NetApp launches a comprehensive enterprise-grade data platform for artificial intelligence.

As the AI era shifts from experimental to critical agent applications, having AI-ready data on a modern, enterprise-standard infrastructure becomes crucial for delivering tangible results for AI-powered organizations.

According to NetApp, the new NetApp AFX system separates performance and storage capacity thanks to its disaggregated NetApp ONTAP architecture, running on the new NetApp AFX 1K storage system.

NetApp's AI Data Engine is a unified and secure extension of ONTAP, integrated with NVIDIA's AI Data Platform reference design, to help organizations simplify and secure their entire AI data workflow – all managed through a unified console.

The combination of NetApp AFX and AI Data Engine unifies high-performance storage with intelligent data services in a unified, secure, and scalable solution, accelerating the deployment of next-generation AI (RAG - retrieval-augmented generation) across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

With NetApp AFX and AI Data Engine, NetApp's data platform ensures that all relevant data is always readily available for AI.

Syam Nair, Product Director at NetApp, shared that with the new NetApp AFX systems, customers have another proven and reliable option in on-premise enterprise storage, built on a comprehensive data platform to further accelerate innovation in the field of AI.

NetApp AI Data Engine enables customers to seamlessly connect all their data assets across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, forming a unified data platform. Businesses can significantly accelerate their AI data workflows by integrating multiple data preparation and management steps into NetApp AI Data Engine – built on NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite, with capabilities such as semantic search, data vectorization, and data control and protection measures.

To accelerate modern AI workloads, NetApp is introducing a range of new features, including:

NetApp AFX is an enterprise-grade all-flash storage system with a decoupled architecture, specifically designed for demanding AI workloads. NetApp AFX is the core data platform for AI factories.

This is a certified storage solution for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD supercomputers, powered by NetApp ONTAP – the industry-leading storage operating system trusted by tens of thousands of enterprise customers worldwide for managing exabytes of data.

NetApp AI Data Engine (AIDE) : NetApp AIDE is a comprehensive AI data service designed to help businesses simplify, reduce costs, and secure their AI deployments. From data collection and preparation to serving GenAI applications, AIDE provides a holistic, real-time view of all of a customer's NetApp data assets, enabling fast data searching and organization, and seamlessly connecting data across all models or tools in both on-premises and public cloud environments.

AIDE automatically detects and synchronizes data changes, eliminating redundant copies and ensuring data is always up-to-date. Built-in safeguards monitor data throughout the AI lifecycle to ensure security and privacy.

Object API – Seamless access to Azure Data and AI services: Customers can now access Azure NetApp Files data via the Object REST API, currently in public preview. This new feature eliminates the need to move or copy file data to a separate object repository when using Azure services; instead, NFS and SMB datasets can connect directly.

Customers can analyze data, train AI models, enable intelligent search, and build cutting-edge applications directly on existing ANF datasets – while still leveraging the enterprise-grade performance and reliability of Azure NetApp Files.

Global unified namespace upgraded in Microsoft Azure : Businesses can now seamlessly consolidate all of their global data assets between cloud and on-premises environments in Microsoft Azure, thanks to the new FlexCache feature on Azure NetApp Files.

This capability also extends support for on-premise workloads such as electronic design automation. Now, data stored on other ONTAP systems in the customer's data center or across various clouds can be displayed and written directly within the ANF environment.

Additionally, businesses can easily move data and snapshots between environments through SnapMirror, supporting hybrid use cases such as continuous backups, automated disaster recovery, and workload balancing across environments.

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