly advanced and demand for CPUs rises sharply, demand for SOCAMM is also expected to strengthen. … **Snowflake** announced Cortex AI Gateway: a new control layer designed to help organisations securely manage AI agents across both Snowflake and third-party platforms. It introduces a centralised approach to governing how agents access enterprise data, applications, models and tools, while providing greater visibility into agent activity and AI spending. Snowflake is positioning AI governance around zero-trust principles, with capabilities designed to provide visibility, task-scoped access and centralised policy enforcement for AI agents operating across enterprise environments. Cortex AI Gateway builds on Snowflake’s [acquisition of Natoma](https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-announces-intent-to-acquire-natoma-providing-secure-connectivity-for-the-agentic-enterprise/) (May 2026), bringing Natoma's enterprise MCP platform capabilities directly into the Snowflake platform for secure, enterprise-grade agent interoperability. It has introduced the first wave of i3rd party access integrations with 1Password, Aembit, Linx Security, Okta, SailPoint, and Saviynt that help organizations consistently govern and audit agents across platforms … **StorPool Storage** says it had strong momentum during the first half of 2026, marked by strategic partnerships with HPE, Oracle, leading to Oracle Virtualization, and Proxmox. The new native plug-in for Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) now delivers a fast and fully-managed storage software offering to Proxmox users. … Bulgarian storage (Tiger Bridge) provider **Tiger Technology,** founded way back in 2003, announced the initial closing of a $10 million Series A financing round led by TCEE Fund IV, advised by 3TS Capital Partners, with participation from TDJ, Endeavor Catalyst, Impetus, and existing investors including MFG Invest and Mr. Dimitar Ratchev. The cash will fuel Tiger Technology’s global growth strategy, deepening its presence in the US, Europe and the Middle East. Strategic partnerships with leading hyperscale cloud providers will support the company’s next phase of growth. Among them is AWS, which recently named Tiger Technology a Rising Star Partner of 2025. Tiger Technology manages over 100 petabytes of data for some of the largest and most demanding transportation, media, construction and government customers in the world. Recent client results include a 10x increase in file-restore speed during a multi-petabyte cloud migration, on-premise storage reductions of up to 90%, and unlocking 10 years worth of historical data for AI analysis. … **Veeam** announced the general availability of Veeam Data Cloud Vault Archive, a new archival-class cloud tier in the Veeam Data Cloud Vault family built for secure, compliant, long-term backup retention at archive-class economics. It helps organizations move older, rarely used backup data off expensive storage while keeping it secure, compliant, and recoverable. Veeam Vault Archive provides a lower-cost archive tier for aged backups, large unstructured data sets, and redundant, obsolete or trivial (ROT) data. Recovery-critical backups should remain on performance-optimized Veeam Data Cloud Vault, while older backup data is moved into Veeam Vault Archive automatically, securely and without adding operational complexity. Veeam Vault Archive is immutable, logically air-gapped and encrypted archive storage with data placement control and predictable long-term retention economics. Veeam says it’s a modern alternative to tape. … **Veeam** announced GA of of [Veeam Data Platform v13.1](https://www.veeam.com/products/veeam-data-platform/latest-release.html). The release expands customer choice with six new hypervisor platforms, extends malware scanning to NAS and enhances cloud threat detection, and adds deeper enterprise application protection for EPIC EHR, Db2 for Windows and Oracle, helping organizations keep business running when disruption hits and restore from trusted restore points. Veeam Data Platform v13.1 is a pivotal step in Veeam’s evolution toward Data and AI Trust. Veeam is expanding beyond its heritage as an industry-leading resilience solution into a more unified experience further innovating in recovery, security, intelligence, and portability, helping organizations validate restore points, reduce exposure, and simplify compliance across hybrid environments and the infrastructure they already have. There’s a lot more information [here](https://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-data-platform-v13-1-identity-cyber-ai.html). … **Veeam** exec news; Brandt Urban, SVP w-w Cloud Sales, as been promoted to Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO), Tony Colon joins as Chief Customer Officer (CCO) from ServiceNow, and Michael Rau, ex-F5 and Cisco, has been named VP of Worldwide Partners. Rau will oversee Veeam’s most critical partnerships, including HPE, Lenovo, Pure Storage, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, TCS, and Kyndryl. … High-pressure laminate manufacturer Formica has standardized its worldwide infrastructure on **VergeIO’s** VergeOS, replacing a VMware vSphere environment with StarWind vSAN. VergeOS now runs across 13 sites, including two data center clusters. The move follows Broadcom’s VMware acquisition. Formica evaluated a broad field of KVM-based platforms before selecting VergeOS. The decision came down to enterprise support, hardware freedom, and a single integrated product that delivered both the hypervisor and the vSAN from one vendor. VergeOS did not require reference hardware, so Formica repurposed equipment it already owned rather than replacing it. … [Andromeda](https://andromeda.ai/) is a VC (GPU) cluster operator managing GPU clusters for a VC’s portfolio of businesses and other clients (see Semianalysis [newsletter](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/ai-neocloud-playbook-and-anatomy)). It is not a neocloud. Andromeda works with leading AI labs, data centers, and cloud providers, routing training and inference jobs across the global supply chain. It operates across more than 50 compute providers worldwide, routing training and inference workloads through its global fleet of managed clusters. **WEKA** announced that Andromeda is integrating its NeuralMesh platform as a core AI data storage layer for managed GPU clusters. Andromeda's customers can access a dedicated NeuralMesh or a GPU-native WEKA [NeuralMesh Axon](https://edge.prnewswire.com/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4742293-1&h=2880857101&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.weka.io%2Fproduct%2Fneuralmesh-axon%2F&a=NeuralMesh+Axon) deployment to achieve consistent storage performance across any cluster running on any hyperscaler or AI cloud. With WEKA, Andromeda achieves significant performance gains on existing hardware, deployment in minutes, consistency across every provider, and lower storage costs. …