NetApp Powers the Future of AI with Intelligent Data Infrastructure
NetApp, a data infrastructure company announced new developments in its collaboration with industry leaders to accelerate AI innovation.
NetApp announced new advancements in its collaboration with industry leaders to accelerate AI innovation, focusing on providing the intelligent data infrastructure needed for Generative AI (GenAI). As GenAI transforms business functions like content generation, summarization, and query response, NetApp is positioning itself to help organizations manage secure, governed, and up-to-date data for AI applications.
Key Developments:
NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Certification: NetApp ONTAP is undergoing certification with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, allowing organizations to manage large AI projects more effectively by combining top-tier data management and AI infrastructure.
Global Metadata Namespace: NetApp has developed a global system to securely manage data across hybrid cloud environments, supporting data classification and feature extraction for AI.
AI Data Pipeline: A new AI pipeline integrated with ONTAP automatically prepares unstructured data for AI processes, enabling faster and more accurate searches and inferencing.
Disaggregated Storage Architecture: This new architecture maximizes performance for large-scale AI workloads while reducing infrastructure costs, and utilising network and flash speeds efficiently.
Cloud Integration: NetApp is expanding its cloud services to enable seamless AI innovation by integrating with cloud data warehouses and services like Google Cloud’s BigQuery and Vertex AI.
Krish Vitaldevara, Senior VP at NetApp, emphasized that NetApp's secure, scalable infrastructure helps businesses harness GenAI’s full potential, enabling them to innovate faster and stay ahead of the competition.
“NetApp empowers organisations to harness the full potential of GenAI to drive innovation and create value across diverse industry applications. By providing secure, scalable, and high-performance intelligent data infrastructure that integrates with other industry-leading platforms, NetApp helps customers overcome barriers to implementing GenAI. Using these solutions, businesses will be able to more quickly and efficiently apply their data to GenAI applications and outmanoeuvre competitors", he added.
