
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
10:30
ACCELERATE YOUR CLOUD WORKLOADS WITH INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join us to discover how NetApp helps you run cloud workloads more efficiently, while realizing cloud advantages faster, at lower costs, and with peace of mind knowing that your data is always available, private, and protected.
11:00
GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES FOR GKE STATEFUL APPLICATIONS
Diane Patton | NetApp
Looking to enhance the performance and reliability of your stateful applications on GKE? With the seamless integration of NetApp Trident CSI provisioner and Google Cloud NetApp volumes, you can now unlock a whole new level of dependable, high-performance storage for your stateful Kubernetes applications. This session will show you how and even includes a brief demo to get going!
11:30
USING VOLUME MIGRATION TO MIGRATE ONTAP VOLUMES TO GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Oliver Krause | NetApp
The new volume migration feature can be used to migrate ONTAP-based FlexVols to Google Cloud NetApp Volumes using SnapMirror-based replication. It is designed for simple, robust, and efficient migration while minimizing cut-over time.
12:00
REDUCING STORAGE COSTS WITH GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Dean Steadman | NetApp
Discover how Google Cloud NetApp Volumes can automatically tier data to lower costs to reduce your cloud spend. Tiered data is still readily available to end-users.
12:30
HELPING YOU MAKE THE RIGHT PLATFORM AND PERFORMANCE CHOICES IN GOOGLE CLOUD
Spencer Hamons | NetApp
Utilizing Data Infrastructure Insights, NetApp can measure (with one Virtual Machines and zero agents) your workload's performance, capacity, latency, and inactive data characteristics and use this data to help you develop a migration plan to Google Cloud, assuring you choose the right platform, the right performance, and procure the right capacity to assure an optimal customer experience and reduce the risk of cost overruns.

1:00 - 2:00 PARTNER HOUR
1:00
FAST-TRACKING CLOUD TRANSFORMATION WITH GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES AND OXYA
Looking for a quick win in your cloud migration? oXya, a Google Cloud Premier Partner, can help. We leverage Google Cloud NetApp Volumes to build your SAP high-availability clusters and easily transform your on-premises file storage into an AI-ready and cloud-enabled solution. Learn how to streamline your migration and accelerate time to value with an infrastructure-as-code approach.
Martin Charle | oXya
1:30
SIMPLIFIED PATH TO AI RAG PRODUCTIVITY WITH F5, NETAPP, AND GOOGLE CLOUD
Organizations can leverage their existing investments in F5, NetApp, and Google Cloud infrastructure to create a secure RAG solution, making it a practical choice for enterprises looking to enhance their AI capabilities. The partnership enables organizations to leverage their data for AI-driven insights while maintaining security and control. By simplifying data access for RAG applications, organizations can focus on deriving value from AI rather than managing infrastructure complexity.
Matt Emes | F5
2:00
REDUCING STORAGE COSTS FOR GOOGLE CLOUD VMWARE ENGINE
Dean Steadman | NetApp
Managing costs is a major consideration when migrating VMware environments to Google Cloud. VMware Engine's pre-sized node sizes often result in under provisioned deployments running up unnecessary costs. Discover how Google Cloud NetApp Volumes can reduce your storage costs while providing additional data services.
2:30
INTEGRATION OF GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES WITH VERTEXAI AGENT BUILDER
Arvind Ramakrishnan | NetApp
Showcase the integration of data in Google Cloud NetApp Volumes with Google Cloud VertexAI Agent Builder to deliver top-line inferencing, summarization, and data insights for a wide range of application use-cases.
3:00
NetApp DataMigrate
Zach Misler | NetApp
Savinay Sehgal NetApp
Intro to NetApp DataMigrate
3:30
Beyond limits: Supercharging performance and scale with Cloud Volumes ONTAP
David Hawkins | NetApp
High‑throughput applications and low-latency datasets demand storage that scales without compromise which is exactly what you can achieve with Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud! In this session, we will share exciting upcoming improvements and advancements that will enable lightning‑fast, improved overall TCO and effortless scaling for demanding workloads to future‑proof your cloud storage and business applications.
4:00
ACCELERATE YOUR CLOUD WORKLOADS WITH INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Paul Traynor| NetApp
Join us to discover how NetApp helps you run cloud workloads more efficiently, while realizing cloud advantages faster, at lower costs, and with peace of mind knowing that your data is always available, private, and protected.

Thursday, April 10, 2025
9:00
ACCELERATE YOUR CLOUD WORKLOADS WITH INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join us to discover how NetApp helps you run cloud workloads more efficiently, while realizing cloud advantages faster, at lower costs, and with peace of mind knowing that your data is always available, private, and protected.
9:30
WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER! AUTOMATION OPTIONS FOR GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Ken Remley | Google Cloud
Join us as we provide an extensive overview of automation tools available for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. We will discuss the use of API, Gcloud and Terraform solutions. This session will cover areas of deployment, maintenance and reporting. Real world examples will be presented along with resources to help you succeed. At the end of the session you will see the "rubber meet the road" with a deployment using some of the examples presented.

