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Rethinking On-premises Storage Management at Scale
An application owner pings Anna on Teams: "We need 500 GB for a new service, today, if possible." She knows the drill. She opens NetApp® ONTAP® System Manager on the target cluster to check aggregates, Active IQ Unified Manager to see whether anything is already alerting on that system, and NetApp Digital Advisor® to…
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NetApp Console Autonomous Operations: From Managing Infrastructure to Declaring Outcomes
Hybrid multicloud operations have reached an inflection point. For years, infrastructure teams have worked across disconnected tools, fragmented management planes, and environment-specific workflows to keep storage estates running. That model worked when estates were smaller, more centralized, and easier to reason about…
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Microsoft Ignite 2026: Your AI Strategy Is Only as Ready as Your Data
As companies move from AI experiments to production, the conversation is becoming more practical. CIOs and IT leaders are asking whether their infrastructure can keep up, whether AI applications can securely access the right data, and how they can control costs without adding more complexity. Those questions point to a…
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Serverless Precision at Scale: Running NetApp Harvest on Google Cloud Run for GCNV
In Part 1 of this series, we introduced how NetApp Harvest provides a unified observability layer for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) Flex Unified storage pools with ONTAP-mode enabled. In Part 2, we connected Harvest to Google Cloud Monitoring (Google Managed Prometheus) using the OpenTelemetry Collector to unlock…
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NetApp + Onehouse: Unifying Data From BI to AI, Across Datacenters, Hyperscalers and Neoclouds
NetApp + Onehouse: Unifying Data From BI to AI, Across Datacenters, Hyperscalers and Neoclouds At NetApp INSIGHT 2026, NetApp previewed AI Data Engine integrations with Onehouse. But what does that actually mean? Can you take all the data already sitting on NetApp, in object stores and file systems, and run fast analytics…
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Automate protection policies in NetApp Backup and Recovery for Kubernetes with the API
NetApp Backup and Recovery™ for Kubernetes protects containerized applications and virtual machines on Kubernetes, including Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization. Three earlier posts showed how to add Kubernetes clusters and backup destination credentials, and how to manage applications without the NetApp…
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KV cache offloading - 20x reduction in TTFT with NetApp Novus
Since we announced NetApp Novus, I've been getting a lot of questions about my past posts on KV cache offloading. The most common question has been, "do those posts apply to Novus?" The good news is that all of my posts covering ONTAP pNFS also apply to Novus since it also uses pNFS. So that you don't have to go digging…
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KVCache offloading with SGLang HiCache and NetApp pNFS
In my last post, I showed how to use vLLM's native offloading connector and LMCache's MP mode, two new frameworks that have emerged this year, to offload your KV cache to NetApp pNFS. I also compared the performance of these two frameworks to LMCache's legacy in-process mode, which I had written about previously. In this…
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Accelerating Enterprise AI: Announcing General Availability of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Integration with Domino Data Lab
Empowering data science teams to streamline model development lifecycles, eliminate dataset versioning bottlenecks, and cut GPU overhead on Google Cloud Platform. Data-driven enterprises are racing to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives, but they frequently encounter a common obstacle: data…
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What is a FlexPod? Start with the technical specifications
Ask ten people what a FlexPod® is and you might get ten different answers. Some will describe a validated design for VMware. Others will point to an AI platform, a database solution, or a cyber vault. Each one of those is a FlexPod, and what ties them together is they all sit on top of the same foundation. The FlexPod…
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Unlocking Intelligent Storage for Kubernetes: Auto‑Tiering for NetApp Trident with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Flex
Kubernetes has become the foundation of modern application platforms, enabling development teams to innovate rapidly and scale seamlessly. However, as stateful workloads expand and evolve, managing dynamic storage requirements introduces operational complexity. For instance, a containerized database might demand…
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Right workload, right storage: When to consider second-generation Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a common data infrastructure choice for many organizations that need to operate workloads on AWS, whether they’re migrating from on-premises, modernizing existing cloud workloads, or building new cloud-based applications. FSx for ONTAP offers two architectural options: First-generation (Gen…
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NetApp Console local deployment as Code: Automate Deployment and Day-2 Operations with Ansible
Introduction Infrastructure teams increasingly expect storage management to fit the same automation model they use for servers, networks, cloud services, and applications. NetApp Console local deployment customers can now bring that model to their on-premises and air-gapped environments with the netapp.console Ansible…
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Agentic AI with Enterprise Control: Transforming Storage Operations in NetApp Console local deployment
How the Console assistant, autonomous agents, and built-in guardrails bring intelligent storage operations to your NetApp data estate Introduction NetApp Console local deployment is a locally installed control plane for managing, monitoring, and protecting on-premises NetApp data estates, without requiring a persistent…
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Data Infrastructure Insights MCP server brings advanced analytics directly into your AI workflow
Better integrations, smarter AI As they mature, AI tools are becoming a bigger and bigger part of the IT infrastructure operations routine. People use them to summarize alerts, sketch out capacity plans, and draft tickets. That can be a huge advantage, but there is still a gap: the data those assistants rely on, including…
