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TECHx
01-07-2025
- Business
- TECHx
NetApp Reports Global Race for AI Leadership Intensifies
Home » Emerging technologies » Artificial Intelligence » NetApp Reports Global Race for AI Leadership Intensifies NetApp®, the intelligent data infrastructure company, has released a new report titled The AI Space Race . The report examines which countries are leading the competition to become global AI innovation leaders. The findings are based on a survey of CEOs and IT executives from the U.S., China, the U.K., and India. NetApp revealed that while some countries are ahead, every region has the potential to succeed in the race for AI dominance. According to the report, AI is now essential for business success. The region that leads in AI will gain advantages in economic growth, quality of life, and political influence. NetApp emphasized that organizations must make their data accessible, secure, and scalable to generate valuable AI outcomes. Gabie Boko, CMO at NetApp, compared the AI race to the 1960s space race. She stated that intelligent, scalable, and secure data infrastructure will be key to gaining an edge. Companies that get their data ready for AI will unlock business insights and operational efficiencies. The report highlighted that: 81% of global respondents are piloting or scaling AI projects. 88% say their organizations are mostly or completely ready for AI transformation. Respondents from India (29%) and the UK (32%) reported feeling increased pressure to compete. China and the U.S. are seen as current frontrunners. However, NetApp noted that all countries are investing heavily, and the field remains wide open. Regional strategies also differ. In China, 35% of leaders focus on scalability, 11% higher than the global average. Meanwhile, the U.S., U.K., and India prioritize integration with existing systems, aiming for long-term value. NetApp also reported misalignment in China between CEOs and IT leaders. While 92% of Chinese CEOs claimed active AI projects, only 74% of IT leaders agreed. In contrast, the U.S. showed stronger internal alignment, with 61% of both groups rating their organizations as AI-ready. Despite optimism, challenges remain. Globally, 79% expressed concerns about poor data strategies leading to broken models and biased AI insights. Russell Fishman, Senior Director of Product Management at NetApp, stated that strong data infrastructure and cloud solutions are vital for AI success. He said organizations that invest in intelligent data infrastructure will extract the most value from AI. NetApp emphasized that an AI-ready infrastructure must be secure, agile, and scalable. It should enable seamless cloud transitions, cost control, and adaptability. As AI shifts from content generation to action, NetApp reported that data-level security is essential. Only intelligent infrastructure can ensure trust and control while moving fast in the global AI race.
Business Upturn
25-06-2025
- Business
- Business Upturn
NetApp Report Highlights Fierce Competition in Global AI Leadership
San Jose, Calif., United States: NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today released its new report, The AI Space Race , examining which countries are leading the fierce global competition to become the world leader in AI innovation. While some countries are further ahead than others, this survey of CEOs and IT executives in the U.S., China, the U.K., and India found that every player has the potential to thrive in the global race for AI dominance. AI is no longer optional for business, and the region that leads the world in AI innovation will be well-positioned to be a technological superpower, and drive potential benefits like economic growth, improved quality of life, and global political influence in the years to come. Successfully fueling AI innovation requires organizations to prepare their data to make it accessible, secure, and scalable—wherever it lives—to produce trusted and valuable outcomes. 'In the 'Space Race' of the 1960's, world powers rushed to accelerate scientific innovation for the sake of national pride. The outcomes of the 'AI Space Race' will shape the world for decades to come,' said Gabie Boko, CMO at NetApp. 'The companies and regions that can get their data ready for AI will be able to generate differentiating business insights and unlock operational efficiencies that launch them ahead of their rivals. Intelligent, scalable, secure data infrastructure is a decisive factor as the global competition drives businesses to solidify their AI ambitions and understand how they translate into a true, lasting advantage.' The AI Space Race is Still Anyone's Game When asked what region is best positioned to lead AI innovation in the long term, respondents from every country overwhelmingly pointed to the U.S. (43 percent). However, everyone sees themselves as AI ready, and every region views themselves as competitive in the global AI innovation race. The report shows that 81 percent of global respondents are currently piloting or scaling AI, while 88 percent view their organization as mostly or completely ready to sustain AI transformation. The massive investment in AI innovation around the globe shows that everyone is working to become the world leader in AI innovation. However, some countries are working harder than others, with respondents from India (29%) and UK (32%) reporting that they feel extra pressure to compete as China and US are seen as clear leaders. With all this fierce rivalry and active investment, the field is wide open for any country to achieve