NetApp Extends Partnership with Google Cloud

NetApp Partners with Google Cloud to Maximize Flexibility for Cloud Data Storage

Utilising Google Cloud technologies, NetApp Volumes will power new capabilities that can improve how businesses operate and create real-world value.

NetApp, an intelligent data infrastructure company, announced an expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud to make it easier for organisations to leverage their data for generative AI (GenAI) and other hybrid cloud workloads.

Pravjit Tiwana, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage at NetApp, said, “Increasing demand for data-intensive applications and insights has reinforced the need for a new approach to unified data storage that gives organisations the agility to move and store data wherever it is needed at any point in time.”

“By extending our collaboration with Google Cloud, we’re delivering a flexible form factor that can be run on existing infrastructure across Google Cloud system without any tradeoffs to enterprise data management capabilities,” Pravjit added.

Sameet Agarwal, GM/VP, Google Cloud Storage at Google Cloud, said, “Google Cloud NetApp Volumes remains a critical component of every enterprise’s digital transformation strategy. Utilising Google Cloud technologies, NetApp Volumes will power new capabilities that can improve how businesses operate and create real-world value for their organisations.”

NetApp and Google Cloud are announcing the Flex service level for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes which supports storage volumes of nearly any size. NetApp is also releasing a preview of its GenAI toolkit reference architecture for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) operations using Google Cloud Vertex AI platform.