Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of January 9, 2026.
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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Backblaze has appointed Dan Spraggins as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Spraggins will lead the company’s global engineering organization as Backblaze’s storage cloud increasingly supports AI and data-intensive workloads. With over 20 years in the field, he has previously held positions at HP, Rackspace, and CA Technologies, where he managed large-scale software and AI engineering operations. His focus will be on advancing Backblaze’s cloud capabilities for next-generation data-driven applications.
In another development, DDN announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to enhance the NVIDIA Rubin platform. This initiative incorporates DDN’s AI data intelligence stack, which aims to provide exascale data access and improve GPU utilization by up to 99%. This collaboration enhances operational efficiency by reducing the time-to-first-token for long-context inference by 20–40%. The integration is already supporting over a million GPUs worldwide.
Infinidat has expanded its InfiniSafe cyber resilience stack, enhancing capabilities to combat ransomware. The upgrades include built-in immutable snapshots and automated cyber protection that activates snapshots when threats are detected. The platform leverages AI and machine learning to achieve 99.99% accuracy in ransomware detection, ensuring rapid recovery options with guarantees of sub-one-minute restores for InfiniBox and 20-minute restores for InfiniGuard.
KIOXIA recently unveiled the next-generation BG7 Series SSDs for PC OEMs. These SSDs are the first to utilize BiCS FLASH generation 8 technology, offering up to 1,000,000 random IOPS and 7,000 MB/s sequential read speeds. Compared to its predecessor, the BG6, the BG7 improves performance by 10–16% in various categories while significantly enhancing power efficiency during sequential writes. The new series also introduces an NVMe 2.0d feature set and capacities ranging from 256 GB to 2 TB.
Kiteworks has formed a strategic partnership with Concentric AI to enhance data security governance. This collaboration merges Concentric’s AI-powered semantic discovery with Kiteworks’ policy-driven enforcement mechanisms. By applying data labels such as “Confidential” or “GDPR” within the Kiteworks Private Data Network, the partnership creates continuous protection for sensitive data shared through various channels, including email and APIs.
NVIDIA has introduced BlueField-4 data processing units, revolutionizing AI-native storage infrastructure. This technology offloads key services from CPUs, enabling improved networking, security, and storage operations. When integrated with Rubin-class AI factories, BlueField-4 allows for advanced data management features that enhance GPU performance while minimizing latency.
At CES 2026, SK hynix showcased its 16-layer 48 GB HBM4 memory modules. This development represents a significant advancement in high-bandwidth memory, essential for large-scale AI accelerators. The new HBM4 modules are designed to support increased bandwidth and capacity, facilitating the training and inference of larger AI models.
The University of Southern Denmark has launched an energy-efficient AI and HPC data center. Built around liquid-cooled infrastructure and utilizing renewable energy, the facility is intended to minimize emissions while supporting research in AI, climate studies, and engineering. It serves as a testbed for sustainable supercomputing practices in Europe.
In a notable academic breakthrough, scientists at the University of Waterloo have discovered a method to safely back up quantum information. This technique employs entangled states and error-correcting encodings, allowing for the storage and recovery of qubits without measurement, potentially improving fault tolerance and long-term memory in quantum systems.
As the landscape of data protection continues to evolve, these advancements highlight the critical intersection of technology and security. From innovative data storage solutions to strategic partnerships aimed at enhancing governance, the industry is making strides toward more resilient and efficient systems.
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