NetApp^® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced new NetApp data management capabilities optimized for Red Hat OpenShift that enable advanced levels of resilience and scale for virtualized environments, on-premises and in the cloud. The updates improve the speed and predictability of backup, recovery, and day-to-day operations so customers can migrate, scale, and manage virtual machine (VM) and container environments to enable innovation and agility with greater confidence.

According to The state of virtualization report from Red Hat, 90 percent of organizations agree that virtualization supports innovation. Combined with the report’s finding that 71 percent of organizations have over half of their IT infrastructure virtualized, enterprises are expanding their virtualized environments to help them manage the increasing volumes of data that fuel the AI-era. As Red Hat OpenShift virtualized environments grow, backup methods that rely on scanning full VM disks can lead to longer backup windows, unpredictable recovery timelines, and increased operational risk. When migrating to and scaling Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, enterprises need predictable and efficient backup and recovery with block-level change tracking to help them meet backup and recovery windows and avoid overspending on storage as environments scale. Furthermore, many IT organizations are seeking simplified disaster recovery at scale and flexible deployment options.

“When IT teams are faced with slow scanning and backup processes, they’re unable to meet recovery point and recovery time objectives,” said Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer at NetApp. “NetApp’s latest innovations with Red Hat enable predictable backup and recovery behavior even as the VM environment grows. Customers can now migrate, operate, and protect large‑scale VM and container environments on Red Hat OpenShift with greater speed, predictability, and operational confidence.”

The NetApp and Red Hat collaboration provides enhanced hybrid and multicloud consistency, enabling customers to run and move applications and data across on‑premises and public cloud environments. Together, NetApp and Red Hat seek to deliver a mature, enterprise-ready Kubernetes stack. This collaboration continues with new capabilities that help customers build more resilient and scalable virtualized environments, including:

• NetApp Backup and Recovery for Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization:NetApp Backup and Recovery is a simple, secure, and cost-effective data protection service for OpenShift applications on NetApp ONTAP^® storage. It accelerates backups and restores with incremental-forever backups providing Change Block Tracking (CBT), storage efficiency preservation, and compute offload. These features avoid data rehydration during backups and reduce compute overhead for backup operations. With this update, NetApp Backup and Recovery now enhances support for protecting VMs on OpenShift with comprehensive automation enabling VM-granular protection and recovery workflows along with resource transformations to accelerate recovery times.
• NetApp Disaster Recovery support for Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization: Customers can now use NetApp Disaster Recovery in public preview for their Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environments, expanding from backup into orchestrated disaster recovery for Kubernetes‑based VMs. This DR-as-a-service offering delivers simple, low-cost disaster protection for virtualized workloads on NetApp ONTAP storage with intuitive, guided disaster recovery failover and fallback workflows.
• Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud: Google Cloud NetApp Volumes and Trident CSI driver for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization are now generally available on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud environments with certified support. This solution enables organizations to run both VMs and containers in the cloud with simplified operations and seamless scalability.
• NetApp Trident Parallelism: NetApp Trident now supports improved scalability through parallel execution of operations in the Trident controller for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes environments. The Trident Parallelism feature removes storage bottlenecks by enabling Trident to execute storage operations concurrently rather than serially.

“Legacy disaster recovery models were not built for the scale and pace of today’s virtualized environments,” said Steve Gordon, Senior Director, Product Management, Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red Hat. “Our collaboration with NetApp directly addresses the most pressing challenges customers face as enterprise virtualized environments continue to grow in scale and complexity. Together with NetApp, we’re helping customers modernize data protection and disaster recovery for Red Hat OpenShift delivering more predictable outcomes and a stronger foundation for hybrid cloud.”

To learn more about NetApp’s collaboration with Red Hat, visit the NetApp booth #538 at Red Hat Summit 2026, May 11-14 in Atlanta, GA.

Additional Resources

• Red Hat Innovates at the Speed of AI and Scale of the Hybrid Cloud with NetApp
• NetApp and Red Hat Strengthen Collaboration to Drive IT Modernization with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
• NetApp Trident: Provision and Protect Stateful Kubernetes Applications

About NetApp

For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.

At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.

Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.

With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.

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Gradiant today announced that HyperSolved™, its end-to-end cooling water solution for AI data centers, is now deployed with several of the world’s largest hyperscale operators, supporting mission-critical infrastructure across major global markets.

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Gradiant’s RO Infinity with CFRO.

AI infrastructure is expanding at unprecedented speed, with global data center capacity projected to increase six-fold between 2025 and 2035. These next-generation facilities demand significantly more power and cooling than traditional computing, driving a sharp increase in water consumption. A single 100MW hyperscale campus can require water equivalent to a city of 80,000 people each day.

