European AI cloud provider Nebul is the first neocloud to adopt NetApp Novus, NetApp's new storage architecture for AI factories, which is now generally available. NetApp announced the adoption on 10 November 2026.
Novus is designed for up to 100 TB per second of aggregate throughput, with the aim of keeping large GPU estates supplied with data. Its disaggregated design lets performance, capacity and concurrency scale independently under a single namespace, which NetApp says suits Nebul's multi-tenant environment as customer demand grows. Because Novus is built on NetApp ONTAP software, organisations already running the NetApp platform can extend their existing data into sovereign cloud environments while keeping the same security, protection and governance, so data keeps its existing jurisdiction and access policies.
Nebul describes its Intelligent Cloud as a sovereign platform that combines accelerated infrastructure, enterprise data services and production AI capabilities. The two companies said they are exploring further ways to combine Nebul's sovereign AI services with the NetApp platform. NetApp introduced Novus in September and says it is attracting interest from other neocloud providers.
Willem Hendrickx, NetApp's senior vice president and general manager for EMEA and LATAM, said: "As demand for data sovereignty grows, AI providers like Nebul must also build their infrastructure to address the compliance, security and multi-tenancy requirements of regulated industries such as government, healthcare and biotech".
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