Join us at Google Cloud Next to unleash next-gen apps and innovate with AI
Bring your enterprise workloads to Google Cloud, connect with cloud-native applications, and add new life to your AI models
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Mike McNamara
Google Cloud Next is back in person August 29–31, 2023, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Make the most of this must-attend event, where you will see how NetApp and Google Cloud are simplifying migration and deployment in the cloud, minimizing risk, and optimizing cost. Expand your knowledge with keynotes, breakout sessions, VIP meetings, and demos. Google Cloud Next is where decision makers, developers, and anyone passionate about an accessible, scalable, socially responsible cloud come together to share challenges, solutions, ideas, and game-changing technologies.
Top reasons why you should attend Google Cloud Next
- Learn how to confidently migrate enterprise applications and workloads with low-cost cloud optimization and comprehensive data protection with the newly announced, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. In session CT103 get the latest from Roy Gibbs, Director of Cloud Enablement and Governance at Cardinal Health, on how they accelerated their journey to the cloud with help from NetApp and Google Cloud. Geoff Tudor, Sr. Director of Worldwide Hyperscaler Solutions at NetApp, will explain how to efficiently run your enterprise apps in Google Cloud.
- Gain direct 1:1 access with NetApp executives and product experts when you attend our VIP sessions at the St. Regis Hotel, on the show floor, or at our VIP Reception at the Rise Over Run rooftop venue at the Line Hotel.
- Expand your knowledge on Windows, file services, and generative AI by attending Google Cloud sessions ARC220, ARC103, and SPTL202 that include NetApp.
- Talk with experts, view demos at NetApp booth #225, and attend mini theater presentations to pick up some swag. Make sure to check out our generative AI demo, part of the AI passport program, that reduces the complexity of data management and increases the relevance of results. You can also catch up with us in the Modern Infrastructure Zone.
Where power meets simplicity
With the recent announcement of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, we’re excited that our customers can seamlessly extend and optimize enterprise workloads across both their Windows and Linux environments, even for their most demanding use cases like VMware and SAP migrations—all without refactoring code or redesigning processes. Google Cloud’s newest fully managed file storage service is based on NetApp® ONTAP®, our industry-leading storage management technology. It delivers proven high-performance enterprise-grade storage with multi-protocol file support for file sharing, business applications, and business continuity. Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is where power meets simplicity. Come visit NetApp at Google Cloud Next for full details and a hands-on demo.
Get inspired
To learn more, visit the Google Cloud NetApp Volumes overview or read the solution brief. Hope to see you at Google Next ’23.
Mike McNamara
Mike McNamara is a senior product and solution marketing leader at NetApp with over 25 years of data management and cloud storage marketing experience. Before joining NetApp over ten years ago, Mike worked at Adaptec, Dell EMC, and HPE. Mike was a key team leader driving the launch of a first-party cloud storage offering and the industry’s first cloud-connected AI/ML solution (NetApp), unified scale-out and hybrid cloud storage system and software (NetApp), iSCSI and SAS storage system and software (Adaptec), and Fibre Channel storage system (EMC CLARiiON).
In addition to his past role as marketing chairperson for the Fibre Channel Industry Association, he is a member of the Ethernet Technology Summit Conference Advisory Board, a member of the Ethernet Alliance, a regular contributor to industry journals, and a frequent event speaker. Mike also published a book through FriesenPress titled "Scale-Out Storage - The Next Frontier in Enterprise Data Management" and was listed as a top 50 B2B product marketer to watch by Kapos.
