NetApp Powers the Future of AI with Intelligent Data Infrastructure
September 24 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Innovations across NetApp portfolio and
collaborations with industry leaders including NVIDIA drive
business outcomes with AI
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure
company, today announced new developments in its collaboration with
industry leaders to accelerate AI innovation. By providing the
intelligent data infrastructure required to make GenAI work, NetApp
is helping organizations tap into one of the most important
developments for business and IT in the last decade.
GenAI powers practical and highly visible use cases for business
innovation such as generating content, summarizing large amounts of
information, and responding to questions. Gartner research predicts
that spending on AI software will grow to $297.9 billion by 2027
and that GenAI will account for over one-third of that. The key to
success in the AI era is mastery over governable, trusted, and
traceable data.
Yesterday, NetApp CEO George Kurian kicked off NetApp INSIGHT
2024 with an expansive vision of this era of data intelligence. A
large part of the AI challenge is a data challenge, and Kurian laid
out a vision for how intelligent data infrastructure can ensure the
relevant data is secure, governed, and always updated to feed a
unified, integrated GenAI stack.
Today at NetApp INSIGHT, NetApp will be unveiling further
innovations in intelligent data infrastructure, including a
transformative vision for AI running on NetApp ONTAP®, the leading
operating system for unified storage. Specifically, NetApp’s vision
includes:
- NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Storage Certification for NetApp
ONTAP: NetApp has begun the NVIDIA certification process of
NetApp ONTAP storage on the AFF A90 platform with NVIDIA DGX
SuperPOD AI infrastructure, which will enable organizations to
leverage industry-leading data management capabilities for their
largest AI projects. This certification will complement and build
upon NetApp ONTAP’s existing certification with NVIDIA DGX BasePOD.
NetApp ONTAP addresses data management challenges for large
language models (LLMs), eliminating the need to compromise data
management for AI training workloads.
- Creation of a global metadata namespace to explore and
manage data in a secure and compliant fashion across a customers’
hybrid multi-cloud estate to enable feature extraction and data
classification for AI. NetApp separately announced today a new
integration with NVIDIA AI software that can leverage the global
metadata namespace with ONTAP to power enterprise retrieval
augmented generation (RAG) for agentic AI.
- Directly integrated AI data pipeline, allowing ONTAP to
make unstructured data ready for AI automatically and iteratively
by capturing incremental changes to the customer data set,
performing policy driven data classification and anonymization,
generating highly compressible vector embeddings and storing them
in a vector DB integrated with the ONTAP data model, ready for high
scale, low latency semantic searches and retrieval augmented
generation (RAG) inferencing.
- A disaggregated storage architecture that enables full
sharing of the storage backend, which maximizes utilization of
network and flash speeds and lowers infrastructure cost,
significantly improving performance while economizing rack space
and power for very high-scale, compute-intensive AI workloads like
LLM training. This architecture will be an integral part of NetApp
ONTAP, so it will get the benefit of a disaggregated storage
architecture but still maintain ONTAP’s proven resiliency, data
management, security and governance features.
- New capabilities for native cloud services to drive AI
innovation in the cloud. Across all its native cloud services,
NetApp is working to provide an integrated and centralized data
platform to ingest, discover and catalog data. NetApp is also
integrating its cloud services with data warehouses and developing
data processing services to visualize, prepare and transform data.
The prepared datasets can then be securely shared and used with the
cloud providers’ AI and machine learning services, including third
party solutions. NetApp will also announce a planned integration
that allows customers to use Google Cloud NetApp Volumes as a data
store for BigQuery and Vertex AI.
“Organizations of all sizes are experimenting with GenAI to
increase efficiency and accelerate innovation,” said Krish
Vitaldevara, Senior Vice President, Platform at NetApp. “NetApp
empowers organizations 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 outmaneuver competitors.”
NetApp continues to innovate with the AI ecosystem:
- Domino Data Labs chooses Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP: To
advance the state of machine learning operations (MLOps), NetApp
has partnered with Domino Data Labs, underscoring the importance of
seamless integration in AI workflows. Effective today, Domino is
using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as the underlying storage for
Domino Datasets running in Domino Cloud platform to provide
cost-effective performance, scalability, and the ability to
accelerate model development. In addition to Domino using FSx for
NetApp ONTAP, Domino and NetApp have also begun joint development
to integrate Domino’s MLOps platform directly into NetApp ONTAP to
make it easier to manage the data for AI workloads.
- General Availability of AIPod with Lenovo for NVIDIA
OVX: Announced in May 2024, the NetApp AIPod with Lenovo
ThinkSystem servers for NVIDIA OVX converged infrastructure
solution is now generally available. This infrastructure solution
is designed for enterprises aiming to harness generative AI and RAG
capabilities to boost productivity, streamline operations, and
unlock new revenue opportunities.
- New capabilities for FlexPod AI: NetApp is releasing new
features for its FlexPod AI solution, the hybrid infrastructure and
operation platform that accelerate the delivery of modern
workloads. FlexPod AI running RAG simplifies, automates, and
secures AI applications, enabling organizations to leverage the
full potential of their data. With Cisco compute, Cisco network,
and NetApp storage, customers experience lower costs, efficient
scaling, faster time to value, and reduced risks.
“Implementing AI requires a collection of finely tuned pieces of
technology infrastructure to work together perfectly,” said Mike
Leone, Practice Director, Data Analytics & AI, Enterprise
Strategy Group, part of TechTarget. “NetApp delivers robust storage
and data management capabilities to help customers run and support
their AI data pipelines. But storage is one piece of the puzzle. By
collaborating with other industry-leading vendors in the AI
infrastructure space, NetApp customers can be confident that their
compute, networking, storage, and AI software solutions will
integrate seamlessly to drive AI innovation.”
Additional Resources
- Elevating Enterprise AI: NetApp's Latest Ecosystem Advancements
for Superior Innovation
- Next Generation Data Management for AI
- AI Data Solutions
- AIPod: Delivering the Promise
- FlexPod
About NetApp
NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining
unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps
solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every
customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing
observability and AI to enable the industry’s best data management.
As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in
the world’s biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless
flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage
through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application
agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous optimization of
performance and efficiency through observability and AI. No matter
the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can
transform your data infrastructure to realize your business
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