NetApp Fuels Future of Agentic AI Reasoning Solutions with NVIDIA AI Data Platform
NetApp (NTAP) has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to advance agentic AI capabilities through intelligent data infrastructure leveraging the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. The partnership aims to help businesses better utilize their data for AI reasoning inference.
The integration combines NetApp ONTAP with NVIDIA's AI Data Platform, enabling customers to connect their data to fuel AI reasoning workloads using NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, including AI-Q Blueprints and NIM microservices. The solution features NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, networking, and the Dynamo open-source inference library.
Key developments include:
- Global Metadata Namespace for secure data discovery and management across hybrid multicloud
- Integrated AI Data Pipeline for automated data preparation and semantic searches
- Disaggregated Storage Architecture for optimized performance in AI workloads
NetApp (NTAP) ha annunciato una collaborazione con NVIDIA per avanzare le capacità di intelligenza artificiale agentica attraverso un'infrastruttura dati intelligente che sfrutta il design di riferimento della piattaforma dati AI di NVIDIA. L'obiettivo della partnership è aiutare le aziende a utilizzare meglio i propri dati per l'inferenza del ragionamento AI.
L'integrazione combina NetApp ONTAP con la piattaforma dati AI di NVIDIA, consentendo ai clienti di connettere i propri dati per alimentare i carichi di lavoro di ragionamento AI utilizzando il software NVIDIA AI Enterprise, inclusi AI-Q Blueprints e microservizi NIM. La soluzione include GPU Blackwell di NVIDIA, networking e la libreria di inferenza open-source Dynamo.
I principali sviluppi includono:
- Namespace di metadati globali per la scoperta e gestione sicura dei dati attraverso multicloud ibrido
- Pipeline di dati AI integrata per la preparazione automatizzata dei dati e ricerche semantiche
- Architettura di archiviazione disaggregata per prestazioni ottimizzate nei carichi di lavoro AI
NetApp (NTAP) ha anunciado una colaboración con NVIDIA para avanzar en las capacidades de IA agentiva a través de una infraestructura de datos inteligente que aprovecha el diseño de referencia de la plataforma de datos AI de NVIDIA. El objetivo de la asociación es ayudar a las empresas a utilizar mejor sus datos para la inferencia del razonamiento de IA.
La integración combina NetApp ONTAP con la plataforma de datos AI de NVIDIA, permitiendo a los clientes conectar sus datos para alimentar las cargas de trabajo de razonamiento de IA utilizando el software NVIDIA AI Enterprise, incluidos AI-Q Blueprints y microservicios NIM. La solución cuenta con GPUs Blackwell de NVIDIA, redes y la biblioteca de inferencia de código abierto Dynamo.
Los desarrollos clave incluyen:
- Espacio de nombres de metadatos global para el descubrimiento y gestión segura de datos en multicloud híbrido
- Pipeline de datos AI integrado para la preparación automatizada de datos y búsquedas semánticas
- Arquitectura de almacenamiento desagregado para un rendimiento optimizado en cargas de trabajo de IA
NetApp (NTAP)는 NVIDIA와 협력하여 NVIDIA AI 데이터 플랫폼 참조 디자인을 활용한 지능형 데이터 인프라를 통해 에이전트 AI 기능을 발전시키겠다고 발표했습니다. 이 파트너십의 목표는 기업들이 AI 추론을 위해 데이터를 더 잘 활용할 수 있도록 돕는 것입니다.
이 통합은 NetApp ONTAP과 NVIDIA의 AI 데이터 플랫폼을 결합하여 고객이 NVIDIA AI Enterprise 소프트웨어(여기에는 AI-Q Blueprints 및 NIM 마이크로서비스 포함)를 사용하여 AI 추론 작업을 지원하기 위해 데이터를 연결할 수 있도록 합니다. 이 솔루션은 NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, 네트워킹 및 Dynamo 오픈 소스 추론 라이브러리를 특징으로 합니다.
주요 개발 사항은 다음과 같습니다:
- 하이브리드 멀티클라우드에서 안전한 데이터 검색 및 관리를 위한 글로벌 메타데이터 네임스페이스
- 자동화된 데이터 준비 및 의미 검색을 위한 통합 AI 데이터 파이프라인
- AI 작업 부하에 최적화된 성능을 위한 분리형 스토리지 아키텍처
NetApp (NTAP) a annoncé une collaboration avec NVIDIA pour faire avancer les capacités d'IA agentive grâce à une infrastructure de données intelligente tirant parti du design de référence de la plateforme de données AI de NVIDIA. L'objectif de ce partenariat est d'aider les entreprises à mieux utiliser leurs données pour l'inférence du raisonnement AI.
