NetApp, Inc.NTAP

NetApp offers AI Data Engine software for GenAI, RAG, agentic AI, and AI factories with data pipeline features.

“NetApp AI Data Engine software simplifies and secures the entire AI data pipeline with integrated data discovery, curation, policy-driven guardrails, and real-time vectorization for GenAI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic AI, and AI factories. It provides efficiencies intended to make AI affordable, while integrating with popular AI tools and cloud platforms and simplifying and securing the AI data pipeline with a storage-integrated solution.”

NetApp hired Syam Nair as Chief Product Officer with prior experience at Microsoft, Salesforce on agentic platform, and Zscaler.

“Syam Nair joined NetApp in June 2025 as Chief Product Officer where he leads the Company’s product and engineering teams to accelerate innovation in hybrid cloud and AI offerings and advance NetApp’s strategic vision for data-driven business growth. He brings over 25 years of experience in scaling cloud platforms and driving hyper-growth. Mr. Nair has experience incubating new technologies from the ground up and leading large teams through transformations at scale. During his tenure at Microsoft, he was part of the leadership team that built and expanded globally distributed Azure data services. At Salesforce, he led innovations including Salesforce Data Cloud, the next generation Agentic platform. Prior to joining NetApp, Mr. Nair doubled the scale of the world’s largest inline security cloud as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Development at Zscaler. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and applications engineering from Goa University in India and an MBA in strategy and leadership from Indiana University – Kelley School of Business.”

NetApp cites risks from rapid emergence of GenAI and agentic AI reshaping storage demand and competitive position.

“The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), including agentic AI, is reshaping demand patterns for storage and data management infrastructure in ways that are still evolving. Our ability to keep pace with the changing requirements of these technologies, and to adapt our products and go-to-market strategies accordingly, is critical to maintaining our competitive position. If we fail to do so, or if the pace of AI infrastructure investment shifts in ways we do not anticipate, our business, operating results, financial condition, and cash flows could be adversely affected.”

NetApp introduced agentic AI capabilities in Workload Factory for FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

“NetApp introduced agentic AI capabilities in Workload Factory for FSx for NetApp ONTAP ™, delivering real-time insights that enable proactive detection and faster, more intelligent operational response.”

NetApp collaborates with NVIDIA to integrate AI Data Platform into AIPod for agentic AI pipelines.

“NetApp announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design into NetApp AIPod, accelerating enterprise adoption of agentic AI with secure, governed, and scalable AI data pipelines for RAG and inferencing.”

NetApp and NVIDIA integrated their platforms to advance agentic AI with a unified data pipeline.

“NetApp and NVIDIA integrated the NVIDIA AI Data Platform with NetApp ONTAP to advance agentic AI, enabling businesses to power AI reasoning and inference through a unified, high-performance data pipeline optimized for hybrid cloud and unstructured data.”