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NetApp Insight 2025: Tony Chidiac on AFX, AI Data Engine & Real-World AI ROI
At NetApp Insight 2025, Tony Chidiac and Stephen Foskett highlighted the advancements in NetApp’s AFX, AI Data Engine, and their practical applications for delivering real-world AI ROI. Chidiac’s discussion emphasized how these technologies are revolutionizing data management and enhancing predictive analytics capabilities for businesses. Watch for more Tech Talks videos from NetApp Insight 2025!
NetApp Insight 2025: Keith Aasen Unveils the AI-Ready NetApp AFX — The Future of Scalable Storage
At NetApp Insight 2025, Keith Aasen and Stephen Foskett introduced the NetApp AFX, a groundbreaking AI-ready scalable storage solution designed to meet the growing demands of data-intensive applications. The AFX platform promises enhanced performance and flexibility, positioning NetApp at the forefront of storage innovation for artificial intelligence workloads. Watch for more Tech Talks videos from NetApp Insight 2025!
NetApp Insight 2025: AI-Driven Data Management with Arun Gururajan
At NetApp Insight 2025, Arun Gururajan and Stephen Foskett highlighted the transformative potential of AI-driven data management. The focus was on how these advanced technologies can enhance efficiency and predictive analysis, catering to dynamic business needs. Watch for more Tech Talks videos from NetApp Insight 2025!
NetApp Insight 2025: Building the Future Through Partnerships & AI with Spencer Sells
At NetApp Insight 2025, Spencer Sells and Stephen Foskett highlighted the strategic importance of partnerships and AI-driven solutions in shaping the future of data management. His insights emphasized the collaborative efforts needed to harness technological advancements and optimize enterprise storage solutions. Watch for more Tech Talks videos from NetApp Insight 2025!
Wharton’s AI Report, Tech Field Day Vibes & Data Centers in Space
Stephen Foskett joined Techstrong Gang to discuss the key takeaways from AI Field Day 7 on Tuesday, November 4. He discusses the interest in special-purpose AI applications, as presented by Articul8, Digitate, and Fortinet, the desire by business leaders to partner with full-service firms like HPE or Nutanix for their AI needs, and the rise of shadow AI and distributed data, as presented by HYCU. Watch Techstrong Gang every weekday for more from The Futurum Group and friends!
The Role of Data Infrastructure in Enterprise AI with Ingo Fuchs of NetApp
The podcast episode explores the critical role of data infrastructure in supporting enterprise AI and agentic AI applications. It emphasizes the need for storage infrastructure teams to take a more active role in enabling performance, efficiency, and governance for AI workloads. The conversation highlights NetApp’s capabilities, such as AI Data Engine and native infrastructure integrations, in enabling real-time data pipeline management and ensuring consistent and secure data delivery.
AI Demand, Rising Memory Prices & NBA Betting Scandals
In this episode of Techstrong Gang, the panel discusses the looming chip crisis and the recent bust of a high-tech gambling ring, but the heart of the conversation focuses on key takeaways from Cloud Field Day 24. This discussion centered on smart use of cloud services, both on-premises and in the hands of service providers, and the needs of each application for security, privacy, and cost. Oxide Computer Company and Pure Storage were both mentioned in this segment, with HPE and Fortinet earning mention in the area of AI applications. Watch Techstrong Gang every weekday on the various Techstrong channels.
Ready or Not, AI is Coming to the Enterprise
Despite widespread skepticism, AI is already widely used in the enterprise, often in the form of so-called shadow applications outside traditional IT. This episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, recorded on the eve of AI Field Day, features delegates Ryan Booth and Dave Graham discussing the real state of AI adoption in the enterprise with host Stephen Foskett. Just like the advent of the PC, generative AI is widely used across businesses, typically on a bring-your-own basis rather than as a coordinated effort by the IT department. The same process happened in the Software-as-a-Service world, where each department and even individual adopted multiple tools that met their needs. There will soon be a reckoning, where businesses try to get their hands around all of the AI applications being used across the enterprise. The next step is to develop a plan to control sprawl of tools, models, data, and subscriptions to ensure that this shadow AI doesn’t become a risk to the company. Then companies need to be prepared as AI agents become critical to their operations, likely also deployed by individuals without corporate control.
Exploring the Future of Enterprise AI Deployment and Innovation at AI Field Day 7
Join Tech Field Day, Techstrong, Futurum, and our panel of independent experts for AI Field Day 7, live October 29th and 30th, 2025. Watch live on Techstrong TV, LinkedIn, and the Tech Field Day website, where you can also view the full schedule.
Enhancing Security in the Age of AI and Agents
The Techstrong Gang explores the increasing complexities of enterprise security in an era dominated by advanced artificial intelligence and automated agents. They discuss the need for evolving security strategies to safeguard data and infrastructure against sophisticated threats enabled by these technologies. During the conversation, Stephen Foskett compares the approach of NetApp as seen at the recent INSIGHT event, for data protection. The topics presented at Security Field Day are also covered, including SquareX, as well as the recent Microsoft Security event.
