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Explore how modern data infrastructure serves as the foundation for organizational innovation in this 46-minute conference presentation from Tech Field Day Experience at NetApp INSIGHT 2025. Learn about infrastructure modernization strategies that extend beyond simple storage upgrades to create unified data foundations supporting hybrid operations, cyber resilience, and AI acceleration. Discover NetApp's intelligent data platform and its capabilities for delivering simplicity, security, and efficiency across diverse workloads. Examine AFX, an advanced architecture within the NetApp data platform specifically designed to address the computational demands of AI and high-performance workloads. Understand how AFX overcomes traditional ONTAP architectural limitations by disaggregating storage and compute components, enabling independent scaling of capacity and performance based on specific workload requirements rather than synchronized hardware upgrades. Analyze the single storage pool architecture that eliminates redundant storage layers like aggregates while maintaining ONTAP interoperability and near-complete feature parity including SnapMirror and FlexGroup capabilities. Explore the three cluster personalities—unified, block-only, and disaggregated—and learn about features such as zero-copy volume moves, automatic rebalancing, and simplified expansion that enhance AFX's efficiency and adaptability. Gain insights into AFX's optimization for AI workloads and its potential applications in EDA, HPC, and other data-intensive sectors, positioning it as a foundational step toward universally modern, scalable, and intelligent storage solutions.
