Name: NetApp INSIGHT 2024
Start: 2024-09-24T01:15:00.000Z
End: 2024-09-24T23:40:00.000Z

Tuesday, September 24 (UTC)

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George Kurian, NetApp

TheCUBE covers NetApp Insight 2024 in Las Vegas with host Rebecca Knight and cohost Rob Strechay. NetApp CEO George Kurian discusses the importance of data and AI in today's business landscape. Challenges include data quality and integration of AI into business systems. Regulated industries are seeing faster AI adoption. NetApp focuses on helping organizations manage their data and prepare for AI. The goal is to make AI accessible to all organizations, not just large ones. Collaboration with partners is key to success in innovation. Maintaining a culture of innovation is crucial for NetApp's growth. NetApp Insight fosters a community of learning among practitioners. The conference aims to inspire possibilities and provide tools for building a bridge to the future.

George Kurian
CEO NetApp
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Hoseb Dermanilian & Krish Vitaldevara, NetApp & Monica Jain, J&J

On Day 2 of NetApp Insight 2024, a panel discusses the importance of AI and data infrastructure in achieving business outcomes. Krish discusses how customers across various sectors are using AI to leverage their data. Josep talks about the importance of preparing data infrastructure for AI adoption. Monica emphasizes the need for governance and security in handling proprietary data in the healthcare industry. Krish highlights NetApp's focus on providing the best infrastructure for AI, including the NetApp AI data engine and integrations with hyperscalers. Monica shares her team's efforts in managing large datasets and ensuring data accessibility and governance. Josep and Krish note the transition from large language models to enterprise AI. The panel concludes with a discussion on breaking down data silos and the importance of data management.

Hoseb Dermanilian
Sr. Director, Global Head of AI GTM & Sales NetApp

Monica Jain
Director, R&D Data Science Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Krish Vitaldevara
Senior Vice President, Platform NetApp
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Jenni Flinders, NetApp & Travis Rubida, CDW & Clint Oyler, Monument Health

NetApp is a partner-centric, customer-centric organization with strong partnerships like CDW. Clint Oyler from Monument Health in South Dakota shares how NetApp helped deploy telehealth, impacting over 4,500 patients in a short period. Travis from CDW highlights the collaboration with NetApp to modernize Monument's Epic environment, resulting in efficiency and automation. The focus on services and joint solutions helps deliver outcomes for customers across different organizations. The trust, transparency, and deep engagement in partnerships lead to long-lasting relationships and successful business solutions. Monitoring success through KPIs like capacity, capability, commitment, and customer outcomes is crucial for NetApp’s partnership strategy. Looking forward to new announcements and opportunities for growth in AI and data migration at NetApp Insight.

Jenni Flinders
SVP, Worldwide Partner Organization NetApp

Clint Oyler
Sr. Systems Engineer Monument Health

Travis Rubida
Principal Consultant CDW
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Haiyan Song, NetApp

NetApp's EVP of cloud operations, Haiyen Song, discusses the integration of intelligent services into the company's vision for an intelligent data infrastructure. The focus is on bringing intelligence to infrastructure operations and optimizing data management for various cloud environments. NetApp's partnerships with cloud providers ensure seamless integration and added value for customers. The company addresses key customer pain points such as data management, hybrid cloud integration, AI, and security measures. Haiyen Song emphasizes the importance of security and resilience in data management and highlights efforts to integrate security measures into storage solutions.

Haiyan Song
EVP, Intelligent Services NetApp
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Jeff Baxter, NetApp

TheCUBE's live coverage of NetApp Insight 2024 in Las Vegas has been filled with new product announcements and evolutions, showcasing the company's focus on simplicity, savings, security, scalability, sustainability, and smarts. The VP of product marketing at NetApp, Jeff Baxter, highlighted the importance of these priorities and how they align with the company's strategy. Customers are looking to cut costs, enhance security, and leverage AI to transform their businesses. NetApp's unified architecture allows for a balance between these priorities, with a focus on providing a cloud operating model and intelligent data infrastructure. The company's dedication to security, particularly in the public sector, has led to the development of the "most secure storage on the planet" moniker. NetApp is also helping customers break down silos and leverage AI for auto-healing and anti-ransomware solutions. The integration of AI into the data platform is set to democratize AI capabilities and revolutionize data infrastructure. Overall, NetApp aims to help customers make their data AI-ready, delivering extreme business value with simplicity and efficiency.

