This week, NetApp Software Developer Chris Weber and Solutions Marketing Manager Mike McNamara join us to break down SuperPOD -  the latest AI/ML solution featuring NetApp E-Series and BeeGFS.

Episode 326 - NetApp SuperPOD featuring NVIDIA and E-Series

This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, Chris Hurley and Elliott Ecton join us to discuss the latest FlexCache updates in ONTAP 9.12.1, as well as the latest information on the set of storage efficiency features in NetApp ONTAP.

Episode 349 - NetApp FlexCache and Storage Efficiency Updates for ONTAP 9.12.1

This week, Semion Mazor and Cecile Kellam join us to discuss the new addition to BlueXP Cloud Backup - FlexGroup volumes! Now you can backup, index and restore your high file count environments at a better speed, efficiency and simplify restores with search functionality.

Episode 354 - FlexGroup Volumes and BlueXP Cloud Backup

Before the war in Ukraine started, a rash of cybersecurity incidents started to crop up - particularly in the Ukrainian financial sector and against government websites.

This created a substantial amount of chaos with the day to day operations in Ukraine, and a week later, Russia invaded.

In the wake of these and other cyber attacks against critical infrastructure across the globe, countries are starting to realize that data security is a vital part of national security.

This week on the podcast, NetApp's Adam Gale joins us to discuss a new set of regulations around cyber security, data protection and more called the Digital Operational Resiliency Act (DORA).

Episode 359: Exploring DORA

Did you know that over 3 billion people play video games? That's nearly 50% of the world's population!

And if you've ever played a video game (which, statistically, you have), you've probably played something that was built using Perforce, which is *the* source code versioning software that nearly all the major game developers use.

With the increase of online gaming and global distribution of game studios, the cloud is becoming a critical component in game development and delivery. As a result, cloud service providers are offering "as a service" products for applications like Perforce, Unreal Engine and more.

Ravi Prakash joins us this week to discuss Perforce and how NetApp ONTAP is enhancing the cloud experience for game developers on-prem and in the cloud.

Episode 362: Perforce with NetApp in the Cloud

On April Fools' Day, you stay on your guard to avoid being pranked.

In IT, you always want to test before releasing something into production to avoid any surprises.

That methodology extends into other places, including the US military. Every year, the Navy and Marines conduct experimental training exercises to test field deployment readiness called Trident Warrior. And in even years, Trident Warrior combines with other allied nations RIMPAC forces to conduct these tests.

NetApp was able to participate in these exercises recently and Eddie Huerta, Frank Alcantar and Dan Holmay join us to discuss their experience and how NetApp ONTAP helps enhance the US Public Sector's storage needs.

Episode 363: NetApp, the US Public Sector and Trident Warrior 2022

Incident response in enterprise IT environments is a time critical task, where any delays can mean potential loss of revenue.

When dealing with the cloud, incident response takes on a whole new set of challenges, as most of the infrastructure involved is outside of your administrators reach. At that point, you're looking at mitigating the risk by addressing incidents at the application layer.

With Spot Connect, you can put more of that infrastructure power into your administrator's hands and automate incident responses for faster, more effective resolution of issues, which frees up your staff to create better architectures.

In this episode, Prasen Shelar of Spot by NetApp joins us to talk about how Spot Connect can revolutionize your incident response workflows.

Episode 366: Incident Response Automation with Spot Connect

Site reliability engineers for cloud providers are the oil that makes the cloud engine run smoothly. They're responsible for the management and automation of the cloud resource backend.

One of the challenges of automation isn't just about automating tasks, but about automating the tasks in the right, most efficient way. If your initial approach is flawed, then you've wasted time and will have to re-architect everything later on down the road.

Argonaut's founder Surya Oruganti joins us to discuss how his product can help SREs automate the cloud in the right way to save time and money down the line.

Episode 369 - Cloud Deployment Automation with Argonaut

The shift to remote work in the past few years has caused enterprises to re-think how they handle virtualization infrastructure. Do they continue to offer it on-prem, where they have to manage all the hardware and software components and deal with access from multiple locations across the globe? Or do they move to a managed service that is flexible, scalable and able to be offered in multiple cloud regions?

Azure VMware Solutions provides a robust way to handle the increasing requirements for organizations in the cloud while keeping costs manageable. 

LeRoy Vanek of Baptist Health of South Florida joins us to come speak about why they chose the service and how it has been performing for them so far.

