India, Oct. 21 -- At NetApp Insight 2025, CEO George Kurian delivered a powerful and poetic message - one that blended history, technology, and vision. "Data," he began, "comes from the Latin word datum - meaning a single fact, an observation, the truth." In that single word lies the story of human progress: our capacity to record, share, and analyse information to generate knowledge.

But as Kurian reminded his audience, the story of data today is entering its most consequential chapter yet - one defined by AI-driven intelligence. The keynote set the tone for the company's journey forward as an era of intelligent data infrastructure blossoms, where storage evolves from passive repositories to active enablers of knowledge and business tra...