NetApp announced enhancements to its enterprise-grade data platform, enabling customers to remove roadblocks to AI innovation. In addition to supporting the latest innovations from NVIDIA announced at GTC, NetApp is launching NetApp AI Data Engine (AIDE)?a secure, unified AI data platform stack co-engineered with NVIDIA and integrated with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. NetApp AIDE helps enterprises solve this need through an automatically created?and continuously updated?global metadata catalog with powerful search capabilities.
NetApp AIDE will be launching this month for an initial wave of lighthouse customers and partners, with broad availability coming early summer. NetApp will also continue to deliver integrations across a number of ISV partners, both on-premises and in the cloud, providing the deep and seamless integrations essential for customers bringing production AI workloads to life. Over the next few months, NetApp AIDE will extend to support an increasing number of deployment options, giving customers broad infrastructure flexibility.
NetApp AIDE is an integrated set of software solutions that customers will soon be able to run on various server options to help best suit customers? individual use cases and needs. NetApp AIDE will also quickly extend to support deployments directly into a wide variety of new and existing NetApp storage environments?including AFF A-Series, AFF C-Series, and FAS.
NetApp AIDE will add several more capabilities. Expansive hybrid cloud support will bring NetApp AIDE capabilities to enterprise data no matter where it lives?seamlessly across on-premises and cloud storage. NetApp AIDE will also evolve to include new multimodal data capabilities?extending the breadth of NetApp AIDE capabilities to include visual data, unlocking powerful new use cases on a range of unstructured data.
Robust agentic AI support will enable seamless, secure, governed agentic workflows on enterprise data?across a global NetApp data estate?all supporting popular, industry standard protocols. NetApp will support NVIDIA STX, a modular, rack-scale storage reference architecture for agentic AI. Built with NVIDIA Vera Rubin and NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs, STX will deliver a high-performance data engine with a specialized memory tier for KV-cache storage, improving power efficiency, throughput, and security.
Leveraging NetApp data management capabilities in this new reference architecture, customers will be able to bridge the gap between massive AI compute and unstructured data storage by centralizing intelligent data handling. By integrating with NVIDIA's AI Data Platform reference architecture, NetApp provides a framework for enterprises to efficiently manage data for large-scale AI deployments.
