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Personal views only. This article reflects my own research and perspective. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or written on behalf of any employer or vendor. All sources are publicly available. When on-premises GPU capacity runs dry, organisations burst workloads to the cloud — only to discover their data can't follow. NetApp FlexCache bridges that gap without moving a single byte you don't need. 🕓 7 min read • AI Infrastructure • Hybrid Cloud • NetApp ONTAP The GPU queue problem nobody talks about Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating. Data science teams are running more experiments, training larger models, and processing more inference workloads than ever before. The on-premises infrastructure that was sized for last year's ambitions is now permanently oversubscribed. The result is the GPU queue — that invisible...

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 ...