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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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Azure Local and NetApp: Bringing Cloud Operations to Enterprise Data
Every organization I talk to is trying to answer a variation of the same question: How do we modernize infrastructure and take advantage of cloud innovation without giving up control of our data, existing investments, or operational flexibility? For many enterprises, the answer is no longer simply "move everything to the…
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Preparing Federal Data for the Post-Quantum Era
Preparing Federal Data for the Post-Quantum Era By Matt Trudewind and Bill Rulo How NetApp helps Federal Agencies adopt PQC and meet requirements today Bottom line: Adversaries can collect encrypted federal data today and keep it until future quantum computers can unlock it. Agencies therefore need to begin updating the…
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NetApp Advances Veeam Integration with USAPI Plug-in
Resiliency is a key differentiator for NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure solutions. NetApp’s native data protection features provide optimized data management and protection functionality, making ONTAP a unified data management platform suitable for any workload. NetApp and Veeam have a long-standing partnership…
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NetApp AI Security Framework: Zero Trust Architecture
As organizations move from AI experimentation to production-scale deployments, the attack surface expands dramatically. Large language models, AI agents, vector databases, training datasets, and inference pipelines all rely on one critical asset: data. If data is compromised, manipulated, encrypted, or exposed, the value…
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Enterprise Data Services Arrive at the Edge
Our FlexPod team has published a new NetApp Verified Architecture (NVA) for FlexPod Edge, pairing Cisco's Unified Edge compute platform with NetApp AFF all-flash storage. The architecture gives organizations a validated, ready-to-deploy blueprint for bringing core-datacenter-class infrastructure and the data management…
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Modernize VMware Storage on Google Cloud with Certified Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
Moving VMware workloads to Google Cloud? Don’t let storage become the limiting factor. You need more than just a datastore. You need a storage platform that delivers enterprise data services, scales independently from compute, simplifies disaster recovery, aligns cost to how data is actually used and remains resilient…
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Simplify migration of enterprise workloads to AWS with AWS Transform and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS Transform, the service that uses agentic AI to accelerate cloud migrations, now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a storage target for block storage migration to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. It introduces a direct migration path, eliminating the multi-step workarounds that previously added cost, time, and…
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Flex Unified comes to Google Cluster Toolkit
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Flex Unified is now a first-class citizen in the Google Cluster Toolkit. Starting with release v1.102.0, the netapp-storage-pool and netapp-volume modules provision Flex Unified pools and volumes directly from a blueprint, including zonal and regional pools, large capacity (scale-out) pools,…
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Agentic AI and NetApp
The industry has largely converged on what an AI agent is, but not all product labeling has caught up. There are tools that adopted the term early and use it for things that are not agents under the current definition. An “agent” in a product menu may or may not reflect what the term means now, which makes it worth stating…
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Kubernetes Meets Google Cloud NetApp Volumes ONTAP-Mode: Now Preview in Trident
Exciting news for Kubernetes storage management! NetApp Trident 26.06.1 is now available in Preview for use with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) ONTAP-mode. This update enables Trident to create and manage your Kubernetes volumes when your GCNV storage pool is in ONTAP-mode! Why ONTAP-mode? While Flex Unified default…
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ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere 10.6: More Control, Less Overhead, and Stronger Operations
For years, protecting VMware datastores with ONTAP tools meant an all-or-nothing choice: protect an entire host cluster, or protect nothing at all. With ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere 10.6, that trade-off goes away. This release introduces Granular Datastore Protection, a new right-sized deployment option for smaller…
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Comparing KV cache offloading frameworks for vLLM
If you have been following this blog for a while, you have probably noticed that the majority of my recent posts have dealt with KV cache offloading. This is not by accident. As AI initiatives reach operational maturity, ROI is coming under increasing scrutiny while compute infrastructure remains structurally scarce and…
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The Strategic Cost Advantage of Azure NetApp Files
At first glance, Azure NetApp Files (ANF) can look pricey. If you line it up next to other Azure storage options and just compare list prices, it’s easy to think, “Why would I pay a premium for cloud storage?” But here’s the thing; list price isn’t what you pay. And once you look at the effective price, the number that…
