NetApp Helps Customers Accelerate Adoption of Latest VMware Cloud Foundation Innovations

NetApp, the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, has unveiled enhanced features in NetApp ONTAP compatible with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1. This integration empowers customers with an optimized, secure data infrastructure for their private and hybrid clouds. By merging VCF 9.1's advanced functionalities with NetApp's cost-effective, enterprise-grade data management and robust security measures, clients can reduce expenses and expedite the deployment of AI applications into production environments.

VCF 9.1 furnishes businesses with a unified platform for managing both conventional and contemporary workloads. NetApp's solutions have undergone rigorous testing and validation to ensure seamless compatibility with VCF 9.1, enabling customers to promptly capitalize on the latest VCF innovations upon upgrading. With pre-approved NetApp data infrastructure, enterprises can readily adapt their data management across on-premises and hybrid or multicloud settings.

To fully harness their data assets, customers must harmonize their data repositories across on-premises and hybrid or multicloud environments. NetApp's proprietary cloud storage services are the sole external enterprise storage solution certified to support VMware Cloud Foundation across leading hyperscale clouds, offering customers the flexibility to modify their strategies as requirements evolve.

Through VCF license portability, customers can deploy VMware Cloud Foundation in certified hyperscaler environments and execute their VMware workloads in the cloud without necessitating refactoring.

Alvaro Celis, NetApp's Chief Partner and Ecosystem Officer, emphasizes that enterprises must retain the agility to relocate workloads to the most suitable environment. NetApp's ongoing innovations ensure consistent, disruption-free operations across cloud environments, partnered with Broadcom to provide organizations the autonomy to optimize, protect, and scale their virtualized setups across any cloud on their own terms. This approach safeguards existing operational investments while unlocking future potential.

The synergy between NetApp's platform and VCF 9.1 delivers numerous benefits, such as: "Broadcom and NetApp have consistently collaborated on solutions that simplify operations, safeguard critical data, and accelerate innovation," states Paul Turner, Broadcom's Chief Product Officer for the VMware Cloud Foundation Division. "With VCF 9.1, we present an AI- and Kubernetes-native private cloud platform that optimizes infrastructure efficiency and security.

Given NetApp's solutions are tested and validated for VCF 9.1 environments, our mutual customers can seamlessly adopt these innovations with a data infrastructure foundation that is proven and ready."

To explore how NetApp consistently and securely supports data in VMware environments, visit NetApp's booth #109 at VMware Explore 2026, August 31–September 3 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. Over three decades, NetApp has supported leading organizations through various technological shifts, from enterprise storage's inception to the intelligent era driven by data and AI.

At the core of this infrastructure lies the NetApp data platform – an enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, safeguards, and activates data across all clouds, workloads, and environments. Disaggregated by design, this platform separates storage, services, and control, allowing enterprises to modernize swiftly, scale efficiently, and innovate without vendor lock-in.

As the sole enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world's largest clouds, NetApp offers organizations the freedom to execute workloads anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection. With NetApp, data remains perpetually prepared – prepared to resist threats, ready to empower AI, and poised to catalyze the next breakthrough.

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