Tech Field Day Experience at NetApp Insight 2025 Keynote Live Blog

Gabie Boko powerfully reframed the idea of legacy as something to be embraced and not a ding. Love this. "Legacy is synonymous as trust earned. " After 30 years, NetApp isn't the new guy on the block but there data story continues to evolve. #netappinsight

— Becky Elliott (@beckylelliott.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T17:23:10.881Z

Data platform, coming to a network AFX array near you. #NetAppInsight #Tfdx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T17:22:04.092Z

Data cannot become intelligent. Intelligence comes from access to data.Pedantic? Yes because words are data and the way they are perceived is intelligence!#NetappInsight

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T17:14:34.139Z

Ok data has ways been active. It's always driven the digital world.Its just now the Tech is able to do things we always wanted it to do.Storage has always been cool and now it can do more. IDK why they aren't celebrating that. #NetappInsight

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T17:12:21.233Z

"Results didn't just come from technology, they come from people." –Gabie Boko #netappinsightTotal truth.

— Becky Elliott (@beckylelliott.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T17:11:52.199Z

I know this red shirt guy from Microsoft. #NetAppInsight #Tfdx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T17:09:03.374Z

Scott Guthrie sighting, talking about Azure NetApp Files. #NetAppInsight #TFDx #Microsoft #Azure

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T17:09:40.712Z

Now hearing from the CMO.I'm not understanding this so far….#NetappInsight

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T17:07:22.918Z

NetApp long been working on a vendor-neutral multi-cloud data platform, and this continues at #NetAppINSIGHT.Azure NetApp Files, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and NetApp hardware. A unified and integrated data platform with FlexCache enabling anywhere-anywhere access.

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T17:03:34.039Z

Interesting data plan announcements. I wonder if you can include other arrays too?#NetappInsight

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T17:02:43.151Z

Just announced ramsomware resilience. Detects exfiltration and fast restore.Will need to dig in on this. #NetappInsight

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T17:00:45.578Z

Who's this handsome guy? Oh yeah that's Thomas Kurian, brother of NetApp CEO George Kurian!#NetAppINSIGHT

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T16:56:53.640Z

And now with a cool slide. #NetAppInsight #Tfdx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:58:28.993Z

Here’s a neat way to tease a reveal! New NetApp offer coming up soon, from Syam Nair, the company’s new chief product officer#NetAppInsight #TFDx @techfieldday.com

— Guy Currier (@guycurrier.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:56:18.469Z

A poem and an offer to hug NetApp's new AFX (disaggregated storage platform purpose built for AI) aren't things I would had on my Keynote bingo card.Kinda quirky and I'm here for this. #netappinsight

— Becky Elliott (@beckylelliott.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:55:31.839Z

Next up: NetApp AI Data Engine #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:53:09.432Z

Block Storage from NetApp is now available is Google Clould. That's huge. #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:53:58.324Z

Netapp AI data engine being announces now. Lots and lots of keywords. I think we have a briefing with the speaker tomorrow so more details soon.#NetappInsight

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:52:30.001Z

Surprise – the NetApp AI Data Engine is the missing spot…

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T16:52:37.844Z

NetApp's new AI Data Engine offers a turn key solution for exposing your data to your AI platforms without any ETL. This is sure an interesting way to expose data to your AI systems. #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:52:30.210Z

Netapp AI data engine being announces now. Lots and lots of keywords. I think we have a briefing with the speaker tomorrow so more details soon.#NetappInsight

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:52:30.001Z

Surprise – the NetApp AI Data Engine is the missing spot…

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T16:52:37.844Z

NetApp's new AFX platform is built for the Exabyte-scale storage world. #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:47:57.323Z

In classic #NetApp fashion, the new #AFX has a very cool bezel!I remember my old "toasters" with purple, yellow, and even chrome bezels! #NetAppINSIGHT

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T16:48:44.403Z

What Is Disaggregated Storage?Disaggregated storage separates performance & capacity into distinct components, rather than bundling them together. This allows organizations to scale compute and storage independently, optimizing for AI and other data-intensive workloads.#NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:48:10.778Z

Jensen Huang is everywhere! Here he is discussing the long partnership between NetApp and Nvidia. #NetAppINSIGHT

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T16:45:56.699Z

NetApp delivers the data which will fire your AI fires. #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:44:02.203Z

Your eyes are not fooling you, the details are blurred in this #NetAppINSIGHT slide. Interesting choice!

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T16:44:15.628Z

I've been telling people for decades that data silos don't work. Great to see a vendor agreeing with me. #NetAppInsight #Tfdx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:42:23.406Z

Video of Jensen, Nvidia CEO where he said "this is a complete reset of computing".Totally agree with that!#NetappInsight

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:39:09.290Z

NetApp gives a solution in ONTAP that gives the ability to manage public cloud environments as well as the private data center, all in one platform. #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:38:30.019Z

All important #TeamData concepts. #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:35:59.915Z

Follow along as the #TFDx delegates report from the #NetAppINSIGHT keynote with our "reverse" live blog! We're collecting the best social media posts here!techfieldday.com/2025/tech-fi…

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T16:23:19.324Z

Here’s what the keynote at #NetAppINSIGHT looks like!

