Storage news ticker - 9 July 2026

Commvault launched a cyber-resilience simulation using Frontier AI tools to test defenses against AI-driven attacks. Databarracks acquired Acumen Business Services to expand its business continuity services. DDN partnered with Nebul to optimize AI inference performance with KV Cache acceleration.

Storage news ticker - 9 July 2026 Cyber-resilience supplier Commvault announced “Commvault Minutes to Recovery” – a scenario-driven cyber resilience simulation that lets participants act as a hacker and run their own attacks using Frontier AI tools. Then participants are challenged to defend against and recover from an incident under pressure to test their resilience against these AI-driven cyberattacks. It’s a hands-on, live simulation that allows security and IT teams to stress test their readiness for Frontier AI threats under real-world conditions. Available globally as an onsite event and delivered in six languages, Minutes to Recovery is completed in a single two-hour session. The resulting Mean Time to Clean Recovery MTCR benchmark provides a practical measure of recovery readiness based on performance under pressure rather than assumptions in a planning document. … UK continuity services firm Databarracks has acquired Acumen Business Services, the consultancy founded by Andy Osborne 20 years ago. It's the company's second acquisition of a standalone business continuity practice, following PlanB Consulting in 2024. Acumen brings 100+ clients across financial services, healthcare and manufacturing into Databarracks' Business Resilience Managed Service. … DDN has a partnership with Europe’s Nebul to optimize large-scale AI inference performance through advanced KV Cache acceleration and high-performance data infrastructure for Nebul’s sovereign-hybrid cloud offerings. It uses DDN’s Infinia software and Nvidia GPU server gear. DDN and Nebul are validating next-generation KV Cache acceleration capabilities designed to support Nvidia DSX-based AI factory deployments by improving inference efficiency, reducing latency, and increasing utilization of AI infrastructure. The collaboration has successfully completed RoCE-based infrastructure validation and continues to expand benchmarking activities across larger inference sequence lengths while identifying additional optimization opportunities within DDN's Infinia platform. The project has also expanded to include collaboration with Nvidia around benchmarking methodologies, scalability validation, and future technical publications. … FalconStor Software announced the FalconStor Cloud Clean Room: an on-demand infrastructure platform for IBM Power environments, that gives organizations the ability to perform validated recovery testing inside a persistent secure enclave, with each test starting from a known-clean state and leaving no carried-forward risk. Built on FalconStor's patent-pending Zero Trust Secure Enclave ZTSE technology, the Cloud Clean Room is designed as a standalone infrastructure layer that can be deployed across multiple use cases and integrated by third-party software vendors and service providers. FalconStor Habanero, the company's existing managed offsite backup and archive vaulting solution for IBM i, IBM Power, and tape environments is the first solution to be combined with the Cloud Clean Room, giving organizations a complete backup-to-validated-recovery capability on IBM Cloud, without requiring IBM Cloud expertise from the customer. … Data integrity supplier Precisely announced Ironstream z/OS Software Discovery for ServiceNow software, now available in the ServiceNow Store 1 . ServiceNow customers can now automatically discover mainframe software and bring it into ServiceNow Configuration Management Database CMDB alongside the rest of their IT estate – giving teams a complete, trusted view of their hybrid IT environment including mainframe systems. Ironstream z/OS Software Discovery software runs directly on the mainframe to deliver a complete, continuously updated inventory of z/OS software, automatically synchronising this data with the ServiceNow CMDB. This gives organisations a reliable, audit-ready system of record for mainframe software – replacing manual processes and giving IT and operations teams the confidence to manage their entire environment from a single source of truth. … Cyber-resilience supplier Rubrik announced a more than $500 million £375 million investment in the UK over the next five years and set up a new office in London as its EMEA headquarters. It also announced support for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, with the availability of Rubrik Security Cloud on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Rubrik’s UK business delivered a record first quarter, including strong customer growth in significant enterprise and public-sector organisations. New customers adopting Rubrik’s cyber resilience platform include Fortegra Financial Corporation, Harbour Energy, Manchester City Council and the Scottish Government. Rubrik now serves 2,000 customers across EMEA, nearly half of whom use three or more Rubrik products. … Samsung has started mass production of its PCIe gen 6-based PM1763 SSD. This is in 3.84, 7.68, and 15.36 TB capacities. The SSD is a 286-layer, TLC drive providing 6.8 million.950,000 random read/write and 28.4 GB/sec sequential read and 21.9 GB/s sequential write speeds, more than 2 times the performance of its PCIe gen 5-based PM1753 predecessor. It allows the transfer of a 40-gigabyte GB large language model LLM in approximately 1.4 seconds, “helping minimize data latency between processors and accelerators while improving overall AI processing efficiency.” Samsung says it’s optimized for next-generation, liquid-cooled, AI and HPC server environments, through direct-to-chip D2C cooling technology. It also has 1.8x better power-efficiency than the PM1753. … Object storage-based Scality and file storage-based WEKA announced an expanded partnership in France, anchored by a new joint customer support agreement. Scality will distribute the companies’ joint system https://www.blocksandfiles.com/object/2026/02/25/scality-ring-becomes-back-end-object-store-for-weka-neuralmesh/4091883 to customers in France, giving local enterprises a single, in-country point of contact for sales and tier-one support. There are no plans to expand this deal outside France. … A ISG Provider Lens Focal Points - Snowflake Ecosystem Partners - Global 2026 report by the Information Services Group says enterprises are increasingly using the Snowflake data platform as a central coordination layer for secure data access, collaboration and AI-enabled business operations. Steve Hall, chief AI officer, ISG, said: “Snowflake is becoming less a destination for enterprise data than a system for making data usable across the business. Organizations are discovering that the real challenge is not storing information at scale but creating the trust, context and accessibility needed to turn data into consistent decisions and AI-enabled actions.” The report evaluates the capabilities of 33 providers across two quadrants: Modernization and AI/ML Enablement Services and Managed Data and Optimization Services. Check it out here. https://ei.isg-one.com/Research/ MarketingPage?dashboardID=201a11ca-c115-4a33-a9f7-941eceefbbd1&documentId=mDl-d0cU9 …