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Cross-Region and Cross-Account Backup for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Snapshots, replication, and high availability each address different recovery requirements. They can still remain inside the same AWS account as the workload they protect. If an operator deletes the wrong volume, a pipeline tears down the wrong environment, or credentials are compromised, some of those recovery options may…
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Becoming a Frontier Enterprise: Why AI Success Starts with Your File Data
Enterprises today are striving to become Frontier organizations. They want to move beyond AI experimentation and begin embedding AI into the way they operate, make decisions, and serve customers. But there is a common misconception that AI success is primarily about models or compute infrastructure. In reality, the biggest…
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Streamlining Cloud Storage: How 430+ Developers are Mastering GCNV with the Cursor Agent
Bridging the Gap Between Code and Cloud Storage For modern developers, the "context switch" is a silent productivity killer. Managing cloud storage often requires jumping between a primary IDE, the cloud provider's console, various dashboards, and complex documentation just to provision or inspect a volume. This…
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Ransomware Protection for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes: Secure Your Data Without Compromise
Cloud storage shouldn't be a security trade-off. As an ONTAP user, you’ve relied on built-in ransomware intelligence to protect your most critical data. We've now brought that same proven technology to Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV), managed directly through the NetApp Console, a centralized platform that simplifies…
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Optimizing Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage for EDA workloads with NetApp Workload Factory
Electronic design automation (EDA) workflows are among the most complex and resource-intensive in modern engineering. Each design iteration can trigger compute-heavy synthesis, simulation, and verification tasks that demand high performance, rapid data access, and large-scale collaboration across distributed teams.…
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Why your NetApp Volumes can't reach Active Directory (and other networks behind your VPC)
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes connects to your project through Private Service Access (PSA). PSA uses VPC Network Peering under the hood. VPC peering is not transitive: traffic cannot cross two consecutive VPC peerings. That design choice—not a NetApp Volumes defect—explains many support cases where mounts work from your VMs…
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NetApp Volumes and Google Cluster Toolkit: Two Ways to Integrate Shared Storage
Google Cluster Toolkit (open source, gcluster) helps you deploy repeatable AI/ML and HPC environments on Google Cloud—compute, networking, storage, and schedulers—using composable modules and blueprints. Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is a fully managed file and block storage service with multiprotocol access (NFS, SMB,…
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OpenStack Gazpacho (2026.1): Enterprise Grade Storage Advances with NetApp – Part 1 of 2
OpenStack Gazpacho Release As OpenStack evolves and solidifies its position as a leading choice for top enterprises and service providers, its storage capabilities are increasingly becoming critically important for managing large amounts of data. Modern organizations require a fully integrated private cloud solution, and…
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Run advanced analytics with Amazon Athena directly on data in Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Organizations are continuously seeking ways to extract more value from their data while minimizing operational friction. Advanced analytics is one way that can happen. Amazon Athena, a serverless interactive query service, has long enabled teams to analyze data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using…
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NetApp Workload Factory: A well-architected way to launch and operate AWS workloads on FSx for ONTAP
This blog was updated on April 5, 2026. Deploying production workloads to the public cloud can stall manual design cycles, inconsistent configurations, and cost surprises. NetApp® Workload Factory changes that with guided designs, automation, and continuous optimization for workloads on AWS that use Amazon FSx for NetApp…