Home and Heart of global Toblerone Production: Mondelēz International invests ~65 million Swiss Francs (CHF) in its Toblerone manufacturing facility in Switzerland

 

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Mondelēz International, one of the world’s largest snacking companies, is investing in its manufacturing facility in Bern (Switzerland), the home and heart of Toblerone.

The significant investment in Bern will create the global center of excellence for Toblerone in Switzerland.

With the investment in Bern, the company underlines Toblerone's growth ambitions to win in the premium segment.

 

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mondelēz International (Nasdaq: MDLZ) has today announced a significant investment of ~ 65 million swiss francs in its Toblerone manufacturing facility in Switzerland. With this investment, the company is creating a global centre of excellence for Toblerone in Bern (Switzerland) from where the brand and chocolate expertise is exported all over the world. The investment is a clear commitment to the location where this traditional brand was founded back in 1908 and where around 90 percent of Toblerone products sold worldwide are manufactured today. The investment in Bern underlines Toblerone's growth ambitions in the chocolate premium segment, building on its global awareness, uniqueness and leading position in world travel retail.

A state-of-the-art production line scheduled to go into operation in autumn 2025 is about to be installed in our Bern manufacturing facility, to expand capacity following growing demand for premium chocolate. Alongside the new line, Mondelēz is also upscaling its chocolate and nougat making facility, upgrading the site infrastructure and logistics.

Thanks to this investment, Bern will become the “Center of Excellence” for Toblerone, from where the brand and its chocolate expertise is exported all over the world. It is one of the most important investments within Mondelēz International's chocolate European production network in the last 10 years.

As part of Mondelēz’s ambition to become the number one player in Chocolate by 2030, our iconic 117-year-old brand Toblerone is poised to grow globally within the premium segment, leveraging its strong global awareness, uniqueness, and leadership in World Travel Retail business.

The investment is both an expression of the traditional brand's growth ambitions and a clear commitment to Bern as the home and heart of the production, where Toblerone was founded in 1908 and where around 90 percent of its products sold worldwide are produced. As a testimony to this rich heritage, the Swiss flag will soon adorn the packaging of the Toblerone tablets that are manufactured in Bern – to emphasize where the chocolate is made.

“Toblerone is one of the most famous chocolate brands in the world with tremendous potential,” said Iain Livingston, President, Toblerone & World Travel Retail. “Our center of excellence in Switzerland, from where we proudly bring our brand and chocolate expertise around the world, is key to the brand's growth ambition to win in the premium segment.”

Tim Spickenbaum, Director of the production facility in Bern, adds: “Our plant has been a cornerstone of the Toblerone production for decades. Already today we manufacture on average 4 million Toblerone products per production day. We are therefore delighted about the planned modernizations and investments, which will not only enhance our manufacturing capacity but also solidify Bern's position as the home and heart of the triangular brand icon.”

Toblerone Fast Facts: Did You Know?

Toblerone was invented in Switzerland by Theodor Tobler and Emil Baumann in 1908.

“Toblerone” is a play on words from the names ‘Tobler’ and ‘Torrone’, the Italian name for honey-almond nougat. The special feature is the triangular shape of the tablet.

Since 1985, Toblerone has been produced at the factory in Bern, Switzerland, where today around 90 percent of Toblerone products sold worldwide are manufactured.

Further photos accompanying this announcement are available at: link.

 

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Ruder Finn Atteline Introduces New Brand Identity to Strengthen Regional and Global Offerings

 The agency’s fresh identity in MENA, new offerings, and growing leadership team lay the groundwork for the next decade

After nearly 10 years in the region, Ruder Finn Atteline, formerly Atteline, strengthens its proposition as the MENA arm of Ruder Finn with local insight and global capabilities. With a fresh brand identity and newly designed logo combining Ruder Finn’s 75 years of global expertise alongside Atteline’s hallmark creativity and culture, the integrated communications agency is now gearing up to set a new pace for the decade ahead.

Aligning with its global ‘What’s Next’ positioning – a commitment to always remaining one step ahead of industry trends[1] and leading with a data-driven, digital-first, early-adopter mindset – Ruder Finn Atteline is now doubling down on enhancing client experiences and innovatively empowering employees.

As part of this vision, Ruder Finn Atteline is preparing to launch its Content Hub, a first-of-its-kind platform for the region to prioritize authentic storytelling in an era increasingly dominated by AI-generated content. This move aligns with the ongoing expansion of its Digital Division, ensuring that both verticals work in tandem as integral components of the integrated communications ecosystem.

