Storage News Ticker - 5 August 2026

Ataccama appointed Martin Zahumensky as CEO, succeeding Mike McKee, who led the company through three years of global growth and the launch of its agentic data trust platform. Commvault announced a new integration for Threat Scan with Google Threat Intelligence to help organizations identify compromised backup data and recover clean files after a cyberattack. DataBahn unveiled Federated Search and Orchestration at Black Hat USA 2026, expanding its agentic data control plane. DDN appointed Lauren Bloch as Chief People and Culture Officer, its fifth top-level executive hire this year. Keepit appointed Thomas McCrory as VP of Sales, Americas. Kioxia's 332-layer gen 10 NAND features SCA protocol and PI-LTT technology, and its GP Series SSD won Best of Show at FMS 2026. Liqid announced its role as a strategic technology partner in Micron's Abaco system for PNNL.

Storage News Ticker - 5 August 2026 Datatrust platform supplier Ataccama appointed Martin Zahumensky as CEO. He most recently served as Ataccama’s CTO and helped to build the company from its earliest days. Mike McKee, who was appointed CEO in 2023, is stepping down after leading Ataccama through three years of global growth and the launch of its agentic data trust platform. … Data protector and resilience supplier Commvault is announcing a new integration for Threat Scan with Google Threat Intelligence, designed to help organisations better identify compromised backup data and recover clean files following a cyberattack. This new integration will bring intelligence from Google, Mandiant and VirusTotal into Commvault Threat Scan, enabling customers to: Check backup data against known indicators of compromise using intelligence refreshed daily Understand which files triggered an alert and access further context on the threat Identify cleaner recovery points and reduce the risk of restoring compromised data This builds upon Commvault’s ongoing collaboration with Google Cloud, including expanded cyber resilience capabilities for Google Cloud environments via Clumio, and support for Google Cloud workloads. The Google Threat Intelligence integration, inline scanning capabilities, and associated Threat Scan enhancements are expected to be available in the coming months. … DataBahn , which announced a $40 million B-round funding raise on July 30, unveiled Federated Search and Orchestration, an expansion of its agentic data control plane today at Black Hat USA 2026. Security teams and their AI agents can now search every source they own in place, ground each answer in the context of their environment, and hand the work to an agent that returns a cited investigation, without moving or duplicating data. Search capabilities from existing solutions let teams query the sources they point it at; DataBahn goes further, combining natural language search with a live knowledge graph, a governed gateway for AI agents, and the pipeline that feeds both, all in one platform. … DDN has appointed Lauren Bloch as Chief People and Culture Officer. Bloch’s hire marks the fifth top-level executive to join DDN this year as the firm taps top talent to fuel its 300% YoY growth. … SaaS data protector Keepit , which runs its own data centers, has appointed Thomas McCrory as VP of Sales, Americas, where it’s gearing up for growth. He served most recently as VP, Americas Sales at DataRobot and before that as SVP, Global Sales at Incorta. He reports to CRO James Dwyer. … Japanese SSD expert Hironobu Asano posts https://x.com/Hironobu Asano/status/2084828358463168616 that Kioxia’s 332-layer gen 10 NAND has two key aspects. The first one is the implementation ahead of other companies of the SCA Separate Command Address protocol, which was standardized in Version G of JESD230 NAND Flash Interface Interoperability Standard formulated by JEDEC. This allows the conventional "time-division transmission" of commands and data to be sent separately, enabling higher speeds. Probably. I believe this is an essential technology for realizing HBF. Another one is the Power-Isolated Low-Tapped Termination PI-LTT technology, which is a technology that promises to save electricity. … Kioxia’s GP Series SSD was named Best of Show at FMS 2026 in the ‘Specialized Storage’ category. … CXL-based memory pooler Liqid announced its role as a strategic technology partner in Abaco, the memory-centric computing system designed by Micron, a subcontractor to the U.S. Department of Energy’s DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL . Liqid is providing the scale-up memory pool that allows PNNL to expose hundreds of terabytes of coherent active memory to data-intensive AI for Science workloads. It says the Abaco system pioneers CXL-enabled memory pooling and sharing, shattering the capacity limits of individual servers to support massive-scale AI workloads. In a Liqid rack-scale configuration, up to 160TB of DRAM can be dedicated to a single host or dynamically allocated and shared across as many as 16 server nodes. Real-time allocation of terabytes of memory enables zero stranded capacity and massive performance scaling when needed. Liqid says the PNNL system features: Liqid