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NetApp 436 Episodes Jun 25, 2026

Each week, the Tech ONTAP Podcast dives into all-things NetApp, including storage, public & private cloud, and much more. The team will also be interviewing subject-matter experts from across the industry and detailing various best practices for getting the most out of your datacenter.

Episodes

Episode 413: AI and Data Modernization
Episode 413: AI and Data Modernization Jun 25, 2026 00:36:21 AI success starts with data. As organizations race to deploy AI initiatives, many discover that the biggest challenges aren't GPUs or models—they're data governance, data quality, compliance, and managing information across hybrid environments. In this episode of the Tech ONTAP Podcast, Justin Parisi is joined by Ahmed Al-Nabhani, Senior Solutions Engineer at NetApp, to discuss how enterprises a
Episode 412 - Disaggregated ONTAP (aka NetApp AFX)
Episode 412 - Disaggregated ONTAP (aka NetApp AFX) May 18, 2026 00:38:11 In this episode, Arindam Banerjee and Jeff Baxter join us to discuss disaggregated ONTAP, also known as AFX. We discuss how disaggregated ONTAP separates storage compute from storage capacity, allowing customers to scale performance and capacity independently. This architecture is designed for modern workloads such as AI, machine learning, EDA, media and entertainment, and large-scale unstructure
Episode 411 - NetApp Backup and Recovery: Modern Data Protection Made Simple
Episode 411 - NetApp Backup and Recovery: Modern Data Protection Made Simple Mar 27, 2026 00:34:28 Backup isn’t just about copies anymore—it’s about resilience, efficiency, and simplicity at scale. From ransomware concerns to long-term retention and multi-cloud complexity, traditional backup approaches are struggling to keep up. In this episode of the Tech ONTAP Podcast, host Justin Parisi is joined by Manohar Kulkarni and Ebin Kadavy to explore how NetApp Backup and Recovery is redefining dat
Ep 410 - Why Data Movement Defines Hybrid & AI Success
Ep 410 - Why Data Movement Defines Hybrid & AI Success Feb 3, 2026 00:43:02 When moving data into or out of the cloud, the real cost isn’t storage, but latency, egress fees, and lost flexibility. For instance, if you spin up AI workloads in one cloud and inference in another, what happens when your data can’t move fast enough to keep GPUs busy? What’s the cost? These are the challenges enterprises are running into right now as hybrid, multi-cloud, and AI architectures c
Episode 409 - Who Really Controls Your Data in the Age of AI?
Episode 409 - Who Really Controls Your Data in the Age of AI? Dec 17, 2025 00:29:55 As artificial intelligence reshapes cybersecurity, organizations are being forced to rethink data sovereignty, trust, and resilience. In this episode, we sit down with Adam Gale, Field CTO for Cybersecurity and AI at NetApp, to explore how AI, security, and geopolitics are colliding in today’s digital infrastructure. This conversation goes beyond theory to discuss real-world challenges and decisi
Ep 408 - AI in Business with Kamales Lardi
Ep 408 - AI in Business with Kamales Lardi Nov 18, 2025 00:34:47 This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we sit down with global AI and digital transformation strategist Kamales Lardi to explore one of the most important conversations in modern IT: how to adopt AI responsibly, ethically, and effectively in the enterprise — with data at the core. While AI capabilities continue to expand, most organizations still struggle with real-world implementation, scaling bey
Ep 407 - NetApp StorageGRID 12.0
Ep 407 - NetApp StorageGRID 12.0 Oct 11, 2025 00:53:16 🚀 This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast: We’re talking all things StorageGRID 12.0 — and this release is a game changer for AI and data-driven workloads. We are joined by Vishnu Vardhan and Morgan Mears to unpack how StorageGRID is evolving into an AI-ready object storage powerhouse. Here’s what’s new in StorageGRID 12.0 👇
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Ep 406 - AI Powered NetApp Docs
Ep 406 - AI Powered NetApp Docs Oct 2, 2025 00:48:43 🚀 This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast: NetApp Docs goes AI! We sit down with Aksel Davis, Grant Glass, Jen Kaufman, and Adam Newton to explore how NetApp is transforming documentation—from static PDFs to a living, searchable, AI-powered ecosystem. 💡 Topics we cover: • The shift from closed XML systems to GitHub + open standards • How generative AI powers Doc the Owl, our chatbot trained on 120
Episode 405 - NVIDIA SuperPod Updates - Fall 2025
Episode 405 - NVIDIA SuperPod Updates - Fall 2025 Sep 11, 2025 00:46:36 We’re diving deep into AI at scale with NetApp experts Bobby Oomen and David Arnette. From NVIDIA SuperPod (think AI factories powering massive LLM training) to FlexPod solutions that bring inference into everyday enterprise workloads, we unpack what’s happening at the cutting edge of AI infrastructure. You’ll hear how NetApp and NVIDIA are collaborating to solve one of AI’s biggest challenges—da
Episode 404 - DataOps Toolkit
Episode 404 - DataOps Toolkit Aug 14, 2025 00:47:35 Managing large amounts of data can be challenging, especially when you also have to manage the storage system where the data lives. So to make life easier for storage administrators, NetApp offers a data ops toolkit that can offload some of the work associated with storage management. On this Tech ONTAP Podcast episode, we welcome the creator of the toolkit, Michael Oglesby, to talk about the late
Episode 403 - CPOC!
Episode 403 - CPOC! Jul 9, 2025 00:35:27 The NetApp Customer Proof of Concept lab is a place where prospective NetApp customers can "kick the tires" on real NetApp hardware, with their own workloads, before purchasing. This try and buy approach is a game changer for anyone looking to move to a new storage platform. This week, the CPOC team tells us all about how they do things in this inaugural video edition of the Tech ONTAP podcast!
Episode 402 - NetApp FlexGroup: Advanced Capacity Balancing
Episode 402 - NetApp FlexGroup: Advanced Capacity Balancing Mar 19, 2025 00:22:36 Did you know there's a way to stripe large files across multiple nodes in a NetApp ONTAP cluster now? NetApp TME John Lantz drops by to drop some knowledge on Advanced Capacity Balancing!

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