This update will enable customers to take their AI projects to the next level by combining NetApp's intelligent data infrastructure with high-performance computing, networking and software from NVIDIA. By tiering object storage for each phase of the AI process, organizations can optimize performance and costs exactly where they are needed. NetApp's unified approach delivers the performance, productivity, and security needed to quickly innovate with AI.

One of the key updates is the release of NetApp AIPod, an artificial intelligence-optimized converged infrastructure. It is a certified NVIDIA DGX BasePOD solution using NVIDIA DGX H100 systems integrated with NetApp AFF C-Series all-flash systems, delivering a new level of price/performance while optimizing rack space and sustainability. NetApp AIPod powered by NVIDIA DGX also continues to support NVIDIA DGX A100 systems.

New FlexPod for AI reference architectures expand upon NetApp and Cisco’s existing converged infrastructure solution. FlexPod for AI now integrates support for the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. FlexPod for AI can be extended by using RedHat OpenShift and SuSE Rancher. New scaling and benchmarking capabilities have been added to support GPU-intensive applications. Customers will be able to use these new solutions as an end-to-end approach to efficiently design, deploy and operate the FlexPod platform for AI use cases.

NetApp storage systems paired with NVIDIA OVX compute systems can help optimize enterprise AI deployments for tasks such as model fine-tuning and inference workloads. NVIDIA OVX solutions powered by NVIDIA L40S GPUs include NVIDIA AI Enterprise software along with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand or NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet, and NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs.

NetApp also announced groundbreaking new cyber-resilience capabilities, including one of the first uses of AI and ML integrated into storage systems to combat ransomware. This autonomous protection will provide the increased accuracy and performance needed to identify and counter emerging, sophisticated cyber threats.

For more information about the NetApp AIPod solution and purchasing new systems, as well as other NetApp solutions, please email netapp@muk.group.