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T16:20:50.648Z

Now @netapp.bsky.social CEO George Kurian takes the stage. “We stand at a moment of extraordinary promise if we can unlock the value of data”

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T16:12:21.511Z

Fist up at #NetAppINSIGHT poetry?

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T16:10:04.922Z

We're ready to kick off #NetAppINSIGHT keynotes! Watch for live coverage right here! #TFDx

— Stephen Foskett (@stephen.fosketts.net) 2025-10-14T15:58:17.491Z

Building blocks for a data platform: * Data management services* Metadata engine. * Unified data storage. ONTAP#netappinsight❓What's the software for metadata engine built on? Was it an acquisition?

— Becky Elliott (@beckylelliott.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:34:55.070Z

Doing for organizational data what google did to the internet's data.Is that a good thing?#NetappInsight1

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:34:15.118Z

NetApp will bring to your orgs data, what Google brought to the Internets data. #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:33:35.027Z

I so glad “data” was not my keynote drinking game word.They have to be over 100 mentions by now. So much data. #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:32:04.699Z

All the words I love to see Data classificationData GovernanceData CatalogTaggindData ManagementMetadataData transformation Security #NetAppInsight @NetApp #TFDx Modern organizations need these for compliance and growth.

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:30:27.122Z

NetApp is bringing a metadata engine for ONTAP to keep the active metadata updated and available for AI. #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:30:43.621Z

Starting off NetApp INSIGHT today at the morning keynote, CEO George Kurian calls this “the era of data-enabled intelligence” and says the data challenge is that “80% of the time on an AI project is spent wrangling data”#NetAppInsight #TFDx @techfieldday.com

— Guy Currier (@guycurrier.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:26:39.106Z

NetApp has been talking data management for over a decade now.Interesting to hear the story of how they're evolving to tackle data pipelines. #Netappinsight

— Becky Elliott (@beckylelliott.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:27:54.133Z

On average when there's an AI application processing data, there's 6 copies of each file. This is a massive amount of extra data floating around the enterprise. #NetAppInsights #TFDx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:23:39.321Z

Yes! Vector embeddings are key to #AI data usages. I’ve been covering this concept for a while now. I love seeing solutions deliver support for this. #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:23:28.572Z

Yes! Vector embeddings are key to #AI data usages. I’ve been covering this concept for a while now. I love seeing solutions deliver support for this. #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:23:28.572Z

Steps to get your data ready for AI1. Organize Data2. Implement Data Governance3. Leverage Metadata (and moving form passive to active metadata)4. Efficiently process and transform data into vector5. Manage data & model lifecycle (rince and repeat)#NetAppInsights #TFDx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:22:01.293Z

Keynote: 80% of #AI project time is spent on data wrangling. We have increasing needs for metadata management as data volumes grow. #NetAppInsight @NetApp #TFDx

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:21:17.055Z

Companies need to unlock the data that is sitting within their orginization. #NetAppInsights #TFDx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:18:27.923Z

Netapp is 30 years old. I'm interested in how they are messaging things. Will it be the messaging of a previous storage era?

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:15:41.797Z

Sonogram photo on screen. "The first picture a mother has of her child is data" — George Kurian Love how George stated with this micro meaningful example and then zoomed out. #NetAppINSIGHT

— Becky Elliott (@beckylelliott.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:15:50.846Z

NetApp was the storage behind the mapping of the Milky Way. #NetAppInsight #tfdxThat's just an amazing amount ot storage that was required for that platform.

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:14:29.926Z

Kicking off the keynote at #NetAppInsight with the CEO talking about data and how important data is to the world#Tfdx

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T16:11:55.633Z

Woot! @esa.int mention in the keynote #NetAppInsight @NetApp #TFDx #SpaceData

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:14:58.903Z

First up George Kurian.I appreciate he acknowledged that humans have been creating data for over 35k years!

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:12:07.502Z

First up a dramatic poetry reading

— Gina (@gminks.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:09:04.403Z

Already up to 25 #data mentions and I’m not sure I can keep track for much longer.#NetAppInsight @NetApp #TFDx

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:12:50.367Z

Getting ready for the #NetAppInsight keynote at NetApp Insight. #Tfdx @techfieldday.com

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T15:56:21.451Z

Getting ready for the #NetAppInsight keynote at NetApp Insight. #Tfdx @techfieldday.com

— Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) 2025-10-14T15:56:21.451Z

Mentions of #data count: 6 and we have just started #NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:05:41.603Z

Gotta admit that this is one of the better-designed pins I’ve seen. I might wear it!At NetApp INSIGHT in Vegas this week, thanks to NetApp and @techfieldday.com. Keynotes about to start, I’ll let you know whatever interesting comes up#NetAppInsight #TFDx

— Guy Currier (@guycurrier.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:04:42.312Z

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— Karen Lopez (@datachick.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T15:55:35.362Z