The week of September 5, 2025, brought major updates across the storage and data protection landscape, with vendors unveiling new tools for security, AI governance, and hybrid data management. Chainguard expanded its “zero-CVE” VM image library to enhance secure cloud and on-prem workloads, while Cisco and NVIDIA announced their Secure AI Factory, accelerating agentic AI and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines for enterprise environments. Cloudsmith introduced a Machine Learning Model Registry, prioritizing governance, traceability, and compliance for enterprise ML assets, and Concentric AI integrated ChatGPT to strengthen data classification and protection capabilities across SaaS platforms.

In parallel, OpenDrives launched Astraeus, a new cloud-native data services platform that unifies hybrid storage management, and Kiteworks’ 2025 Security Report revealed concerning visibility gaps in enterprise security, with nearly half of organizations unable to measure breach frequency. Collectively, these developments underscore the rising importance of data visibility, AI-powered protection, and unified control in the evolving storage ecosystem.