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What's New at NetApp Insight 2025

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The NetApp Insight is NetApp flagship event which showcasing the new innovation and launches announcement. This year without fail, NetApp once again has release one of the most anticipated offering in the AI arena. The first in able to do this all right from the start doing it right more than 30 years ago with ONTAP, AFX and AIDE. Together with some new branding and new abilities. Let's go right into it into some of the major updates. 1. AFX ( link ) and AIDE ( link ) AFX is a new offering which is NetApp first announced in NetApp Insight 2024 and now its available. This is NetApp first disaggregated storage solution cater to demanding workload primary AI but also other such as EDA. The best part is certified with NVIDIA, it not just meet the performance but also inherit all the best of ONTAP such as Security and more. AIDE, on the other hand, as the name implies, its support the AI Data Pipeline. This is the first and only AI Data Engine that is available on the market. Just ima...
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The Most Secure Storage on The Planet - NetApp

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Why NetApp is bold enough to say they are the Most Secure Storage on the planet second to none. Here I am going to break it down what NetApp proof itself on: NetApp has pledge it self to CISA Secure by Design Commitment. And you can read here  what that is about also what the pledge entails. NetApp also comply to NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 by folloing the stringent guidelines entail here . NetApp has comly to a list security certifications as details here . To list a few, DoDIN APL, FIPS 140, Common Criteria, etc. Lastly, NetApp is validated by CISA for CSfC to store secret and top-secret National Security Systems (NSS) data. That is all what NetApp has proof. Why not let a third party do validated. NetApp engaged SE Labs to test out its built in Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) with AI against 15 ransomware family, and has achieve a AAA rating. The only storage on the planet so far to get this rating. It proof that ARP was able to detect all 100% accuracy of the atta...
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VMware vExpert 2025 Second Half Application is Open!

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For those who missed the first half application or wasn't to the cut and have made improvement as suggested from the comments given, the application for second half is now open! If you do not know what is VMware vExpert, you can check out my post here . You might be already doing it why not apply and get accredited.  So start drafting and save your application and remember to submit them by 24th July US. You should expect the results to be out in Aug time frame. As usual if you need help or advice, feel free to approach any of the vExpert Pro nearest to you. If are not aware of the benefit and experience of vExpert accreditation check out my post here . Good luck to all applicants. Dates for reference Open July 7th Closing July 24th Announcement Happens on August 15th
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Why NetApp?

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When I join NetApp from VMware after spending a good 13 years, I was amazed and taken aback how much NetApp got to offer to customers. It not just a Data fabric company but lots more in the space of how data are managed, stored, secured, and much more surrounding data. The first thing I learnt about is ONTAP, the powerful software operating system that powers all NetApp hard and soft boxes at the very beginning. It also not just a storage but it is the King of Files for a reason. The unique of NetApp is in its way of storing data, Write Anyway File Layout ( WAFL ). Its ability to handle large amount of small files makes it elite on its own. Today NetApp is the ONLY vendor able to handle File, Block and Object all at the same time with ONTAP. NetApp also have acquired a few solutions over the years specific to how data are created, managed, used and secured. Let's leave that to another post for now. Let me drill into 3 key takeaways on why NetApp how it differentiate itself as the ...
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Is A Shift in Data Management Trend Happening?

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Looking at the trend of data referencing from here . We can see that data has been growing phenomenally. In actual fact, looking at the trend, the boom started in 2020 and has not stop ever since. Source: https://explodingtopics.com/blog/data-generated-per-day  In today infrastructure, we have two major solutions for data management. One is our traditional storage array and the other is HyperConverge Infrastructure (HCI). The latter only started picking up in early 2011 where some of the known names such as pivot3 and the major players after such as Nutanix and VMware vSAN which exist most commonly in most data center infrastructure. As data volume increases and the the adoption of AI, capacity and performance for data management become a crucial requirement. Taking example from the like on virtualization, you can have all the compute resources for your virtual machine, but if your workload data IO and capacity cannot be serve, the bottleneck still exist.  In the wor...
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NetApp Supports All Virtualization Platforms

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You hear me right. Was browsing through some documentation and wanted to see any storage vendor is supporting Proxmox, the new player in virtualization. To my surprise, NetApp not only support, but all functions of ONTAP are also supported just like how it supports other virtualization platforms such as VMware, RedHat, Microsoft. Any virtualization platforms that support external storage solutions.  Check the virtualization overview documentation site . NetApp has extensive partnership with VMware to support day zero feature function. This can be seen from the support of vSphere vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) on vVols. RedHat OpenShift, Microsoft Hyper-V and Promox. NetApp allows customers to choose to consume storage in any shape and form namely, on premies physical storage array, in the cloud as first party files services from AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes as third party service in CSP's market place and ONTAP Select (virtual appliance). With tr...
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NetApp - The Intelligent Data Infrastructure

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This week marks my 90 days in NetApp. It was truly an eye opener to what thought to be a storage company can do beyond just data storage. NetApp has evolve over the years and with the amount of R&D and investment made to its portfolio that I believe most are not aware just like myself. In my 90 days, I should address what NetApp offers in a nutshell: 1. The only true hybrid and multicloud solution that allows customer to consume storage solution in any shape and form with the same skillset and knowledge. NetApp's secret sauce, ONTAP is the underlying software that empowered its storage solution since the very beginning as the King of NAS. Of course as a software, it has been able to support block and object similarly well. ONTAP One is the only soft license that comes in all NetApp unified storage solution at no additional charges. But the power of ONTAP does not stop there, ONTAP Select , a virtual machine offering allows customer to consume the same ONTAP storage, right off ...
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