en.Wedoany.com Reported - NetApp announced the release of StorageGRID 12.1 on June 23, 2026, in San Jose, California, introducing a global federated namespace feature designed to help customers scale AI and other modern workloads in distributed environments. This update improves how enterprises access, process, and manage data across multiple locations to support AI data pipelines, data lakes, and object-based applications.

Organizations are currently facing rapid growth in unstructured data used to support AI workloads, while also needing to manage this data across increasingly distributed hybrid environments. Forrester's "The Object Storage Solutions Landscape" report for the first quarter of 2026 noted that the rise of generative AI is pushing object storage further toward AI-optimized data platforms, beyond its historical role of providing scalable, durable storage for enterprise data strategies. The StorageGRID 12.1 update enables organizations to leverage their object data for these new use cases, with new features that simplify operations, improve performance, and reduce costs for data-intensive workloads such as AI.

Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the NetApp Platform, stated that organizations need infrastructure that makes data intelligent, accessible, and ready for AI to address rapidly growing and distributed unstructured data. With StorageGRID 12.1, NetApp expands its data platform capabilities, providing customers with a global unified namespace to manage data at scale, accelerate AI and analytics workloads, and extract more value from it.

StorageGRID 12.1 enables organizations to scale AI and modern workloads in globally distributed environments through new features. These include: a global federated namespace supporting the management of multiple globally distributed StorageGRID systems, with a single namespace scalable to 10 Exabytes; improvements in performance, efficiency, and data management, offering up to 400% throughput improvement over version 12.0 depending on workload and object size, with performance enhancements enabling StorageGRID to deliver up to 12 TB/s throughput for AI factories; batch operations allowing users to perform actions on billions of objects, with new features enabling AI agents to track changes in object buckets; and expanded security and governance capabilities, providing stronger control for regulated environments through multi-admin verification.

NetApp was recognized as a Leader in Forrester's "The Forrester Wave: Object Storage Solutions, Q2 2026" report. The report noted that NetApp has an enterprise data infrastructure vision optimized for hybrid, multi-cloud, and sovereign use cases, making it suitable for large enterprises managing distributed, regulated object assets and requiring AI-native storage services. This is Forrester's first Wave evaluation of the object storage market.

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