ARES vs NTAP Comparison

Ares Management is one of the world's largest alternative-asset managers, with $622.5 billion in total assets under management, or AUM, including $384.9 billion in fee-earning AUM, at the end of 2025. The company has four main business segments: credit strategies ($406.9 billion in total AUM and $249.8 billion in fee-earning AUM), private equity, ($25.3 billion/$14.4 billion), real estate/real assets ($139.1 billion/$84.1 billion), and other alternatives ($51.2 billion/$36.6 billion). The firm primarily serves institutional investors (80% of AUM) and high-net-worth individuals (20%). Ares operates through more than 35 offices in over 15 countries around the globe.

NetApp Inc is storage hardware provider into a software-driven, cloud-centric data infrastructure company. Its flagship ONTAP data management software, together with a comprehensive portfolio of all-flash, hybrid-flash, and cloud-native solutions, forms the backbone of digital transformation for thousands of enterprises world'wide. Its operations are organized into two segments Hybrid Cloud and Public Cloud. It generates majority of revenue from Hybrid Cloud offers a unified data storage portfolio of storage management and infrastructure solutions that helps customers modernize their data centers. Hybrid Cloud includes software, hardware, and related support, along with professional and other services. It generates majority of revenue from United States followed by International market.