Storage news ticker - 4 June

Alation's Data Products Marketplace now includes Semantic Model Mastering, enabling enterprises to catalog, govern, and sync semantic models as data products across platforms. This capability closes a central governance gap for data stewards managing the context that AI depends on.

Chatboq warns that enterprise SaaS platforms shifting customer communication to instant messaging APIs like WhatsApp are creating a data-protection blind spot, as raw conversational AI logs are highly unstructured and difficult to isolate for compliance. The company has mapped out an infrastructure framework for secure log retention and API data isolation in its technical deep-dive on Enterprise WhatsApp Compliance Architecture.

Commvault recommends four steps for organizations to stay resilient in the age of frontier AI, as advanced models accelerate vulnerability discovery and compress exploitation timelines. The steps include evaluating recovery risks, making isolated recovery the baseline, prioritizing critical systems, and automating resilience testing.

CTERA appointed Tal Sarfaty, former SVP and Head of Cyber Security Innovation at Citi, as its new SVP of cybersecurity to lead the company

Alation's Data Products Marketplace now includes Semantic Model Mastering, a new capability that lets enterprises catalog semantic models from any platform, govern them as data products, and sync back to source systems. For data stewards and data product owners managing semantic models across multiple platforms, this closes a gap by providing central governance for the context that AI depends on. … Chatboq says that, as enterprise SaaS platforms shift customer communication from email to instant messaging APIs like WhatsApp, they are creating a massive data-protection blind spot. Unlike standard file systems, raw conversational AI logs are highly unstructured, transient, and notoriously difficult to isolate for data residency and long-term compliance retention. It has mapped out our specific infrastructure framework for handling secure log retention and API data isolation in its technical deep-dive on Hyperlink: Enterprise WhatsApp Compliance Architecture . … Commvault is recommending four steps it says organizations should take to stay resilient in the age of frontier AI, as advanced AI models accelerate vulnerability discovery, compress exploitation timelines and raise the stakes for cyber recovery. While frontier AI can help identify vulnerabilities faster, it may also give attackers a quicker route to exploit newly disclosed weaknesses, with AI-assisted exploitation now emerging within minutes rather than weeks. Resilience can no longer sit solely within recovery planning and must become part of day-to-day operations. The four steps are: Evaluate recovery risks Make isolated recovery and air gapping the baseline Prioritize systems the business cannot operate without Automate resilience and test continuously … Coud file services supplier CTERA has appointed Tal Sarfaty, former SVP and Head of Cyber Security Innovation at Citi, as its new SVP of cybersecurity to lead CTERA’s cyber strategy as enterprises shift toward next-gen storage-layer cyber resilience. This comes as CTERA launches a broader cyberstorage leadership initiative aimed at advancing enterprise cyber resilience at the data layer. … DDN has updated its AI data intelligence platform to deliver real-time observability, policy-based control, secure multi-tenant isolation, and AI-native data orchestration through support for Nvidia’s BlueField-4 STX DPU and DOCA Argus, Vault and Flow security software offerings. Jason Hardy, Nvidia VP of storage technology, said: “Combining Nvidia Vera BlueField-4 STX architecture and Nvidia DOCA security frameworks with DDN’s AI-native data intelligence platform enables enterprises to operationalize secure, scalable AI factories for training and inference at scale.” … Florida International University FIU researcher Weidong Zhu has found a way to turn an SSD's garbage collection mechanism into a ransomware defense tool, reordering how deleted data is managed at the firmware level so recently deleted files can survive longer on the drive. The result is a recoverable data window of up to 126 days post-attack, with less than 2 percent performance overhead. The work was published at ACM CCS 2025. