NetApp Partners with NVIDIA to Propel Gen AI Innovation with Intelligent Data Infrastructure
Mar 13, 2024: NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, has unveiled new capabilities aimed at enhancing generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) projects in collaboration with NVIDIA. The partnership aims to provide customers with simplified, secure, and high-performing infrastructure to maximize the potential of AI innovation.
Gen AI has garnered global attention for its ability to automate tasks, uncover insights, and drive product innovation. To harness the full potential of Gen AI, organizations require secure access to high-performance data across complex hybrid and multicloud environments. NetApp, known for its expertise in supporting AI, offers solutions designed to provide management simplicity, high performance, and secure data access.
Ravi Chhabria, Managing Director at NetApp India, emphasized the company’s commitment to providing complete access and control over data across various environments. He highlighted NetApp’s approach to AI, which includes seamless data management between public cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring performance, productivity, and protection for customers.
To support companies leveraging Gen AI, NetApp introduced updates to its intelligent data infrastructure, including:
NetApp AIPod™: An AI-optimized converged infrastructure for high-priority AI projects, now powered by NVIDIA DGX systems, providing cost-effective performance and sustainability.
FlexPod for AI: Extending the leading converged infrastructure solution from NetApp and Cisco to support the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, RedHat OpenShift, and SuSE Rancher, with added scaling and benchmarking for GPU-intensive applications.
Validation for NVIDIA OVX systems: NetApp storage validated for NVIDIA OVX systems, streamlining enterprise AI deployments.
Masahiro Waki, AI Business Lead for NetApp Asia Pacific, highlighted the significance of intelligent data infrastructure in empowering organizations across Asia Pacific to navigate complex IT environments and drive innovation.
In addition to infrastructure enhancements, NetApp introduced revolutionary cyber-resilience capabilities, including Autonomous Ransomware Protection with AI (ARP/AI), embedding AI/ML in storage to combat ransomware.
Tony Paikeday, Senior Director of AI Systems at NVIDIA, praised NetApp AIPod certified for NVIDIA DGX BasePOD, providing enterprises with a powerful reference architecture to simplify AI deployment and ongoing operations.
Archana Venkatraman, Research Director at IDC, acknowledged NetApp’s commitment to delivering services and solutions that effectively manage data pipelines, unlocking the full potential of AI for customers. NetApp’s unified approach to infrastructure and data management eliminates data silos, enhances performance, and ensures trusted data protection, accelerating AI projects’ time to results for customers.
