What's New at NetApp Insight 2025

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 imagine the data challenges you will face when starting AI initiatives:

1. Gathering data from all over such as public cloud, and different locations, provided you know where they are. Knowing where to start.
   Answer: With NetApp, you get to know where all your data are located since every data services whether on prem, in the cloud or as a software are running ONTAP.
2. Making sure data that are gathered remain current. Repeating point 1. all over again.
   Answer: With NetApp, leveraging ONTAP SnapDiff to ensure only the data differences are update efficiently. This is often a huge challenge.
3. Applying classification and guardrail and ensuring data is secured and providing governance adhere to the local policy or guideline.
   Answer: NetApp is able to work that all out within AIDE, providing data classification and governance the type guardrail you need on your data in a regardless data distribution as long they are running ONTAP.
4. Creating dataset used for different AI Agents and chatbots.
   Answer: Containing all the data metadata, storing it its own vector database using NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIM). This vector embeddings efficiently and eliminates the need to move massive datasets to separate vector databases.With this, you can search and discover the data you need. Applying it immediate ready for use to any AI agent and chatbot.

What this does is creating a Global Metadata Engine across all ONTAP Data Services whether on premises, in the cloud or even as a software running as a VM in virtual environment. Any consumption model of choice. The first in the world! 

Check out ÅFX performance here.

2. NetApp Ransomware Resilience Service (link)

In the past, customer would need to stand up their own clean environment for Ransomware recovery and forensic purpose. With the new service, NetApp Ransomware Resilience Service is able to provide an isolated and clean for such purpose. This definitely allows customers for faster recovery and lower the chance of repeat attack.

3. NetApp Cloud Volumes Enhancement (link)

NetApp is the first and remain the only to provide first party cloud data services. Together with the 3 CSPs, NetApp together with Azure and Google, provide further enhancement to this services.

4. NetApp Workload Factory (link 1, link 2, link 3)

One key area of improvement is reducing the SSD capacity. Customer can now increase or decrease the usage as needed. Additional of support for Oracle deployment and SQL backup via SnapCenter integration.

5. NetApp Trident 25.10 (link)

New NetApp Trident 25.10 will not just support the new AFX but also will have long waiting automatic failover of your Pods. In additional, it finally support FC on the ASA block storage. It remains cost free to all NetApp customers and support all major kubernetes distributions.

6. NetApp Shift Toolkit (link)

A free migration tool to move between VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. It also support migrating from VMware vSphere to major KVM hypervisor such as RedHat, Proxmox, Oracle Linux VM, etc. Leveraging of NetApp ONTAP FlexClone, it measure to take up as low as 5mins per VM.

7. NetApp Console (link)

Rebranding of NetApp BlueXP to NetApp Console. Making it more seamless integrated into NetApp total offering portfolio. This also introduce an overhaul of the canvas.

Check out more details when it is release.