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Each week, the Tech ONTAP Podcast dives into all-things NetApp, including storage, public & private cloud, and much more. The team will also be interviewing subject-matter experts from across the industry and detailing various best practices for getting the most out of your datacenter.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed guest conversations connect storage, automation, and AI strategy to the operational choices behind enterprise technology.
TechONTAPPodcast starts with the infrastructure questions that appear once ambitious technology meets an operating environment. In guest conversations, Justin moves from object storage and documentation systems to hybrid cloud connectivity, AI deployments, and storage…
Tiny and huge objects in one bucket? Justin asks the question your storage team would.
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A practical backup walkthrough with real scale numbers and a clear operations focus.
This segment is less about storage trivia than about taking a recurring admin job off a team's plate. The discussion stays on practical ground: 3-2-1 protection, cloud-native backup management, space efficiency, scale, and what centrally managed backup work looks like day to day.
A practical cloud infrastructure talk about hybrid connectivity, edge deployment, and fast data movement.
The conversation keeps its feet on the ground: hybrid and private cloud connectivity, where data sits, how it moves, and why the network layer matters.
A practical discussion of data sovereignty, encryption, and key management.
This episode stays on the practical side of data sovereignty, treating it less like an abstract policy slogan and more like a storage and security problem that gets harder once data moves across borders.
A practical look at AI adoption that keeps people, not just platforms, in view.
It treats AI less as a race toward better models and more as a choice about how organizations work, keeping ethics, regulation, use cases, and the human cost of implementation in view.
A grounded StorageGRID 12.0 discussion on mixed object sizes, metadata pressure, deletion cycles, and per-object protection choices.
Tech On Tap's StorageGRID 12.0 discussion treats object storage less as a feature checklist than as a question of workload friction: how a system behaves when tiny objects, large objects, and constant create-delete cycles all land in the same environment.
A practical SuperPod storage discussion with useful detail on cloud connectivity and split encryption control.
This Tech On Tap episode keeps Nvidia SuperPod grounded in storage and infrastructure rather than treating it as a broad AI showcase. The conversation follows NetApp's work with Nvidia and Cisco into the practical edges that matter for deployment: cloud-provider relationships,…
A grounded tour of how NetApp's toolkit brings storage operations closer to data and ML teams.
Data management gets a more usable shape in this look at NetApp's DataOps toolkit, which is aimed at helping data scientists, data engineers, and ML platform engineers work with NetApp storage capabilities without having to learn ONTAP in depth.
Tech on Tap makes customer proof-of-concept work concrete through practical data-security tradeoffs.
Tech on Tap uses its first official video podcast to put NetApp's Customer Proof of Concept work in plain view, with Jeff Asher giving CPOP a practical frame from inside the Customer Proof of Concept Labs.
Enterprise tech strategy, measured in market signals.
Practical infrastructure talk from the Nutanix community.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Authoritative documentation from product builders is the differentiator.
Tech On Tap Podcast episode 411 frames NetApp Backup and Recovery as a managed service that offloads 3-to-1 backup management and long-term retention.
Tech on Tap podcast Ep 410, Why Data Movement Defines Hybrid & AI Success, centers on Glenn Deckhaser's argument that cloud compute only works when the network and storage paths are designed correctly.
["Adam Gale, NetApp's field CTO for cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, spends the episode defining data sovereignty instead of treating it as one fixed term.", "He separates operational sovereignty, software sovereignty, and data sovereignty, using the Cloud Act, licensing servers, and defense-sector systems as concrete examples.", "Gale says AI helps cybersecurity through pattern recognition, human-in-the-loop review, and autonomous ransomware protection, and he cites a university test that reportedly reached 99.9% effectiveness.", "The discussion ends on encryption, separate key ownership, SnapLock, dark sites, and regional pressure from the EU, UAE, and KSA as the practical constraints shaping storage choices."]
Kamlesh Larde says over 95% of AI use cases are bringing zero returns because companies adopt tools without transforming workflows.
TechONTAPPodcast hosts Justin, Vishnu Vardhan, and Morgan Mears explain NetApp StorageGRID 12.0, which Vishnu says scales to 880 petabytes and 600 billion objects.
TechONTAPPodcast Episode 405 features Bobby Uman and Dave Arnett explaining NetApp's work with NVIDIA SuperPod, FlexPod, and the NVIDIA Cloud Partner Program.
TechONTAPPodcast Episode 404 features NetApp software engineer Michael Oglesby explaining fine-tuning, retrieval augmented generation, and agent tool use as three ways to connect private enterprise data to LLMs.
Tech On Tap Episode 403, “CPOC!,” introduces the show’s first video episode and explains how NetApp’s Customer Proof of Concept labs test real customer workloads.
Interview with Surya Oreganti, founder of Argonaut, discussing cloud infrastructure automation and internal developer platforms for engineering teams.
Interview with Rob Hirschfeld about cloud automation and data center best practices.
Justin Parisi interviews Prasen Shalar about NetApp SpotConnect, an AI-driven incident response automation tool for SREs and DevOps.
Interview with Ravi Prakash about using Perforce in the cloud with NetApp solutions.
Justin Parisi interviews Rick Wong and Ken Hilliard about Apache Spark, Hadoop, data lakes, and AI solutions at NetApp.
NetApp’s 2017 ETL in RTP brings together the 25-member A-Team and approximately 50 participants for product feedback and roadmap discussions.
SolidFire lets operators move storage nodes between sites like a FedEx load-balancing system.