NetApp is adopting Google Cloud AI technologies to enable AI workloads and act as an AI practitioner. NetApp customers are expected to benefit from the AI-powered gains in productivity and innovation.
“AI is an imperative for enterprise success, and NetApp is its partnership with Google Cloud, which has enabled enterprises to drive AI innovation with their own data stored in the NetApp data platform.
César Cernuda, president at NetApp, said that after seeing the productivity and innovation benefits customers experienced using Gemini Enterprise integrated with their data in Google Cloud solutions, NetApp has adopted Gemini Enterprise to help increase productivity in its internal product development and sales operations.
“Customers can rely on our expertise and experience as they adopt or build AI to achieve their own goals,” said Cernuda.
Based on that experience, NetApp has now adopted Gemini Enterprise internally, becoming a customer of the same AI capabilities it is helping bring to market with Google Cloud.
“Our ongoing collaboration with Google Cloud is accelerating how enterprises put AI to work with trusted, enterprise‑grade data,” said Pravjit Tiwana, SVP and general manager of cloud storage and services at NetApp.
“As we saw the impact on data-driven decision-making and productivity at scale that this powerful combination delivered for customers, adopting Gemini Enterprise across our own teams was a natural next step,” he added.
Gemini Enterprise helps NetApp product teams accelerate development cycles through AI-driven insights and enables NetApp’s sales teams to leverage AI to deliver hyper-relevant solutions to customers more quickly.
These teams are building intelligent agents that match customers to the right solutions faster and streamline onboarding—reducing sales ramp time by an estimated month.
“Gemini Enterprise is unlocking tangible business outcomes and fundamentally reshaping how enterprises operate,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, president, Global Partner Ecosystem, Google Cloud.
“NetApp is a prime example of a partner acting as an AI practitioner. By adopting Gemini Enterprise internally, they are proving how agentic AI can fundamentally reshape product development and sales operations, while simultaneously helping our joint customers do the same with their own proprietary data.”
