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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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NetApp Backup and Recovery: File and Folder restores for KubeVirt VMs
NetApp Backup and Recovery solution already lets you protect and restore entire Kubernetes and KubeVirt VM workloads, but a full VM restore is a heavy hammer when someone has just deleted the wrong file. This post walks through restoring or downloading files and folders from a VM-based application. Most of us just call…
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What I Learned at NetApp INSIGHT 2026: AI Runs on Your Data
AI may have been the headline at INSIGHT 2026, but data was the real story. For the last few years, the focus has been on models and GPUs. Those investments remain important, but many organizations are discovering that AI is only as good as the data behind it. Enterprise data is often fragmented across on-premises…
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Double VM density, lower cost: VCF 9.1 on Amazon Elastic VMware Service with FSx for ONTAP
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), the AWS service that you can use to deploy and run your on-premises VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack directly on AWS, now supports the latest VCF 9.1 release. For organizations planning their next VMware upgrade or VMware modernization, this announcement introduces new…
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Automate backup destination credentials in NetApp Backup and Recovery with the API
NetApp Backup and Recovery™ protects your ONTAP volumes, Kubernetes applications, and virtual machine workloads by sending backup copies to object storage. Before you can pick a bucket or container as a backup destination, Backup and Recovery needs credentials to access the object store: a service principal for Azure Blob,…
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What KV cache offload to ordinary NFS is actually worth
Earlier published experiments ran KV cache offload over pNFS with RDMA. Many enterprise environments don't have that transport available, so I wanted to see what happens on something more common. I ran the same class of experiment on plain NFSv4.1 over TCP, without pNFS or RDMA, using a single A100. It's the kind of setup…
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Announcing General Availability of NetApp Ransomware Resilience for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
If you run Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV), you already have snapshots. They are fast, space-efficient, and they have pulled plenty of teams out of trouble. But a snapshot answers only one question: can I get my data back? During a ransomware incident, that is the last question you ask, not the first. Before you restore…
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NetApp & Commvault: Joint Cyber Resilience Solution
Ransomware is no longer a rare disaster; it is a recurring business reality, and attackers are now using AI to move faster than most defences were designed to handle. Recent industry data shows how widespread, persistent and fast-moving the threat has become: 59% of organizations were hit by ransomware in the past year.…
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Cut up to 30% Lower Oracle Database TCO with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
How can organizations prevent storage requirements from driving unnecessary Oracle infrastructure costs? For many enterprises, Oracle Database is one of the largest recurring investments in the IT budget. The cost does not stop with cloud compute and storage. Oracle Database licenses and annual support can dominate the…
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Building a Storage-Aware AI Pipeline: Data Mobility Across the NetApp AI Storage Architecture
Enterprise AI initiatives rarely stall due to model quality alone. More often, they slow down because teams cannot move data fast enough between ingest, preparation, training, inference, and archive tiers. In fact, data mobility, storage placement, and lifecycle control typically account for 80% of the real engineering…
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Modernizing Enterprise File Data with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and lakeFS
How Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and lakeFS give file-centric organizations a practical path to governed AI and data engineering workflows. Jointly authored by Iddo Avneri at lakeFS and Sathish Thyagarajan at NetApp A Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company recently answered a question many organizations are asking: How do you…
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Announcing General Availability of Manual QoS for Flex Unified with ONTAP-mode
We are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of Manual Quality of Service (mQoS) for the Flex Unified service level with ONTAP-mode. This release delivers granular control over storage performance, enabling organizations to manage throughput and IOPS at the volume level to protect critical applications from…
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Use every NetApp Volumes endpoint with Google Cluster Toolkit
Large file systems rarely serve one client at a time. EDA farms, AI training environments, HPC clusters, and general-purpose VM fleets can all place thousands of concurrent operations on shared storage. When a Google Cloud NetApp Volumes file system exposes multiple NFS endpoint IP addresses, mounting every client through…
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VDDK Is No Longer Available. NetApp’s Shift Toolkit Never Needed It
Over the past week, I've received several messages from customers asking the same question: Does the removal of public VDDK downloads affect NetApp Shift Toolkit migrations? It's a valid concern. Many migration solutions in the market have historically relied on VMware's Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) as a core…
