NetApp, Inc. reports news about enterprise data storage, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and its Intelligent Data Infrastructure strategy. Company updates commonly cover the NetApp data platform, ONTAP data management software, all-flash storage, public-cloud storage services, and technologies that connect, protect, and activate data across clouds, workloads, and enterprise environments.
Recurring announcements include financial results webcasts, Google Cloud collaborations, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes enhancements, NetApp Data Migrator, AI-driven operations, sovereign and air-gapped cloud deployments using AFF, StorageGRID, and Trident, and ransomware resilience services for ONTAP environments.
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced the winners of its North America Partner Awards for fiscal year 2026 at NetApp INSIGHT 2026. World Wide Technology won North America Partner of the Year and AI Partner of the Year. Other winners included Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions for distribution, General Datatech for growth, ePlus for flash, SHI International for new account acquisition, Insight Enterprises for NetApp Keystone, CDW for AI go-to-market, and AHEAD for cloud.
The awards also recognized Canadian, U.S. public-sector and regional partners. Regional Partner of the Year winners were Xigent Solutions in the Central region, Pellera Technologies in the East and Trace3 in the West. Award criteria varied by category and included revenue, year-over-year growth, new accounts and services capabilities.
NetApp (NTAP) is collaborating with Supermicro to develop jointly validated AI infrastructure for enterprise and large-scale deployments. The companies plan to deliver NetApp Novus Data Director software on qualified Supermicro servers, with NetApp AFF A90 systems providing the data layer. They are also collaborating on NetApp AIPod with Supermicro, a NetApp-validated architecture for private AI platforms. NetApp describes the planned Novus implementation as the first step in broader work to co-engineer integrated AI infrastructure.
NetApp (NTAP) introduced Novus, an AI-focused storage architecture available to order for operators of large GPU environments.
The initial releases pair Novus Data Director metadata software on qualified Supermicro infrastructure with ONTAP data services delivered through AFF A90 systems. The design separates metadata from the data path so metadata, bandwidth and capacity can scale independently under one namespace. NetApp says the architecture provides a path to software-defined deployments over time.
NetApp (NTAP) will present the NFL with a Customer Social Impact Award at INSIGHT 2026.
NetApp is also launching a philanthropic partnership with Per Scholas and providing a grant for its Cybersecurity with AI Tools training program. The initiative is intended to expand tuition-free training and career pathways for people from historically underrepresented communities.
NetApp (NTAP) awarded the International Union for Conservation of Nature its 2026 Social Impact Award for Intelligent Data for Good. Presented at NetApp INSIGHT 2026 in Las Vegas, the award recognizes IUCN’s use of NetApp technology to support conservation data. IUCN’s implementation has also reduced power consumption.
NetApp (NTAP) introduced hybrid multi-cloud capabilities for managing data across on-premises systems and public clouds.
The updates include Keystone Sovereign controls for qualified European Economic Area customers and NetApp Console tools for autonomous operations, fleet management and conversational administration. Console also has a delivery model installed in a customer’s environment. NetApp and Nutanix are combining ONTAP with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure for virtualized workloads; the integrated capability is scheduled to be generally available this fall.
NetApp (NTAP) announced Keystone Sovereign, a storage-as-a-service offering designed to give qualified European customers more control over data sovereignty.
Initial pilots will be available in Germany and France, with additional countries planned. The offering is designed to provide European-based residency for relevant customer data, logs, backups and telemetry where applicable, alongside European-based support and European-controlled access processes.
NetApp (NTAP) expanded metadata discovery in AI Data Engine and its integration with Commvault recovery workflows.
Metadata discovery now covers NetApp ONTAP, StorageGRID and non-NetApp storage, allowing customers to examine data in place across NFS, SMB and S3 repositories. The Commvault integration connects ransomware protection signals from NetApp primary storage to Commvault recovery workflows. NetApp also previewed planned AI Data Engine additions, including broader data-understanding and governance capabilities and integrations with Starburst and Onehouse.AI.
NetApp (NTAP) and Oracle (ORCL) announced plans for a fully managed NetApp storage service native to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure NetApp Storage Service is designed to bring NetApp’s ONTAP data management capabilities to OCI for AI and enterprise workloads. Customers would be able to manage the service through OCI tools or ONTAP APIs. General availability is planned within the next 12 months, although the companies say the timing of unreleased offerings may change.
NetApp (NTAP) plans to explore deeper integration with SAP Cloud Infrastructure as part of an intended expansion of its SAP partnership. The NetApp Platform already supports elements of SAP Cloud Infrastructure’s storage architecture, including file and block storage services. NetApp also plans to explore joint customer outreach with SAP for SAP and non-SAP workloads. The companies plan to evaluate NetApp Object storage for SAP Cloud Infrastructure, including technical validation. The proposed integration and evaluation remain exploratory.