that goal. Driving the global differences in the state of AI innovation are diverging priorities in how it is implemented. Respondents in China put a much greater focus on scalability with 35 percent ranking it as a top capability—11 percent higher than the global average—suggesting a focus on rapid deployment to make an early impact. By contrast, leaders in the U.S., U.K., and India put a greater emphasis on integration with existing systems. This long-term strategy to enable sustained AI growth may result in greater business value in the future, though the short-term approach may drive more immediate results. Aligning Business Ambitions and Technology Reality While organizations are focused on turbocharging AI innovation, CEOs and IT leaders need to be aligned on the state of their technology environments and plans to drive long term success and leadership. In China, the survey indicates there is a critical misalignment between Chinese CEOs and IT leaders on both AI readiness and actual deployment, which could hinder its long-term leadership potential: 92 percent of Chinese CEOs report active AI projects, compared to just 74 percent of Chinese IT leaders. In the United States, alignment is stronger—77 percent of CEOs and 86 percent of IT leaders say the same. Perceptions of AI readiness are also misaligned. While 68 percent of Chinese CEOs consider their organizations AI-ready (versus 62 percent globally), only 58 percent of their IT counterparts agree (versus 72 percent globally). In the United States, CEO and IT readiness is more closely aligned at 60 percent and 61 percent, respectively. These differences suggest that internal alignment—not just ambition—may shape how AI strategies are executed, depending on region and role. However, concerns about the quality of results from AI projects have the potential to slow down innovation if they are not addressed. Globally, 79 percent of respondents reported a fear of broken models and biased insights resulting from poor data and cloud strategies. Businesses that want to tap into the opportunity of AI innovation will need strong data governance strategies to serve as the foundation for their digital transformation. 'One of the most significant success factors in the AI Space Race will be data infrastructure and data management, supported by cloud solutions that are agile, secure and scalable,' said Russell Fishman, Senior Director, Product Management at NetApp. 'Winning organizations will be those that recognize that they require an intelligent data infrastructure in place to ensure unfettered AI innovation. This is critical no matter the company size, industry or geography. As organizations around the world embrace AI at scale, NetApp is there to help them extract maximum value from their data by creating an AI ready data infrastructure that unifies, manages and harnesses their data for optimal AI outcomes.' The AI Space Race is just getting started, but the organizations that can move the fastest will lead in AI innovation. The fierce competition highlighted by this report shows that businesses need to find an edge that will help them leverage AI securely and efficiently to stay a step ahead of their peers, no matter how fast the race evolves. Adopting an intelligent data infrastructure offers organizations unparalleled flexibility and agility to move into the cloud when needed, scale AI workloads seamlessly, reduce costs, and quickly adapt to evolving business needs. As AI increasingly moves from generating content to taking action, businesses need security that starts with the data itself. Only an intelligent data infrastructure delivers a full chain of trust, empowering enterprises to move fast, without compromising control. To learn more, read the report brief and the infographic: Join NetApp and Steve McDowell of NAND Research for a LinkedIn Live event on Wednesday, June 25 at 11am ET: Methodology NetApp partnered with Wakefield Research to conduct a quantitative research study during May 2025, among 400 IT Executives and 400 CEOs in 4 countries (US, China, UK and India). Additional Resources About NetApp NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data storage, integrated data, operational and workload services to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability and AI to enable the industry's best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world's biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application agility. Our operational and workload services provide continuous optimization of performance and efficiency for infrastructure and workloads through observability and AI. No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can transform your data infrastructure to realize your business possibilities. Learn more at or follow us on X , LinkedIn , Facebook , and Instagram . NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. View source version on Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with Business Wire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same. Ahmedabad Plane Crash
TECHx
14-05-2025
- Business
- TECHx
NetApp Enhances Data Security with New Features