The dual-headquartered agency in MENA is also bolstering its leadership team within its Consumer and Corporate Divisions, with three seniors having been made accordingly. These efforts are being made to support growth with unity, boost leadership abilities, and further broaden the agency’s capabilities to meet the evolving demands of the market.

Kathy Bloomgarden, CEO of Ruder Finn, commented: "As the communications landscape shifts amidst AI advancement and ongoing innovation, staying ahead means embracing change with bold thinking and innovative solutions. This is exactly what the integration of Atteline and Ruder Finn achieves. We have united a powerful combination of global expertise and regional creativity, positioning us to deliver next-generation strategies tailored for MENA. With a strong foundation in digital, data, and AI-driven storytelling, Ruder Finn Atteline is poised to help clients navigate what’s next – not tomorrow, but today.”

Sophie Simpson, Managing Director of Ruder Finn Atteline – MENA, commented: “Continually pioneering the future of communications for the past seventy-plus years, Ruder Finn has evolved into one of the world’s largest independent agencies today. As Ruder Finn Atteline, we maintain the core elements – creativity and culture – that have brought us success for almost a decade, whilst offering the global expertise and know-how of Ruder Finn. This evolution uniquely positions us as a center of thinking for growth to build an agency of the future; one where data-driven insights, creativity, and technology-driven strategies lead the way.”

Leveraging Ruder Finn’s global tech capabilities, namely its Tech Lab, Ruder Finn Atteline is integrating advanced solutions to boost both internal operations and external offerings. In addition to introducing new divisions, and bolstering existing ones, the agency is also strengthening its Sonar and Crisis Communications offerings, recognized as among the agency’s most impactful services. Building on this strong foundation, the agency is expanding its expertise into the Sports & Entertainment and Automotive & Travel & Tourism sectors.

With this strategic evolution, Ruder Finn Atteline is equipped to set new regional benchmarks in the years ahead while further establishing itself as a pioneer for integrated communications in MENA.

About Ruder Finn Atteline:

Ruder Finn Atteline, dually headquartered in Riyadh and Dubai, is the MENA arm of the Ruder Finn group, one of the world's largest independent global communications and creative agencies with over 75 years of experience. Specialising in the Consumer and Corporate communication Divisions, the integrated agency supports household brands and disruptive entrepreneurs with nearly a decade of expertise in strategic public relations, reputation management, and brand positioning.

Through its proprietary RF Tech Lab, an analytics and emerging technology incubator, Ruder Finn Atteline harnesses advanced data science, machine learning, and AI capabilities to address complex business challenges. The agency's integrated approach combines these technological innovations with strategic storytelling through its Content and Digital arm, delivering campaigns that shape culture. Distinguishing itself by being “big enough to influence but small enough to care,” Ruder Finn Atteline takes on clients as selectively as they are chosen while maintaining a rooted long-term vision and the belief that “culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

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CyberArk Announces Identity Security Solution to Secure AI Agents At Scale

 NEWTON, Mass. & PETACH TIKVA, Israel - Thursday, 10. April 2025 AETOSWire Print 

Millions of autonomous, unpredictable AI agents represent new, rapidly expanding identity security attack surface

New CyberArk end-to-end solution will help secure AI agents' privileged access across entire environment

Delivered through the CyberArk Identity Security Platform, securing all identities - human, machine, and AI - in one place

 

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the global leader in identity security, today announced the CyberArk Secure AI Agents Solution, which will allow organizations to implement identity-first security for agentic AI using the CyberArk Identity Security Platform. The solution will help organizations mitigate new and unique identity-centric risks as AI agents autonomously communicate with other agents, access sensitive information, escalate privileges, interact with critical infrastructure, and modify their behaviors to accomplish complex tasks.

According to Gartner®, "By 2028, 25% of enterprise breaches will be traced back to AI agent abuse, from both external and malicious internal actors."1 This new, growing attack surface is tied to the emergence of a new, complex class of digital identities: AI agents that act like humans in their autonomy, but like machines in their ability to scale exponentially. Managing and securing the privileged access, lifecycles, and orchestration of agents goes beyond prompt security to become an identity security challenge that demands a defense-in-depth approach.

