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TechONTAPPodcast
by NetApp
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
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Episode 414 - ONTAP Networking Updates - Fall 2026
This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, we’re going deep into something every storage environment depends on, but not everyone spends much time thinking about: networking. What happens when your SnapMirror traffic needs completely different TCP optimization than your client traffic? Can ONTAP make...
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Episode 413: AI and Data Modernization
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...
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Episode 412 - Disaggregated ONTAP (aka NetApp AFX)
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...
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Episode 411 - NetApp Backup and Recovery: Modern Data Protection Made Simple
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...
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Ep 410 - Why Data Movement Defines Hybrid & AI Success
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...
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Episode 409 - Who Really Controls Your Data in the Age of AI?
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...
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Ep 408 - AI in Business with Kamales Lardi
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...
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Ep 407 - NetApp StorageGRID 12.0
🚀 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...
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Ep 406 - AI Powered NetApp Docs
🚀 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...
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Episode 405 - NVIDIA SuperPod Updates - Fall 2025
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...
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Episode 404 - DataOps Toolkit
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…
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Episode 403 - CPOC!
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...
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Episode 402 - NetApp FlexGroup: Advanced Capacity Balancing
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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Episode 401 - NetApp ONTAP: FlexCache (Spring 2025)
This week, NetApp FlexCache TME drops in to discuss the latest information around the sparse caching feature for NFS and SMB workloads - FlexCache.
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Episode 400 - NetApp Launch Announcements February 2025
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!
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Episode 399: The T-Systems Health Hybrid Cloud
The healthcare industry has long been known for its cautious approach to technology, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced a dramatic shift. In this episode, Scott Charles from T-Systems ([email protected]), and Brian O’Mahony from NetApp ([email protected]), break down how the healthcare...
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Episode 398 - NetApp Hardware Announcements Fall 2024
This week, the NetApp A-Team joins us to discuss the latest NetApp hardware announcements, including the new A90 platform, as well as some new BlueXP additions!
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Episode 397 - Navigating the New EU AI Regulations (w/ Adam Gale)
This week on the Tech ONTAP podcast, Adam Gale joins us to discuss the new EU AI regulations and how they may impact you and your business.
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Tech ONTAP Podcast Episode 396 - BlueXP Classification
Sifting through millions of files to filter out PII, compliance violations, or other sensitive data is a huge burden for many organizations. BlueXP Classification from NetApp provides a way to simplify those tasks and make regulatory compliance more of a molehill than a mountain. Ben Kesten joins...
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Episode 395 - How Azure NetApp Files Powers EDA Workloads
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is the industry that powers the innovations to technology we utilize everyday by making smaller, more powerful microchips for use in our cell phones, smart devices, self-driving cars, laptops and more. EDA requires a massive amount of compute and storage at a...
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Episode 394 - DataDobi
DataDobi provides world class migration and data analytics software that works seamlessly with NetApp ONTAP - both on-prem and in the cloud. Danny Esposito from DataDobi joins us to tell us all about DataDobi, StorageMap and more.
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Episode 393 - SnapCenter 5.0 Use Cases
SnapCenter 5.0 brought with it a ton of new features and functionality, and NetApp Solutions Architect Artie Noel joins us to discuss how exactly SnapCenter 5.0 can benefit your backup and recovery use cases.
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Episode 392 - Talking EDA with Jon from Asianometry
Asianometry is a newsletter and podcast channel started by a gentleman named Jon who became disillusioned with Silicon Valley and moved to Asia, started making videos about Asia, economics and the EDA industry. Jon from Asianometry joins us to discuss his podcast and the EDA industry in general.
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Episode 391 - What's in a brand? NetApp's New Identity
Brands define how people think about companies, so it's not only important to get it right, but to stay current and not be afraid to switch it up when necessary. NetApp recently pivoted their brand to position Intelligent Data Infrastructure and we invited NetApp's VP of Marketing, Emily Miller…
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Episode 390 - NetApp Goes All In on AI
While it may feel like AI/ML are simply tech buzzwords, the influence on enterprises and their products is unquestionable. As a result, many companies are making significant investments in AI/ML and betting on its success. NetApp recently announced greater dedication towards AI/ML and we invited...
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Episode 389 - Current State of AI in Healthcare
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...
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Episode 388 - StorageGRID 11.8
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.
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Episode 387 - How NetApp Drives the Automotive Industry
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.
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Episode 386 - Managed Cloud Security with SolCyber
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...
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Episode 385 - Introducing SnapCenter 5.0
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...
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Episode 384 - Managed Cloud with Opti9tech
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...
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Episode 383 - Using Databases on Amazon FSxN for ONTAP
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...
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Episode 382 - Electronic Design Automation 101
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.
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Episode 381 - What's New in ONTAP 9.14.1
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.
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Episode 380 - NetApp in Gaming with Justin Monast (former Naughty Dog)
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.
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Episode 379 - NetApp Astra 23.10 Updates
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...
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Episode 378 - Electronic Healthcare Records in the Cloud with AWS
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...
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Episode 377 - ONTAP 9.13.1
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!
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Episode 376 - How To Stop Being A Cloud Skeptic (w Melissa Palmer)
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...
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Episode 375 - BlueXP Backup: Fall 2023 Updates
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…
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Episode 374 - Improving Postgres with pganalyze
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...
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Episode 373 - Medical Imaging on Amazon FSxN for NetApp ONTAP
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...
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Episode 372 - Jetstream Software And Azure VMware Solutions on Azure NetApp FIles
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...
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Episode 371 - Azure VMware Solution in the Financial Sector
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...
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Episode 370 - Azure VMware Solutions on Azure NetApp Files with Baptist Health: Customer Story
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?…
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Episode 369 - Cloud Deployment Automation with Argonaut
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...
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Episode 368 - Spot by NetApp: Elastigroup for your Spot VM Instances
A Spot instance is a cost effective way to provision storage because you give cloud providers control over when the instance's resources can be reclaimed. But what if you want the cost savings without worrying if your mission critical applications will be shut down at any given moment? Spot...
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Episode 367 - Infrastructure Automation with RackN
!!WARNING: DEEP SYSADMIN CUTS AHEAD!! Back in the early 2000s, if you were a sysadmin that had to set up desktops or servers, you probably used Norton Ghost to create images. When virtualization became big, that process moved to creating VM templates. But there was still often a lot of manual...
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Episode 366: Incident Response Automation with Spot Connect
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...
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Episode 365 - The Future of CloudOps featuring Spot by NetApp
There's an old saying: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But what if it could be better? What if "fixing it" simply means "improving it"? Or - even better - letting someone else handle it so you have more time to take care of the numerous other tasks in your job? That's what the cloud is for, and…
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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.
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