NetApp Accelerates Momentum in AI Leadership with NVIDIA
NetApp, the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, announced
enhancements to its enterprise-grade data platform, enabling customers to
remove roadblocks to AI innovation. In addition to supporting the latest
innovations from NVIDIA announced at GTC, NetApp is launching NetApp AI Data
Engine (AIDE)—a secure, unified AI data platform stack co-engineered with
NVIDIA and integrated with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design.
A foundational challenge for AI is enabling enterprises to
discover, understand, and govern the data they have across their global data
estates. If data is AI’s fuel, finding and using the best data is essential to
making truly transformative AI. NetApp AIDE helps enterprises solve this need
through an automatically created—and continuously updated—global metadata
catalog with powerful search capabilities. Critically, the NetApp AIDE metadata
catalog goes beyond standard file system metadata and actively analyzes file
content to semantically enrich metadata in place, rather than introducing
additional security concerns and expense by moving the data multiple times.
This enriched metadata enables enterprises to find, curate, use, and govern
data in order to feed and use the correct and most up-to-date data throughout
the AI data pipeline—from selection and transformation through retrieval and
serving to AI applications and agents.
“Despite massive investments and market pressures to leverage AI
for improved productivity and enhanced business decision making, data
challenges are bottlenecking projects before they even reach production,” said
Syam Nair, Chief Product Officer at NetApp. “To take back control of their
data, customers need a mature enterprise-grade data platform that was designed
disaggregated and intelligent from the beginning so that storage, services, and
control scale independently without lock-in. Leveraging the NetApp data
platform, including NetApp AIDE and support for NVIDIA’s leading AI
capabilities, we’re helping customers build enterprise-grade AI factories
supported by our high-performance unified storage platform.
NetApp AIDE will be launching this month for an initial wave of
lighthouse customers and partners, with broad availability coming early summer.
As a strong champion of open technology ecosystems NetApp will also continue to
deliver integrations across a number of ISV partners, both on-premises and in
the cloud, providing the deep and seamless integrations essential for customers
bringing production AI workloads to life. Examples of these ISV partner
integrations that will be available very soon include leading AI app
development platforms and frameworks built on hyperscale cloud services such as
Microsoft Azure‑based AI applications, Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform, and
LangChain, enabling customers to rapidly build AI apps that securely leverage
their unstructured enterprise data, continuously made AI-ready in-place.
Over the next few months, NetApp AIDE will extend to support an
increasing number of deployment options, giving customers broad infrastructure
flexibility. AIDE is an integrated set of software solutions that customers
will soon be able to run on various server options to help best suit customers’
individual use cases and needs. For example, customers will be able to use
NetApp AIDE across their data estate with the new NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 4500
Blackwell Server Edition GPUs announced today at NVIDIA GTC and NVIDIA RTX PRO
6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. NetApp AIDE will also quickly extend to
support deployments directly into a wide variety of new and existing NetApp
storage environments—including AFF A-Series, AFF C-Series, and FAS.
Leave A Comment