10:00 - 11:00 PARTNER HOUR
10:00
ACCELERATE YOUR CLOUD WORKLOADS WITH INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Join us to discover how NetApp helps you run cloud workloads more efficiently, while realizing cloud advantages faster, at lower costs, and with peace of mind knowing that your data is always available, private, and protected.
Paul Traynor | Netapp
10:30
HOW TO MAKE COMPLEX MIGRATIONS EASIER WITH NETAPP DUAL AUTHENTICATION CLIENTS
How to leverage Google Cloud NetApp Volumes to provide concurrent data access to clients via SMB and NFS simultaneously.
Faisal Farooqi | IBM
11:00
AI ON YOUR DATA WITH GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Arvind Ramakrishnan | NetApp
Discover how you can use Google Cloud Natural Language Processing, Cloud Vision, and Video Intelligence APIs to enable on-the-box labeling, annotations, transcription, and much more.

CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
11:30
UNLOCKING THE POWER OF GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES FOR THE ENTERPRISE
Discover how Google Cloud NetApp Volumes delivers scalable, high-performance, and fully managed enterprise storage solutions. Explore how the service seamlessly integrates with cloud services to support critical workloads. Manage large amounts of data with the speed and reliability of on-premises NetApp technologies, while keeping cloud-native flexibility. See how to simplify data migrations, improve efficiencies, and reduce operational overhead while offering enterprise-grade storage solutions in Google Cloud.
Tim Fairweather | Scotiabank
12:00
ENTERPRISE-GRADE BLOCK STORAGE USING CLOUD VOLUMES ONTAP FOR GOOGLE CLOUD
David Hawkins | InterVision
Unlock the full power and potential of block workloads with Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud! In this session, weíll explore how you can achieve scalable block storage tailored for both primary and secondary workloads while not compromising on protection, security and resiliency all with simplified data management
12:30
ACCELERATE YOUR CLOUD WORKLOADS WITH INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join us to discover how NetApp helps you run cloud workloads more efficiently, while realizing cloud advantages faster, at lower costs, and with peace of mind knowing that your data is always available, private, and protected.

1:00 - 2:00 PARTNER HOUR
1:00
PAIRING REDHAT OPENSHIFT WITH GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Are you planning to deploy applications in Google Cloud using RedHat Openshift? Or perhaps you already use Openshift OnPrem, and would like to move some stateful applications to Google Cloud and need enterprise storage? Join this short presentation to learn how to deploy Openshift in the cloud and pair it with enterprise-class Google Cloud NetApp Volumes using Trident, NetApp's CSI provisioner. We will include a demo showing these two products work in concert to reduce operational complexity.
Diane Patton | RedHat
1:30
INTEGRATING GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES WITH VMWARE FOR ENHANCED STORAGE SOLUTIONS
In this presentation, we explore the strategic integration of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes with VMware environments to deliver a powerful, scalable, and secure storage solution. We will discuss how this collaboration provides enterprises with the agility of cloud-native storage services and the familiarity of VMware for their critical workloads.
Gonzalo Soane | Delray Resources
2:00
BENEFITS OF GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Chahat Gill | NetApp
Join us we highlight the value of utilizing a fully managed, cloud-based data storage service that provides advanced data management capabilities and highly scalable performance.
2:30
ACCELERATE YOUR CLOUD WORKLOADS WITH INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join us to discover how NetApp helps you run cloud workloads more efficiently, while realizing cloud advantages faster, at lower costs, and with peace of mind knowing that your data is always available, private, and protected.
3:00
SMART AND SIMPLE COST OPTIMIZATION USING CLOUD VOLUMES ONTAP
David Hawkins | NetApp
Rethink cloud spending with world class cost control and optimization! In this session, weíll show you how Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud can help you optimize your cloud storage cost by using advanced built-in features and capabilities such storage efficiency, automatic tiering and much more for allowing you to do a lot more with much less.
3:30
CUSTOMER MANAGED ENCRYPTION KEYS IN GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Diane Patton | NetApp
Learn about the benefits of using Google Cloud NetApp Volumes customer-managed encryption keys versus Google-managed keys. Details include creating a keyring, creating and enabling the key, creating a CMEK policy, and applying to a storage pool.
4:00
USING CLOUD MONITORING TO KEEP YOUR GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES WORKLOADS HAPPY
Oliver Krause | NetApp
Google Cloud NetApp Volume offers powerful and flexible NAS shares which can be sized to fit your workload. But your workload might change over time. Does the need for capacity or performance? Use Cloud Monitoring to keep an overview of your volumes health and trigger notifications.
4:30
SUPERCHARGE YOUR BURST WORKLOADS WITH GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES WITH FLEXCACHE
Vishnu Cheruvally | NetApp
On-premises computation often struggles with modern EDA demands. Google Cloud's elasticity helps designers manage growing data capacities. NetApp's FlexCache and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes enable seamless data mirroring, caching, and migration between on-premises and Google Cloud. This setup provides scalable storage and local-like access to tools, improving efficiency and time to market for EDA workloads.
5:00
ACCELERATE YOUR CLOUD WORKLOADS WITH INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join us to discover how NetApp helps you run cloud workloads more efficiently, while realizing cloud advantages faster, at lower costs, and with peace of mind knowing that your data is always available, private, and protected.