"When millions of autonomous, adaptable, and interactive AI agents gain privileged access to resources and services, organizations must not find themselves in a situation where security has lagged innovation. Relying solely on basic identity and access management controls will leave organizations vulnerable to breaches they won't see coming," said Matt Cohen, CEO at CyberArk, "Agents must be secured on day one by combining the principles of human identity security with the scalability and automation of machine identity security. With CyberArk, organizations can plan for an identity-first model to secure the future of agentic AI, unlocking innovation while maintaining control, trust and resilience."

The CyberArk Secure AI Agents Solution will leverage the breadth of intelligent privilege controls offered by the CyberArk Identity Security Platform – built to secure the full spectrum of identities across every environment – to treat each agent as a privileged, autonomous identity subject to continuous discovery, oversight, and adaptive control. By offering these capabilities natively, the solution will match the pace of innovation inherent to the agentic workforce. The Secure AI Agents Solution will enable:2

Discovery and context to provide observability into known and shadow agents across SaaS applications, off-the-shelf and custom agents, and agentic infrastructure.

Privilege control: secure access management, enforcing least privilege and managing credentials - such as secrets and certificates - for agents with privileged access.

Privilege control: threat detection & response for real-time behavioral monitoring to detect drift and prevent misuse.

Automated lifecycle management to help eliminate stale or excessive access, securely onboarding and offboarding the entire agentic population as needed.

Governance to ensure AI Agents operate in compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.

In parallel, CyberArk has launched a new open-source security toolset for developers building AI agent environments. Available on the CyberArk GitHub account, the CyberArk Labs AI Agent Tool Set is designed to assist developers in creating AI agents by providing a view of how they communicate and highlighting potential risks that might require attention. It also includes just-in-time credential provisioning to enhance security and streamline development.

Complementing the capabilities of the new solution is CyberArk CORA AI™, the platform's embedded AI engine. CORA AI helps secure agentic AI and also uses AI to improve security across the board. It analyzes user and agent behavior, detects emerging threats, recommends automated response actions, and enables administrators to interact with the platform using natural language commands, simplifying operations and accelerating response.

Further information:

CyberArk Secure AI Agents Solution

Securing the Backbone of Generative AI with the CyberArk Blueprint

CyberArk CORA AI

CyberArk GitHub

Blog: Securing Identities for the Agentic AI Landscape

1Source: Gartner, "Predicts 2025: AI's Impact on the Future of Enterprise Technology," by Arun Chandrasekaran, Deepak Seth, Afraz Jaffri, Avivah Litan, Tigran Egiazarov, Joe Antelmi, March 18, 2025, (Report Accessible to Gartner clients only).

 

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2Solution capabilities will be available to customers towards the end of 2025.

About CyberArk

CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR) is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk's AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With CyberArk, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere. Learn more at cyberark.com.

Copyright © 2025 CyberArk Software. All Rights Reserved. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. This release is for informational purposes only, and represents CyberArk's current view of its innovation direction. It is not a commitment or an obligation to deliver any product or functionality. The development, release, timing, if any, of any future innovation or product remains at our sole discretion and may be subject to applicable fees.

