{
  "id": 11522171,
  "title": "NetApp hands storage operations to AI agents, but humans still draw the boundaries",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/netapp-hands-storage-operations-to-ai-agents-but-humans-still-draw",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-02T20:27:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SiliconANGLE",
    "slug": "siliconangle",
    "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/02/data-governance-sets-rules-netapp-s-ai-storage-agents-netappinsight/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming enterprise workloads into data workloads, and data governance is the key to trusting autonomous systems with the underlying infrastructure. Enterprises now have data scattered across on-premises, public, and neocloud storage. NetApp, an enterprise storage provider, emphasizes the need for a consistent data foundation that works uniformly across all environments. Sandeep Singh, NetApp's senior vice president and general manager of enterprise storage, highlighted the importance of a unified data infrastructure strategy with consistent operations and capabilities. Helen Yu, founder and CEO of Tigon Advisory Corp., warns that without consistent data and clear accountability, teams may bypass official systems, leading to shadow AI and shadow IT. The solution lies in a consistent data plane and unified control plane that allows agents and humans to collaborate while maintaining policies and boundaries. NetApp's hybrid cloud tools enable customers to set policies and boundaries across their fleets, empowering agents to maintain infrastructure within those boundaries, thus avoiding human intervention and potential \"noisy neighbor\" issues. To ensure trust in this model, Yu advocates for measuring automation against business outcomes using the RACI framework, which identifies responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed parties for data and machine decision-making. Yu urges leaders to incorporate machines into the RACI chart, clearly defining ownership and access to data, and determining who has the authority to override exceptions.",
  "summary": "Artificial intelligence is turning nearly every enterprise workload into a data workload, and data governance is becoming the test of whether companies can trust autonomous systems with the infrastructure underneath. The question is no longer only where data lives, but what is allowed to act on it. Enterprise data now sits across on-premises data centers, […] The post NetApp hands storage…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}