Understanding the Impact of the AWS Outage & Cloud Infrastructure Challenges
The Techstrong Gang discusses the AWS outage, NetApp’s AI data management strategy, and Talos Linux. Following NetApp Insight, Stephen Foskett discusses NetApp’s new AI-native platform and data engine, which impressed for securely managing unstructured data. Watch Techstrong Gang every weekday for more Tech Field Day coverage!
Tariffs, AI Adoption & The Unstructured Data Problem
The Techstrong Gang discusses the intricate impact of tariffs on global IT industries, highlighting their potential to alter production and market dynamics They further explore the accelerated adoption of AI technologies, underscoring how businesses are grappling with the burgeoning challenge of managing unstructured data. Stephen Foskett connects this to the recent NetApp Insight event, which focused on presenting data for use by AI applications.
AI Acceleration, Chip Competition & Market Overheating
The Techstrong Gang explores the intensifying competition within the AI chip market, highlighting how this rivalry is leading to innovations and challenges, including market overheating. They examine the impact on businesses and their technology strategies, particularly focusing on the acceleration of AI capabilities and its implications for industry standards. They also discuss the implications of AI on security, as recently discussed during the Microsoft Security special event with Tech Field Day.
AI Safety Rules and the Future of Data Centers
In this episode of Techstrong Gang, the panel explores the emerging dialogue around AI safety rules and their anticipated impact on future data center operations, addressing growing concerns over AI reliability and security. They also examine the potential influence these regulations could have on architectural and strategic shifts within data center ecosystems. The episode includes coverage of the recent AI Infrastructure Field Day event in a long segment.
Tech Field Day Experience at NetApp Insight 2025 Keynote Live Blog
Learn more about NetApp Insight 2025 during the Keynote in our delegate live blog!
Every AI Strategy Needs a Data Protection Strategy with Commvault
Every company lives in fear of a ransomware attack, whether they have suffered one or not, and this is even more critical in the era of AI. This episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast looks forward to Commvault SHIFT in November with a discussion of the importance of data protection to AI applications with Tim Zonca from Commvault, frequent delegate Gina Rosenthal, and host Stephen Foskett. AI applications are reliant on good data, and yet this same technology makes it easier for attackers to breach corporate controls. Today’s social engineering and phishing is more convincing than ever thanks to generative AI, and this has helped ransomware crews to adopt larger and more powerful attacks. Ransomware is a massive business, and it isn’t going away any time soon. At the same time, GenAI applications offer a new attack surface, as agentic AI is empowered to take action based on untrusted inputs. Not only can we not stop ransomware, but the pace and technical capabilities of these attacks keeps accelerating. There is reason for optimism, however, as data protection tools keep getting better. Today’s AI-optimized tools can effectively categorize data, burst or migrate to different locations, and roll back or recover from corruption or compromise. In the future, we will see increasing use of AI to monitor systems and data, detecting patterns and hardening the attack surface.
Moving Enterprise AI Applications From Experiments to Production with NetApp
Running enterprise applications in production is a lot different from the AI experiments many of us have been involved with so far. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, recorded prior to NetApp Insight 2025, features Ingo Fuchs from NetApp along with Gina Rosenthal, Glenn Dekhayser, and Stephen Foskett. AI applications often start as experiments with a limited data set, but once these are moved to production there are many critical decisions to be made. Data must be classified and cleaned, removing personal and financial data and proprietary information before it even reaches an LLM. Data also must be structured for embedding and vectorization prior to use by an LLM. And we have to ensure that data is up to date or the application will not serve the customer properly. Finally we have to consider whether it is proper and ethical to share and act on this data. Many of the challenges facing modern AI applications are similar to the historic issues faced by enterprise storage, and this is an area in which NetApp and their customers have decades of experience.
Apple OS26 Beta & GitHub Spark Breakdown | TSG Ep. 890 – Techstrong TV
In this episode of Techstrong Gang, Stephen Foskett joined Alan Shimel and the panel in discussing Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation 9 launch event. They discussed the Apple OS26 beta, GitHub Spark, and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9. The VCF 9 event highlights Broadcom’s simplification of VMware’s product lineup and its potential for enterprise private and hybrid clouds. Watch for more great coverage every weekday on Techstrong Gang!
The Future of Semiconductors and Mainframe Technology | TSG Ep. 911
In this episode of Techstrong Gang, Stephen Foskett discusses the takeaways from the SHARE conference in Cleveland. The panel discussed the booming semiconductor market and the future of mainframes, focusing on energy demands and modernization. They highlighted the importance of supporting organizations like the Open Mainframe Project to develop next-gen mainframe talent as well as presentations by Broadcom and PopUp Mainframe. Watch for more great discussion on the Techstrong Gang every weekday!