NetApp and Tampa Bay Buccaneers Partner to Enable Data-Driven Operational Excellence

New sponsorship expands NetApp’s presence across the NFL, delivering trusted data, intelligence, and the ability to perform in critical moments

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced that they have been named an Official Partner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This new relationship builds on NetApp’s status as the Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure Partner of the NFL, helping the league and its teams quickly and confidently access, manage, and activate their data. The Buccaneers will leverage NetApp technology to support the experience for Buccaneers fans in the stadium on game days and beyond.

“NetApp will serve as a trusted technology partner that will help us elevate the customer experience for all Buccaneers fans,” said Buccaneers Chief Commercial Officer Atul Khosla. “Reliable and secure access to data plays an essential role in the overall game day experience at Raymond James Stadium. NetApp’s industry-leading intelligent data infrastructure will help us deliver a more seamless and connected experience for our Krewe at games and across the digital platforms that we use.”

This partnership launches following the Buccaneers first regular 2026 season game against the Cincinnati Bengals on September 13. The partnership expands NetApp’s relationship with the NFL as the league’s Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure Partner, helping to securely manage, protect, and activate the data behind the league’s operations. Across the NFL, NetApp technology supports demanding real-world workloads, including the storage and availability of game day video used by NFL football operations and club football operations teams. This collaboration has demonstrated how the right infrastructure can help complex, data-intensive organizations operate more efficiently and resiliently.

By using NetApp Keystone, a flexible and simple subscription-based service that adapts to changing business needs, the Buccaneers can accelerate data workloads with industry-leading performance, intelligent data management, and high availability across data centers and cloud environments. The NetApp Platform delivers built-in data security that autonomously detects threats and enables rapid recovery.

“Successful teams achieve meaningful results long before game day by bringing together the right people, trusted data, sound decisions, and disciplined execution,” said Gabie Boko, Chief Marketing Officer at NetApp. “Elite sports show what organizations can accomplish when their people can turn information into confident action. As a Proud Partner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, we’re celebrating the preparation, trust, and teamwork that sustain excellence and the Intelligent Data Infrastructure that helps make it possible.”

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About the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are in their 51st season as members of the National Football League and compete in the National Football Conference’s South Division. They were purchased by the late Malcolm Glazer in 1995 and are currently owned by the Glazer Family. Established in 1976, the Buccaneers have totaled 10 division titles, two conference championships and two Super Bowl Championships, including Super Bowl LV that was played on their home field at Raymond James Stadium. The Buccaneers have also been leaders in the NFL in fan engagement, earning a record 12 consecutive No. 1 rankings in overall customer satisfaction in the league’s annual Voice of the Fan survey. Additionally, the franchise is very active in the community, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation, the Glazer Vision Foundation and the Glazer Family Foundation. For more information, visit www.buccaneers.com.

About NetApp

For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.

At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.

Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.

With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.

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