GANESAN ARUMUGAM
SENIOR DIRECTOR, CHANNEL SALES & ALLIANCES, APAC, NETAPP
NetApp sees partners becoming even more important in the AI era as customers require infrastructure, cloud and AI expertise to unlock value from data. Its ecosystem spans data and AI specialists, traditional infrastructure partners and strategic alliances with companies supporting cloud adoption, modernisation and AI workloads. Through the refreshed Partner Sphere programme, NetApp is building competencies across AI, cloud transformation, cyber resilience and data infrastructure modernisation. Its intelligent data infrastructure approach enables enterprises to classify, govern and prepare existing data for AI without unnecessary movement or duplication. Operating across on-premises and hybrid-cloud environments, the platform aims to optimise storage and performance while reducing complexity, helping partners move from transactional selling towards delivering longer-term business outcomes.