In many regions, growth is increasingly constrained not only by power and land, but by water availability, permitting complexity, and discharge limits. While compute and energy systems have matured, water infrastructure remains fragmented, forcing operators to manage multiple vendors and disconnected systems, introducing risk and slowing deployment.

HyperSolved replaces this model by integrating the full cooling water lifecycle, from sourcing to discharge, into a single platform delivered by one accountable partner. Purpose-built for hyperscale environments, it reduces complexity, improves reliability, and accelerates deployment.

“Water is one of the least integrated and most fragmented layers of data center infrastructure,” said Prakash Govindan, CEO of Gradiant. “We are in the middle of a once-in-a-generation build-out of AI infrastructure, comparable in scale to historic expansions like the railroads in the 1800’s, which connected regions and transformed entire economies. That level of growth demands a new approach. Today, water is still managed through a patchwork of vendors and solutions that were never designed for hyperscale. HyperSolved changes that by treating water as critical infrastructure, designed, delivered, and operated as one integrated system.”

HyperSolved expands access to alternative water sources, including municipal reuse and other impaired supplies, reducing reliance on freshwater and increasing site flexibility. It protects cooling performance through integrated treatment, CURE Chemicals, and SmartOps AI, and minimizes discharge through high-recovery concentration and reuse, improving environmental performance and easing regulatory constraints.

“You run the data center. We manage the water layer,” said Sankar Natarajan, Head of Special Projects at Gradiant. “By integrating water into a single system, it performs with the same reliability and accountability as power or cooling. HyperSolved gives operators a clear path to scale with less risk and fewer constraints.”

Engineered for the pace of AI development, HyperSolved supports rapid deployment through containerized systems, enabling immediate or temporary capacity to support rapid build timelines, and delivers optimized long-term performance through permanent infrastructure. Gradiant also provides end-to-end lifecycle support, from commissioning through operations, ensuring continuity as facilities scale.

Gradiant is seeing strong commercial adoption of HyperSolved among the world’s leading hyperscale operators, reflecting growing demand for integrated water infrastructure. The company expects data centers to represent approximately 25% of its global business by 2027, as water becomes a defining factor in where and how AI infrastructure can be built.

HyperSolved is available globally, supporting hyperscalers, data center developers and operators, and engineering partners across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

About Gradiant

Gradiant is a Different Kind of Water Company. With a full suite of differentiated and proprietary end-to-end solutions for advanced water and wastewater treatment powered by the top minds in water, the company serves its clients’ mission-critical operations in the world’s essential industries, including semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, lithium and critical minerals, and renewable energy. Gradiant’s innovative solutions reduce water used and wastewater discharged, reclaim valuable resources, and renew wastewater into freshwater. The Boston-headquartered company was founded at MIT and has over 1,400 employees worldwide. Discover us at gradiant.com.

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Telehouse Canada, a leading data centre service provider and subsidiary of KDDI Corporation, has announced the completion of a major infrastructure upgrade designed to support the next generation of AI‑driven workloads. By introducing direct liquid‑to‑chip technology, Telehouse enables high‑density AI inference deployments within its interconnection‑rich downtown Toronto data centre environments—reinforcing the company’s leadership in delivering resilient, future‑ready facilities that power Canada’s digital transformation and support the next wave of innovation.

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Telehouse Canada’s Advanced Cooling Framework

As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organizations are increasingly seeking data centre environments capable of supporting performance‑intensive workloads at scale. These requirements are driving demand for higher‑density infrastructure and advanced cooling solutions, particularly in environments where reliability, efficiency, and proximity to end users are critical for AI inference.

Building on this investment, Telehouse Canada has deployed direct liquid cooling across its metro data centre campus, alongside infrastructure enhancements designed to enable high‑density deployments and improved connectivity for AI workloads. The deployment supports organizations colocating AI infrastructure within Telehouse facilities, with cabinet densities of up to 120 kW per rack.

This marks a first-of-its-kind deployment of direct liquid cooling within an interconnection hub in Canada, underscoring its significance within the Canadian data centre and interconnection landscape. The upgrade positions Telehouse Canada to support organizations with strict cooling and power requirements while continuing to deliver low-latency connectivity and proximity to end users.

“As demand for AI continues to grow, organizations need data centre infrastructure that can support increasingly complex workloads at scale,” said Atsushi Kubo, President and CEO of Telehouse Canada. “This upgrade strengthens our ability to meet those needs while continuing to deliver the performance and reliability our customers expect.”

Advancing energy efficiency through heat recovery and reuse

Liquid cooling is more thermally conductive than air, allowing Telehouse Canada to remove up to 80 per cent of heat directly from high-power server components. As a result, reliance on power-intensive computer room air conditioners and server fans is reduced, lowering overall energy consumption while delivering a more sustainable and efficient cooling model. The direct liquid cooling system transfers heat from the server components to a cooling distribution unit, where it is carried away via a dedicated coolant loop. This heat is then transferred to Enwave’s closed-loop district energy system, where it is captured and repurposed through a fully isolated process to help heat Toronto’s municipal drinking water rather than being released into the atmosphere, which improves Telehouse Canada’s Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). In addition, the system removes reliance on chillers during normal operations, which reduces the need for evaporative cooling and reduces water usage, further improving the facility’s Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE).

