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The Quantum Threat Is Real. Is Your Data Already Protected? Personal Views Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely my own and do not represent the views, positions, strategies, or opinions of my employer or any organisation I am affiliated with. All information is based on publicly available sources and references, which are cited at the end of this article. Product names, trademarks, and certifications mentioned belong to their respective owners. The Quantum Threat Is Real. Is Your Data Already Protected? While the industry races to catch up on quantum readiness, NetApp customers have been protected since day one — at the layer that matters most: where your data lives. ⏱ 7 min read In a world of evolving cyberattacks, organisations invest millions across layers of infrastructure — networks, compute, identity, endpoints — yet a critical question too often goes unasked: when every other layer fails, where do...

Storage • Observability • AI Agents Harvest Speaks: Turning ONTAP Metrics Into Conversations How an old open-source workhorse quietly became an AI-ready observability layer — and what that means for the way we work with storage data. ⏰ 6 min read The views expressed here are my own personal opinions, based on publicly available information. They do not represent the views of my employer or any vendor, and should not be taken as official guidance, product roadmap, or endorsement. There's a particular kind of open-source tool that never quite gets the spotlight it deserves. It doesn't have a flashy launch event. It doesn't trend on social media. It just sits there, quietly doing its job, one poller cycle at a time — until one day you realise half your monitoring stack has been leaning on it for years without you thinking twice. For a lot of ONTAP and StorageGRID admins, that tool is NetApp Harvest. And thi...

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...

Where I used to come from VMware, it build an ecosystem of integration with its vendors. And have a massive interops from compute, storage and network. It does this through an extensive API within its full software stack. When I joined NetApp earlier this year, NetApp have a Cyber Resilience Partner Ecosystem surrounding data. One of the category is Virus Detection. This was made possible with ONTAP Vscan technology which is a proprietary to NetApp. Which also means, not all AV vendor can just integrate. They need to be using ONTAP Vscan technology for that integration.  Now the questions is won't that made it less compiling? Maybe, but for the sake of security, this is needed. Why do I say so? Generally on the market, storage vendors all have integration to AV vendors in some way, However, most choose the "easy way out". They leverage on ICAP (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol). As ICAP is a generic protocol, it can be easily utilized. However, one issue with ICAP is,...

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...

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...