Security Built Smarter
The NetApp data platform embeds cyber resilience directly into your data infrastructure—unifying ransomware protection, backup, disaster recovery, and governance at the source.
Picture your next board meeting.
Your CEO presents the AI roadmap—predictive analytics that will transform the customer experience, automated workflows that will cut costs by millions, and intelligent systems that will outpace every competitor. You're caught between two impossible scenarios.
Say yes too quickly, and you're on the hook when—not if—a cyberattack succeeds. Hedge too much, and you're the executive who killed the company's top strategic initiative.
Features and Benefits
The capabilities that set NetApp Data Platform apart.
When AI fails, it fails at scale
AI-scale failure impact
Industry statistics
- 86% of security leaders faced an AI-related cyberattack in the past year
- 80% of organizations have attack paths exposing critical data and systems
- 2% of companies are fully resilient against these attacks
The shift
Data-layer security that's built-in delivers
Real-time threat detection
Ransomware-resistant backups
Rapid recovery
Your stakes: Why AI-ready data is your most critical business asset
AI-ready data importance
Corrupt the data, cripple the mission
- Lost competitive edge: Innovation stalls while your competitors advance
- Biased or corrupted models: Flawed business decisions and reputational damage
- Regulatory penalties: Audits fail; compliance becomes impossible
- Board scrutiny intensifies: Leadership demands answers for failed investments
The vulnerability is structural
The inflection point
Your challenge: Securing the data layer for the AI era
Where traditional security falls short
- Fragmented visibility: Siloed security tools across environments create blind spots where threats hide and spread.
- Reactive detection: Alerts come after the damage when threats have already compromised workloads.
- Complex recovery: Restoring AI pipelines is slow and disconnected, delaying recovery and disrupting value delivery.
- Compliance gaps: When you can't prove continuous protection, audits fail and trust erodes across hybrid environments.
The cost of failure skyrockets quickly
- $3.32 million—Average breach cost typically magnified for AI-driven organizations
- $2 million per hour—Median cost of high-impact IT outages, a risk that scales rapidly as AI workloads expand across hybrid environments
AI maturity gap
When protection becomes the problem
Your solution: AI-powered data security that enables cyber resilience
Cyber resilience as outcome
How protecting the data layer changes everything
Unified visibility everywhere
Intelligent automation in action
Protection that scales with AI
Real-world defense: When ransomware targets your AI
The new era of ransomware
Without data-layer protection
- 3:00 AM: Attackers gain access through a compromised vendor credential.
- 3:15 AM: Your production AI models and training datasets get encrypted.
- 3:30 AM: $5M ransom demand received.
- 6 weeks to retrain models from scratch
- $3M+ in lost revenue while AI services are down
- Regulatory scrutiny over the breach
- Board questions about successful AI attackers
With data-layer protection
- 3:00 AM: Attackers gain access through a compromised vendor credential.
- 3:01: Automated detection flags anomalous behavior in real time.
- Attackers can't encrypt protected backups
- Restore to last known-good state in under 2 hours
- AI services back online before the business day starts
Protect
Detect
Recover
Your outcome
AI compliance: From audit risk to competitive advantage
Compliance challenges with AI
- Proving where your AI training data came from—and that it wasn't compromised
- Demonstrating that automated decisions can be explained and contested
- Keeping data in the right countries as AI trains across multiple clouds
- Documenting the entire AI lifecycle for regulatory audits
When compliance gets personal
Data-layer governance
Prove data origins automatically
Maintain geographic boundaries
Generate continuous audit trails
Adapt to regulations faster
Your outcome
Operational resilience: Drive near-zero downtime for AI
Why continuity matters
Attacks target availability, not just data
AI pipelines amplify disruption
Enterprise-wide resilience requires proof
Continuous AI operations
Instant failover
Protected real-time intelligence
Your outcome
Data-layer continuity required
From defense to AI dominance: Fortifying resilience at the data layer
The winning approach
SPEED
SIMPLICITY
SCALABILITY
ALIGNMENT
ASSURANCE
Make your next move
AI-ready resilience in action: Thor Motor Coach
Customer transformation
Results achieved
- 30% infrastructure savings per year
- 45% monthly reduction in network costs
- 99.999% system availability
- Backup time cut from 76 hours to under 1 hour
Customer quote
Secure AI at the data layer—where it matters most
Foundation for AI success
Built in, not bolted on
Thrive with expert-led storage guidance
Get tailored advice on how NetApp Data Platform fits your environment — from sizing and deployment to long-term optimization.
Technical Specifications
Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.
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Traditional: Back up entire applicationsAI-Powered Data-Layer: Protect data and models at the source
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Traditional: Manual recovery proceduresAI-Powered Data-Layer: Automated decision and failover
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Traditional: Hours to days to restoreAI-Powered Data-Layer: Minutes to hours to restore
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Traditional: Risk of inconsistencyAI-Powered Data-Layer: Guaranteed integrity
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Traditional: Separate tools for disaster recoveryAI-Powered Data-Layer: Unified protection
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Security leaders facing AI-related cyberattack in past year86%
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Organizations with attack paths exposing critical data and systems80%
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Companies fully resilient against these attacks2%
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Companies reporting rising attack-surface activity84%
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Companies lacking maturity to counter AI-enabled cyber threats90%
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Average breach cost$3.32 million
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Median cost of high-impact IT outages$2 million per hour
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GDPR fines in 2024€1.2 billion
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Infrastructure savings per year30%
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Monthly reduction in network costs45%
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System availability99.999%
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Backup time reductionFrom 76 hours to under 1 hour
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3:00 AMAttackers gain access through a compromised vendor credential
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3:01 AMAutomated detection flags anomalous behavior in real time
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Recovery timeRestore to last known-good state in under 2 hours
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Service restorationAI services back online before the business day starts
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FoundationBuilt on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS
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EnhancementEnhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX
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ArchitectureDisaggregated by design—separates storage, services, and control
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Cloud integrationOnly enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world's largest clouds
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DeliversObservability, resilience, and intelligence at scale
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Supported environmentsOn-premises, private clouds, and public clouds such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Compare NetApp Data Platform Series
Select the right scale for your workload demands.
| Model Name | Max Capacity | Port Config | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional Data Security | Back up entire applications; Hours to days to restore | Separate tools for disaster recovery; Manual recovery procedures | Get Quote |
| AI-Powered, Data-Layer Cyber Resilience (NetApp Data Platform) | Protect data and models at the source; Minutes to hours to restore | Unified protection; Automated decision and failover; Guaranteed integrity | Get Quote |
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