NetApp redefining hyperscaler partnerships for AI storage

NetApp Inc. is rethinking its strategic positioning in enterprise storage. Past simply {hardware}, the corporate is embracing the cloud, by means of hyperscaler partnerships, in ways in which meet the wants of a quickly evolving tech landscape. 

NetApp’s Pravjit Tiwana discusses hyperscaler partnerships with theCUBE.

“Because of all three main hyperscaler companions in Amazon, Microsoft and Google, we’re in additional than 100 areas now,” mentioned Pravjit Tiwana (pictured), senior vp and basic supervisor of the Cloud Storage Enterprise Unit at NetApp. “The worldwide availability; if a buyer wants information in a neighborhood sovereign or needs an air hole, all these capabilities are there. On high of that, additionally they get plenty of issues round safety which hyperscaler companions are investing in.”

Tiwana spoke with theCUBE Analysis’s Rob Strechay and Rebecca Knight at NetApp Insight, throughout an unique broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They mentioned NetApp’s sturdy cloud hyperscaler partnerships, AI integration, hybrid cloud information administration and a deal with safety and customer-driven innovation. (* Disclosure beneath.)

Tapping hyperscaler partnerships to simplify AI and information storage

NetApp’s distinctive place permits the corporate to supply international availability and excessive safety requirements, combining their ONTAP storage capabilities with the cutting-edge applied sciences of hyperscalers. This partnership-driven technique gives prospects with sturdy safety, compliance and seamless entry to highly effective instruments comparable to Amazon Bedrock and Google’s AI providers.

“We’re collectively elevating the bar on safety, getting the very best from the hyperscaler facet of the issues, greatest from ONTAP facet,” Tiwana mentioned. “The identical factor goes round compliances. Our prospects can get all these capabilities now natively obtainable as a part of the first-party service. It’s a mix of all of the goodness which we have now each on the ONTAP facet and the hyperscaler facet, which is highly effective for our prospects.”

NetApp’s cloud partnerships additionally prolong into the AI realm. As AI continues to reshape industries, NetApp ensures that prospects can use instruments comparable to Vertex AI with out the complexity of transferring information, based on Tiwana.

“Each answer which is on the market or each functionality which is out there may be based mostly on what they’re listening to from their prospects, and our prospects have trusted with us for storage wants for greater than twenty years at this level,” he mentioned.

Right here’s the whole video interview, a part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Analysis’s protection of NetApp Insight: 

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media associate for NetApp Perception. Neither NetApp Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s occasion protection, nor different sponsors have editorial management over content material on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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