NetApp Empowers India’s Enterprises with Intelligent Data Infrastructure to Accelerate AI-Driven Growth

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today introduced its data infrastructure vision for India at INSIGHT Xtra Mumbai 2026. As India advances towards becoming a global digital and AI powerhouse, the intelligent, secure, and scalable NetApp data platform enables enterprises to move beyond experimentation and operationalize AI at scale. Aligned with national priorities such as Digital India and India AI Mission, NetApp’s strategy aims to enable Indian organizations to unlock the full value of their data and compete confidently in the AI-driven economy.

As Indian enterprises scale generative AI and advanced analytics initiatives, many are discovering that legacy and fragmented data environments are limiting their ability to move from pilots to production. Data spread across on-premises systems, multiple clouds, and the edge makes it difficult to ensure performance, security, and AI readiness at scale. NetApp’s latest innovations, including the NetApp AFX systems and the NetApp AI Data Engine (AIDE) co-engineered with NVIDIA, address these challenges by enabling organizations to unify, secure, and accelerate their AI data pipelines across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

“India’s AI journey is being shaped by the scale and diversity of its data across industries, geographies, and cloud environments. Indian enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation to unlock scale, enhance efficiency, and build long-term resilience for their businesses. As enterprises move from experimentation to embedding AI into core business processes, NetApp, is focused on helping organizations to build the data foundations required to compete, innovate, and scale responsibly in the AI era”, said Premalakshmi Ramakrishnan, Area Vice President for India and SAARC, NetApp.

“What we are seeing across enterprises is a clear gap between AI ambition and the readiness of underlying data infrastructure,” said Syam Nair, Chief Product Officer, NetApp. “Data environments that are fragmented, difficult to scale, or insecure create friction that prevents AI from moving beyond pilots. NetApp is addressing this challenge by redefining enterprise data infrastructure for the AI era. Our unified data platform, including NetApp AFX systems and NetApp AI Data Engine, enables organizations to accelerate AI data pipelines and establish a secure foundation for deploying AI at scale.”

At INSIGHT Xtra Mumbai 2026, NetApp showcased how its latest innovations  support India’s rapidly evolving AI and cloud landscape. As Indian organizations scale AI and cloud deployments, they need an Intelligent Data Infrastructure that unifies data across environments while ensuring agility, security, and cost efficiency. NetApp’s products address these critical needs through:

1. Enterprise-grade disaggregated storage with exabyte-scale capacity: NetApp AFX storage was designed for demanding AI workloads and enables organizations to independently scale capacity and performance as needed, leading to cost efficiencies and better resource utilization. Built on NetApp ONTAP, AFX delivers proven, enterprise-grade data management and security features for enterprise AI. Useful for demanding AI workloads, NetApp AFX systems can scale linearly up to 128 nodes, allowing for massive data management capabilities. 
2. Making data ready for AI, ensuring it is always current: The NetApp AI Data Engine (AIDE), built leveraging the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, features NVIDIA AI infrastructure, networking and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. This platform provides semantic search, data vectorization, and data guardrails to simplify the entire AI data pipeline by collapsing multiple data preparation and management steps. Through data change detection and data synchronization, NetApp AIDE eliminates redundant copies and keeps the data up to date.
3. Supporting the most demanding AI workloads: NetApp AFX is certified storage for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputers, removing data bottlenecks while processing hundreds of billions of parameters for model training and real-time inference workloads, achieving extremely high data throughput.
4. Providing the most secure storage on the planet: NetApp’s recently enhanced NetApp Ransomware Resilience service enables customers to make their data infrastructure central to their security strategy. NetApp Ransomware Resilience enables customers to drive a comprehensive ransomware defense for their ONTAP workloads - from proactive protection, through AI-driven detection, real-time response and clean, fast recovery of mission-critical data.

Through INSIGHT Xtra Mumbai 2026, NetApp reaffirmed its long-term commitment to India’s digital and AI-led growth. By combining global innovation with deep local understanding, NetApp is helping Indian enterprises build secure, scalable, and intelligent data foundations that are ready to power the next phase of AI adoption.