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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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the days of VMware, I was fortunate to talk to many customers and involved in numerous discussion on helping them from on premise to private cloud, hybrid cloud to public cloud and MultiCloud to today, Intelligence running in the cloud. Many thought that might change when I move on to my next career. In fact, I carry on that discussion with my customers today the same way I did in the past. That was also one great reason I joint NetApp. Let me show you where this happens: Reference link As changes of IT evolved, the amount of data customer have to collect, manage, protect and secure is way more than before. More so around complexity and managing the amount of data threats. In 1996, NetApp introduced ONTAP to solve the issue with local data siloes with NAS to help customer manage the large amount of data in files and block. When virtualization take place, NetApp supported a wide range of solutions such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, etc. helping customers manage that data growth. Even...