NetApp’s flagship data management software is built in India

Data management major NetApp, like many other tech companies, envisions a world where customers focus on what they do best and leave the computer business to tech geeks. To bring this dream alive, one of its major initiatives has been the data management software called ONTAP, which is practically NetApp’s operating system. It’s very popular with NetApp’s customers globally as it helps them seamlessly switch between different cloud providers. The latest version of it, ONTAP 9, has been developed principally by the company’s R&D team in Bengaluru.

The software provides storage infrastructure capabilities, which is the foundation for hybrid cloud, and also simplifies management of unstructured data. Managing data across multiple clouds is particularly complex.