Storage news ticker - 27 March

Aerospike announced a LangGraph integration that provides agentic AI workflows with durable, low-latency memory, addressing one of the main reasons these systems break in production. Most LangGraph agents are still effectively stateless. They lose context when a process crashes, a deployment restarts, or a workflow pauses. That creates a real production problem for enterprises running long, multi-step workflows across thousands of concurrent sessions.

Aerospike NoSQL Database 8 adds a persistent memory layer for LangGraph, so developers can retain short-term execution context and longer-term agent memory without changing how graphs are defined or executed. This gives teams a more stable way to run agentic workflows at scale, with millisecond latency, high concurrency, and fault tolerance in the critical data path.

Read more in a blog.

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Commvault announced an expanded integration with Microsoft Security, bringing together AI-powered threat detection, investigation and trusted recovery across Microsoft Sentinel, Security Copilot and the Commvault Cloud platform. The expanded integration enables: 

• Real-time streaming of backup-related alerts into Microsoft Sentinel, including malware detections, anomalies and sensitive data exposure 
• AI-driven investigation through Commvault’s Investigation Agent in Microsoft Security Copilot to determine incident scope and identify validated restore points 
• Coordinated security and recovery workflows to reduce manual intervention and accelerate clean recovery 
• A more unified approach to resilience operations (ResOps), improving collaboration between security and IT teams 

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CTERA has been named a Strong Performer in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer” for Hybrid Cloud Storage. This distinction is based entirely on feedback and ratings from end-user professionals with experience purchasing, implementing, and/or using the product or service. Gartner defines Hybrid Cloud Storage as platforms that "allow seamless data management and integrate on-premises, edge and cloud environments to enable operational agility for enterprises.” Read the report here.

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DataBahn announced Autonomous In-Stream Data Intelligence (AIDI), a new operating model that moves interpretation, enrichment and decision-making into the pipeline itself, so data arrives at your SIEM already normalized, classified and ready to use. It’s also launching the DataBahn Agent Farm — six specialized AI agents that autonomously build connectors, map assets, detect coverage gaps, validate delivery and protect sensitive data in-stream. Early design partners have compressed SIEM onboarding from months to days and cut log volume 40–70% without losing security value. AIDI and the DataBahn Agent Farm are available now in private preview for select design partners and enterprise customers.

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EnterpriseDB released CloudNativePG 1.29 which expands how teams manage Postgres inside Kubernetes (the fastest-growing Postgres operator for Kubernetes, now at 8,000+ GitHub stars), while the new data protection layer embeds backup, recovery, and encryption directly into that environment, without relying on hyperscaler tools

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According to the March 2026 IDC Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker Enterprise Storage Tracker, on a trailing 4 quarter basis ending Dec 31, 2025, for the external OEM storage market worldwide (excluding China): 

• Everpure grew revenue 12.5% in the external OEM market, more than four times the market’s 2.8% growth rate. This makes Everpure the #1 fastest-growing major storage vendor.
• While every other major vendor shipped fewer terabytes year over year, Everpure shipped 826,000 more terabytes.
• In a market that contracted by nearly two million TB, Everpure was the only engine of capacity growth.

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Fivetran’s 2026 Enterprise Data Infrastructure Benchmark Report, based on a survey of 500 senior data and technology leaders at large global enterprises, found a growing disconnect between rising data investment and actual AI execution:

• Enterprises now spend an average of $29.3M annually on data programs
• Yet 97% report AI or analytics delays caused by pipeline failures
• Organizations experience 60+ hours of pipeline downtime per month
• These disruptions translate to ~$3M in average monthly business exposure

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Fivetran is donating SQLMesh, its open source data transformation framework, to the Linux Foundation. SQLMesh was originally developed by the team at Tobiko Data, which was acquired by Fivetran in 2025. By contributing SQLMesh to the Linux Foundation, Fivetran aims to support open governance and encourage broader community participation in the development of data transformation technologies. Learn more-  - here.

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Google researchers published a “TurboQuant: Online Vector Quantization with Near-optimal Distortion Rate” paper which describes a method to virtually loss-lessly compress AI token vectors in HBM. A Google -blog says “TurboQuant is a compression method that achieves a high reduction in model size with zero accuracy loss, making it ideal for supporting both key-value (KV) cache compression and vector search. … TurboQuant is a compression method that achieves a high reduction in model size with zero accuracy loss, making it ideal for supporting both key-value (KV) cache compression and vector search."

