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NetApp and NVIDIA Strengthen Their AI Market Leadership
Siam Nair, Chief Product Officer at NetApp, revealed that amidst massive investment and market pressure to leverage AI to enhance productivity and business decision-making, data barriers are causing projects to stall even before they reach deployment. Therefore, to regain full control over their data, customers need an enterprise-grade data platform designed to be modular and specialized from the outset, allowing data storage, servicing, and control to scale independently without dependence on any single technology. By leveraging NetApp's data platform, including NetApp AIDE and NVIDIA's leading AI capabilities, we are helping customers build enterprise-grade AI Factories with centralized data storage.
NetApp AIDE will launch this month for a pilot group of customers and partners before expanding to the general public in early summer. As an organization committed to an open technology ecosystem, NetApp will continue to work with its numerous independent software vendor (ISV) partners, both on-premise and in various deployment formats. (on-premises) and on the cloud, to provide seamless connectivity, a key component for customers who want to deploy AI workloads in real-world scenarios. Examples of upcoming collaborations with ISV partners include leading AI-powered application platforms and hyperscale cloud-enabled frameworks such as Microsoft Azure AI Applications, Google Cloud's Vertex AI Platform, and LangChain. These will enable customers to quickly and securely build AI applications and leverage unstructured enterprise data, continuously prepared for AI while stored in its original location.
In the coming months, NetApp AIDE will support a wider range of deployment options to provide customers with greater infrastructure flexibility. Soon, AIDE will be an integrated software solution suite that customers can deploy on a variety of server types. To best meet and cover all customer needs, NetApp AIDE can be used across all of its datasets, in conjunction with the newly announced NVIDIA RTX PRO? 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs (as announced at NVIDIA GTC) and the NVIDIA RTX PRO? 6000 Blackwell Server Edition. Furthermore, NetApp AIDE will expand its deployment support to a wide range of NetApp storage environments, encompassing both new and existing products, including the AFF A-Series, AFF C-Series, and FAS.
This summer, NetApp AIDE will receive several new capability enhancements. A more comprehensive hybrid cloud system will allow NetApp AIDE to access and manage enterprise-level data without limitations, regardless of whether that data is stored on-premises servers or in the cloud. In addition, NetApp AIDE will be developed to support multimodal data, expanding its capabilities to include image data to unlock powerful new uses on vast amounts of unstructured data. Importantly, robust agentic AI support will ensure smooth, secure, and well-governed operation of AI agents across all of NetApp's enterprise datasets. Meets international industry standards.
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