Jeff Baxter
Vice President, Product Marketing NetApp
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Alessandra Yockelson, NetApp

NetApp Insight 2024, live coverage from Las Vegas, Nevada. Alessandra Yockelson, CHRO at NetApp, discusses embracing data leadership. Four pillars in data management, agile operating model, and talent development. AI to enhance employee feedback, nudging for improvement. In rewards, algorithm reduces bias in decision-making. Use of AI in HR to improve operations and employee experience.

Focus on skills-based workforce and personalized career planning. Technology brings equity and meaningful connections. Trust in AI through secure processes and removing biases. Internal initiatives to experiment and evolve with AI. Partnership with external organization to categorize and upgrade jobs for productivity gain.

Alessandra Yockelson emphasizes role modeling and starting small to embrace AI for employee employability. NetApp's approach to AI and gen AI integration in internal operations and product development. Stay tuned for more from NetApp Insight 2024 for the latest in enterprise tech news.

Alessandra Yockelson
Chief Human Resources Officer NetApp
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Pravjit Tiwana, Cloud Operations

NetApp's partnerships with cloud providers are reshaping business operations by offering efficiency and innovation. As the only enterprise storage vendor with services across major cloud providers, NetApp provides global availability, security enhancements, compliance, and access to AI capabilities for customers. The company focuses on simplifying data management, data migration, and operations in a hybrid cloud environment. By embracing AI standards and working on price-performance optimization, NetApp aims to meet customers' specific needs and lower costs through strategic collaborations.

Pravjit Tiwana
CTO & SVP - Cloud Storage & Services Business Unit, NetApp
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Michelle Rudnicki, NetApp

NetApp is helping federal agencies streamline operations by providing intelligent data infrastructure that crosses silos, allowing for better decisions and efficiency. AI is playing a bigger role in decision-making within the public sector, but fragmented data is a challenge. NetApp's focus on security and certifications, like NSA's CSfC, help protect sensitive data. The company also helps clients manage costs through solutions like Keystone. Partners play a crucial role in providing comprehensive solutions to public sector clients. The government's efforts to attract talent include offering incentives for AI roles. Channel partners and systems integrators help bridge the gap between client needs and available solutions. Despite differences in buying processes and regulations, technology remains similar between public and private sector clients. Acquisition challenges, like delayed budgets, require partners to help navigate the bureaucracy for government clients.

Michelle Rudnicki
President, U.S. Public Sector Inc. NetApp
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Sandeep Singh, Enterprise Storage

The ASA A-Series by NetApp focuses on simplicity and advanced storage for modernization efforts. With features like intelligent data management and ransomware recovery guarantee, it offers industry-leading capacity and a better total cost of ownership. Built with ONTAP, it combines scale-out clustering and advanced data management, simplifying operations and enhancing data security. The system addresses ransomware with AI and machine learning models, offering a recovery guarantee and data insights.

Sandeep Singh
SVP & GM, Enterprise Storage NetApp
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Gabie Boko, NetApp & Paola Menegon, Aruba

Intelligent data infrastructure has been a key focus at NetApp Insight 2024 in Las Vegas. Paola Menegon from Aruba and Gabie Boko from NetApp discuss their partnership and shared values. Aruba, a cloud service provider based in Italy, has been working with NetApp for over 13 years, leveraging technologies to serve a wide range of customers. The partnership focuses on simplicity, security, and sustainability. NetApp's intelligent data infrastructure aims to provide unified storage, intelligent services, and solutions for customers. Customer feedback plays a key role in shaping this era of intelligent data infrastructure. The partnership with Aruba allows NetApp to provide secure and sovereign solutions for public institutions. Looking ahead, the focus is on smart partnerships and advising customers on how to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.

Gabie Boko
CMO NetApp

Paola Menegon
Head of Strategic Opportunities/Alliances Aruba
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Cesar Cernuda, NetApp & Adam Thier, Anaplan

Anaplan relies on NetApp for streamlining their operations, with over 2,400 use cases including supply chain management and workforce planning. NetApp provides a single global view of their storage, simplifying disaster recovery and ensuring data security, particularly with AI integration. This partnership has helped Anaplan reduce errors, save time, and focus on innovation to stay ahead of competitors. Looking to the future, Anaplan seeks solutions from NetApp for data reliability, AI security, and emergency data snapshotting. By investing in new products and applications and collaborating with NetApp on secure storage, Anaplan continues to innovate and grow successfully in a hybrid cloud world.

Adam Thier
Chief Product & Technology Officer Anaplan