Summary of Week 17 – April 20-24, 2026

Featuring the top 5 stories, plus 5 more you won't want to miss

By Philippe Nicolas | April 27, 2026 at 2:01 pm

Top News

April 24 – Google Cloud Next ’26: Google Cloud Commits $750 Million to Accelerate Partners’ Agentic AI Development
April 23 – Vast Data Valued at $30 Billion as AI Drives a New Infrastructure Stack
April 22 – Wasabi Technologies Closes $250M Credit Facility to Expand Cloud Storage Innovation
April 21 – Linux Kernel 7.0 is Out
April 20 – Summary of Week 16 – April 13-17, 2026

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Google Cloud Next '26: NetApp Partners with Google Cloud to Adopt AI-Driven Operations
Google Gemini Enterprise drives productivity for NetApp sales and product development
April 24, 2026 | Press Release

Google Cloud Next '26: Clumio Extends its Rapid Recovery and Resilience Capabilities to Google Cloud
Brings immutable, SaaS-based protection and resilience to petabyte-scale datasets in Google Cloud Storage that are critical for the agentic AI era
April 24, 2026 | Press Release

Google Cloud Next '26: NetApp Wins 2026 Google Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Partner of the Year for Storage
Confirming the adoption of key NetApp data storage services
April 23, 2026 | Press Release

Google Cloud Next '26: Commvault Extends the Full Breadth of its Next-Generation Cyber Resilience Platform to Google Cloud
Confirming a strong partnership with the cloud giant
April 23, 2026 | Press Release

Wasabi Technologies to Acquire Seagate's Lyve Cloud Business
Growing its market footprint and solidifying its position
Top News | April 15, 2026 | Press Release

Quinas Technology Links Device Physics to AI System Performance Using Ultraram
Paper published in Journal of Applied Physics and to be presented at ISQED 2026
April 10, 2026 | Press Release

Nvidia GTC 2026: Vast Data Introduces Foundation Stacks to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Nvidia Blueprints
New open source library delivers production-ready implementations for scalable pipelines on the Vast AI Operating System
March 18, 2026 | Press Release

Confirmed, Vast Data Raised $1 Billion at $30 Billion Valuation
Confirming the trajectory by the company for a few years now
Top News | By Philippe Nicolas | March 13, 2026 | News

Vast Forward 2026: Vast Data Introduces End-to-End Fully Accelerated AI Data Stack with Nvidia
Vast AI OS will leverage Nvidia libraries to accelerate both compute and data services for RAG, vector search, real-time SQL, and agentic applications
March 4, 2026 | Press Release

Vast Forward 2026: Vast Data Unveils a Platform for Secure, Trusted, and Self-Learning Agentic AI Systems
From a full-stack agentic computing platform into a secure and scalable thinking machine
March 4, 2026 | Press Release

Vast Forward 2026: Vast Data Introduces Polaris to Orchestrate Globally Distributed AI Data Infrastructure Across Hybrid Multicloud Environments
Industry's first global control plane purpose-built for AI data infrastructure spanning hyperscale cloud and datacenter deployments
March 4, 2026 | Press Release

Vast Forward 2026: Vast Data Expands Cosmos Community to Unify Global Partner Ecosystem
New partner program within Vast's Cosmos Community creates a single, clear path for technology alliance, cloud and channel partners to build, validate, sell, and deliver AI-ready solutions on the Vast AI Operating System
March 4, 2026 | Press Release

Vast Forward 2026: Vast Data and CrowdStrike Partner to Establish a Unified Security Model for the AI Lifecycle
Joint integrations combine Vast's native security controls with CrowdStrike’s enterprise detection and response to help secure the AI lifecycle and enhance protection at the data layer
March 4, 2026 | Press Release

Wasabi Raises $70M in New Equity to Power the Next Era of Data Infrastructure
At a $1.8 billion valuation, backed by L2 Point and Pure Storage, the company scales AI-first cloud storage to meet the explosive demands of modern data
January 14, 2026 | Press Release

Wasabi Launches Covert Copy Completely Invisible and Indestructible Copy of Data for Higher Level of Cloud Storage Security
Covert Copy strengthens and simplifies traditional air gap strategies by creating a copy of data that is not only isolated
December 8, 2025 | Press Release

Wasabi Technologies Supercharges its EMEA Partner Program for 2026, Equipping Resellers with AI-ready Cloud Storage
As AI, cyber resilience, and physical security reshape data strategies, Wasabi is supercharging its EMEA Partner Programme to help resellers and systems integrators meet evolving customer needs
December 3, 2025 | Press Release

Wasabi Introduces High-Performance Class and Expands into Silicon Valley to Take on AI's Rising Data Storage Costs
Wasabi Fire and AI-ready San Jose region give organizations a powerful alternative to hyperscalers, combining speed, simplicity, and predictable pricing for AI workloads
November 24, 2025 | Press Release

QE and Quinas Technology Complete £1.1m ULTRARAM Industrialisation Project
Target applications will include AI, quantum computing, space and defence, and dual-use technology which was invented at Lancaster University
July 3, 2025 | Press Release

Quinas and IQE Receive £1.1 million Grant for Ultraram Industrialisation
Has reported switching energy per unit area that is 100x lower than DRAM, 1,000x lower than flash, and over 10,000x lower than other emerging memories.
July 25, 2024 | Press Release