The project reflects Telehouse Canada’s continued focus on building resilient, high‑performance digital infrastructure while also delivering tangible sustainability and economic benefits, including local job creation and the engagement of approximately 80 skilled professionals across construction and engineering disciplines throughout the project lifecycle.

Aligned with Canada’s focus on digital infrastructure, AI, and innovation, investments such as this play an important role in strengthening the country’s digital foundation—supporting long‑term growth, accelerating innovation, and ensuring infrastructure readiness as organizations scale AI‑driven operations. By continuing to invest in high‑performance, interconnection‑rich environments, Telehouse Canada is committed to enabling the next phase of digital transformation while supporting the evolving needs of Canada’s digital economy and helping businesses scale and compete globally.

About Telehouse

Telehouse is a leading global data centre service provider under KDDI Group, bringing together a diverse range of business partners including carriers, mobile and content providers, enterprises, cloud providers and financial services companies. Established in 1989, Telehouse provides reliable, secure, and flexible colocation services, enabling organizations to accelerate speed to market and create business opportunities through fast, efficient and secure interconnections. For more information visit: www.telehouse.ca

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The Forum of Indian Food Importers (FIFI) participated as a key collaborator and industry contributor in the high-level Chile–India Economic Partnership gathering convened during the official visit of His Excellency Francisco Pérez Mackenna, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Chile, to India.

The closed-door strategic roundtable brought together senior government representatives, industry leaders, and trade stakeholders from both countries to accelerate discussions surrounding the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), while exploring long-term opportunities in agrifood trade, logistics, sustainability, and industrial cooperation.

The distinguished Chilean delegation reflected the growing importance Chile places on India as a strategic economic partner and included H.E. Juan Angulo, Ambassador of Chile to India; Diego Torres, International Director, Federation of Chilean Industries (SOFOFA); Iván Marambio, President, Fruits from Chile; Rodrigo Bustos, Asia Director, Aqua Chile; Alfonso Undurraga, President, Wines of Chile; Juan Manuel Mira, President, Chile Alimentos; and Javier Montes, Sales Director Asia, MENA & Oceania, CMPC.

The roundtable discussion was followed by a wider industry interaction attended by eminent Indian leadership, including Mr Rajesh Agrawal, Secretary of Commerce, Government of India, and Mr Rajit Punhani, CEO, FSSAI, among other senior policymakers and industry stakeholders. The interaction further reinforced the growing commitment from both countries toward strengthening bilateral trade and regulatory cooperation.

FIFI representatives contributed practical insights on crucial topics like agrifood business, cold chain logistics, demand channels, premium consumption trends, and market access opportunities between the two nations. The organization welcomed the ongoing CEPA discussions as an important milestone toward building a resilient, future-oriented economic partnership between India and Chile.

Speaking during the interaction, Amit Lohani, Founder Director of FIFI, highlighted the transformative potential of the India–Chile partnership. “With over three decades of experience in bilateral trade corridors, I firmly believe the India–Chile partnership is entering a definitive phase. Chile offers world-class products that align strongly with the evolving preferences of Indian consumers and the premium hospitality sector. CEPA can become a major catalyst for accelerating bilateral growth,” said Mr. Lohani. He was further noted, “The foundation stone for this partnership was laid a few years back, and we are delighted to see its evolution in a positive direction.”

The timing of the discussions comes at a significant moment for bilateral trade relations. India and Chile are currently advancing negotiations on a CEPA, aimed at deepening trade integration and reducing barriers across sectors.

Highlighting the importance of logistics integration and infrastructure cooperation, Siddhaarth Suri, Director of Suri Agro Fresh Pvt. Ltd., stressed that improving cold-chain connectivity and streamlining trade frameworks would unlock substantial growth opportunities for both nations.

Rekha Gupta, Co-Founder of Polar Quality India Pvt. Ltd., highlighted the growing appetite for premium seafood and salmon products in India’s HORECA sector. She was quoted as saying, “India’s premium hospitality segment is witnessing a remarkable evolution in consumer preferences, especially for high-quality imported seafood. Greater trade facilitation and smoother import mechanisms can significantly enhance market penetration and strengthen supply consistency.”

The discussions also benefited from the participation and expertise of senior Indian industry stakeholders, including Mr Rakesh Banga, Mr Pankaj Singhal, Mr Uday Chugh, and others. FIFI reiterated its commitment to supporting constructive trade dialogue and policy advocacy that strengthens India’s food ecosystem while expanding opportunities for global partners such as Chile.

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