Veeam Solutions Series

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?

In this episode of Arrow Bandwidth, host Timur Rassekh sits down with Benjamin McGuire from Arrow and Kevin Karafa from Veeam to discuss awareness and protection during this unprecedented time, including ransomware protection, cloud security and more. Tune in to learn more about how you can position your company for success with Arrow and Veeam.

SPEAKERS:

Timur Rassekh
Technical Solutions Manager, Arrow
Timur is an Arrow Technical Solutions Manager and holds a degree in Management information Systems from the University of Colorado Denver. His responsibilities at Arrow include running a team of architects that build nextgen solutions for Arrow customers, using the latest offerings from our top supplier partners.

Kevin Karafa
National Technical Partner Manager, Veeam
Kevin has been with Veeam since 2018. He currently is a National Technical Partner Manager (and holds VmSP 2020, VMTSP 2020, and VMCE certifications). He covers 8 National Partners and primarily focuses on partners in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pittsburgh.

Benjamin McGuire
Technical Solutions Architect, Arrow
As a Technical Solutions Architect at Arrow Electronics, Ben leverages his experience and knowledge in numerous hardware and software platforms across many manufacturers to build solutions that provides immediate impact and cost savings for our customer and partner communities.

Veeam Data Protection – Ransomware, Immutability & Overall Recovery

In this episode of Arrow Bandwidth, host Timur Rassekh sits down with Benjamin McGuire from Arrow and Kevin Karafa from Veeam to discuss data backup and recovery, and how customers can keep their data safe when they are working from home. Tune in to learn more about how you can position your company for success with Arrow and Veeam.

For more information on how to get started with Arrow and Veeam, contact veeam@arrow.com.

SPEAKERS:

Timur Rassekh | Technical Solutions Manager, Arrow
Timur is an Arrow technical solutions manager and holds a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Colorado Denver. His responsibilities at Arrow include running a team of architects that build nextgen solutions for Arrow customers, using the latest offerings from our top supplier partners.

Kevin Karafa | National Technical Partner Manager, Veeam
Kevin has been with Veeam since 2018. He currently holds the position of National technical partner manager and his certifications include VmSP 2020, VMTSP 2020, and VMCE. He covers eight national partners and primarily focuses on partners in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pittsburgh.

Benjamin McGuire | Technical Solutions Architect, Arrow
As an Arrow technical solutions architect, Ben leverages his experience and knowledge in numerous hardware and software platforms across many manufacturers to build solutions that provide immediate impact and cost savings for our customer and partner communities.

Veeam Endpoint Protection in an Ever-Changing World

Businesses today are becoming more and more concerned about keeping their data environments up to date with all the rapid changes that are constantly happening in the industry. They want to keep their data secure and agile, but they are beginning to realize they need to fundamentally change how they look at data transformation. 

This new Arrow Bandwidth podcast discusses data transformation and the role that Veeam can play in protecting and transforming your customers’ data. Discussion topics include Veeam’s three main focus areas: protecting the data with backup, ingesting the data, and then unleashing the data to move forward and grow the business. With Arrow and Veeam’s help, you can now help them morph their security, data protection and cloud mindset into just one functioning protocol. Listen today!

Speaker Bios
Timur Rassekh | Technical Solutions Manager, Arrow
Timur is an Arrow Technical Solutions Manager and holds a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Colorado Denver. His responsibilities at Arrow include running a team of architects that build nextgen solutions for Arrow customers, using the latest offerings from our top supplier partners.

Kevin Karafa | National Technical Partner Manager, Veeam
Kevin has been with Veeam since 2018. He currently holds the position of National Technical Partner Manager and his certifications include VmSP 2020, VMTSP 2020, and VMCE. He covers eight National Partners and primarily focuses on partners in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pittsburgh.

Benjamin McGuire | Technical Solutions Architect, Arrow
As an Arrow Technical Solutions Architect, Ben leverages his experience and knowledge in numerous hardware and software platforms across many manufacturers to build solutions that provide immediate impact and cost savings for our customer and partner communities.

Veeam, Data Transformation and the Backup Industry

In this new Arrow podcast, Timur Rassekh and Ben McGuire from the Arrow technical solutions team discuss how NAS (network attached storage) is a movement that has turned into an industry. Timur and Ben examine this topic with Veeam National Technical Partner Manager Kevin Karafa who has 19 years in the industry. Kevin explains a brief history of his experience with NAS, starting from the days where many people didn’t think it would work, to now — with NAS targeted to grow 300% from a $15 billion market in 2017 to a $45 billion market in 2023.

As file sizes are growing and people are keeping their data longer, you’ll want to tune into this episode to learn why NAS is important and how you can position the features and benefits of Veeam’s solutions to your customers. You will also learn how to create a dramatically faster backup experience for them. One example in this podcast describes a backup that took the fastest competitor 72 hours, but it took Veeam only four hours.

In addition, this discussion clarifies how Veeam does backup differently than competitors, leveraging change file tracking to quickly assess what’s happening and identify changes in the environment, while keeping everything neatly organized and super-efficient.

For more information on how to get started with Arrow and Veeam, contact veeam@arrow.com.

Speaker Bios

Timur Rassekh | Technical Solutions Manager, Arrow
Timur is an Arrow technical solutions manager and holds a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Colorado Denver. His responsibilities at Arrow include running a team of architects that build nextgen solutions for Arrow customers, using the latest offerings from our top supplier partners.

Kevin Karafa | National Technical Partner Manager, Veeam
Kevin has been with Veeam since 2018. He currently holds the position of national technical partner manager and his certifications include VmSP 2020, VMTSP 2020, and VMCE. He covers eight national partners and primarily focuses on partners in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pittsburgh.

Benjamin McGuire | Technical Solutions Architect, Arrow
As an Arrow technical solutions architect, Ben leverages his experience and knowledge in numerous hardware and software platforms across many manufacturers to build solutions that provide immediate impact and cost savings for our customer and partner communities.

Veeam Network Attached Storage (NAS) Backup Solutions

Historically, Veeam has always delivered huge value in the data center with their on-prem, physical and virtual solutions. But now, Veeam offers cloud solutions that are fully available in any platform. 

During this podcast, Arrow’s Timur Rassekh and Ben McGuire host special guest Kevin Karafa from Veeam who provides insights on Azure’s integration with Veeam and all the great benefits that can come not only to Arrow’s partner community, but also — most importantly — to the end-user and their data. You will discover how the joint alliance between Veeam and Azure can offer a complete cloud data protection solution, as well as how Arrow supports your cloud business growth. Listen today!

For more information on how to get started with Arrow and Veeam, contact veeam@arrow.com.

Speaker Bios

Timur Rassekh | Technical Solutions Manager, Arrow
Timur is an Arrow technical solutions manager and holds a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Colorado Denver. His responsibilities at Arrow include running a team of architects that build nextgen solutions for Arrow customers, using the latest offerings from our top supplier partners.

Kevin Karafa | National Technical Partner Manager, Veeam
Kevin has been with Veeam since 2018. He currently holds the position of national technical partner manager and his certifications include VmSP 2020, VMTSP 2020, and VMCE. He covers eight national partners and primarily focuses on partners in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pittsburgh.

Benjamin McGuire | Technical Solutions Architect, Arrow
As an Arrow technical solutions architect, Ben leverages his experience and knowledge in numerous hardware and software platforms across many manufacturers to build solutions that provide immediate impact and cost savings for our customer and partner communities.

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