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This release contains forward-looking statements, which express the current beliefs and expectations of CyberArk's (the "Company") management. In some cases, forward-looking statements may be identified by terminology such as "believe," "may," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "should," "plan," "expect," "predict," "potential" or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. Such statements involve a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company's future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from the results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: risks related to the Company’s acquisitions of Venafi Holdings, Inc. (“Venafi”) and Zilla Security Inc. (“Zilla”), including potential impacts on operating results; challenges in retaining and hiring key personnel and maintaining business; risks related to the successful integration of Venafi’s or Zilla’s operations and the ability to realize anticipated benefits of the combined operations; disruption of the current plans and operations of the Company and/or Zilla as a result of the announcement of the transaction, including risks of cyberattacks; changes to the drivers of the Company’s growth and the Company’s ability to adapt its solutions to the information security market changes and demands, including artificial intelligence (“AI”); the Company’s ability to acquire new customers and maintain and expand the Company’s revenues from existing customers; intense competition within the information security market; real or perceived security vulnerabilities, gaps, or cybersecurity breaches of the Company, or the Company’s customers’ or partners’ systems, solutions or services; risks related to the Company’s compliance with privacy, data protection and AI laws and regulations; the Company’s ability to successfully operate its business as a subscription company and fluctuation in its quarterly results of operations; the Company’s reliance on third-party cloud providers for its operations and software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) solutions; the Company’s ability to hire, train, retain and motivate qualified personnel; the Company’s ability to effectively execute its sales and marketing strategies; the Company’s ability to find, complete, fully integrate or achieve the expected benefits of additional strategic acquisitions; the Company’s ability to maintain successful relationships with channel partners, or if the Company’s channel partners fail to perform; risks related to sales made to government entities; prolonged economic uncertainties or downturns; the Company’s history of incurring net losses, the Company’s ability to generate sufficient revenue to achieve and sustain profitability and the Company’s ability to generate cash flow from operating activities; regulatory and geopolitical risks associated with the Company’s global sales and operations; risks related to intellectual property claims; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; the ability of the Company’s products to help customers achieve and maintain compliance with government regulations or industry standards; the Company’s ability to protect its proprietary technology and intellectual property rights; risks related to using third-party software, such as open-source software; risks related to stock price volatility or activist shareholders; any failure to retain the Company’s “foreign private issuer” status or the risk that the Company may be classified, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, as a “passive foreign investment company”; changes in tax laws; the Company’s expectation to not pay dividends on the Company’s ordinary shares for the foreseeable future; risks related to the Company’s incorporation and location in Israel, including wars and other hostilities in the Middle East; and other factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s most recent annual report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions contained in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.

 

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Sutherland and Google Cloud Partner to Deliver Real-World AI Solutions to Businesses Globally

 ROCHESTER, N.Y. 

Expanded collaboration brings Generative AI to life - helping enterprises unlock immediate and measurable value.

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sutherland, a leading global business and digital transformation company, today announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to help clients accelerate enterprise-wide adoption of Generative AI and deliver immediate, measurable business value.

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Building on years of successful collaboration, Sutherland and Google Cloud are ushering in a new era of enterprise transformation based on Agentic AI. This next phase of the partnership unites Google Cloud’s cutting-edge Gemini models, Vertex AI, and Customer Engagement Suite with Sutherland’s deep expertise in applied AI to reimagine the entire customer lifecycle.

Through this alliance, Sutherland clients will gain access to Google Cloud’s latest AI breakthroughs, co-innovation opportunities through accelerator programs, and outcome-focused implementation models designed for immediate, measurable ROI. These offerings are bolstered by Sutherland’s industry-tailored deployment frameworks, digital engineering prowess, and large-scale AI reskilling efforts, making AI for business not only accessible but also impactful across industries.

“This deepened collaboration is a game-changer—not just for Sutherland, but also for every client ready to unlock AI’s transformative potential,” said Doug Gilbert, Chief Information Officer and Chief Digital Officer at Sutherland. “Together with Google Cloud, we’re crafting intelligent solutions that provide contextual insights and tailored experiences across every touchpoint, revolutionizing both customer engagement and operational excellence.”

Sutherland’s suite of AI solutions driving holistic impact to businesses includes:

Conversational AI – Smart virtual assistants that can handle complex, multichannel interactions with precision and personalization.

Augment AI – Real-time, data-powered guidance that can predict the next-best actions, optimize workflows, and boost productivity.

Translate AI – Instant multilingual support across 150+ languages, enabling seamless global connectivity.

Secure AI – Real-time safeguarding of sensitive data, fraud prevention, and compliance with PII and PCI standards.

Insights AI – Advanced analytics and predictive intelligence that fuel smarter decisions.

These modular, interoperable solutions, built on Google Cloud’s scalable and secure cloud infrastructure, deliver value and adapt to evolving business needs, empowering organizations to fully harness AI for transformative outcomes.

“Sutherland’s domain expertise and forward-thinking approach to applied AI makes the company an exceptional partner,” said Carrie Tharp, VP Solutions & Industries - Google Cloud. “Together, we’re delivering AI that’s not just powerful but also purposefully designed to solve real-world challenges – while keeping humans at its core.”

With three decades of experience serving Fortune listed companies, Sutherland combines design thinking, AI innovation, cloud mastery, and process expertise. The expanded partnership announced today leverages Sutherland’s patented technologies to create bespoke AI solutions tailored to industry-specific demands.

About Sutherland

Artificial Intelligence. Automation. Cloud Engineering. Advanced Analytics.

For Enterprises, these are key factors of success. For us, they’re our core expertise.