Episode 370 - Azure VMware Solutions on Azure NetApp Files with Baptist Health: Customer Story

When dealing with storing data in the cloud, trust becomes a critical component for customers - especially ones in the financial sector. If you can't trust the solution you've chosen, then you'll always be looking over your shoulder. Azure NetApp Files is a proven cloud solution - a first party service within Microsoft's Azure ecosystem, which is why customers feel secure in using it for their enterprise NAS workloads.

In this episode, we talk to a customer (Mark Sahadeo) in that industry about how they're using Azure NetApp Files for their Azure VMware Solution workloads.

Episode 371 - Azure VMware Solution in the Financial Sector

Jetstream Software offers one of the premiere backup and recovery options for VMware in the cloud and we invited Dennis Bray to tell us all about it. Dennis really knows his stuff, which is why he uses Azure NetApp Files for his customer demos.

We've got a good partnership with NetApp and back to this idea of using cloud based technologies and trying to help with cost efficiency, resource utilization, efficiency and the like. When Azure NetApp Files became available with the Azure VMware solution, then it was natural for us, right? Here's a way now that the customer can scale the storage that they require for this DR, or for just for production for that matter, but we're thinking about DR. They can scale the storage for that private cloud without having to add additional AVS notes, right? So from our perspective, and likely the customer and NetApp's perspective, there's real value here. - Dennis Bray, Jetstream Software

Azure VMware Solution with Azure NetApp Files is a proven cloud solution - a first party service within Microsoft's Azure ecosystem, which is why customers feel secure in using it for their enterprise NAS workloads.

Episode 372 - Jetstream Software And Azure VMware Solutions on Azure NetApp FIles

Medical imaging is a prevalent cog in the healthcare industry. Millions of images can be stored in a single location and provide use cases not just in radiology, X-rays, CT scans, MRIs, and EKGs, but also for post-op wounds, dermatology and more. Medical imaging is being extended into more use cases, such as digital pathology, where slides are scanned for later analysis. These millions of images have to be stored somewhere, and more and more hospitals are looking toward the cloud to provide that data storage - specifically AWS FSx using NetApp ONTAP storage.

In this episode, Sasha Paegle of AWS and Kim Garriott of NetApp talk about the Amazon FSxN cloud solution for Medical Imaging.

Episode 373 - Medical Imaging on Amazon FSxN for NetApp ONTAP

Postgres is a popular open source database that powers applications for companies such as Atlassian and DoorDash due to its cost, performance and versatility. But what if you could make Postgres perform better?

Pganalyze gives you visibility into your Postgres database deployments and its queries to make suggestions for improvements, tuning and maintenance. Pganlyze CEO and founder Lukas Fittl joins us to discuss all the ins and outs of Postgres, as well as how pganalyze makes life better for the Postgres database admin.

Episode 374 - Improving Postgres with pganalyze

NetApp BlueXP delivers a unified experience for storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments. It enables operational simplicity through the power of AIOps, with the flexible consumption parameters and integrated protection required for today’s cloud-led world.

And now, BlueXP offers a more complete solution for backup and recovery in your cloud deployments.

NetApp's Semion Mazor joins us to discuss how BlueXP Backup and Recovery is improving life for backup admins.

Episode 375 - BlueXP Backup: Fall 2023 Updates

IT admins are raised on skepticism and there's an entire security philosophy centered around distrust, right? So, so when you start talking about managed services and what we like in the cloud and what we see in the cloud, you start to run into a lot of IT admins that simply do not like it. And we've invited one.

Melissa Palmer (also known as vMiss) joins us to tell us all about her cloud skepticism and how Azure VMware Solution with Azure NetApp Files helped her see the light about the usefulness of cloud.

Episode 376 - How To Stop Being A Cloud Skeptic (w  Melissa Palmer)

This week, we go over the newest additions to ONTAP in the latest release with Keith Aasen. Join us as we discuss the new guarantee program, autonomous ransomware updates and much more!

Episode 377 - ONTAP 9.13.1

The more healthcare companies start to digitize their records, the more they realize they need more capacity to do it, but they don't always have the resources to manage it. That's where the cloud comes in.

The Amazon AWS FSx NetApp offering provides a plethora of features that help enable EHR workloads to perform better, save space and provide a viable and efficient disaster recovery plan with immutable backups for better protection against ransomware.

NetApp healthcare expert Brian O'Mahony and AWS healthcare SME Randy Seamans join us to chat about all the benefits of ONTAP, AWS and FSxN for EHR workloads.

Episode 378 - Electronic Healthcare Records in the Cloud with AWS

When you have a Kubernetes cluster that your applications depend on to stay online, you have to seriously consider how you plan on recovering in the case a disaster strikes. Ransomware, power failures, cloud region outages all can wreak havoc on Kubernetes clusters.