L'intégration combine NetApp ONTAP avec la plateforme de données AI de NVIDIA, permettant aux clients de connecter leurs données pour alimenter les charges de travail de raisonnement AI en utilisant le logiciel NVIDIA AI Enterprise, y compris les AI-Q Blueprints et les microservices NIM. La solution comprend des GPU Blackwell de NVIDIA, du réseau et la bibliothèque d'inférence open-source Dynamo.
Les développements clés comprennent :
- Namespace de métadonnées global pour la découverte et la gestion sécurisée des données à travers le multicloud hybride
- Pipeline de données AI intégré pour la préparation automatisée des données et les recherches sémantiques
- Architecture de stockage désagrégée pour des performances optimisées dans les charges de travail AI
NetApp (NTAP) hat eine Zusammenarbeit mit NVIDIA angekündigt, um agentische KI-Fähigkeiten durch intelligente Dateninfrastruktur zu fördern, die auf dem Referenzdesign der NVIDIA AI-Datenplattform basiert. Ziel der Partnerschaft ist es, Unternehmen dabei zu helfen, ihre Daten besser für KI-Argumentationsinferenz zu nutzen.
Die Integration kombiniert NetApp ONTAP mit der NVIDIA AI-Datenplattform, wodurch Kunden ihre Daten verbinden können, um KI-Argumentationslasten mit der NVIDIA AI Enterprise-Software, einschließlich AI-Q Blueprints und NIM-Mikroservices, zu speisen. Die Lösung umfasst NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Netzwerktechnologie und die Open-Source-Inferenzbibliothek Dynamo.
Wichtige Entwicklungen umfassen:
- Globales Metadaten-Namensraum für sichere Datenerkennung und -verwaltung über hybride Multicloud
- Integrierte AI-Datenpipeline für automatisierte Datenvorbereitung und semantische Suchen
- Disaggregierte Speicherarchitektur für optimierte Leistung bei KI-Arbeitslasten
- Strategic partnership with NVIDIA strengthens NetApp's position in the growing AI infrastructure market
- Integration with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software expands product capabilities
- Development of new AI-focused features could drive additional revenue streams
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Insights
NetApp's strategic partnership with NVIDIA represents a significant positioning move in the enterprise AI infrastructure landscape. This collaboration directly addresses one of the most challenging aspects of agentic AI implementation – efficiently connecting vast, unstructured enterprise data to advanced reasoning models.
The integration between NetApp ONTAP and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform creates a specialized data pipeline architecture optimized for AI workflows. By developing capabilities like the Global Metadata Namespace, Integrated AI Data Pipeline, and Disaggregated Storage Architecture, NetApp is evolving from a traditional storage vendor into an essential component of the AI technology stack.
This partnership's technical value proposition is compelling: enterprises can maintain their data where it resides while still enabling AI agents to access, reason with, and derive insights from it. The infrastructure is specifically designed to support resource-intensive operations like retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and real-time inference using NVIDIA's latest Blackwell GPUs.
For NetApp investors, this represents an important strategic evolution. As enterprise storage becomes increasingly commoditized, NetApp is wisely shifting toward higher-value AI-enabled infrastructure that commands premium pricing and creates stickier customer relationships. The intelligent data infrastructure approach positions NetApp to capture value from the growing enterprise AI spending stream.
While financial impact will take time to materialize, this partnership strengthens NetApp's competitive positioning against both traditional storage rivals and cloud providers. The focus on agentic AI applications – which require sophisticated data management capabilities – plays to NetApp's core strengths in data services and hybrid cloud management.
This NetApp-NVIDIA partnership represents one of the most technically comprehensive approaches to enterprise AI infrastructure I've seen, specifically targeting the complex data needs of agentic AI systems. What makes this collaboration particularly valuable is its focus on the entire data pipeline required for reasoning-based AI applications.
