SAN JOSE, Calif. - Tuesday, 14. May 2024
Simple, affordable, and powerful infrastructure solution makes AI more accessible for enterprises
(BUSINESS
WIRE)--NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure
company, today announced NetApp AIPod with Lenovo ThinkSystem servers
for NVIDIA OVX, a converged infrastructure optimized for the generative
AI era. NetApp and Lenovo have had a strong partnership for over five
years and are now taking the partnership to the next level with the
introduction of this simple, cost-effective, and powerful solution for
enterprise AI. The new converged infrastructure solution will support
NVIDIA NIM inference microservices, the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software
platform for generative AI development and deployment, and
retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to enable customers to leverage
their private, proprietary data for AI without large-scale model
training.
Generative AI has created extensive opportunities for
organizations, though many may feel as if AI is out of reach due to the
cost, integration complexity, and time to deployment. Meanwhile,
pre-built large language models (LLMs) often do not have training on the
most up-to-date or relevant data organizations need to generate
valuable insights or effectively automate routine tasks.
NetApp
has led in unstructured data storage for over three decades, and much of
the world’s enterprise unstructured data is stored in NetApp storage.
Unlocking the full value of this data requires going far beyond
foundational model training. By enabling inferencing and RAG, the NetApp
AIPod with Lenovo’s leading server reliability, quality, and
performance makes it seamless, simple, and fast to combine the power of
LLMs with precise, up-to-date, and pertinent information on NetApp
storage.
"The NetApp AIPod with Lenovo ThinkSystem servers for
NVIDIA OVX transforms enterprise AI by delivering a pre-integrated,
high-performance solution that accelerates the deployment and scaling of
generative AI workloads," said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President
& General Manager, Enterprise Storage at NetApp. "Through our
collaboration with NVIDIA and Lenovo, NetApp is empowering organizations
to harness the capabilities of AI more efficiently, ensuring that they
can focus on creating value and gaining insights from their data without
the complexity of building and managing AI infrastructure from
scratch."
NetApp AIPod combines NetApp's robust storage systems
with hybrid cloud data management, including Lenovo's high-performance
ThinkSystem SR675 V3 servers, the leading platforms supporting
NVIDIA-certified OVX architecture with NVIDIA L40S GPUs, as well as
NVIDIA Spectrum-X Networking, providing a complete and seamless
infrastructure solution to streamline AI adoption. Using this solution,
customers will be able to conduct AI RAG and inferencing operations for
use cases like chatbots, knowledge management, and object recognition.
NetApp, in collaboration with Lenovo and NVIDIA, simplifies AI
deployment by seamlessly integrating into ecosystems, simplifying
operations, accelerating implementation, and safeguarding AI
infrastructure, enabling organizations to unlock AI's full potential.
“Lenovo
is expanding our partnership with NetApp and NVIDIA to bring the power
of AI to every business as part of our continued commitment to enabling
and simplifying hybrid AI for our joint customers,” said Kirk Skaugen,
President of Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group. “As customers deploy
AI, they demand business critical availability, ease of management, and
infrastructure efficiency. The NetApp AIPod with Lenovo ThinkSystem
servers for NVIDIA OVX delivers optimized and validated solutions to
make generative AI more accessible for businesses of every size.”
“Making
AI accessible and scalable for every industry is more important than
ever,” said Bob Pette, Vice President of Enterprise Platforms at NVIDIA.
“The NetApp AIPod with Lenovo for NVIDIA OVX offers an AI-ready
platform that’s powerful and easy to use, enabling businesses to drive
innovation.”
NetApp AIPod with Lenovo for NVIDIA OVX will be available by summer 2024.
Additional Resources
NetApp AIPodTM with Lenovo for NVIDIA OVX: The Power of Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Every Enterprise
NetApp Unveils Unified Data Storage Built for the AI Era
AIPod: Delivering the Promise
About NetApp
NetApp
is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data
storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps solutions to turn a
world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates
silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability, and AI to enable the
industry’s best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage
service natively embedded in the world’s biggest clouds, our data
storage delivers seamless flexibility. In addition, our data services
create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance,
and application agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous
optimization of performance and efficiency through observability and AI.
No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can
transform your data infrastructure to realize your business
possibilities. Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn,
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NetApp
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NetApp
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