We are seeing the emergence of hybrid multi-cloud world

Customers are now looking for vendors who can provide simplicity and consistency, security and protection, sustainability and savings, etc. You can speed up the technology and business innovation by leveraging data of your hybrid, multi-cloud estate.

- Pradeep Chakraborty

NetApp held a roundtable, to update on the industry activities and the NetApp Blue XP.

Puneet Gupta, MD, NetApp India, said India's Internet usage has shot up to 14.1GB per month. India's data center market is expected to grow at CAGR 11-14% during 2022-27. Physical has now been replaced or complemented by digital. Work and IT architectures are now hybrid. They are resilient, agile, and digital. On-prem and public cloud will likely co-exist. There is the emergence of the hybrid multi-cloud world.

NetApp is today well-positioned for success. It has unique partnerships with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS. It is accelerating momentum with 73% public cloud ARR, YOY. Gartner has ranked NetApp as the no. 1 platform for shared storage services. As the industry now pivots to the cloud, we need to ensure that they do not face any problems. The cloud story is changing, and is now going beyond data.

NetApp has built and acquired some of the best-of-breed solutions. These include Cloud Insights, Spot, StratCloud, Cloud Jumper, instaclustr, Fylamynt, Data Mechanics, etc. NetApp has now become a cloud-led, datacentric software company. NetApp has also had a record year. It expanded cloud partnerships, and has more all-Flash arrays. NetApp already has over 100 customers from Spot.