SPOTLIGHT. Moving Enterprise AI Applications From Experiments to Production with NetApp
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Running enterprise applications in production is a lot different from the AI experiments many of us have been involved with so far. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, recorded prior to NetApp Insight 2025, features Ingo Fuchs from NetApp along with Gina Rosenthal, Glenn Dekhayser, and Stephen Foskett. AI applications often start as experiments with a limited data set, but once these are moved to production there are many critical decisions to be made. Data must be classified and cleaned, removing personal and financial data and proprietary information before it even reaches an LLM. Data also must be structured for embedding and vectorization prior to use by an LLM. And we have to ensure that data is up to date or the application will not serve the customer properly. Finally we have to consider whether it is proper and ethical to share and act on this data. Many of the challenges facing modern AI applications are similar to the historic issues faced by enterprise storage, and this is an area in which NetApp and their customers have decades of experience.
NetApp Representative: Ingo Fuchs, Chief Technologist of AI at NetApp
Host:
Stephen Foskett, President and Organizer of Tech Field Day
Gina Rosenthal, Principal Product Marketing Manager, Digital Sunshine Solutions
Glenn Dekhayser, Global Principal Technologist at Equinix
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