NetApp Powers the Future of AI with Intelligent Data Infrastructure

At NetApp INSIGHT 2024, the company unveiled innovations in intelligent data infrastructure, including a transformative vision for AI running on NetApp ONTAP.


To accelerate AI innovation, NetApp has embarked on new developments in its collaboration with industry leaders. 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. NetApp’s CEO George Kurian recently conclude 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. 

"Organizations of all sizes are experimenting with GenAI to increase efficiency and accelerate innovation. 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," said Krish Vitaldevara, Senior Vice President, Platform, NetApp.

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 has also announced 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.

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 has announced a planned integration that allows customers to use Google Cloud NetApp Volumes as a data store for BigQuery and Vertex AI.