NetApp announced a transformative AI data vision and integrated solution at its INSIGHT user conference, combining NVIDIA AI software with NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure. This strategic integration aims to revolutionize enterprise retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and drive the future of agentic AI applications across various industries.
This advanced solution enhances NetApp’s ONTAP unified storage operating system by introducing a global metadata namespace. This feature allows enterprises to unify and leverage exabytes of data stored across both cloud and on-premises infrastructures. The result is a significant boost in RAG capabilities, accelerating the development of next-generation AI applications.
The collaboration integrates NetApp’s ONTAP and BlueXP with NVIDIA’s NeMo Retriever and NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform. This combined technology provides businesses with intelligent data solutions, ensuring ongoing success and innovation.
Harv Bhela, Chief Product Officer at NetApp, emphasized the importance of data management in AI applications: “Combining the NetApp data management engine and NVIDIA AI software empowers AI applications to securely access and leverage vast amounts of data, paving the way for intelligent, agentic AI that tackles complex business challenges and fuels innovation.” Manuvir Das, Vice President of Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA, highlighted the role of data in generative AI, noting that the integration enables enterprises to transform their data into actionable knowledge.
NetApp’s AI capabilities are certified for NVIDIA DGX BasePOD infrastructure and NVIDIA OVX solutions. This allows customers to discover, search, and curate data on-premises and in the cloud using existing policy-based governance criteria. Once data is organized through BlueXP, it can be connected to NVIDIA NeMo Retriever for processing, vectorization, and eventual use in enterprise generative AI deployments, all while maintaining strict access controls and privacy safeguards.
The integration also creates a generative AI “flywheel,” a continuous feedback loop that powers autonomous AI agents to handle tasks in customer service, business operations, and financial services. These agents can securely access data to perform complex tasks, bringing significant operational improvements to enterprises.
Moreover, this solution prioritizes security by preserving policy and governance protocols throughout the AI model lifecycle, ensuring compliance and data security.
NetApp and NVIDIA’s partnership signifies a major leap forward in harnessing AI for business growth, offering a robust platform for enterprises to innovate and optimize their data management strategies.
nomous AI agents to handle tasks in customer service, business operations, and financial services. These agents can securely access data to perform complex tasks, bringing significant operational improvements to enterprises.
Moreover, this solution prioritizes security by preserving policy and governance protocols throughout the AI model lifecycle, ensuring compliance and data security.
NetApp and NVIDIA’s partnership signifies a major leap forward in harnessing AI for business growth, offering a robust platform for enterprises to innovate and optimize their data management strategies.
