Storage

ONTAP 9.19.1: What's new and the Storage Features that matter in production

ONTAP 9.19.1 in brief: zero-RPO AIX failover, direct attached FC, tamperproof Snapshot locking, active-active AFF paths, safer S3 writes, and wider ransomware protection.

Jul 22, 2026

Gartner chart projecting synthetic data will overshadow real data in AI models by 2030

Synthetic Data: Storage's Next Growth Driver

By 2030, Gartner projects synthetic data will overshadow real data in AI training. That data has to live somewhere. It is about to become storage's next growth driver.

Jul 14, 2026

Storage health check illustration with a checkmark and connected storage systems

ONTAP Health Check Cookbook

A practical ONTAP health-check tutorial for storage administrators: run each read-only command, compare the result with the expected state, and record exceptions before they become incidents.

Jul 12, 2026

Storage infrastructure capacity-planning illustration

Storage Planning Isn’t Just Capacity

Capacity is one storage-design input. Availability, recovery, security, performance, and fault tolerance define the architecture.

Jul 5, 2026