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 However, NDMP architecture is inherently inefficient and outdated.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 […]
The NISI Group (NISI) is a medical technology business headquartered in Hong Kong, specializing in the development, manufacture, and sales of innovative surgical and diagnostic products. Its corporate mission is to become a world leader in noninvasive surgical innovations. NISI first used an NVIDIA DGX-1 as a high-performance computing node to help with its […]
As the first and earliest adopters of our own products, my infrastructure team, called Customer-1, runs NetApp® products in support of NetApp’s global enterprise. We also provide feedback to the product teams on our experience and recommend product improvements. We have a large-scale storage fleet of more than 100PB of raw storage with 450 storage […]
NetApp Active IQ provides customers and partners with actionable intelligence on their NetApp environment via a dashboard that summarizes performance, availability, capacity forecasting, health summary, case histories, upgrade recommendations, and more. Every week the system generates about 100TB of data and 225 million files―and it is growing! As the team responsible for IT operations and […]
Expect the unexpected. That’s the first rule of business continuity planning. If you want to minimize the impact of a disruptive incident, prepare for the known unknowns if not the unknown unknowns. Every shock – whether caused by flooding, fire, cyberattack, or, as now, a global virus – is different in character and execution, but […]
As storage management experts, NetApp IT leans on tools like Red Hat Ansible to help automate the delivery of consistent storage environments, reduce configuration errors, and respond to threshold limits. Two years ago, our team started using ONTAP® Ansible modules to reduce day 0 build times from a 2-day manual process to a 10-minute automated […]
Organizations are very aware of ransomware and the dangers of infection. Yet many of those same organizations don’t really have a good idea of how to recover quickly and efficiently if they’ve encountered a ransomware attack. Unfortunately, not all organizations that pay the ransom end up getting their precious data back; it might remain encrypted […]
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