NetApp Partners with NVIDIA to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption
NetApp has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA AI Data Platform with its NetApp AIPod solution, aiming to accelerate the adoption of agentic AI across enterprises.
This partnership enhances the enterprise readiness of AI data pipelines, ensuring businesses can build secure, scalable, and governed systems for AI applications like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI inferencing.
Powered by NetApp ONTAP®, this solution delivers the enterprise-grade data management capabilities needed to eliminate data silos, offering high-performance infrastructure that supports AI-driven innovation. The solution is designed to help businesses harness AI’s full potential while maintaining efficient and secure management of data at scale.
The Need for Unified Data Infrastructure
As businesses increasingly invest in AI, there is a growing need for intelligent data infrastructure that facilitates seamless data access and processing. According to the NetApp Data Complexity Report, 79% of tech and business leaders believe unifying their data estates is crucial to achieve optimal AI outcomes.
The NetApp AIPod, built on NVIDIA's AI Data Platform, aims to address these challenges by removing data silos and enhancing the performance and scalability of AI workflows.
Enterprise Data Management with NetApp and NVIDIA
Through this collaboration, NetApp and NVIDIA are empowering enterprises to develop and operate high-performance AI factories, enabling the deployment of agentic AI systems to tackle real-world business problems.
The integration leverages NetApp AIPod's intelligent data infrastructure, which is enhanced with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, providing a robust foundation for AI workloads.
This setup will also enable the NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices to work seamlessly, scanning, indexing, and classifying large volumes of documents in real-time. This system complements the capacity of AI models to reason, plan, and determine intricate, multistep problems by improving AI accuracy on a range of use cases, including business decision-making and business process optimization.
The partnership enables companies to provide quick access to quality data, which is vital for the efficiency and accuracy of agentic AI.
Rob Davis, VP of Storage Technology at NVIDIA, said, “Agentic AI enables businesses to solve complex problems with superhuman efficiency and accuracy, but only as long as agents and reasoning models have fast access to high-quality data.”
He added, “The NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design and NetApp’s high-powered storage and mature data management capabilities bring AI directly to business data and drive unprecedented productivity.”
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The combined force of NetApp storage technology and the NVIDIA AI platform allows enterprises to realize insights from their data more quickly, increase productivity, and enable businesses to make better-informed decisions.
This single approach also resonates with NetApp's vision of revolutionizing AI pipelines with future-proof data management, metadata refresh, and vectorization methods, providing timely, relevant, and accurate answers.
