TechONTAPPodcast

TechONTAPPodcast

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

October 11, 2025 53 mins
🚀 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 trainin...
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🚀 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 doc...
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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 SnapM...
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August 14, 2025 47 mins
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...
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July 9, 2025 35 mins
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!
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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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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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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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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 (scott.charles@tsystems.com), and Brian O’Mahony from NetApp (omahony@netapp.com), break down how the healthcare sector has evolved in response to the pandemic and the role technology plays in this transformation.
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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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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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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 us to discuss how BlueXP Classification is changing the way you manage your data.
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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 rapidly growing scale that most datacenters simply cannot keep up with in a cost effective manner. Usually, by the time a new datacenter is...
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July 12, 2024 36 mins
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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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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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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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, as well as two NetApp celebrities - Phoebe Goh and Matt Watts!
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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 the AI team at NetApp to tell us all about it.
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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.
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April 24, 2024 42 mins
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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