Delivering a True Data Pipeline for AI & Best-in-Class Ransomware Defense

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 25 October 2023 - NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global cloud-led, data centric software company, today announced multiple innovative portfolio updates, including enhancements to the industry's best data pipeline for hybrid multi-cloud AI and advancements on the most secure data storage against ransomware. These illustrate NetApp's industry-leading solutions drive simplicity, savings, security, and sustainability for customers. "There are two major disruptions today for customers: the opportunity of AI and the threat of ransomware," said Harv Bhela, Chief Product Officer at NetApp. "Today, NetApp unveiled new innovations that make the AI data pipeline simple to deploy as well as scalable and performant across your hybrid multi-cloud data estate – while protecting that same data from ever-increasing threats. These solutions position us at the forefront of creating successful business AI outcomes for our customers." The industry's best data pipeline for AI To stay competitive, enterprises must innovate and boost efficiency through their AI initiatives but may struggle to get meaningful results from massive amounts of disparate data flowing unhindered through a five-stage pipeline. The datasets necessary to feed these pipelines may live in data lakes throughout the enterprise, on premises and/or in the cloud. This increases design and operational complexity where data silos lead to a lack of visibility into data types and locations, making it difficult to manage or use in AI workloads. As the leader in hybrid multicloud, NetApp eases this complexity by delivering high performance all-flash and cloud storage that enable customers to build modern data lakes and accelerate AI. Users can trace multiple AI model versions in production back to their training data to ensure they are using AI responsibly and storage is integrated with MLOps platforms so data scientist experience easier consumption and increased productivity. The ONTAP AI converged infrastructure stack leverages the world's most successful AI supercomputing system – NVIDIA DGX – to enable enterprises everywhere to tackle the most complex AI workloads with an infrastructure solution that eliminates design and deployment complexity. Today, NetApp announced that the AFF C-Series with capacity flash has been added to the ONTAP AI architecture to improve affordability and sustainability. "Enterprises that want to tap into the power of generative AI need a platform that can deliver fully customized models leveraging the immense corpus of their business data, tailored to their unique vocabulary, intellectual property, and industry," said Charlie Boyle, Vice President, DGX platform at NVIDIA. "Powered by NVIDIA DGX systems and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, NetApp ONTAP AI enables businesses to tap into their data to deliver generative AI applications by leveraging a scalable, efficient, rapidly deployable infrastructure solution." "AI adoption continues to grow especially in Asia Pacific. For AI implementations to be successful, organizations must have a holistic strategy across their organization. This includes the management of data pipeline and storage," said Andrew Sotiropoulos, Senior Vice President and General Manager, NetApp Asia Pacific. "NetApp contributes to AI as we provide scalable, secure and efficient storage solutions which enable organizations to unlock new AI opportunities for innovation and business growth." NetApp continues to build AI data pipelines that integrate into all three major public clouds for a true hybrid multicloud experience. Yesterday at NetApp INSIGHT 2023, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian spoke to the ongoing innovation and partnership between NetApp and his company, highlighting the August 2023 introduction of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Today, NetApp and Google are announcing support for Google Cloud's Vertex AI with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes to support hybrid Generative AI applications. "Launched in August, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes revolutionizes enterprise workloads in the cloud, with new levels of storage performance combined with simplicity and flexibility," said Ronen Schwartz, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage at NetApp. "For customers investing in Generative AI data pipelines, this offering allows NetApp data on-premises to connect directly to Google's Vertex AI on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, with no additional engineering." With Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, NetApp became the only company to deliver the same enterprise storage offering on-premises and as a native first-party service in the three largest public clouds, that also include Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. With advancements to its cloud machine learning technology, Amazon Sagemaker, already supporting Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, will add Amazon Sagemaker notebooks, which can access AWS FSx for...