Home » Emerging technologies » Cyber Security » NetApp Enhances Data Security with New Features NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, has announced new data security capabilities designed to help organizations improve their cyber resiliency. The company stated that these updates allow security teams to take a proactive approach to data protection at the storage layer. According to NetApp, the latest security enhancements make its storage platform one of the most secure options available today. The announcement comes at a time when businesses are facing advanced cyber threats driven by the rapid growth of AI and the approaching era of quantum computing. The company emphasized that malicious actors are now using AI to automate cyberattacks. In response, enterprises must adopt machine learning and other intelligent solutions for automated threat detection. NetApp warned that with quantum computing becoming more viable, businesses must prepare for future risks by securing data that could be exposed to quantum-powered decryption. NetApp has long been recognized for its secure-by-design infrastructure. It claims to offer 99.9999% availability, giving customers uninterrupted access to their data. Building on this reputation, the company introduced several new capabilities to reinforce cyber resilience: Post-Quantum Cryptography : Now integrated into NetApp's storage portfolio, offering quantum-safe protection for file and block workloads using NIST-standard encryption algorithms. : Now integrated into NetApp's storage portfolio, offering quantum-safe protection for file and block workloads using NIST-standard encryption algorithms. BlueXP Ransomware Protection Update : Includes role-based access controls specific to ransomware defense and expanded support for cloud workloads. : Includes role-based access controls specific to ransomware defense and expanded support for cloud workloads. Backup and Recovery Enhancements: A redesigned interface enables easier adoption of 3-2-1 data protection strategies for workloads including Microsoft SQL Server, VMware, and Kubernetes. NetApp also announced expanded professional services to support security assessments and system hardening. These services aim to help customers fully utilize the built-in security features of their NetApp solutions. Suhail Hasanain, Regional Senior Director for Middle East and Africa at NetApp, said that in today's evolving threat environment, data security is a business priority. He noted that NetApp's architecture includes ransomware defense, intelligent threat detection, and encryption ready for the quantum age. Krista Case, Research Director at The Futurum Group, reported that around 80% of cybersecurity decision-makers had experienced a major security incident in the past year. She said that NetApp's new cyber resiliency tools address such challenges by offering advanced features like granular access controls and quantum-safe encryption. These updates are part of the company's BlueXP platform, which includes data classification, backup, ransomware protection, disaster recovery, and integration with SIEM tools. The Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP/AI) feature, which uses AI to detect ransomware at the storage layer, will be expanded later this year to include block workloads. NetApp will showcase these capabilities at RSA Conference 2025 from April 28 to May 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, at booth #259. The company noted that all forward-looking statements are subject to change. It also added that no ransomware defense is entirely foolproof, but NetApp technologies provide an important additional layer of protection.
Zawya
26-03-2025
- Business
- Zawya
NetApp fuels future of agentic AI reasoning solutions with NVIDIA AI data platform
Dubai, UAE – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced it is advancing the state of the art in agentic AI with intelligent data infrastructure that taps the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. By collaborating with NVIDIA, NetApp is enabling businesses to better leverage their data to fuel AI reasoning inference. In the era of intelligence, businesses need to rethink their data strategies to turn rapidly growing data estates into competitive assets that empower them to agilely navigate their business environment. By adopting an Intelligent Data Infrastructure framework, businesses will be able to operate under a unified vision that integrates metadata cataloging, automation, and hybrid cloud capabilities to eliminate siloes and deliver actionable insights at every stage of the AI pipeline. Together, NetApp ONTAP® and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform enable businesses to navigate the era of intelligence by building distributed systems that unlock the full value of business data to fuel data-driven actions. Built on NVIDIA's expertise in AI workflow optimization, the platform is a customizable reference design for integrating NVIDIA's accelerated computing, networking, and AI software with enterprise storage, transforming data into actionable intelligence. With the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, NetApp customers will be able to connect their data to fuel AI reasoning workloads with agents using NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, including the NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprints and NVIDIA NIM microservices for NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Reason and other models. NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, NVIDIA networking and the NVIDIA Dynamo open-source inference library drive insights in near real time. 'Traditional computing architectures and data management techniques are not up to the task of helping businesses thrive in the AI era,' said Suhail Hasanain, Regional Director for the Middle East and Africa region at NetApp. 