SAN JOSE, Calif.–( BUSINESS WIRE ) –NetApp® (NASDAQ:NTAP), a smart data infrastructure company, today announced an expanded four-year enterprise agreement with Google Cloud to accelerate the deployment of NetApp storage solutions in Google Distributed Cloud Airgap Isolated Edition (GDC), Google’s sovereign cloud platform provided by World Wide Technology (WWT). This end-to-end, airgap isolated private cloud solution provides organizations with the built-in security needed to handle sensitive information and meet data sovereignty requirements.
NetApp President Cesar Cernuda stated, “For government agencies and defense organizations, sensitive and classified information cannot leave a controlled environment, but this information is also crucial for AI-driven decision-making. By embedding NetApp’s securely designed storage systems into Google Distributed Cloud, we enable customers to build intelligent data infrastructure that provides the foundation for supporting certified enterprise-grade AI directly in sovereign and air-gap isolated environments. Today, public sector customers can modernize operations, accelerate insights, and innovate responsibly without sacrificing security, compliance, or national sovereignty.”
Google Distributed Cloud extends customers’ cloud infrastructure and services to wherever they need them, including on-premises data centers and the network edge. NetApp AFF, StorageGRID, and Trident solutions enable intelligent data infrastructure, which, combined with integrated GDC solutions, provides a private cloud with zero-trust security, enabling on-premises data storage, encryption key management, and control. Using these systems in GDC, customers can deploy cloud technologies and applications (including AI capabilities) and maintain greater control over their IT environments by bringing the cloud closer to the data source or creating air-gap isolation environments that restrict or eliminate external connections.
Muninder Sambi, Vice President of Product Management and Supply Chain at Google Cloud, stated, “In the public sector, organizations are being asked to do more with their data under increasingly stringent sovereignty, security, and compliance mandates. Google Distributed Cloud is designed for these environments, enabling customers to bring modern cloud services and advanced AI capabilities to sovereign, airgap-isolated, and offline environments. Through our partnership with NetApp, we are helping governments and regulated businesses innovate where their data resides, supporting mission-critical workloads with the highest levels of security, compliance, and operational integrity, without slowing down their transformation.”
Over the past year, Google Cloud has expanded its AI capabilities for regulated use cases. Gemini’s advanced inference and cutting-edge generative capabilities are now available at GDC to unlock key generative AI capabilities such as automation, content generation, exploration, and summarization on the ground. Customers can operate in a completely offline environment while still integrating Google’s AI capabilities, enabling innovation while meeting stringent security and compliance requirements.
WWT President Joe Koenig stated, “Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the way every organization operates, even those facing the most stringent regulations to meet national security and data sovereignty requirements. Leveraging data-driven insights to drive business requires combining innovative AI capabilities with a robust infrastructure.”
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For over three decades, from the rise of enterprise storage to the data and AI-defined intelligent era, NetApp has helped leading organizations worldwide navigate change. Today, NetApp is a smart data infrastructure company, helping customers transform data into catalysts for innovation, resilience, and growth.
At the heart of this infrastructure is the NetApp Data Platform—a unified, enterprise-grade intelligent foundation for connecting, securing, and leveraging data across a wide range of cloud, workloads, and environments. Built upon the proven capabilities of our leading data management software and operating system, NetApp ONTAP, and enhanced by the automation capabilities of the AI Data Engine and AFX, the platform delivers large-scale observability, resilience, and intelligence.
NetApp’s data platform employs a decomposed design, isolating storage, services, and control to ensure enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and avoid vendor lock-in when innovating. As the only enterprise-grade storage platform natively built into the world’s largest cloud, it empowers organizations of all types to flexibly run any workload, anywhere, while maintaining consistent performance, governance, and protection.
With NetApp, data is always ready to defend against threats, support AI needs, and enable the next disruptive innovation. This is why the world’s most visionary companies trust NetApp and use it to turn intelligence into an advantage.