Government agencies are seeking a better way to access, store and process data closer to where it is being created and consumed, whether that is in a data center, branch location, cloud environment or at the edge where devices connect to the network. To meet this evolving need, CenturyLink recently unveiled a new managed storage service […]
I was on a bike ride with an old friend whom I hadn’t seen in about 25 years. The obvious question was “what’s new?” Do you mean in addition to a generation of experiences? Marriage, kids, careers – same old stuff. Yourself? Turns out that there’s a lot that’s “new.” There’s a Facebook page […]
Dear Umi: I manage IT storage for a national retail chain and I’m having trouble sleeping at night. Every time one of our Dell PowerStore flash drives fails, I know we are one more failure away from losing critical data which would severely damage our business. Sometimes it takes 24 hours before that failed drive […]
All IT organizations understand the downside of downtime. Users expect availability and consistent performance levels 24/7, even in the face of ever-increasing volumes of data. As a result, backup time windows are shrinking, while the amount of data to be backed up is increasing. NetApp IT upgraded their SAP customer relationship management (CRM) system […]
We navigated a crisis and discovered a new business imperative that provides both employer and employee great advantages. Outside traditional office settings, organizations are now forced to building out short-term and long-term strategies for success, including policies that will make it easier to adapt to future crises and challenges. So, what can businesses do […]
For the second year in a row, NetApp has won a coveted AI Breakthrough award for the Best Machine Learning Platform with our partner Lenovo. The AI Breakthrough Awards program was founded to recognize artificial intelligence (AI)–related technology innovators, leaders, and visionaries from around the world. All the award nominations for a range of […]
What is ideal? A long (4 or 5 hour) bike ride along the Colorado Front Range followed up with some of my favorite carbonated nourishment is an ideal day in my book. And apparently Wout van Aert had an ideal day too—at this year’s edition of Strade Bianche when he soloed in for the win in the final 13 kilometers. With a broken wheel and 5 punctures, Julian Alaphilippe most certainly did not have an ideal day. So what’s ideal when […]
Since the last release, you might have noticed that NetApp® Active IQ® Unified Manager has shifted paradigms. No longer just a monitoring solution, Unified Manager now helps with automation, active management, intelligent provisioning, and zero touch management, which I wrote about in previous blogs: Active IQ Unified Manager 9.7: Risk Management, Self-Healing, Smart Analytics, and […]
A conversational AI system engages in humanlike dialog, understands context, and provides intelligent responses. Such AI models are often huge and highly complex. With NetApp® ONTAP® AI, powered by NVIDIA DGX systems and NetApp cloud-connected storage systems, massive, state-of-the-art language models can be trained and optimized to run inference rapidly. In conversational AI systems, […]
Ten years ago, Cisco and NetApp collaborated to create FlexPod®, a modern, best-in-class data solution. But we didn’t stop there. We continue to innovate and constantly improve. Now, a decade of innovation later, we’re looking back at some of the most memorable highlights from our amazing (and ongoing) journey. Are you curious about the NetApp […]
Ah, change. It’s not just the late David Bowie’s manifesto for (among other things) the frequency of change in the world today. Change is something to be embraced and utilized for growth. The ramifications for not accepting change can be grave. Remember Borders? Toys “R” Us? Failure to embrace change and innovate has generated some serious, […]
The challenges of NAS backup With the explosive growth of data, backing up NAS systems is increasingly challenging and complex for enterprises around the world. Historically, NAS data was backed up and restored with the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP). However, NDMP architecture is inherently inefficient and outdated. With NDMP, backups are typically […]
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