Your data sits at the bottom of a well you already own — a Well of Knowledge. You are thirsty. But climbing up and down is slow and difficult. A bucket is the answer. That “well & bucket” = ONTAP® & Generate.
Companies keep their most valuable data on NetApp ONTAP® storage: contracts, archived email, reports, records. Like water at the bottom of a deep well, everyone knows exactly where it is. Reaching it is the hard part. The old way to reach it is to climb down: a migration project, a pipeline to build, a second copy to secure and defend, permissions rebuilt by hand — slow, expensive, and risky, while the water just sits there. Today there is a new way: NetApp’s AIPod Mini includes Generate by Iterate.ai®, and nothing has to leave the well to be useful. Generate acts as a bucket.
Generate’s AI is the bucket — lowered on a rope that connects directly to ONTAP over NFS and SMB (Network File System and Server Message Block, the standard protocols for reading storage over a network). Nothing migrates or gets copied; agents read data in place, permissions intact.
The data. One copy, one place, one set of controls. No duplicate storage, no second copy to defend, no boundary for an auditor to ask about.
Answers. Search 15 years of contracts in seconds. Recover a decision from archived email. Pull audit documents in minutes, not weeks.
Stored, unstructured, underused. Only a sliver is ever put to work.
Active, intelligent systems — every record now reachable.
NetApp storage and Generate arrive pre-integrated — the rope already tied. Deploys in under 20 minutes, with agents running within 30, and everything stays on hardware the customer owns.
They buy it to drink. NetApp holds the water; Generate raises it — the whole architecture, in one picture.
How the Data Gets In · What’s in Storage · Inside Generate: 200 Ready-Built Agents. Full series — iterate.ai/partners/netapp/papers.
A joint educational series on private AI and the AIPod Mini. NetApp — the governed data-control layer. Iterate.ai — the private intelligence layer.