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3719027.3765135 … Fivetran , supplying a data foundation for AI, announced the completion of its merger with dbt Labs , the creator of dbt and a supplier of AI-ready structured data. Initially operating as Fivetran + dbt Labs, the all-stock transaction, announced on October 13, 2025, brings together, the two say, "category-defining platforms to advance a new era of trusted, Open Data Infrastructure for AI at scale. George Fraser will continue serving as CEO, and Tristan Handy will serve as President." … Deepgram and Fortanix say they're the first to bring confidential computing to real-time voice AI, allowing organizations to protect sensitive conversations and AI models even while they are actively being used. Until now, you could protect data when it was stored and when it was moving. The hard part was protecting it while the AI was actually using it. That's what we're solving here for real-time voice AI. Under terms of the agreement, Deepgram can leverage Fortanix Confidential AI and https://viczzmoab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001B847JtCfteYfMxe5qqpJB-q sNyLJrLMxHpob432nQqDqblJM8GjhI5h7XtvtL2fHd55RwZQ0ALr D-2pf1JhNs2p16D93-3cG2xlsqU9lrZ6gO0ormfu6uQR3p3AMoi1NP-4xvZ90KC2bGMRCOf3mft7rRhugRQ0TrHt-r1Z9ScE2cYrD5b4kFQd148HUUXkeVOTkCUx5CirTqTg2qvunoNX-OrRI8gm53cOGZZT4E=&c=p6EkTu5A71c 7ExxW5xz3p2GsGfRIZodYRyzAgx3WsD7cDiGzmNt Q==&ch=puyIJ9i1SCzaYeBcpGh8U0S0w9GfHvcKvwN4vZCdBcixzIq 7djXRQ== NVIDIA Confidential Computing https://viczzmoab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001B847JtCfteYfMxe5qqpJB-q sNyLJrLMxHpob432nQqDqblJM8GjhI5h7XtvtL2fHd55RwZQ0ALr D-2pf1JhNs2p16D93-3cG2xlsqU9lrZ6gO0ormfu6uQR3p3AMoi1NP-4xvZ90KC2bGMRCOf3mft7rRhugRQ0TrHt-r1Z9ScE2cYrD5b4kFQd148HUUXkeVOTkCUx5CirTqTg2qvuiPwg0gPniRANRpw-LooyYc=&c=p6EkTu5A71c 7ExxW5xz3p2GsGfRIZodYRyzAgx3WsD7cDiGzmNt Q==&ch=puyIJ9i1SCzaYeBcpGh8U0S0w9GfHvcKvwN4vZCdBcixzIq 7djXRQ== to add an additional layer of advanced security to self-hosted environments to ensure that its proprietary model weights, built on business-critical intellectual property, can be deployed while protecting against model theft or inappropriate use. Fortanix Confidential AI protects data and AI model weights while they’re actively running. It builds on Nvidia GPUs with Confidential Computing to create Trusted Execution Environments TEEs that isolate the AI workload from the underlying infrastructure and OS. Data and AI models run safely inside Confidential Computing, encrypted in memory, and inaccessible to the host operating system or even privileged administrators. … HighPoint Technologies announced its Enterprise Edge AI Compute Platform, purpose-built for high-end modular robotics and industrial AI. It has a marketplace-ready hardware platform that enables IT architects to deploy high-density AI clusters "achieving a staggering 160 TOPS INT4 ." By leveraging readily accessible Hailo-10H M.2 acceleration modules, the platform delivers unprecedented throughput, processing up to 4,144 FPS for real-time inference workloads, effectively eliminating the I/O bottlenecks currently facing next-generation autonomous systems. More info here https://www.highpoint-tech.com/pr/highpoint-%26-hailo-unveil-4100%2B-fps-gen5-ai-compute-platform-for-edge-inference . … Jedify, developing an autonomous context graph for data-intensive agentic applications and workflows, announced $24 million in Series A funding led by Norwest, with a strategic investment from Snowflake Ventures and participation from existing investors S Capital VC and Cerca Partners, as well as new investors Oceans Ventures. Jedify previously raised an $8.5 million seed round in September 2023. Jedify says that, tithout runtime business context, agents either hallucinate because they lack the right context or waste tokens because they process too much irrelevant information. Assaf Henkin, co-founder and CEO of Jedify, said: "Enterprise data is fragmented across systems, definitions, permissions, and workflows. Jedify turns that fragmented knowledge into a live context graph that agents can use to produce accurate, cost-efficient, business-ready answers." … MaxLinear and Los Alamos National Lab LANL have jointly developed a hardware-accelerated OpenZFS storage architecture designed to improve performance and storage capacity for next-generation NVMe flash-based storage infrastructure. ZFS is accelerated with Panther storage acceleration SoC hardware. Panther provides deep data compression, encryption, deduplication, and data protection services executed inline in hardware. It’s integrated with ZFS as a Data Processing Unit Services Module DPUSM provider, enabling inline hardware acceleration of selected CPU‑intensive operations such as data compression and checksum generation to increase storage capacity, improve file I/O performance, and reduce host CPU utilization. The LANL SW technology for FZS acceleration is is called Z.I.A. ZFS Interface for Accelerators . Multiple Panther Storage Accelerators can be deployed in parallel through