And: “Techniques like TurboQuant … allow for building and querying large vector indices with minimal memory, near-zero preprocessing time, and state-of-the-art accuracy.“

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Hammerspace was named a winner in the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Awards by the Business Intelligence Group. As AI infrastructure continues to be constrained by data bottlenecks, Hammerspace provides the foundation to activate unstructured data at scale with faster AI pipelines, higher utilization of costly GPU resources, lower infrastructure spend and reduced operational complexity. AI infrastructure keeps getting more powerful, but the real bottleneck is still data,” said David Flynn, founder and CEO of Hammerspace. “Most approaches solve that by creating YAC(k) – yet another copy – and another silo to manage. We took a different path. Hammerspace rebuilt the data plane itself to deliver high-performance access, data mobility, and operational simplicity using open standards. That’s what allows customers to put AI into real production, faster, without the cost, delay, and complexity of copying data into yet another infrastructure stack.”

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HPE is enhancing cyber and disaster recovery for virtualized and cloud workloads in Zerto Software with enriched platform support, new recovery runbooks, broader enablement for AI and AI-related workloads (including vGPU), and Microsoft Defender integration. Secure direct access to immutable StoreOnce data for malware scanning and cyber forensics also accelerates real-world recovery to known clean states. HPE is also extending its sovereign-ready security foundation with confidential computing integrated into Morpheus Software. Using hardware-based trusted execution environments from AMD and Intel and centralized key management with Thales CipherTrust, HPE keeps data encrypted even while in use, helping organizations protect sensitive workloads and meet sovereignty and regulatory requirements across hybrid and air-gapped environments.

Zerto Software 10 U9 is planned for availability in April, and StoreOnce OS 5.2 is available today. Confidential computing in Morpheus Software will be available Q3 2026.

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HPE says that, according to IDC, HPE is the fastest-growing all-flash block storage vendor, outpacing the market by 2X on a trailing twelve-months basis – Source: IDC Enterprise Storage Systems Market Tracker – March 2026. HPE Alletra Storage MP has delivered five consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, with more than 10,000 systems shipped globally.

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Komprise has joined the VAST Cosmos Community as a technology partner. Collaborating with VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, Komprise is delivering intelligent data lifecycle management and AI data curation for enterprises standardizing on the VAST AI Operating System for high-performance AI workloads.

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The Lustre User Group has a meeting on April 27-29; LUG 2026, Apr. 27-29, in Indianapolis. More info here.

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N-able announced new AI-powered detection capabilities within its Security Operations Centre, delivered through Adlumin Managed Detection and Response (MDR). The new capabilities are designed to improve visibility into suspicious activity that may bypass traditional monitoring. Key features include:

• Anomalous PowerShell Detection for real-time visibility into subtle misuse that can appear legitimate across systems.
• Machine learning-based suspicious DNS detection to identify malicious communications that may bypass traditional endpoint monitoring.
• SEPE AI for Windows process behaviour to detect anomalous activity across multiple attributes and give SOC analysts deeper behavioural context.

For more information, visit the N-able product pages.

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Percona has updated benchmarking for MySQL and related databases. The TLDR version is MySQL 5.7 still tends to perform better at low thread workloads compared to the newer versions, but 8.4 and 9.6 perform better with larger multi-threaded workloads. Read about it here. MySQL 5.7 is past end of life already, while MySQL 8.0 is end of life at the end of next month. So users should migrate to MySQL 8.4 (Long Term Support version) or 9.6 if they want to remain on supported versions.

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Phison has partnered with a range of platform, server and PC solution providers such as AIC and InWin to broaden access to Pascari Gen5 PCIe SSD storage solutions across the EU. 

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Qumulo has launched its European Software R&D hub in Cork, Ireland and will create 50 skilled R&D positions in the coming three years to look into data management at enormous scale and scope for global business. This project is supported by the Irish Government through IDA Ireland. Qumulo CTO Kiran Bhageshpur said: “After actively reviewing a wide variety of options for our second R&D centre, we found that the stellar third-level institutions in the South-West were the basis for a deep talent pool in Cork. Additionally, the excellent support infrastructure for companies like Qumulo provided by IDA Ireland made Cork the obvious choice for us to build a team focused on leveraging AI to help businesses manage global-scale data infrastructure.”

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Rubrik has a new integration with Microsoft Defender, that will allow organisations to respond faster to identity-based attacks. Modern cyberattacks are increasingly targeting identity and as the need for rapid response grows, organisations will be able to move from identity threat detection to rapid remediation and trusted recovery in hours instead of days. The integration will see customers benefit from Microsoft’s real-time identity threat detection and Rubrik’s automated identity rollback and recovery capabilities. Notable features will allow customers to:

• Understand attack impact faster by correlating threat alerts with identity changes.
• Reverse malicious identity modifications without performing full domain restores.
• Restore trusted identity states using immutable recovery points.
• Maintain visibility across hybrid identity environments, including Active Directory and Entra ID.

Read more here.