NetApp Delivers Secure, Zero-Copy Data Activation for the Agentic Enterprise

Asad Khan, Senior Vice President and General Manager, AI at NetApp

“The agentic enterprise will be defined by how quickly and safely organizations can turn their data into intelligence.”

Asad Khan, Senior Vice President and General Manager, AI at NetApp

“For too long, AI initiatives have depended on complex pipelines that move data away from where it is created, governed, and protected. NetApp is taking a different approach: activating data in place with the governance, resiliency, and openness enterprises require. With AI Data Engine and our expanded work with Commvault, we are helping customers give agents trusted business context while strengthening the recovery foundation AI-driven operations depend on.”

Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault

“As AI-driven threats compress response times, organizations need a faster path to trusted recovery.”

Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault

“By integrating NetApp’s ransomware detection and immutable data protection with Commvault’s clean recovery capabilities, we help customers accelerate response, restore trusted data with confidence, and reduce mean time to clean recover (MTCR).”

Shari Lava, GVP of AI Research at IDC

“Agentic AI raises the bar for enterprise data infrastructure, because agents need access to current, trusted, and governed data rather than another copy of yesterday's dataset.”

Shari Lava, GVP of AI Research at IDC

“NetApp's approach is a useful example of this shift: connecting data discovery, understanding, governance, activation, and cyber resilience at the storage layer, where much of the enterprise data estate already resides. Vendors that can do this well give customers a more pragmatic path to prepare data for AI, without the risk, cost, and complexity that often come with large-scale data movement.”