NetApp announced it will integrate its Ontap storage operating system to run natively on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, marking the fourth major cloud platform to host the company's storage technology directly within its environment. The integration, revealed Tuesday at NetApp Insight 2026 in Las Vegas, follows similar arrangements the storage vendor previously established with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure NetApp Storage Service is expected to become available within the next 12 months.
The integration mirrors NetApp's existing native capabilities in AWS through Amazon FSx for NetApp Ontap, in Azure via Azure NetApp Files, and in Google Cloud through NetApp Cloud Volumes. Jeff Baxter, the company's vice president of technical marketing, said the Oracle offering will operate directly in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in much the same way as the company's current implementations across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. According to Pravjit Tiwana, senior vice president and general manager of cloud storage at NetApp, the company's storage technology has been running natively in the three other major cloud platforms and will now do the same in Oracle as a first-party service that integrates into the Oracle stack from both data plane and control plane perspectives.
Tiwana explained during a pre-conference press briefing that customers who build applications on Ontap in on-premises environments can migrate them to the cloud without modifying their applications in any way, mirroring what the company has observed with the other three hyperscalers. He noted that NetApp is seeing substantial interest from its customers in Oracle Cloud and maintains a very large base of customers who use Oracle as a database alongside other database forms. One of NetApp's core value propositions is its unified storage approach, which handles file, block, and object data on the same storage system, offering NFS or SMB for file, NVMe over TCP for block, and Amazon S3 APIs for object, and customers will now receive that unified offering in Oracle Cloud as well.
Channel partners view the move as strategically valuable for both vendors and resellers. Dave Van Hoy, president and founder of Advanced Systems Group, an Emeryville, California-based solution provider and NetApp channel partner, called getting NetApp storage to run natively in Oracle Cloud an exciting development, noting that bringing third-party file systems and tools into Oracle Cloud represents an important element of Oracle's strategy and a significant move for channel partners and customers. He emphasized that selling file systems and tools in public clouds has become a crucial part of the business, especially at a time when hardware pricing has reached extremely high levels. Ned Engelke, chief technology officer at Evotek, a San Diego-based solution provider and NetApp channel partner, said the partnership benefits both NetApp and Oracle along with their channel partners, observing that Oracle maintains a very aggressive sales effort and that getting all possible applications onto Oracle likely benefits both companies, with no reason for them to avoid supporting a popular platform. The expansion positions NetApp to capture enterprise workloads as customers increasingly distribute their cloud strategies across multiple hyperscalers rather than committing exclusively to a single provider, while Oracle gains a proven storage layer that can ease migration for customers already standardized on Ontap infrastructure.