NetApp and Oracle are strengthening their cloud infrastructure play with a new fully managed enterprise storage service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The planned Oracle Cloud Infrastructure NetApp Storage Service will integrate NetApp ONTAP capabilities directly into OCI, targeting increasingly demanding AI and mission-critical enterprise workloads.
The significance goes beyond another cloud storage offering. Enterprises migrating applications to the cloud frequently face the cost and complexity of redesigning applications, changing storage architectures and retraining operations teams. The new service aims to allow existing ONTAP customers to move workloads to OCI while preserving familiar data-management practices.
The platform is being designed to support a broad range of workloads, including databases, enterprise applications, virtualised environments, electronic design automation, high-performance computing, regulated applications and AI data pipelines. This positions the offering at the intersection of traditional enterprise infrastructure and rapidly expanding AI computing requirements.
Customers will be able to manage the service through the OCI Console and SDKs, ONTAP APIs and existing operational workflows. This integration is important because enterprises increasingly want cloud scalability without losing the governance, protection and operational consistency they have built around their existing infrastructure.
For regulated sectors such as banking, healthcare and government, the combination could be particularly relevant. NetApp and Oracle are emphasizing data protection, governance, high availability, security and predictable performanceacross on-premises and cloud environments—requirements that become even more critical as sensitive enterprise data feeds AI models and applications.
The partnership also strengthens NetApp’s multi-cloud strategy. With its technology already integrated across major hyperscale environments, adding OCI gives enterprises another route for maintaining consistent storage and data-management capabilities while choosing where applications and AI workloads should operate.
The larger industry shift is clear: AI is turning enterprise storage from a passive repository into strategic intelligent data infrastructure. As AI models demand massive volumes of trusted, accessible and protected information, competition will increasingly revolve around who can securely connect enterprise data with cloud-scale AI computing. The OCI NetApp Storage Service is planned for general availability within the next 12 months.
