Storage Giants Arcitecta and Cisco Make Bold Moves in Data Protection
The storage and data protection industry saw significant developments in the week of August 28, 2026. Arcitecta launched Mediaflux Connect 365, a platform designed to help universities manage Microsoft 365 Education's shift from unlimited cloud storage to pooled tenant limits.
Mediaflux Connect 365 analyzes and classifies OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams data before moving it to vendor-neutral on-premises, cloud, or hybrid storage. This helps institutions reduce rising storage costs while preserving searchable metadata, governance, and accessibility.
Cisco expanded its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to combine Cisco networking, NVIDIA AI infrastructure, and Supermicro rack-scale compute with security and resiliency controls across the AI stack.