ZIA, enabling scalable performance without introducing serialization or centralized bottlenecks. Gary Grider, Senior Director for Computing Technologies at the Laboratory, said; “MaxLinear demonstrated hardware-offloaded ZFS operations with reported speedups of approximately 39x for writes and 7x for reads. These results illustrate the potential for accelerator-based approaches to reduce host CPU involvement while maintaining the data-protection benefits associated with ZFS.” Get more details here https://www.maxlinear.com/panther . … NetApp and Cisco have collaborated with the NetApp Splunk Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response SOAR playbook to deliver deep, real-time visibility into storage and infrastructure health. This will help joint customers contain ransomware attacks and limit data loss at the storage layer, enhancing the containment of the blast radius of cyberattacks while increasing the speed and reducing the cost of recovery. Splunk Enterprise Security is already integrated with NetApp Ransomware Resilience to collect analytics from the data layer, enhancing incident triage and prioritization. Splunk SOAR users can now use those signals as well as signals from other solutions to automatically take incident response actions directly on NetApp ONTAP storage as an integral part of their incident response. These actions include blocking a suspicious user, taking snapshots of the data and taking data volumes offline to protect against further infection. The NetApp Splunk SOAR playbook is now available to download from SplunkBase https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsplunkbase.splunk.com%2F&esheet=54546806&newsitemid=20260603530382&lan=en-US&anchor=SplunkBase&index=1&md5=0e8a5c77f07ddcb57ae6b0bed3317246 . … NetApp and Cisco are expanding FlexPod https://www.blocksandfiles.com/block/2022/06/01/cisco-netapp-pure-ci-as-a-service/1604614 to support AI adoption across different organizational sizes and maturity levels, using pre-tested, validated architectures and enterprise-grade data management as a consistent foundation. New FlexPods are suited for enterprise AI deployments, AI inferencing and RAG workflows, and edge computing. NetApp AI Data Engine, co-engineered on the Nvidia AI Data Platform and validated with the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, gives organizations the secure, AI-ready data foundation to deploy AI factories on FlexPod infrastructure at scale. Jeremy Foster, GM and SVP at Cisco, said: “By collaborating with NetApp to extend Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia to our validated FlexPod solution, we’re helping customers address AI‑specific risks such as data exposure, governance gaps, and compliance challenges while simplifying how AI infrastructure is deployed and operated.” … The Düsseldorf-based cybersecurity company ONEKEY has reported strong demand for its latest "IoT & OT Cybersecurity Report 2025" which examines how well manufacturers of digital devices, machines, and systems are prepared for the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act CRA . The CRA is the first EU regulation requiring manufacturers to comply with binding cybersecurity requirements throughout the entire product lifecycle and to systematically manage vulnerabilities. A key finding of the IoT & OT Cybersecurity Report 2025 is that approximately two-thirds of companies are not yet adequately prepared for the CRA — despite the first provisions of the EU regulation for connected products taking effect later this year. It is estimated that hundreds of millions, potentially even billions, of digital products within the EU will be affected. The report is available to download here https://www.onekey.com/resource/iot-ot-cybersecurity-report-2025? gl=1 10ylqkt up MQ.. ga NjU5NDczNzQyLjE3NzkxOTEwMzg. ga NR4JJT8F06 czE3NzkxOTEwMzckbzEkZzAkdDE3NzkxOTEwMzckajYwJGwwJGgw . … Other World Computing OWC https://viczzmoab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0017vgh-fiG17gQmeY990UenNcDORR2nrmdzcGUHU36ikQvMK0WCf3v4H6avhDwlcPawEn6ryZoKmkkfVknnZ8SY4tmU2AFWFwPKB-kck17HpkkSm3p1cMJBZ-mDKWS6Jx48DWhtm7s3ptwQtCzvMivdR6WPCnkCN c54mAUk9BgZ PpUFWHyPcSiCCv4yg-Or7ITg ISLy6d-iaonKbat4Bo9xN9yXyi66Psvxe4b9HX1EM-eA3z3f9zi5Rgl7O6TB-EXA1 D5iKPf2IVZ6xv4CAEoQOF1PfvsQ7uZTZAOpJek4eUUtCfuWQdLIV56xXcrlNK6wyF02YzyQe3JmFsAiRspvLyztVLYRL2iQyd8Z1CnkxaGHRvQwckjkzYLudYBOkCfNqBWOVMIyBAPd1BvxDSxIodY1sEf9b-Z9ThUKmI=&c=nL7aKFimhpO cCLIpKbfrXDv9NbrX6 XmkZZtEZgTKmHWUBwuGr1Xw==&ch=HteatyYowy1pofAqKCp6QfvM6uB5jxk9QIIbp1bFMhnqz1NIjf5lLw== has acquired PowerON Services, Inc., a supplier of IT asset disposition ITAD , trade-in, reverse logistics, refurbishment, and technology value recovery