Industry Intelligence · Updated August 2026

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HPE Discover 2026

Intelssoft at HPE Discover, Las Vegas

This June we joined HPE Discover in Las Vegas — three days alongside the HPE team and the wider Hewlett Packard Enterprise ecosystem, with tens of thousands of people from across the enterprise infrastructure world under one roof. This year the conversations centered on AI-ready infrastructure, data mobility and hybrid cloud — exactly where our own work sits.

A highlight was sitting down with HPE's CTO to share what we're building at Intelssoft and talk through the start of our collaboration with HPE. We're looking forward to taking the partnership further — joint projects, supporting customers together, and added value through our migration, replication and data protection solutions. Events like this are a good reminder that the strongest partnerships start with a real conversation.

Las Vegas, NV June 16–18, 2026
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What's moving the industry

S3 Storage Aug 12, 2026

Sovereign, On-Prem S3 Storage Keeps Gaining Ground

A UK launch this month puts sovereign, S3-compatible object storage — data kept in-country, predictable pricing, and no hidden egress fees — squarely in the spotlight for backup and archive workloads. It is the same demand curve on-prem S3 platforms are built to serve: control, compliance, and a bill that does not surprise you.

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Object Storage June 2026

Open-Source MinIO Winds Down — Plan On-Prem S3 Around Support

The community edition of MinIO has been archived and development has moved to a commercial product, leaving no guaranteed patches or new features for the open-source build. For teams standing up on-prem S3-compatible storage, the lesson is clear: choose a platform with a real support path behind it.

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Migration July 31, 2026

Broadcom's Renewal Wave Pushes VMware Migrations Forward

With VMware Cloud Service Provider access now invite-only and renewals landing at sharply higher cost, more organizations are committing to an exit — and large migrations off VMware can run up to nine months. Agentless workload migration is how teams shorten that path and de-risk the cutover.

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Ransomware August 2026

Backups Existed — a Government Land Registry Was Still Wiped

July was one of the busiest ransomware months of the year, and one incident stood out: a national land-registry database wiped outright. With backup repositories now targeted in the vast majority of attacks, having backups is not the same as being able to recover — isolation and tested restores are what matter.

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Storage Economics July 2026

Enterprise SSD Up ~80% in a Quarter, HDD ~50% in Six Months

AI demand for NAND has pushed enterprise SSD contract prices up roughly 80% in a single quarter, with hard drives up about 50% over six months and server costs climbing fast. Refresh budgets drawn up a year ago no longer cover the same capacity — a reason to rethink how and where you store.

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Infrastructure Risk Aug 13, 2026

One Line Fault, ~3 GW Gone — and It Happened Again in August

A transmission-line fault in Northern Virginia made a cluster of data centers drop roughly 3 GW to backup power in seconds, with the disturbance rippling across the grid — and a second, larger event followed weeks later. On-site power alone is not a plan; a tested DR strategy is.

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