Introduces new innovations for AI, cyber resilience and cloud transformation
Sydney, Australia – October 28, 2025 – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, celebrated its 25th anniversary in Australia, marking its commitment to innovation and customer-centricity with the announcement of visionary new products, strengthening its enterprise-grade data platform for AI innovation.
“As we mark 25 years of operation of NetApp in Australia, we are proud of the innovations we co-created together with our customers, the strong partnerships forged and the dedicated NetApp team we have built,” said Mark Fioretto, Area Vice President and Managing Director of NetApp in Australia and New Zealand. “We remain steadfast in our commitment to our presence in the Australian market and will continue to focus on delivering value, driving new innovations and putting our customers and our people at the centre of everything we do.”
Unlocking the potential of data with an enterprise-grade data platform
Over the years, NetApp Australia has been consistently empowering customers at every stage of their business and digital transformation journey. At NetApp INSIGHT 2025 in Las Vegas, the company unveiled new innovations and partnerships to help organisations achieve the results needed to become AI-driven businesses:
- Building a powerhouse data foundation for AI factories: NetApp AFX is an enterprise-grade disaggregated all-flash storage system built for demanding AI workloads. AFX delivers the same robust data management and built-in cyber resilience that NetApp is known for, along with secure multi-tenancy and seamless integration across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Achieving simple, affordable and secure AI: From data ingestion and preparation to serving GenAI applications, NetApp AI Data Engine (AIDE) offers a global, up-to-date view of a customer’s entire NetApp data estate for fast searching and curation while seamlessly connecting their data to any model or tool across on-premises and public cloud. It automates data change detection and data synchronization, eliminating redundant copies and ensuring data is always current. Built-in guardrails follow data throughout its AI lifecycle, ensuring security and privacy.
- Enforcing a comprehensive workload-centric ransomware defense: Formerly called the NetApp Ransomware Protection service, NetApp Ransomware Resilience makes protecting and recovering ONTAP workloads from ransomware attacks easier, faster, and more effective without requiring deep security expertise or training. NetApp Ransomware Resilience now includes data breach detection, an AI-driven capability that identifies anomalous user and file system behaviours that are early indicators of potential data exfiltration and thus a breach attempt.
NetApp’s deep history in supporting the Australian digital economy for over the past quarter century also showcases the company’s commitment to innovation, data security and sustainability. The company has built a strong innovation ecosystem and established long-term partnerships with Fujitsu, a global digital transformation leader, and NEC, who have been NetApp’s partners in Australia for 25 years. In addition to its acquisition of Instaclustr, a Canberra startup, in 2022, NetApp launched the $2.3 million Open Source Institute (OpenSI) in 2023, in collaboration with the University of Canberra (UC) and ACT Government, to help upskill and foster Australia’s next-generation of technology leaders.
No ransomware detection or prevention system can completely guarantee safety from a ransomware attack. Although it’s possible that an attack might go undetected, NetApp technology acts as an important additional layer of defense, and our research indicates NetApp technology has resulted in a high degree of detection for certain file encryption-based ransomware attacks.
About NetApp
For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.
At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.
Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.
With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.
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