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This article focuses on how artificial intelligence has revitalized interest in enterprise data infrastructure, positioning NetApp's strategy as essential for building "AI factories." By highlighting the shift from traditional storage roles to activating data for AI workloads, the piece underscores the critical role of underlying hardware and architecture in supporting generative AI applications.
NetApp’s ‘sleeping giant’ moment as AI brings new data buyers
Artificial intelligence has pulled data infrastructure out of the back office and into conversations with buyers who never had to think about storage before. For longtime storage providers, that shift is a rare chance to retell their story to an audience with no preconceptions. NetApp Inc. has spent three years preparing for that moment, reframing […] The post NetApp’s ‘sleeping giant’ moment as AI brings new data buyers appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Artificial intelligence has pulled data infrastructure out of the back office and into conversations with buyers who never had to think about storage before. For longtime storage providers, that shift is a rare chance to retell their story to an audience with no preconceptions. NetApp Inc. has spent three years preparing for that moment, reframing its storage legacy around what it calls Intelligent Data Infrastructure. The idea now…
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