The NetApp A-Team drops by to chat about the NetApp launch announcements for February 2025. Listen as we cover updates to the ASA platform, new hardware models, BlueXP improvements and more!

Episode 400 - NetApp Launch Announcements February 2025

This week, NetApp FlexCache TME drops in to discuss the latest information around the sparse caching feature for NFS and SMB workloads - FlexCache.

Episode 401 - NetApp ONTAP: FlexCache (Spring 2025)

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!

Episode 402 - NetApp FlexGroup: Advanced Capacity Balancing

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 latest updates and where best to use it.

Episode 404 - DataOps Toolkit

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—data management—with tools like SnapMirror, FlexCache, and FlexClone. We also explore why inference is becoming just as important (if not more) than training, and what that shift means for enterprises looking to integrate AI into their operations.

Whether you’re curious about NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) offerings, KV cache innovations, or how Cisco and NetApp are pushing FlexPod into the AI era, this episode is packed with insights you won’t want to miss.

Tune in to learn how enterprises can scale AI securely, efficiently, and flexibly—with NetApp at the core.

Episode 405 - NVIDIA SuperPod Updates - Fall 2025

🚀 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 120K+ NetApp documents
	•	Making documentation more accurate, agile, and accessible in 9 languages
	•	Future possibilities: AI-driven authoring tools, in-product assistance, and cross-dataset intelligence

Whether you’re a NetApp customer, partner, or just curious about how AI reshapes technical documentation, this episode is packed with insights.

Ep 406 - AI Powered NetApp Docs

🚀 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 👇 

💾 Bucket Branches – Think Git for data. Instantly create space-efficient dataset copies for AI/ML training, testing, and version control. 

⚡ Caching Load Balancers – Bring data closer to compute with up to 1.2PB of local cache for high-performance AI pipelines. 

📈 Scalability & Smarter Metadata – Handle hundreds of billions of objects with ease. 

☁️ Flexible Deployment – Run StorageGRID your way: appliance, container, or virtualized.

Whether you’re building data lakes, training large language models, or managing global datasets, StorageGRID 12.0 helps you scale with performance, simplicity, and efficiency.

Ep 407 - NetApp StorageGRID 12.0

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 beyond pilots, and building trust within the business. Kamales shares why AI strategy must start with people, data governance, and business outcomes — not just tools and hype.

Ep 408 - AI in Business with Kamales Lardi

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 decisions organizations are facing right now.

\In this episode, we cover:
	•	How AI is being used in modern cybersecurity
	•	Why “human in the loop” still matters for critical decisions
	•	What data sovereignty really means—and why it’s not one-size-fits-all
	•	The role of encryption and key ownership in protecting data
	•	Real-world examples of dark sites, resilience, and infrastructure disruptions
	•	Why trust and transparency are essential in security platforms

With AI accelerating and regulations evolving worldwide, data sovereignty is no longer just a compliance issue—it’s becoming a strategic and board-level concern.


Episode 309 - Who Really Controls Your Data in the Age of AI?

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David Fearne Global Data Intelligence Practice Leader, Arrow

David Fearne has been at Arrow for eight years, working in UKI, EMEA and global roles. He was most recently the technical director of Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business in UK and Ireland. Fearne specializes in big data and all things cloud, and was one of the founders of the ArrowSphere project. His career started as an IBM graduate,but has touched end-users, vendors, distributors and resellers with outcome-centric focuses ranging from central government and HPC to financial and space. In 2017, he was recognized as one of the 50 most influential people in big data in the UK, an acknowledgement he earned for his work on the “How Happy is London” project.

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Paul C. Zikopoulos Vice President of Cognitive BigData Systems , IBM
Paul C. Zikopoulos is the vice president of cognitive big data systems at IBM. He’s an award-winning writer and speaker and was once consulted on the topic of big data by the popular TV show “60 Minutes.” Zikopoulos also advises various universities on their graduate analytics programs and has been named to more than a dozen “Experts to Follow” lists on social media. As a seated board member for Women 2.0, a global brand for women in tech and entrepreneurship that works to close the gender gaps at tech companies. Zikopoulos is an advocate for women in technology. Zikopoulos has written 19 books and more than 360 articles on data. He doesn't think NoSQL is something you put on a resume if you don't have SQL skills and he knows JSON isn't a person in his department. Ultimately, Zikopoulos is trying to figure out the world according to Chloë, his daughter, whom he notes didn’t come with a handbook and is more complex than the topic of big data itself, but more fun too.

Shawn Rosemarin Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Global Field and Industry, Hitachi
Shawn Rosemarin is currently CTO of Global Field and Industry at Hitachi. As part of the Executive Sales Leadership team, Rosemarin holds direct accountability for all strategy and key talent across both pre-sales and Hitachi Vantara’s Industry Solutions Group. Prior to this role, Rosemarin was a chief technologist within the Americas Field CTO team at VMware and held various roles in technology and sales leadership. Rosemarin’s passion is working closely with customers to help them transform digitally with everything from private/hybrid cloud to end-user computing transformation and emerging IoT Solutions. Over the past 18 years, Rosemarin has gained experience with various technology organizations, including IBM, Dell and Hitachi Data Systems. An active seminar presenter, Rosemarin enjoys sharing experiences, simplifying complex concepts and highlighting best practices. Rosemarin holds a Bachelor of Commerce in management information systems from Queen’s University.

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