NetApp wins Stratus Award for AI
NetApp AI has won a 2021 Stratus Award for artificial intelligence (AI) from the Business Intelligence Group
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NetApp wins Stratus Award for AI
NetApp AI has won a 2021 Stratus Award for artificial intelligence (AI) from the Business Intelligence Group. The Stratus Awards recognize companies and individuals who are innovating in the cloud and who provide offerings that are truly differentiated in the market. NetApp won the “Top Products/Services” category for AI.
The Business Intelligence Group seeks out and rewards those with vision, creativity, and persistence, all hallmarks of leading companies and individuals around the globe. Their industry awards programs rely on industry leaders who volunteer to read, score, and judge nominations. Their model is unique in that judges not only score and rank nominations, they also have the opportunity to share public and private feedback.
Last year NetApp, along with our partner Lenovo, won a coveted AI Breakthrough Award for the Best Machine Learning Platform. The AI Breakthrough Awards program was founded to recognize artificial intelligence related technology innovators, leaders, and visionaries from around the world.
NetApp awards
Since 2019, NetApp AI® has won many AI awards and recognitions:
- NetApp 2021 Stratus Award for Top Products/Services, AI
- NetApp 2020 AI Breakthrough Award for Best Machine Learning Platform
- NetApp 2019 AI Breakthrough Award for Best AI Solution for Big Data
- NetApp 2019 AIconics Award for Corporate Innovation in AI
- NetApp 2019 AIconics runner-up for Best Application of AI in Healthcare
- NetApp recognized by analyst IDC as a Leader in scale-out file-based storage, the foundation of NetApp ONTAP® AI
- Analyst IDC published a non-sponsored report, Realize the Transformative Power of AI for Healthcare with NetApp Solutions
NetApp AI enables our customers to integrate their data fabric across edge, core, and cloud. Our unified data management supports seamless, cost-effective data movement across the hybrid multicloud environment, and our world-class partner ecosystem provides full technical integrations with AI. To learn more, visit netapp.com/AI
Mike McNamara
Mike McNamara is a senior product and solution marketing leader at NetApp with over 25 years of data management and cloud storage marketing experience. Before joining NetApp over ten years ago, Mike worked at Adaptec, Dell EMC, and HPE. Mike was a key team leader driving the launch of a first-party cloud storage offering and the industry’s first cloud-connected AI/ML solution (NetApp), unified scale-out and hybrid cloud storage system and software (NetApp), iSCSI and SAS storage system and software (Adaptec), and Fibre Channel storage system (EMC CLARiiON).
In addition to his past role as marketing chairperson for the Fibre Channel Industry Association, he is a member of the Ethernet Technology Summit Conference Advisory Board, a member of the Ethernet Alliance, a regular contributor to industry journals, and a frequent event speaker. Mike also published a book through FriesenPress titled "Scale-Out Storage - The Next Frontier in Enterprise Data Management" and was listed as a top 50 B2B product marketer to watch by Kapos.
