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In Conversation: NetApp CEO George Kurian

Steve McDowell
October 4, 2026

At NetApp’s recent INSIGHT 2026 event in Las Vegas, I had the chance to speak with CEO George Kurian about the state of the business. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.

NetApp INSIGHT 2026 Recap: Clouds, Sovereignty & Autonomous Operations

Steve McDowell
October 3, 2026

NetApp used its INSIGHT 2026 conference in Las Vegas to announce a broad set of platform, cloud, and partner updates alongside its headline Novus AI factory architecture

NetApp Novus Takes ONTAP to AI Factory Scale

Steve McDowell
October 3, 2026

At its INSIGHT 2026 conference in Las Vegas, NetApp announced NetApp Novus, its new storage architecture for neocloud operators, hyperscalers, GPU-as-a-Service providers, and large enterprises building their own GPU clouds.

Everpure Extends Data Intelligence and Inference Acceleration for Enterprise Agentic AI

Steve McDowell
September 30, 2026

Everpure announced a set of platform capabilities at its Pure//Accelerate London, targeting enterprises moving AI agents and inference workloads from pilot to production.

Everpure Investor Day: Pure’s Four-Vector Push Beyond Enterprise Storage

Steve McDowell
September 28, 2026

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) used its recent financial analyst meeting to explain how it plans to grow beyond the enterprise storage array business that defined its first 17 years. Management built its growth story around four vectors that it's named Core and Core AI, Modern Data Software, Scale AI, Hyperscale

NetApp To Acquire PEAK:AIO to Scale ONTAP for AI Clouds

Steve McDowell
September 28, 2026

NetApp announced a definitive agreement to acquire PEAK:AIO, a Manchester, UK-based software-defined storage company whose core technology is a scale-out, disaggregated metadata service for parallel NFS (pNFS). NetApp said it will integrate PEAK:AIO's metadata services, global namespace, and parallel NFS access into ONTAP, extending its AI infrastructure to support AI

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