Ep 407 - NetApp StorageGRID 12.0

About this episode

The episode discusses the features and advancements of StorageGRID 12.0, focusing on its capabilities for AI and data-driven workloads.

🚀 This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast: We’re talking all things StorageGRID 12.0 — and this release is a game changer for AI and data-driven workloads. We are joined by Vishnu Vardhan and Morgan Mears to unpack how StorageGRID is evolving into an AI-ready object storage powerhouse. Here’s what’s new in StorageGRID 12.0 👇 💾 Bucket Branches – Think Git for data. Instantly create space-efficient dataset copies for AI/ML training, testing, and version control. ⚡ Caching Load Balancers – Bring data closer to compute with up to 1.2PB of local cache for high-performance AI pipelines. 📈 Scalability & Smarter Metadata – Handle hundreds of billions of objects with ease. ☁️ Flexible Deployment – Run StorageGRID your way: appliance, container, or virtualized. Whether you’re building data lakes, training large language models, or managing global datasets, StorageGRID 12.0 helps you scale with performance, simplicity, and efficiency.

People in this episode

Guests: Vishnu Vardhan, Morgan Mears

Topics covered

• StorageGRID 12.0
• AI
• data-driven workloads
• object storage
• data lakes
• machine learning

Keywords

• Bucket Branches
• Caching Load Balancers
• Scalability
• Flexible Deployment

Mentioned in this episode

Products: NetApp StorageGRID 12.0, StorageGRID, StorageGRID 12.0

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