In equally interesting news, though, the Loren Ipsum Award (previously Top Documentarian) is dear to my heart because documentation is critical and an absolute grind to do well, which means it so frequently AIN’T done.

Congratulations to Tiffany Hrabusa and Aidan Delaney for winning this year

Not one of the other thousands of people in the keynote were fooled BTW

Well, never mind any further updates. I got fooled and a little annoyed by them running the first keynote to double length and saying “as we wrap up this keynote” so I left

The cloud-native community is absolutely positively embracing and working to enable AI generally. So is almost every other tech community, of course (inclusive of the tech vendors)

Here’s one already: Jonathan Bryce, the Linux Foundation’s cloud & infrastructure lead, made the extraordinary claim that cloud-native and AI are “merging.” I think maybe don’t take this literally

#KubeCon

What superPAC is that? Anyone know? I am not constantly in the news stream

Seen

Where am I? I was there too

To finish the NetApp INSIGHT Day 2 keynote, Cernuda interviews Aaron Amendolia and Tracie Rodburg of the NFL and Costa Kladianos of the 49ers.

Amendolia: “Our fans have high expectations, but innovation can’t be disruptive to the way we operate”

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Flinders emphasizes security and service resilience throughout her part of today’s keynote about NetApp partnerships. Even the Partner Innovation Award this year was decided based on risk-related capabilities of the honoree

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Now on stage at the Day 2 NetApp INSIGHT keynote: Jenni Flinders, SVP of the company’s worldwide partner organization, with more sparkly stats! 1,400 partners are here at the show. 96 can help you with AI, 187 with cloud transformation, and more and more

Next up is Dallas Olson, chief commercial officer (a/k/a head of sales and partnerships) at NetApp: “NetApp is just a piece of the total solution required to deliver outcomes for our customers.… We must accelerate our interdependency more than ever before”

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NetApp’s Gagan Gulani: Our data security strategy emphasizes autonomous ransomware protection, security by design, compliance with regulations, governance, data lineage, anonymization, and storage as a resilient last defense. We focus on security by design”

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NetApp’s Pravjit Tiwana: Our AI strategy emphasizes a hybrid approach, combining cloud and multi-cloud solutions for unified file and object access so AI can seamlessly access data regardless of storage format

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