services. The PowerOn acquisition is an enhancement to OWC’s SellYourMac.com SYM , one of the world’s largest and most trusted purchasers and resellers of used Apple computers, iPhones, and iPads. … Phison is collaborating with Intel to enable AI PCs to deploy larger, more capable AI applications locally by combining Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors with Phison’s Pascari aiDAPTIV memory extension software that unblocks memory-constrained systems to support larger Mixture-of-Experts MoE AI models, longer-running AI sessions and agentic AI workflows. … Phison has a strategic initiative; “AI Enabler: Evolving Data Storage Intelligence.” Expanding beyond its role as a flash controller supplier, it’s taking a systems-level approach to AI and high-speed storage flash , spanning AI infrastructure, edge computing and software platforms. It says it’s building enterprise, sovereign and agentic AI platforms; Phison AI Data Platform covering AI infrastructure hardware, resource orchestration, AI software modules and application services, enabling enterprises to rapidly deploy and scale local AI environments. Phison HCI Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Software - self-developed HCI Hyper-Converged Infrastructure platform for AI workload orchestration, GPU/XPU resource integration and cluster management, helping enterprises unify existing and next-generation AI infrastructure. Pascari aiDAPTIV Technologyn extending effective AI memory capacity across GPU VRAM, system DRAM and Pascari flash storage. This enables larger local AI models, longer context windows and more capable agentic AI workflows while reducing dependence on expensive DRAM and HBM infrastructure Phison Pascari aiDAPTIV AI20EH AI PC Solution - provides a NAND flash-based AI KV cache that can improve AI inference performance by up to 102 times, reduce memory usage by 67% and lower local AI deployment costs by up to 53%. Phison Hybrid Router with aiDAPTIV for OpenClaw - on Intel AI PC platforms powered by Intel Core Ultra processors keeps suitable AI tasks running locally to reduce cloud dependency and AI service costs, while aiDAPTIV helps support larger local models, longer context, and more capable agentic workflows on AI PCs. UFS 4.1 PS8363 AI Mobile Platform Solution - a Hybrid UFS 4.1 solution integrated with the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 platform and aiDAPTIV, with enhanced real-time inference performance. … Vector database supplier Pinecone announced an integration connecting Pinecone Nexus knowledge engine https://www.pinecone.io/learn/how-knowledge-engines-work/ purpose-built for AI agents and Microsoft OneLake. Organizations using Microsoft Fabric have already unified their data, including documents, tables, and Power BI semantic models, in OneLake. The Nexus integration connects directly to OneLake with no manual imports or upload steps. When an agent needs to complete a task, Nexus queries OneLake, builds an artifact scoped to that task and the user's access permissions, and returns a structured, cited response through KnowQL. Every answer traces back to its source. No data is exposed beyond what RBAC permissions allow. PII is tagged at ingest and governed centrally. Agents query artifacts through KnowQL, a query language purpose-built for knowledge retrieval. An artifact is a structured, task-optimized context scoped to a specific task; it pulls the right data, applies the right permissions, and formats the result so the agent can use it directly. A KnowQL query specifies what the agent needs to know, the required output format, citation requirements, and latency budget. Nexus handles the rest. Early results https://www.pinecone.io/blog/knowledge-infrastructure-for-agents/ show a 95 percent + reduction in frontier LLM token usage, 30x faster task execution, and completion rates above 90%. … Quantum announced select preliminary unaudited financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2026 ended March 31, 2026. Based on unaudited financials, the Company expects the following: Revenue of approximately $77.5 million, plus or minus $2 million, above the $70 million high-end guidance GAAP operating expenses of approximately $30.5 million Cash of approximately $15.5 million Quantum expects to report its full results for the fiscal fourth quarter and full fiscal year of 2026 by mid-June 2026. … Quantum announced three concurrent transactions to significantly strengthen the Company’s balance sheet and provide capital for growth. First, it has entered into securities purchase agreements to sell shares of common stock in a private placement, which was led by funds managed by Two Seas Capital LP and Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., with participation from several other institutional investors, generating gross proceeds of $100 million. Second, the Company intends to repay all of its outstanding term debt with a portion of the proceeds of the private placement. Third, Dialectic Technology SPV LLC, as sole beneficial owner of the Company’s Senior Secured Convertible Notes, has agreed to voluntarily convert the entire outstanding principal amount of those Convertible Notes, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, into shares of common stock. These transactions are expected to significantly strengthen Quantum’s balance sheet, eliminate its debt obligations, and provide growth capital to capitalize on increasing demand for cost-efficient, long-term data storage in AI and enterprise environments. Quantum plans to commission a report by a third party technology consulting firm on the importance of magnetic tape to HPC datacenters. … Qumulo and Microsoft are working to mitigate the “Silicon Squeeze”, the shortage of DRAM, due to HBM fabbing, which is sending up prices, together with NAND price rises. Lead times are stretching from months to quarters. This is driving organizations to the cloud to find fast, non-disruptive ways to access capacity. Douglas Gourlay, Qumulo CEO, said: "In periods of volatility, flexibility is strategy. Azure Native Qumulo provides a seamless cloud bridge, allowing organizations to leverage Microsoft Azure as a cost-effective storage solution without re-platforming their applications.” Azure Native Qumulo ANQ , along with Qumulo’s Cloud Data Fabric, offers a non-disruptive, cost-reducing bridge to the cloud that enables customers to burst capacity to Microsoft Azure without migrating applications or clients. Qumulo is leveraging its Simple Lightweight Universal Replication Program SLURP to accelerate the migration of massive unstructured datasets from legacy NAS file systems directly to Azure Native Qumulo. Using high-performance parallel data transfer and snapshot-based synchronization, SLURP minimizes migration windows with no downtime, preserving all metadata and permissions so customers can transition to the cloud quickly and safely without disrupting business-critical applications. ANQ says it delivers a zero-copy architecture in the cloud that natively integrates with Microsoft’s AI tools, including Microsoft Foundry, Fabric, and Copilot. Data remains in place on ANQ while being instantly accessible to Microsoft’s AI services, eliminating the need to duplicate or stage massive datasets. Qumulo now integrates with Azure Blob's smart tiering, automatically moving data between hot, cool, and cold access tiers based on real-time usage patterns See also Cisco and Qumulo https://www.blocksandfiles.com/public-cloud/2026/06/01/qumulo-and-cisco-build-flash-tax-avoidance-bridge-to-the-cloud/5249097 . … At Snowflake Summit 26, RelationalAI announced a series of new capabilities for Rel, its agentic decision intelligence system that runs natively in the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. With these new capabilities, joint customers can give decision agents the context, reasoning, and post-training needed to take action across the operations that drive the bottom line, including pricing, supply chain, network operations, and resource allocation. The new Rel App captures a shared, governed representation of how a business works: the concepts, relationships, and rules that define how decisions get made. Domain experts can explore the model, follow connections, ask questions in natural language, and reason through decisions, with every interaction grounded in their own data inside Snowflake. … Silicon Power SP is exhibiting at COMPUTEX 2026 under the theme “InSPire with AI.” Highlights: Industrial kit – AI edge computing, AMRs, smart factories, and remote monitoring solutions powered by SP SSDs, DRAM, and industrial storage, in collaboration with AAEON, ADLINK, and DFI. CreatePro – End-to-end creative storage ecosystem covering capture, transfer, editing, and backup, including NAS SSD validation with QNAP for improved workflow stability. XPOWER – High-performance gaming memory and ecosystem, featuring ROG-certified DDR5 memory and live demo systems with ASUS ROG platforms. … Cloud data warehouser Snowflake announced 26 https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fsummit%2F%3Futm source%3Dgoogle%26utm medium%3Dpaidsearch%26utm campaign%3Dna-us-en-brand-summit-epb%26utm content%3Dgo-rsa-evp-evp-summit2026%26utm term%3Dc-g-snowflake%2520summit-p-802970208700%26regcode%3DATTENDSUMMIT26%26gad source%3D1%26gad