Friday, April 11, 2025
9:00
ACCELERATE YOUR CLOUD WORKLOADS WITH INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join us to discover how NetApp helps you run cloud workloads more efficiently, while realizing cloud advantages faster, at lower costs, and with peace of mind knowing that your data is always available, private, and protected.
9:30
CREATE BACKUPS AND CLONES OF YOUR DATABASE IN SECONDS USING GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Oliver Krause | NetApp
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes offers near-instant filesystem snapshots and cloning. This talk presents a generic approach to using this capability to quickly create backups and clones of your production database using snapshots.
10:00
USING GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES TO SUPPORT YOUR BC/DR REQUIREMENTS
Ken Remley | Google Cloud
In this session, we will review the many disaster recovery and business continuity options in Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. We will discuss backup/recovery, site tolerance thru cross region replication, and last but not least, NetApp SnapShot technology. All of these enterprise class options will provide your company the peace of mind as well as your compliance requirements.

10:30 - 11:30 PARTNER HOUR
10:30
GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES INTEGRATION WITH ACTIVE DIRECTORY FOR SMB VOLUMES
Explore the integration of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes with Active Directory for SMB volumes, enhancing security and streamlining management. Learn to leverage AD for seamless authentication and access control in cloud file services.
Gonzalo Soane | Delray Resources
11:00
CGI+NETAPP: VMWARE MIGRATION TO GOOGLE CLOUD
As organizations modernize their IT infrastructure and leverage cloud capabilities, migrating VMware workloads to Google Cloud presents a compelling opportunity. Attend this session to learn how CGI works with NetApp and Google Cloud to provide seamless migration pathways to Google Cloud, enhanced scalability and flexibility, and improved disaster recovery and business continuity.
Prashant Joy | CGI
11:30
CONTROL YOUR CLOUD COSTS WITH GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES QUOTA RULES
Karl Konnerth | NetApp
Keeping your user and application storage usage within plan and budget can be challenging! Learn more about using the new quota rules feature of NetApp Volumes to limit how much space users and groups can use from each volume.
12:00
AUTOMATE TO INNOVATE: BOOST PRODUCTIVITY WITH CLOUD VOLUMES ONTAP ON GOOGLE CLOUD
Emmanuel Martinez | NetApp
Discover how Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud can enhance your cloud environment through automation! In this session, we'll explore transforming and optimizing daily storage tasks by leveraging industry-standard tools like Terraform and Ansible, or by creating custom solutions with Cloud Volumes ONTAP's rich API library. Streamline workflows, achieve seamless data management, and improve scalability, all while reducing manual, error-prone processes.
12:30
ACCELTERATE YOUR CLOUD WORKLOADS WITH INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Paul Traynor | Netapp
Join us to discover how NetApp helps you run cloud workloads more efficiently, while realizing cloud advantages faster, at lower costs, and with peace of mind knowing that your data is always available, private, and protected.
1:00
LOCK IT DOWN: SECURE AND PROTECT CRITICAL WORKLOADS WITH CLOUD VOLUMES ONTAP
David Hawkins | NetApp
As cyber threats escalate and compliance becomes ever more critical these days, securing your cloud storage is non?negotiable. Join us to this session where weíll explore how the continuance innovation of Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud delivers a robust security and advanced protection frameworks including ransomware protection, data immutability, and streamline secure access, all while simplifying management and compliance.
1:30
ACCELERATE YOUR CLOUD WORKLOADS WITH INTELLIGENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Paul Traynor | NetApp
Join us to discover how NetApp helps you run cloud workloads more efficiently, while realizing cloud advantages faster, at lower costs, and with peace of mind knowing that your data is always available, private, and protected.

Speakers
Date Thurs, April 10th | Time 10:30am | Session CT1-28
INNOVATE FASTER WITH GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Discover how NetApp Volumes, a Google Cloud managed data storage service that provides advanced data management capabilities and highly scalable performance, can accelerate your workloads, enable hybrid deployments, and provide cloud bursting for AI, EDA, media and entertainment, and others by extending your on-premises data into Google Cloud, all while keeping your data available and secure. Join us to explore how NetApp and Google Cloud together drive innovation and operational excellence.
Dean Steadman, Google Cloud Product Management
NetApp