'NVIDIA and NetApp are collaborating to give customers the tools they need to strategically unlock their data to drive the next wave of AI applications. By combining the NVIDIA AI Data Platform with the rich and mature data and AI management capabilities and services of NetApp ONTAP, enterprises can more easily bring AI to their data while maintaining security and compliance to achieve their goals of becoming data-driven businesses.' NetApp is supporting the vision behind the NVIDIA AI Data Platform by developing the capabilities businesses need to accelerate AI pipelines, including: Global Metadata Namespace: Customers will be able to securely discover, manage, and analyze all their data across the hybrid multicloud to enable feature extraction and data classification for AI. Integrated AI Data Pipeline: Customers can more automatically prepare their unstructured data to use in AI applications by tracking incremental changes, leveraging incredibly efficient replication with NetApp SnapMirror®, classifying data, and creating highly compressed vector embeddings to enable semantic searches on data for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) inferencing. Disaggregated Storage Architecture: Customers will be able to optimize their network and flash speeds and infrastructure costs to achieve high performance with minimal space and power requirements for compute-intensive AI workloads. NetApp's support of the NVIDIA AI Data Platform builds on the companies' longstanding history of collaboration, including the recent announcement of an advanced generative AI data vision and end-to-end integrated solutions that combine NVIDIA AI software and accelerated computing with NetApp intelligent data infrastructure for enterprise RAG to power the future of agentic AI applications. 'Enterprise data is a rich source of information for AI reasoning, but the vast majority of enterprise data is unstructured, making it difficult to extract insights and meaning,' said Kari Briski, Vice President, Generative AI Software for Enterprise at NVIDIA. 'Bringing together NetApp and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform creates a data pipeline that's always on, allowing business data to be readily available to AI agents so they can rapidly access information to make informed decisions.' To learn how NetApp will help power the future of agentic AI reasoning solutions with NVIDIA, visit the NetApp booth #318 at NVIDIA GTC in San Jose from March 17-21, 2025. Additional Resources Powering the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure AI Solutions NetApp Storage Now Validated for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, NVIDIA Cloud Partners, and NVIDIA-Certified Systems About NetApp NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data storage, integrated data, operational and workload services to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability and AI to enable the industry's best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world's biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application agility. Our operational and workload services provide continuous optimization of performance and efficiency for infrastructure and workloads through observability and AI. No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can transform your data infrastructure to realize your business possibilities. Learn more at or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Media Contact: Amber Dale amberdale@
Zawya
11-03-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Thomas Kaiser appointed as Senior Director of Partners at NetApp for the EEMI Area
Dubai, UAE – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas Kaiser as the Senior Director of Partners for the EEMI Area (LATAM, Iberia, Middle East & Africa, Eastern Europe, Turkiye, CIS) at NetApp. With over 20 years of international leadership experience, Thomas Kaiser brings a wealth of expertise in driving business growth across the EMEA region. Throughout his career, Thomas has consistently demonstrated transformative leadership, leading organizations to resounding success and outpacing market growth. His remarkable track record over the past 12 years at NetApp has positioned him as a trusted and accomplished leader in the industry. In his new role as Senior Director of Partners, Thomas will play a pivotal role in driving revenue generation through the Channel Eco System within the EEMI Area. He will be responsible for developing and executing the Partner Sales strategy, identifying and developing key partners, and facilitating joint selling between the Channel Ecosystems and the NetApp direct sales team. "We are thrilled to welcome Thomas Kaiser as our Senior Director of Partners for the EEMI Area," said Jose Petisco, EEMi Vice President at NetApp. "Thomas's extensive leadership experience and proven ability to transform organizations make him the ideal candidate to lead our channel sales efforts in this critical region. We are confident that his strategic vision and collaborative approach will drive continued growth and success for NetApp." Thomas's appointment comes at a significant time for NetApp, as the company aims to strengthen its presence and expand its business operations in the EEMI region. His expertise and deep understanding of the market will be instrumental in integrating the entire EEMI Partner Team into the EEMI Sales Organization. "I am honored to take on this role and join the exceptional team at NetApp," said Thomas Kaiser. "I look forward to leveraging my experience and working closely with our partners to drive revenue growth and deliver exceptional value to our customers in the EEMI Area. Together, we will further strengthen NetApp's position as a leader in the industry."