campaignid%3D18471954638%26gbraid%3D0AAAAADCzRJUJ3TDZrhQlo7nHAhlPyzvER%26gclid%3DCj0KCQjws83OBhD4ARIsACblj18BLJTC-ScKVqAbRD6AUehXpYi3WZ3sA u3IzJwhmasmZzX wcuBTgaAmDPEALw wcB&esheet=54545519&newsitemid=20260602477507&lan=en-US&anchor=Snowflake+Summit+26&index=2&md5=75cb1e68876e99bc8f0d42f6329747da new capabilities that redefine interoperability for the AI era, enabling organizations to seamlessly access, govern, share, and act on data across systems without compromise. For the first time, enterprises can work on a single, live, governed copy of their data wherever it resides across Snowflake, external lakes, and open systems, without moving or duplicating it. Powered by Snowflake Horizon Catalog https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snowflake.com%2Fen%2Fproduct%2Ffeatures%2Fhorizon%2F&esheet=54545519&newsitemid=20260602477507&lan=en-US&anchor=Snowflake+Horizon+Catalog&index=3&md5=3b6dbad0c7c06ac230426dfdff5d5516 , organizations can now transform siloed data into a connected, AI-ready foundation where users and AI agents securely discover, govern, and access their full business context. Snowflake is advancing open interoperability with support for Apache Iceberg v3 and Snowflake Storage for Apache Iceberg Tables , enabling teams to seamlessly work across data inside and outside of Snowflake, while minimizing data movement. In addition, Horizon Catalog powered by Apache Polaris enables bi-directional read and write access using external engines to Iceberg data managed by Snowflake. Snowflake also extends consistent governance across open ecosystems with external engine access management and support for Iceberg REST Scan Plan API , ensuring fine grained protections apply across compatible engines. These capabilities give organizations a unified, governed foundation for data and AI, unlocking interoperability without compromise. … Multi-protocol, multi-tier storage array supplier StorONE, announced record Q1 results, with bookings and revenue surpassing its entire 2025 results. The growth was driven by accelerating enterprise demand for StorONE’s Real-Time Tiering technology as organizations seek to improve storage economics amid rising flash costs and hardware supply constraints. StorONE’s Real-Time Tiering technology enables organizations to achieve up to 9x more effective use of flash by writing workloads at flash performance levels while automatically moving inactive data to lower-cost media. StorONE’s hardware-agnostic architecture also allows customers and partners to deploy immediately on available infrastructure from any qualified hardware vendor. … VAST Data is supporting Nvidia's BlueFIeld-4 STX DPUs with DOCA Argus, Flow and Vault security software. It's developing the VAST PolicyEngine https://www.vastdata.com/press-releases/vast-data-unveils-secure-trusted-self-learning-agentic-ai , an inline policy enforcement engine that inspects and limits the information that flows between agents, tools, and data sources as agentic systems execute. BlueField-4 STX, with its ability to perform in-silicon memory analysis with Argus and line-rate policy enforcement of agentic interactions with Flow and Vault, enables PolicyEngine to not only enforce policies on agentic systems in real-time, but adapt these policies in response to agent behavior. AI workload telemetry provided by the VAST AgentEngine’s built-in observability and Argus’ in-silicon memory analysis provide PolicyEngine with a broad set of ways in which it can detect and prevent agents and tools from misbehaving. VAST is integrating PolicyEngine’s real-time policy enforcement with external cybersecurity systems like the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to ensure that policies adapt as workloads, users, and the environment changes. More data here https://www.vastdata.com/blog/vast-zero-trust-agentic-ai-nvidia-bluefield-doca?utm medium=Social&utm source=Glenn&utm campaign= . … VergeIO , the developer of VergeOS, the private cloud operating system, announced Kit Colbert, former VMware CTO, has invested in the company and joined its Board of Directors. Colbert spent two decades at VMware. He joined in 2003 as technical lead for vMotion and Storage vMotion, then ran the Cloud-Native Apps business unit that became Tanzu and the Cloud Platform business unit. VMware named him Chief Technology Officer in September 2021, leading 2,400 engineers until Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition. “Kit helped define the modern virtualization era,” said Greg Campbell, Founder and CTO of VergeIO and Lead Architect of VergeOS. “His seat on the board confirms what we have told customers for years. The way out of the hypervisor tax is not a cheaper hypervisor, it is a Private Cloud Operating System.” …