NetApp Astra helps mitigate disasters with strong backup, recovery and replication technology backed by NetApp ONTAP and SnapMirror. 

Dean Steadman and Luis Rico from the NetApp Astra team join us to discuss the latest updates for NetApp Astra in version 23.10.

Episode 379 - NetApp Astra 23.10 Updates

This week, a former director of IT at Naughty Dog - Justin Monast - stops by to discuss how NetApp ONTAP powered some of the most influential games in gaming history.

Episode 380 - NetApp in Gaming with Justin Monast (former Naughty Dog)

Another fall brings another new ONTAP release here at NetApp and this one is chock full of new features to better improve your NetApp experience. Keith Aasen joins us to break it all down and explain what's new.

Episode 381 - What's New in ONTAP 9.14.1

Ever wonder how the chips in your phones, TVs, cars and appliances are made? Well, a lot goes into those and in this episode, NetApp's resident Electronic Design Automation expert Michael Johnson tells us about the processes, challenges and basics of the EDA chip manufacturing industry.

Episode 382 - Electronic Design Automation 101

Databases traditionally are run in on-premises data centers, but as they scale larger and larger and require more performance, admins need to start evaluating whether to purchase new hardware to manage or move to a lease-based model in the cloud.

Amazon FSxN for NetApp ONTAP offers a way for database adminstrators to confidently move their workloads to the cloud without sacrificing performance or the feature-richness of NetApp ONTAP.

Semion Mazor and Pedro Fernandes join us to discuss how Amazon FSxN for NetApp ONTAP improves the life of database administrators considering a move to the cloud.

Episode 383 - Using Databases on Amazon FSxN for ONTAP

NetApp's ONTAP software design - with its multi-tenant Storage Virtual Machines, nondisruptive operations, integrated backup and replication, scale out approach - lends itself well to cloud deployments. Opti9Tech understands this, which is why, as a managed cloud provider, they use ONTAP and its features to deliver  leading cloud services to their customers.

Opti9Tech CTO Sagi Brody joins us to talk about how Opti9Tech helps you manage cloud without having to manage cloud.

Episode 384 - Managed Cloud with Opti9tech

SnapCenter is NetApp's flagship application driven backup and restore offering that provides data protection for databases such as SQL, Oracle, SAP and more. 

The latest release of SnapCenter also provides better cloud integration, including support for volumes as a service offerings such as Azure NetApp Files.

Join us as we discuss the new SnapCenter 5.0 release and all it delivers.

Episode 385 - Introducing SnapCenter 5.0

Security is one of the most important - and most complex - concepts to address when dealing with any aspect of IT. This becomes much more apparent in the cloud, which is why using a managed service makes a lot of sense, particularly for small to medium businesses that do not have the money or expertise to manage their own security.

Scott McCrady of SolCyber joins us to discuss how SolCyber provides managed security for the cloud.

Episode 386 - Managed Cloud Security with SolCyber

A lot goes into making a car, and even more data is used. That data has to go somewhere, and oftentimes, it goes on NetApp storage - whether on-prem or in the cloud.

Tilman Schroeder, NetApp's automotive industry expert, joins us to discuss how NetApp helps drive the automotive industry.

Episode 387 - How NetApp Drives the Automotive Industry

Object storage is gaining more and more of a foothold in an ever evolving cloud storage world and NetApp StorageGRID is delivering more functionality to address the growing demands. Vishnu Vardhan joins us to discuss the latest release of StorageGRID.

Episode 388 - StorageGRID 11.8

While generative AI is getting all the press in recent years, the practical use cases for AI, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing have grown exponentially - particularly in the Healthcare and Life Sciences verticals.

Brian O'Mahony and Tony Chidiac stop by to tell us all about the current state of AI in Healthcare.

Episode 389 - Current State of AI in Healthcare

This week on the podcast, we brought in the technical director for ONTAP Select, Peter Skovrup to discuss the latest improvements in ONTAP Select, including the ability to use ONTAP Select on VMware vSAN platforms!

Episode 103 – vNAS using ONTAP Select

This week, we invite NetApp Technical Account Manager Yann Bizeul, NetApp Performance TME Dan Isaacs and Client Solutions Architect @ AHEAD Dan Burkland to discuss NABox - a self-contained, pre-configured VM instance of NetApp Harvest that lets you start monitoring NetApp ONTAP performance in a matter of minutes!

Episode 248: NABox and NetApp ONTAP Performance Monitoring with Harvest

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