Iguazio and NetApp Collaborate to Accelerate Deployment of AI Applications
May 04, 2020 at 08:00 am EDT
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Iguazio announced a strategic partnership with NetApp that provides enterprises with a simple, end-to-end solution for developing, deploying and managing AI applications at scale and in real-time on top of the ONTAP AI framework. Iguazio’s data science platform provides end-to-end machine learning pipeline automation, coupled with performance & scale, enabling real-time machine learning (ML) applications. It introduces a fresh approach to simplifying MLOps and enabling enterprises to deploy their AI projects quickly and seamlessly. Iguazio’s integration with NetApp ONTAP AI leverages enterprise grade data management, data versioning and NetApp Cloud Volumes for a seamless hybrid cloud experience. It is also fully compatible with KubeFlow 1.0, offering a managed KubeFlow solution for enterprises. The platform tightly integrates with NVIDIA DGX, allowing customers to utilize GPU-as-a-Service and NGC containers, making more efficient use of computational resources, saving costs and reducing infrastructure complexities. The solution automates pipelines across machine learning, deep learning and data analytics. The end result is a scalable way of processing data and computation.
NetApp, Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of equipment for managing and storing network data. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- product sales (52%): file, cache and storage servers, data management, content distribution and information synthesis softwares;
- support services (37.1%): consulting, maintenance, technical assistance and training services;
- cloud services (6.3%): cloud storage and data management services;
- professional services (4.6%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Americas (54.8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (31.3%) and Asia/Pacific (13.9%).