PRESS RELEASE
Diskover Data collaborates with NetApp to bring discovery and control to file-intensive workloads.
The collaboration gives IT and data leaders in media and entertainment and semiconductor design a governed, searchable metadata catalog of unstructured data across ONTAP, StorageGRID, and the environments around them, available to purchase through NetApp.
San Jose, CA — Sept 30, 2026 — Diskover Data today announced a new collaboration with NetApp, the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, extending Diskover Platform’s governed visibility and control to ONTAP and StorageGRID environments in media and entertainment, semiconductor design (EDA), and other sectors with file-intensive workloads. Under the collaboration, customers will be able to purchase Diskover Platform through NetApp, making it easier than ever for NetApp customers in these industries to put specialized discovery and cataloging to work in the workflows they already run, on-premises, in the cloud, and across heterogeneous storage.
Diskover adds specialized discovery for industries whose workflows depend on massive file estates, from film and episodic production to chip design and scientific research. DataDiscovery uses a rich set of specialized scanners to index metadata across ONTAP and StorageGRID in place, capturing ownership, permissions, age, cost, and project context, then surfaces it in a searchable, governed catalog. The result is industry-specific, governed views that fit the workflows media, EDA, and life sciences teams already rely on, inside NetApp storage and across the platforms surrounding it.
“NetApp is the foundation enterprises build their data infrastructure on. What we do is extend that foundation’s value into the specialized workflows our customers in media, semiconductor design, and life sciences run every day, across NetApp storage and the environments around it,” said Will Hall, chief executive officer of Diskover Data. “A NetApp customer gets a governed, searchable view of the data behind their projects, on NetApp and around it. NetApp customers get more from the infrastructure they already trust, not a reason to look elsewhere for visibility.”
“NetApp believes in customer choice, and we’re excited to collaborate with Diskover to bring its metadata discovery and cataloging to our media and entertainment customers and other industries with file-intensive workloads,” said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Platform at NetApp. “These customers need specialized ways to discover and organize data across complex environments, and Diskover extends the NetApp ecosystem with exactly that. Together, NetApp’s own metadata catalog and our collaboration with Diskover serve the full range of our customers’ metadata needs, building on the intelligent data infrastructure they already trust.”
Built on top of infrastructure customers already run.
Diskover Platform deploys entirely within the customer’s own environment, on-premises or in their virtual private cloud, and connects to ONTAP and StorageGRID using native scanning.
For enterprise teams running file-intensive workloads, the collaboration turns three long-standing blind spots into governed, actionable views:
- Industry-specific discovery. DataDiscovery connects file metadata to the productions, chip designs, and research programs it belongs to, and fits into the media, EDA, and life sciences workflows teams already use, so they can find, organize, and act on the data behind every project.
- Cost recovery and chargeback. DataDiscovery surfaces cost by project, user, group, age, and storage tier, supporting chargeback and identifying redundant and obsolete data before it becomes a capacity problem. Diskover customers typically reclaim 10 to 30 percent of their footprint, exceeding three million dollars in larger environments, with return on investment (ROI) inside 30 to 60 days.
- Governance and compliance. The catalog gives governance teams a place to search, trace, and act on sensitive or regulated content across every share and tier, enforcing retention and access policy against files that actually exist rather than a best guess.
“We’ve spent nearly a decade building the infrastructure enterprises now run on to make unstructured data visible and actionable,” Hall said. “Collaborating with NetApp means that work extends directly into environments already running at enterprise scale, through a partner customers already trust, without asking a customer to change how they store their data to get there.”
Diskover Platform is available now for NetApp ONTAP and StorageGRID environments and will be available to purchase through NetApp beginning in November 2026. Diskover is a proud Gold sponsor of NetApp INSIGHT 2026. Visit Diskover at booth 306 or book a demo > to see DataDiscovery build a governed catalog across a live NetApp estate.
About Diskover Data
Diskover Data gives organizations one Control Plane for their entire unstructured data estate. Diskover Platform, comprising DataDiscovery, DataDelivery, and the Diskover AI Connector, continuously indexes and governs unstructured data across on-premises storage, cloud platforms, and the AI pipelines built on top of them, replacing scattered, system-by-system visibility with one real-time picture of what exists, where it lives, and what it’s worth. From media and entertainment to life sciences, semiconductor design, energy, and manufacturing, enterprise customers trust Diskover Data to bring their unstructured data under control.