SINGAPORE, March 22, 2025 – In a significant step forward for AI-driven enterprise solutions, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to enhance AI reasoning inference with intelligent data infrastructure. The partnership brings the NVIDIA AI Data Platform to NetApp ONTAP, enabling businesses to harness their data more effectively to drive the next generation of AI applications.
In an era where data is a critical asset, enterprises are seeking ways to transform rapidly growing data volumes into actionable insights. By integrating NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, networking, and AI software with NetApp’s data infrastructure, organisations will be able to break down data silos, automate workflows, and optimise AI pipelines for real-time decision-making.
Unlocking the Full Potential of AI-Driven Data
Traditional data management strategies often struggle to keep pace with AI workloads, particularly when dealing with vast amounts of unstructured enterprise data. NetApp’s collaboration with NVIDIA addresses this challenge head-on, offering a seamless AI data pipeline that enhances efficiency, security, and compliance while accelerating AI-powered insights.
By leveraging NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, including NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprints and NVIDIA NIM microservices, NetApp’s AI-enabled data infrastructure will streamline AI model training and inference, providing businesses with a scalable, high-performance solution for AI-driven operations. The integration of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, advanced networking, and the NVIDIA Dynamo open-source inference library will further support enterprises in extracting value from their data in near real-time.
Driving AI Innovation with Intelligent Data Infrastructure
NetApp’s enhanced AI data capabilities will provide customers with three key benefits:
- Global Metadata Namespace – A secure, unified data management system that enables businesses to track, classify, and analyse data across hybrid multicloud environments, facilitating AI-driven feature extraction.
- Integrated AI Data Pipeline – Automation of unstructured data preparation for AI applications, leveraging NetApp’s SnapMirror technology to track incremental data changes, create compressed vector embeddings, and enable semantic searches for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) inferencing.
- Disaggregated Storage Architecture – Optimised network speeds and flash storage efficiency, ensuring high-performance computing with minimal space and power requirements for AI workloads.
A Strategic Partnership for the AI Era
Krish Vitaldevara, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Platform at NetApp, highlighted the significance of the collaboration, “Traditional computing architectures and data management techniques are no longer sufficient for businesses looking to thrive in the AI era. By working with NVIDIA, we are providing customers with the tools they need to unlock the power of their data and drive the next wave of AI applications. Integrating the NVIDIA AI Data Platform with NetApp ONTAP ensures that enterprises can seamlessly bring AI to their data while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance.”
Kari Briski, Vice President of Generative AI Software for Enterprise at NVIDIA, echoed the importance of AI-powered data intelligence, “Enterprise data holds enormous potential for AI-driven decision-making, yet most of it remains unstructured and difficult to analyse. By combining NetApp’s data management expertise with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, we are creating an always-on AI data pipeline—allowing AI agents to access and process business data with unprecedented speed and accuracy.”
This latest development builds on NetApp and NVIDIA’s longstanding collaboration, following their recent announcement of an advanced generative AI data vision and integrated solutions for enterprise RAG applications. As AI continues to reshape business operations, this partnership is set to empower enterprises with the intelligence and agility needed to navigate the future.