EX-5410C Memory Platform: CXL 2.0 memory expansion system supporting up to 40TB of DRAM per chassis and scaling to a unified memory pool of more than 160TB for memory-intensive AI, HPC, and database workloads. Liqid Matrix Software: The orchestration and management layer that turns pooled memory into a programmable resource. Liqid Matrix delivers the industry’s only unified interface for real-time deployment, management, and orchestration of composable GPU, memory, and storage - and integrates with Kubernetes, Slurm, Ansible, and other tooling already used in scientific computing environments. Liqid CXL 2.0 Fabric: A dedicated CXL 2.0 switch and host bus adapters HBAs deliver ultra-low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivity between hosts and the memory pool. … Micron Technology has received three Future of Memory and Storage FMS 2026 Best of Show Awards, including the event's highest recognition, the Grand Prize — Best of Show Award, granted to the 245 TB Micron 6600 ION SSD. The 245 TB 6600 ION SSD also received the Sustainability Award, and the Micron LPCAMM2 received the User Implementation Award. … Big win as Netlist announced a sweeping five-year strategic alliance with Samsung that resolves their pending litigation and establishes new patent licensing, product supply and technology cooperation agreements focused on advanced memory for AI computing. The agreement marks a major shift from years of litigation to a long-term commercial relationship at a time when advanced memory and HBM are becoming increasingly important to AI infrastructure. The financial terms are significant and the transaction is broader than a traditional patent license. It includes: IP cross license agreement – 5-year – Worth up to $897 million in total as Samsung will receive access to Netlist's complete patent portfolio, including its server DIMM and High Bandwidth Memory technologies Samsung will pay Netlist an upfront front license fee of $239 million and quarterly license fees of up to $32.9 million Product supply relationship- 5 year - $1.5 billion Samsung will provide Netlist access to as much as $300 million of DRAM and NAND products annually, or up to $1.5 billion over five years Samsung becomes Netlist shareholder – Purchased 10 million shares of Netlist Settlement Agreement - to end legal proceedings between the two companies Provides strong validation of Netlist’s IP portfolio for advanced memory technology that is foundational to AI computing Details are available in the Netlist 8-K https://investors.netlist.com/filings-financials/sec-filings filed today. … Nexsan introduced the VHR-Series, a fully integrated, enterprise-class hardened repository appliance purpose-built for Veeam environments. It delivers end-to-end data immutability and has achieved Veeam Ready Appliance status. Preloaded with Veeam Hardened Repository ISO and designed to resist ransomware, insider threats, and data loss, the VHR-Series provides: Rapid Recovery – Engineered with industry-leading RTO to ensure systems are back online faster Battery Cache Data Protection – Ensures data isn’t lost during power failures DISA STIG Compliant – Ensures the backup platform is configured and hardened according to the Defense Information Systems Agency Risk-Free Deployments – Nexsan GA-tested, certified supported configurations Global 5-Year Support – Standard hardware warranty across all models … The NVM Express organization has published an NVMe feature roadmap, featuring NVMe over Ultra Ethernet. One of the features is TP4193: PCIe Exported NVM Subsystem Migration. A Samsung blog https://semiconductor.samsung.com/news-events/tech-blog/standardizing-nvme-ssd-virtualization-introducing-pcie-exported-nvm-subsystem-migration-feature/ says this introduces new standardized virtual objects exported and redefines how virtual storage is created, managed, and moved. NVM subsystems may now provide a Virtual Machine Manager VMM with the necessary capabilities to rely on virtualization directly within the SSD. Instead of the host add virtual SSDs with definable behavior. The host becomes an “orchestrator” rather than an implementer. Read the blog to find out more. … A Counterpoint research reports shows DRAM supplier market share rankings. It said Samsung secured the top spot in the DRAM segment in Q2 2026 with a 39% market share, returning to 2024 levels. It demonstrated overwhelming dominance, showing strength in conventional DRAM supply and pricing, thus widening the gap with Q2 2025’s market leader SK Hynix with its 26%. Micron followed with 25%, CXMT trailed behind with 7% and a few others made up the remaining 3%.. … Neocloud CoreWeave announced a multi-year strategic agreement with Solidigm that gives CoreWeave priority access to enterprise SSD capacity, and is designed to help CoreWeave scale storage alongside compute, networking and software as customer demand grows and industry-wide storage supply tightens. CoreWeave will receive priority access to Solidigm enterprise SSD capacity under a multi-year agreement. The capacity will support CoreWeave’s integrated AI cloud platform as customers move workloads from experimentation into production. …