Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of May 16; Updates from Cerabyte, HPE, Revenera & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of May 16, 2025.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy storage and data protection news items.
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Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of May 16, 2025
Featured: New Skiilify Survey Finds: AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might
As the first in an ongoing quarterly series of studies from Skiilify, the initial study finds that nearly all (94 percent) of technology leaders felt that resilience and other critical soft skills are required for the future, but many fail to get the proper training required. With AI, automation, and globalization reshaping the workforce, soft skills have emerged as the key differentiator for career advancement and organizational agility.
Archive360 Releases Governed AI-Ready Data Cloud
The Archive360 Platform enables enterprises and government agencies to unlock the full potential of their archival assets with extensive data governance, security and compliance capabilities, and primed for intelligent insights.
Asigra Announces SaaSAssure 2025
The latest generation of the SaaS-based data protection platform delivers advanced recovery for a wide array of SaaS applications and includes significant feature enhancements such as granular backup and restore for Microsoft Exchange and HubSpot, as well as Autodiscovery support for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, designed to meet the growing compliance and resiliency needs of enterprises, MSPs and other IT solution providers.
Cerabyte Secures New Funding Round From Western Digital
The partnership will accelerate the development of Cerabyte’s ground-breaking ceramic data storage technology, designed to meet the growing demand for permanent accessible long-term data storage in existing and new use cases.
Commvault Announces Partnership with Deloitte
Together, Commvault and Deloitte aim to help organizations stay ahead of evolving threats by becoming more resilient, enabling the enterprise of the future. The escalating sophistication and frequency of cyber threats necessitates that enterprises adopt end-to-end cyber resilience measures to safeguard critical assets and maintain operational integrity.
Cyera Unveils ‘First’ Data Security Posture Management Certification
Data is the fastest-growing business resource in the world, projected to surpass 181 zettabytes by 2025. But as cloud sprawl accelerates, many organizations still can’t answer the basics around their most valuable asset, such as: where is our sensitive data, who has access to it, and how is the data being used or misused.
HPE Announces Major Update to Private Cloud Portfolio
HPE is redefining the full-stack private cloud through HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials. Business Edition, available as dHCI or HCI, enables organizations to choose optimized architecture for VMs from the edge to the data center. VM Essentials manages HPE VMs and traditional VMs, allowing customers to mix and match VMs to suit their needs.
HYCU Announces R-Cloud for iManage Cloud Early Acces
The iManage Cloud platform is a highly resilient, cloud-native solution trusted by knowledge-centric organizations around the world. With industry-leading security, built-in redundancy, and rigorous operational safeguards, iManage Cloud is engineered to protect customer data and ensure business continuity.
Quest Unveils erwin Data Intelligence 15
The new version gives organizations the tools to build trust in their data by certifying AI models, improving discovery, and reducing the manual effort of data governance. The release comes at a time when organizations face growing pressure to ensure AI-driven decisions are transparent, explainable, and based on reliable data.
Revenera Releases Total Economic Impact Survey of Revenera
The 2025 study aggregates the experiences of four multinational organizations in the cybersecurity, energy, engineering technology, and manufacturing fields, each with experience using Revenera. The study illustrates how Revenera’s customers benefited from new software monetization models, effective entitlement management, improved compliance, and accelerated time to market.
Expert Insights
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New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Paula Caligiuri PhD: Too Many Options, Not Enough Clarity: Why Tolerance of Ambiguity is Tech’s Next Competitive Edge
According to our April 2025 study, 75 percent of tech leaders say tolerance for ambiguity is critical. Yet 37 percent of those same leaders admit they struggle to make decisions in uncertain conditions. Even more striking? Nearly a quarter say too many options leave them feeling paralyzed.
Solutions Review Set to Host Revenera, GTC Law Group & OSS Consultants for Exclusive Show on How to Manage Open-Source Risk in M&A on June 10
When it comes to transactions (including mergers and acquisitions), open-source-related issues are sometimes overlooked, often not well understood, and almost always addressed much later than they should be. In this session, we’ll explain the issues, provide ways to mitigate risk (whether you are sell-side or buy-side) and break down why being proactive is critical.
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal: AI Related Threats and How to Protect Against Them
These attacks occur due to security weaknesses that are not AI-specific. AI systems are also IT systems, so common IT vulnerabilities can occur with the software that is wrapped around the model for public use as well as the IT infrastructure that hosts the AI solution. Specifically, attacks will occur on the model itself rather than at the data level. This attack surface focuses on attacking the entire model via poisoning or theft.
On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts Concentric AI for Exclusive Show on Data Security Readiness and ROI
Hear from industry Concentric AI’s Karthik Krishnan, 451 Research’s Justin Lam, and Southern Nevada Health’s Jason Frame to learn how to strengthen your own organization’s data security initiatives for improved resilience and increased ROI.
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