2022 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices AI Award
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Mike McNamara
Frost & Sullivan’s global team of Growth Pipeline experts continually identifies and evaluates growth opportunities across multiple industries, technologies, and regions of the world. As part of this ongoing effort, the team identifies companies that consistently develop growth strategies that are based on a visionary understanding of the future and that effectively address new challenges and opportunities. This approach involves the deployment of best practices and strategic analytics across a value chain. Against this backdrop, Frost & Sullivan recognized NetApp® AI with a 2022 Best Practices Enabling Technology Leadership Award in the North American AI healthcare solutions industry.
Samantha Fisher, best practices research analyst, sums it up: “NetApp’s innovative product portfolio enables the company to remove siloed processes and evolve them with real-time, advanced analytics, and AI solutions.”
In the Frost & Sullivan report, NetApp is noted for its innovative product portfolio and data management and protection at the edge, core, and cloud. NetApp’s customer-centric approach that delivers superior customer experiences, its hybrid cloud leadership, and its world-class subject-matter experts are also highlighted. Two use cases are detailed: chest imaging for advanced COVID-19 patients and the digital transformation of AstraZeneca. To learn more, read the report.
NetApp AI is earning recognition throughout the industry. It has also won a 2022 AI Breakthrough Award for Best Overall Computer Vision Solution. The AI Breakthrough Awards recognize the top companies, technologies, and products in the AI industry today, with a comprehensive list of award categories that honor AI industry leaders. Out of more than 2,950 nominations this year from all over the world, NetApp was one of the select winners.
Covering more than just image and video data, NetApp AI solutions and services also lead the industry in natural language processing (NLP). In 2022, NetApp AI won the award for NLP from the Business Intelligence Group Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program.
A long list of awards for NetApp AI
Since 2019, NetApp AI has won many awards and has received extensive recognition:
- 2022 Best Practices Enabling Technology Leadership Award in the North American AI healthcare solutions industry
- 2022 AI Breakthrough Award for Best Overall Computer Vision Solution
- 2022 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award for Natural Language Processing
- 2021 Stratus Award for Top Products/Services, AI
- 2020 AI Breakthrough Award for Best Machine Learning Platform
- 2019 AI Breakthrough Award for Best AI Solution for Big Data
- 2019 AIconics Award for Corporate Innovation in AI
- 2019 AIconics runner-up for Best Application of AI in Healthcare
- Recognition by IDC MarketScape as a Leader in scale-out file-based storage, the foundation of the NetApp ONTAP® AI proven architecture
- Recognition by analyst IDC in a nonsponsored report, Realize the Transformative Power of AI for Healthcare with NetApp Solutions
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With NetApp AI, you can integrate your data fabric across edge, core, and cloud. Our unified data management supports seamless, cost-effective data movement across your hybrid multicloud environment, and our industry-leading partner ecosystem provides full technical integrations with AI. To get started, visit netapp.com/AI.
Mike McNamara
Mike McNamara is a senior product and solution marketing leader at NetApp with over 25 years of data management and cloud storage marketing experience. Before joining NetApp over ten years ago, Mike worked at Adaptec, Dell EMC, and HPE. Mike was a key team leader driving the launch of a first-party cloud storage offering and the industry’s first cloud-connected AI/ML solution (NetApp), unified scale-out and hybrid cloud storage system and software (NetApp), iSCSI and SAS storage system and software (Adaptec), and Fibre Channel storage system (EMC CLARiiON).
In addition to his past role as marketing chairperson for the Fibre Channel Industry Association, he is a member of the Ethernet Technology Summit Conference Advisory Board, a member of the Ethernet Alliance, a regular contributor to industry journals, and a frequent event speaker. Mike also published a book through FriesenPress titled "Scale-Out Storage - The Next Frontier in Enterprise Data Management" and was listed as a top 50 B2B product marketer to watch by Kapos.