The technical architecture here is solving several critical problems that have hampered enterprise AI adoption. The Global Metadata Namespace effectively creates a "universal data catalog" that makes previously siloed enterprise information discoverable and usable by AI systems. This addresses the fundamental "dark data" problem where valuable information exists but remains inaccessible to AI systems.
The integration with NVIDIA's AI stack is particularly well-conceived. By connecting directly to NVIDIA NIM microservices and models like Llama Nemotron Reason, NetApp is positioning itself as the data foundation for the next generation of AI applications that require sophisticated reasoning capabilities beyond basic LLM functionality.
From an infrastructure perspective, the disaggregated storage architecture represents a significant evolution. Traditional AI infrastructure approaches often force uncomfortable compromises between performance, scale, and cost. This architecture allows organizations to independently scale compute and storage resources based on their specific AI workload characteristics.
For enterprises with significant unstructured data assets (documents, images, communications, etc.), this solution could dramatically accelerate time-to-value for agentic AI projects by eliminating much of the custom infrastructure engineering typically required. The focus on maintaining security and compliance while enabling AI access to sensitive business data addresses a critical enterprise requirement.
NVIDIA-powered data agents coming to NetApp ONTAP will speed inference
In the era of intelligence, businesses need to rethink their data strategies to turn rapidly growing data estates into competitive assets that empower them to agilely navigate their business environment. By adopting an Intelligent Data Infrastructure framework, businesses will be able to operate under a unified vision that integrates metadata cataloging, automation, and hybrid cloud capabilities to eliminate siloes and deliver actionable insights at every stage of the AI pipeline.
Together, NetApp ONTAP® and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform enable businesses to navigate the era of intelligence by building distributed systems that unlock the full value of business data to fuel data-driven actions. Built on NVIDIA’s expertise in AI workflow optimization, the platform is a customizable reference design for integrating NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, networking, and AI software with enterprise storage, transforming data into actionable intelligence.
With the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, NetApp customers will be able to connect their data to fuel AI reasoning workloads with agents using NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, including the NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprints and NVIDIA NIM microservices for NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Reason and other models. NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, NVIDIA networking and the NVIDIA Dynamo open-source inference library drive insights in near real time.
“Traditional computing architectures and data management techniques are not up to the task of helping businesses thrive in the AI era,” said Krish Vitaldevara, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Platform at NetApp. “NVIDIA and NetApp are collaborating to give customers the tools they need to strategically unlock their data to drive the next wave of AI applications. By combining the NVIDIA AI Data Platform with the rich and mature data and AI management capabilities and services of NetApp ONTAP, enterprises can more easily bring AI to their data while maintaining security and compliance to achieve their goals of becoming data-driven businesses.”
NetApp is supporting the vision behind the NVIDIA AI Data Platform by developing the capabilities businesses need to accelerate AI pipelines, including:
- Global Metadata Namespace: Customers will be able to securely discover, manage, and analyze all their data across the hybrid multicloud to enable feature extraction and data classification for AI.
- Integrated AI Data Pipeline: Customers can more automatically prepare their unstructured data to use in AI applications by tracking incremental changes, leveraging incredibly efficient replication with NetApp SnapMirror®, classifying data, and creating highly compressed vector embeddings to enable semantic searches on data for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) inferencing.
- Disaggregated Storage Architecture: Customers will be able to optimize their network and flash speeds and infrastructure costs to achieve high performance with minimal space and power requirements for compute-intensive AI workloads.
NetApp’s support of the NVIDIA AI Data Platform builds on the companies’ longstanding history of collaboration, including the recent announcement of an advanced generative AI data vision and end-to-end integrated solutions that combine NVIDIA AI software and accelerated computing with NetApp intelligent data infrastructure for enterprise RAG to power the future of agentic AI applications.
“Enterprise data is a rich source of information for AI reasoning, but the vast majority of enterprise data is unstructured, making it difficult to extract insights and meaning,” said Kari Briski, Vice President, Generative AI Software for Enterprise at NVIDIA. “Bringing together NetApp and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform creates a data pipeline that’s always on, allowing business data to be readily available to AI agents so they can rapidly access information to make informed decisions.”
To learn how NetApp will help power the future of agentic AI reasoning solutions with NVIDIA, visit the NetApp booth #318 at NVIDIA GTC in
Additional Resources
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- NetApp Storage Now Validated for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, NVIDIA Cloud Partners, and NVIDIA-Certified Systems
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