We work with global iconic brands. We bring them a unique value proposition through market-leading technologies and business process excellence. At the heart of it all is Digital Engineering - the foundation that powers rapid innovation and scalable business transformation.

We’ve created over 200 unique inventions under several patents across AI and other emerging technologies. Leveraging our advanced products and platforms, we drive digital transformation at scale, optimize critical business operations, reinvent experiences, and pioneer new solutions, all provided through a seamless "as-a-service" model.

For each company, we provide new keys for their businesses, the people they work with, and the customers they serve. With proven strategies and agile execution, we don’t just enable change - we engineer digital outcomes.

Sutherland

Digital Outcomes.

About Google Cloud

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

 

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Natus Sensory Strengthens Executive Team with Key Leadership Appointments

 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Natus Sensory is pleased to announce the addition of three accomplished executives to its global leadership team, reinforcing the company’s commitment to advancing innovation, customer impact, and sustainable growth in the hearing and balance, and newborn care spaces.

Lon Nelson has joined Natus Sensory as Chief Commercial Officer, where he will lead global Sales, Marketing Communications, Service, and Clinical Education. Lon brings extensive commercial leadership experience from the medical device, life sciences, and industrial sectors, including executive roles at Censis Technologies and Leica Microsystems.

Kirill Shalyaev has been appointed Business Unit Leader, Global Newborn Care. Kirill brings over 15 years of experience in product management, marketing, and global P&L leadership, having held senior positions at GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, and Danaher Diagnostics. Most recently, he served as Chief Product Officer at Tessonics Group, where he led the development of cutting-edge medical and diagnostic devices.

Carsten Kind will join Natus Sensory as Business Unit Leader, Global Hearing & Balance on May 1, 2025. With more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in the medical device industry, Carsten is best known for his tenure as President of Interacoustics A/S, where he led the company to become a global market leader in audiology diagnostics through strong international expansion, innovation, and team development.

A unique blend of expertise, vision and dedication

Peter Reimer, CEO of Natus Sensory, commented:

“We are incredibly excited to welcome Lon, Kirill, and Carsten to the Natus Sensory leadership team. Each brings a unique blend of expertise, vision, and dedication to our mission. Their leadership will be vital as we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible and deliver exceptional value to our customers and the patients they serve.”

These appointments mark an important step forward for Natus Sensory as the company accelerates its strategy to lead through innovation, deepen customer engagement, and expand its global impact.

About Natus Sensory

Natus Sensory is a global leader in diagnostic and monitoring solutions dedicated to improving lives through advanced technologies in hearing, balance, and newborn care. With a legacy of innovation and a growing global presence, Natus Sensory is committed to delivering solutions that help clinicians provide the best possible care.

 

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Report from Arthur D. Little Finds Global CEOs Ready to Embrace Geopolitical and Technology Changes

 LONDON - Wednesday, 09. April 2025 AETOSWire

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Despite geopolitical upheavals and the current market turmoil, CEOs of the world’s largest companies have already invested heavily to adapt to the changes created by such global shifts, and the introduction of new technologies—most notably AI. At the same time, there is an increased need to boost productivity in line with expectations, and align strategic planning more closely with extreme scenarios.

These are the headline findings of the largest ever annual Arthur D. Little (ADL) CEO Insights Study, which uniquely combines a survey of global CEOs with ADL’s recommendations for action.

AI is being used more in everyday life and is already making a measurable contribution to increasing productivity. However, CEOs are aware that further action is needed: only 29% now have a holistic, embedded AI strategy in place. This means that the majority have not yet used AI specifically where the greatest levers for growth can be expected: in the development of new business models and an increase in productivity. As it is, very few companies actually achieve the annual productivity increases of 8% they anticipate – in reality, an increase of only around 4% is being achieved.

Francesco Marsella, Managing Partner and Global Leader of the Growth and Transformation Practices at Arthur D. Little, comments: “The third edition of our global study shows that CEOs are ready for the unexpected, with mindsets that see change as an opportunity rather than a threat. CEOs feel well-positioned to not just cope with geopolitical and technology uncertainty, but to thrive and grow.”

Ignacio García Alves, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Arthur D. Little, comments: “Over the last three years our study shows a step-change in how the CEOs of the world’s largest companies operate. While they continue to have long-term goals, they are proactively adapting to a volatile world, confident in their ability to navigate whatever the future holds.”

