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The Global Catalyst for Change: Black Engineer of the Year Conference #BEYA2020
This week, February 13-15, 2020, is the 34th annual Black Engineer of Year (BEYA) conference that will be held at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. This conference brings together over 10,000 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)…
Utilizing Machine Learning to Optimize Data Management
How do you feel about benchmarking your systems against a few hundred thousand others in real time? Thanks to machine learning, this is now possible. Since data storage systems supply telemetry data, they can actually be evaluated using artificial…
What Can You Do in 44 Seconds?
44 seconds. Depending on your perspective, 44 seconds can feel like an eternity or seem to speed by in an instant. For example: In 2016, 44 seconds was all Texas A&M needed to put together the biggest last-minute comeback…
Evolution of the Storage Engineer: Adapting to New Enterprise IT Realities
As the senior IT manager leading the engineering team that designs and deploys data storage solutions at NetApp, I know two things: Cloud, DevOps, *aaS (anything as a service) and growing infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes are changing the…
Future-Proof Your IT Investment with NetApp AFF A400
NVMe Based Storage Makes the Difference As you probably know, we recently launched a brand new end-to-end NVMe-based storage system, NetApp® AFF A400. I sat down with NetApp Technical Marketing Engineers Chris Lueth and Scott Bell to discuss some technical advantages of the new A400. Key advantages they mentioned include how the…
Active IQ Unified Manager 9.7: Risk Management, Self-Healing, Smart Analytics, and Much More
In my previous blog, I discussed how simplicity and security have taken top priority with NetApp® Active IQ® Unified Manager 9.7 when it comes to managing ONTAP® systems, including AFF All SAN Arrays. I also covered how we make…
NetApp INSIGHT Live from London!
Introducing NetApp INSIGHT+ For the first time, NetApp is bringing the excitement of INSIGHT Central directly to you via YouTube (you can also catch the keynote on Twitch!). With NetApp’s new streaming program INSIGHT+, you can watch real-time interviews…
AI in Healthcare: It’s All About the Data Scientists
When discussing AI projects in healthcare, people usually focus on data. They talk about the availability of “clean,” labeled data to train deep learning models and the need for datasets that represent diverse patient populations. They also discuss the…
Prevent Fraud with AI
According to a recent study, credit card fraud in the United States is expected to reach $12 billion in 2020. Rules-based expert systems currently used to catch fraud have become too easy to beat. In addition to combating fraud,…
Mind Your Business
When you hear the phrase, “Mind Your Business”, it may mean something quite different, depending on where you are located. In the U.S., we’re often suggesting that you not be nosy or not gossip. In Canada or the UK,…
Welcoming Lou Anne Reynolds, Director Global Partner Programs | NetApp
“If You Want to Have Good Partners, Be a Good Partner” Lou Anne Reynolds, Director Global Partner Programs This quote sounds like it’s right out of a relationship counselor’s handbook, right? Truth be told, most successful relationships include the…
NetApp E-Series Delivers 20 Years of Zero Downtime at CGG
CGG can’t afford a moment of downtime. The NetApp E-Series storage solution has proven to be an ideal partner for CGG’s HPC applications. Throughout history, tools have changed the world—for example, the wheel. Paper. Printing. The internal combustion…
Real Users Discuss How NetApp AFF Improves Performance, TCO, and Tiering
The IT industry continues to progress with innovative use of all-flash storage. Already proven in their superior performance and infrastructure density compared with spinning disks, all-flash products are now differentiating further through various innovations. NetApp customers who are also members…
Is Your SAN Healthy? Take the SAN Health Check to Find Out!
Every car needs regular maintenance checks to enable you to diagnose and fix problems early: your SAN will benefit from periodic check-ups as well. Fortunately, there’s a valuable tool that can provide a thorough health check of your entire SAN…
Get a Royal Flush of Benefits with Memory-Accelerated FlexPod
Poker players are very familiar with this high hand—the royal flush. This hand combines the benefits of having the five highest cards in sequential rank and in the same suit: the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten. It’s the…
Why People Don’t Go to NetApp INSIGHT
The world of the technical professional is complex. The demands on technology in today’s business are greater than ever, the landscape is more complex, the options are seemingly endless, and the trends are moving at a breakneck pace. How…
FlexPod Adapts and Thrives in a Decade of Constant Change
In 2010, FlexPod® began as an idea for combining the best of breed products from Cisco and NetApp to address certain applications and workloads in a converged infrastructure solution. Fast-forward to the present day, and FlexPod has evolved to serve…
AI in Healthcare: Medical Imaging, Digital Pathology, and Genomics
The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) is greater in healthcare than in almost any other industry. From improving patient outcomes and care to expanding the reach of medical expertise and reducing costs, the potential benefits are huge. However, AI…
Listening and Reacting Are the Stepping-Stones to Change and Success
Understanding challenges and reacting to them can be overwhelming to a business. But they are absolutely a key element to success. Before you can succeed, you need to know what challenges lie in front of you. At NetApp,…
Balancing Power and Capacity in NetApp Data Centers with AFF, FlexPod and More
One of the greatest challenges in a data center is balancing the two biggest expenses: power and capacity. Historically, as the two costs increased together, more racks of hardware and more power would be needed. Today, the relationship has changed…
Decrease time to market, improve customer satisfaction, and increase productivity and collaboration. Welcome to DevOps.
Putting a DevOps strategy in place makes sense if your business is interested in decreasing time to market, raising customer satisfaction, and increasing productivity and collaboration among your teams. Does that sound like your company? You’ve come to…
Kim Stevenson Joins NetApp as SVP and GM of NetApp’s Largest Product Group
At NetApp, our mission is to help our customers change the world with data. As we kick off a new decade, it’s clear that data, and the technologies to manage it, are at an inflection point: AI is seeing real…
Migrating NetApp Service Level Manager to Active IQ Unified Manager 9.7
One important decision we made in the NetApp® Active IQ® Unified Manager 9.7 release was to combine Unified Manager and NetApp Service Level Manager (NSLM) into the same platform to deliver a simple but powerful active management and automation platform…
The Jazzy New Active IQ Unified Manager 9.7: Security Focused ONTAP Management
Simplicity is no longer a theme with NetApp® Active IQ® Unified Manager, it’s a continuous improvement cycle. A cycle that brings goodies for customers in all spheres with every release, whether it’s better NetApp ONTAP® management or simplified operational monitoring…
ONTAP Select Software RAID with NVMe
Each release of ONTAP Select delivers new ways to leverage software-defined storage in environments with evolving needs. With the release of ONTAP Select 9.7, we are introducing support for Software RAID configurations backed by NVMe (nonvolatile memory express) drives. In…
IDC MarketScape: NetApp a Leader in Scale-Out NAS (File-Based Storage)
The exabyte-scale data future is here. Complex new data pipelines from cutting-edge applications, machine-generated data, and IoT endpoints are all flowing into massive unstructured data repositories. NetApp built the network-attached storage (NAS) industry over 27 years ago and we’ve continued…
Rebuilding a Monolithic Enterprise App with Microservices and DevOps
Like many companies, NetApp runs some old, large enterprise applications that are maintained like zombies. Barely kept alive, these apps are important to the company yet are complicated to keep updated and are expensive to support. As the IT leader…
Voice of a FlexPod Customer: A Simple Path to a Hybrid Cloud Model
One of the most consequential IT projects you can undertake today is to digitally transform your approach to data center management. But a digital transformation can be tricky to pull off. Not only do you need to know where…