NetApp, the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, is announcing new hybrid multi-cloud capabilities with autonomous controls to maximize enterprise flexibility and efficiency for any workload.
According to NetApp, enterprises can now more easily adopt modern data strategies across on-premises and cloud environments leveraging new capabilities for consistent operations that account for sovereignty, governance, and controlled consumption.
As enterprise applications and AI workloads increasingly span on-premises environments, public clouds, sovereign regions, and emerging AI Factory architectures, organizations need more than infrastructure flexibility.
“Your storage architecture dictates how every workload runs,” said Sandeep Singh, senior vice president and general manager, platform at NetApp. “Customers should not have to choose between the performance and control of on-premises infrastructure and the flexibility of cloud. With these new hybrid multi-cloud capabilities, NetApp is helping enterprises break down the borders between environments, operate with greater autonomy, and put efficiency, sovereignty, and control at the center of their data strategy.”
The new capabilities extend the NetApp Platform with autonomous control, stronger economics, sovereignty-aware storage-as-a-service, and broader management across hybrid multi-cloud environments. Together, they help customers operate more consistently across data centers and public clouds, reduce cost exposure as data grows, and preserve control over where data, support, telemetry, and operations reside, the company said.
The new hybrid multi-cloud capabilities include:
- NetApp Keystone Sovereign provides clearer regional governance and increases trust to address sovereignty expectations and customer concerns around data residency and operational access. Qualified European Economic Area customers can now use data sovereignty controls in support of their regional compliance and data residency journeys which go beyond data location to include data residency, technical, and regional considerations.
- NetApp Console Autonomous Operations eliminate the reactive toil of managing fragmented tools across massive hybrid fleets by replacing manual approval loops with outcome-based automation that delivers business value and runs securely in air-gapped environments. The new capabilities deliver AI-assisted autonomous operations with human oversight and provide a control plane for the NetApp Platform, helping teams predict issues, resolve incidents faster, and optimize capacity and costs through intelligent, API-first design, and agentic AI-driven orchestration.
- NetApp Console Fleet Management enables customers to manage their entire estate as a single entity with the confidence that they can keep environment healthy and at peak performance. The new solution delivers fleet management, observability, and AI through a second Console delivery model installed directly in the customer’s environment. NetApp Console now delivers one solution with two delivery models to meet customers’ needs, wherever their data lives.
- NetApp Console AI ChatOps Interface replaces manual workflows with secure, conversational, outcome-based automation. It reduces the burden on enterprise IT administrators who manage fragmented tools across massive hybrid fleets, without sacrificing governance or control. The conversational ChatOps interface in NetApp Console delivers autonomous storage operations, intent-based provisioning, and policy guardrails across ONTAP storage systems. It also provides AI-powered reporting, predictive analytics, and automated remediation. Operating through an open LLM gateway, customers can realize secure AI operations, leveraging their own LLM while ensuring all actions remain within defined storage classes, policies, and governance boundaries.
- Nutanix and NetApp are helping enterprises navigate evolving industry landscapes and maximize architectural freedom. The partnership empowers organizations to optimize their virtualized environments, protecting existing foundational investments with new levels of operational flexibility. By combining NetApp ONTAP with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, customers will benefit from the scale, security, and agility required for virtualized workloads. This integrated capability is scheduled to be generally available this fall.
With these updates, NetApp is advancing a platform strategy built around consistent operations, governed data control, and infrastructure economics that scale with modern workloads. By unifying management across environments, enabling autonomous operations inside customer-defined guardrails, and extending as-a-service consumption to sovereignty-sensitive markets, NetApp gives enterprises the flexibility to build where they need to build while keeping data ready, protected, and under control, the company said.
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