The Arthur D. Little 2025 CEO Insights Study interviewed 309 global CEOs leading companies with a turnover of more than $1 billion, split between key industries and geographies.

For further information, please visit www.adlittle.com

 

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NetApp Partners With Google Cloud to Simplify Scaling High-Performance Workloads in the Cloud

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Wednesday, 09. April 2025

New features for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes improve support for large workloads, including Vertex AI


(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, and Google Cloud today announced new capabilities for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, a fully managed file storage service, that reduce complexity and increase performance for cloud storage workloads, while fully integrating into the Google Cloud service ecosystem. Customers will be able to effortlessly scale high-performance enterprise apps and databases, including workloads with petabyte-scale datasets, such as electronic design automation (EDA), AI applications, and content data repositories.

As businesses navigate the era of intelligence, managing data across on-premises systems and the cloud is a critical capability. Intelligent data infrastructure breaks down silos and enables seamless, real-time integration across hybrid-cloud environments, turning raw data into actionable insights. By collaborating with Google Cloud, NetApp is empowering businesses to harness the power of AI, driving greater agility and innovation at scale.

“For many organizations, the cloud is the fastest and simplest path to using AI to uncover data-driven insights,” said Pravjit Tiwana, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage at NetApp. "Our collaboration with Google Cloud is accelerating generative AI data pipelines by seamlessly integrating the latest AI innovations with the robust data management capabilities of NetApp ONTAP®. The new capabilities of NetApp Volumes help customers scale their cloud storage to meet the demands of the modern, high-performance applications and datasets that drive meaningful business outcomes.”

Google Cloud and NetApp are introducing new capabilities in NetApp Volumes to enhance the scalability and performance of enterprise applications and databases with new capabilities including:

    Integration with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Platform: Customers will soon be able to use their data stored in NetApp Volumes directly in the Vertex AI platform. By leveraging the broader capabilities of Vertex AI, customers will be able to build custom agents without needing to build their own solutions to manage data pipelines for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications.
    Improvements for Premium and Extreme Service Levels: Performance improvements to Google Cloud NetApp Volumes large capacity volumes are now generally available in all 14 regions where the Premium and Extreme service levels are offered. With these improvements to large capacity volumes, customers can provision a single volume starting at 15TiB that can be scaled up to 1PiB with up to 30 GiB/s of throughput, allowing customers to move petabyte-scale datasets for large workloads like EDA, AI applications, and content data repositories to NetApp Volumes without partitioning data across multiple volumes.
    Improvements for Flex Service Level: Customers can now preview independent scaling of capacity and performance to avoid overprovisioning of capacity to meet their performance needs with the NetApp Volumes Flex service level. This will enable users to create storage pools by individually selecting capacity, throughput and IOPS with the ability to scale throughput up to 5 GiB/s and IOPS up to 160K to right-size their storage and optimize costs.
    Google Cloud Assured Workloads Onboarding: NetApp Volumes will soon support the Assured Workloads framework that Google Cloud customers use to easily configure and maintain controlled environments that operate within the parameters of a specific compliance regime. Customers using NetApp Volumes under Assured Workloads will meet the data residency, transparent access control, and cloud key management solution compliance requirements specific to their region.

“Simplified access to AI is a democratizing force enabling organizations to leverage their most critical asset—data—for a competitive edge,” said Sameet Agarwal, vice president and general manager, Google’s Cloud Storage. “Organizations can leverage their NetApp ONTAP on-premises data and hybrid cloud environments. By combining the capabilities of Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, we’re delivering a powerful solution to help customers accelerate digital transformation and position themselves for long-term success.”

To learn more about Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, visit the NetApp booth #3130 at Google Cloud Next 25, April 9-11 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

Statements by NetApp about unreleased offerings and future plans are for informational purposes only, are subject to change without notice, and should not be relied upon for purchasing or other decisions. Such statements do not constitute a commitment, obligation, guarantee, or warranty of any kind by NetApp, including about availability, functionality, pricing, or timing.

Additional Resources

    Unlock the Next Level with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
    Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
    NetApp Wins 2025 Google Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Partner of the Year for Storage

About NetApp

NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data storage, integrated data, operational and workload services to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability and AI to enable the industry’s best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world’s biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application agility. Our operational and workload services provide continuous optimization of performance and efficiency for infrastructure and workloads through observability and AI. No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can transform your data infrastructure to realize your business possibilities. Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at www.netapp.com/TM are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

 

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NetApp
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