At NetApp Insight 2025, Stephen Foskett sits down with Arun Gururajan, VP of Data Science at NetApp, to explore how the company is transforming storage into an intelligent data platform. NetApp’s AI Data Engine extracts semantic meaning from unstructured data, creating embeddings and context that make AI applications faster and more effective. With built-in classification, guardrails, and ransomware resilience, NetApp ensures sensitive data stays protected while enabling AI workflows across text, images, and video. By combining intelligent data management with cybersecurity and support for multimodal AI, NetApp provides enterprises a flexible, extensible foundation for modern AI and analytics workloads.