NetApp, Inc. (NTAP)

Data storage systems and cloud services maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending April 24, 2026, filed June 5, 2026. Ranked 80 of the 135 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

NetApp states approximately 11,700 employees worldwide at April 24, 2026, about 5,000 of them in sales, marketing and technical support, with no count by segment, so the storage systems business takes most of the workforce with the support and professional services apart by description (c).

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 22% now, 46% at the end of 2027, 58% at the end of 2028, 64% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 64% desk work, 19% people work and 17% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 36% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 51% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

11,700 employees as of April 24, 2026 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; the Americas are 51% of revenue.

The filing: “Employees As of April 24, 2026, we had approximately 11,700 employees worldwide.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 5,000 managers, sales representatives and technical support personnel in the worldwide sales and marketing functions; no employee is represented by a labor union; a hybrid-first approach to work.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Apple (AAPL, 166,000 employees)25% now, 53% by 2028
• Dell Technologies Inc. (DELL, 97,000 employees)22% now, 58% by 2028
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE, 67,000 employees)22% now, 57% by 2028
• HP Inc. (HPQ, 55,000 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028
• Western Digital Corporation (WDC, 40,000 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028
• Seagate Technology Holdings plc (STX, 30,000 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028
• Xerox Holdings Corporation (XRX, 22,900 employees)23% now, 50% by 2028
• Sandisk Corporation (SNDK, 11,100 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

63 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing presents intelligent data infrastructure for AI as its position: solutions that connect, protect and activate data across environments to help customers realize the promise of AI, with the rise of AI among the megatrends it operates at the intersection of.

• “Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein include, but are not limited to: the overall growth, technological trends and market changes in the storage and data management solutions market; our ability to develop, introduce and gain market acceptance for new and differentiated offerings without disruption; our ability to accurately forecast demand fo...”
• “We are well positioned to enable Intelligent Data Infrastructure for our customers and help them realize the full promise of artificial intelligence (AI) providing solutions that connect, protect, and activate data across every data environment-on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge.”
• “Market Position & Strategic Focus NetApp operates at the intersection of major industry megatrends-rapid data growth, multi-cloud adoption, and the rise of AI-which are creating unprecedented challenges and opportunities for organizations as they seek to securely manage and leverage growing data estates.”
• “Accelerating AI Adoption : The rise of AI and machine learning is transforming industries, and NetApp is well positioned to help customers with these next-generation workloads .”
• “Our AI-ready infrastructure solutions, including the NetApp AI Data Engine and validated reference architectures with partners like NVIDIA, help organizations streamline data pipelines, accelerate model training, and derive actionable insights from their data.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20214median 0
• Fiscal 20227median 0
• Fiscal 202322median 1
• Fiscal 202430median 4
• Fiscal 202563median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• No count by segment: the split between the storage business and the services is by description (c).
• The U.S. share is not stated.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-259683, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.