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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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Low-latency, multi-AZ diskless Kafka with AutoMQ and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
From event-driven architectures to operational analytics and user-facing services, Apache Kafka underpins much of today’s streaming infrastructure. Many organizations run it on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to benefit from managed infrastructure, AWS Regional scale, and native storage options. Even with this cloud elasticity,…
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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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Optimizing Cloud Storage Costs: Auto-Tiering with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Flex Unified
You are grappling with explosive data growth—yet not all data is equal. Some datasets are “hot” and frequently accessed, while others quietly age into “cold” data that sits idle but still consumes expensive storage. How can you pay less for data that isn’t accessed often, or is so old you don’t even know what it is but you…
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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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Unifying Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
Co-author: Firas Yasin, Red Hat You need to modernize, but you can't afford to rewrite every application for containers overnight. The common approach creates a costly divide: your modern apps run in one environment, and your traditional VMs run in another. This forces you to pay for two infrastructures, manage two…
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Deciding between NFSv3 or NFSv4.x? The choice is getting clearer…
* What does NFSv4 bring to the equation? * Sounds great… why don’t more people use it? * What is NetApp AFX? * NFSv4.x improvements in ONTAP 9.18.1 using AFX * Sequential IO results * Metadata-heavy workload results * So now what? NFS version 3 has been a gold standard for NFS applications for decades – starting all the…
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Linux Bridge vs Open vSwitch for Proxmox VE
Proxmox VE supports Linux bridge and OpenvSwitch for networking. Linux Bridge is default option and for OpenvSwitch, need to install openvswitch-switch package. When planning to use VLANs for host storage networking as well as for VM, OpenvSwitch makes it as better option. In this blog, I will explore the concerns with…
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Introducing Autonomous Ransomware Protection Powered by AI in NetApp ONTAP 9.17.1
Understanding ARP/AI Functionality The ARP/AI operates by analyzing file characteristics without accessing actual file contents, ensuring data privacy while identifying suspicious encrypted files through probabilistic modeling. * It monitors saved data for signals such as data entropy, encrypted file content and headers to…