NetApp partners with Nvidia on AI data vision

NetApp (NTAP) unveiled an advanced generative AI data vision and end-to-end integrated solutions that combine Nvidia (NVDA) AI software and accelerated computing with NetApp intelligent data infrastructure for enterprise retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, to power the future of agentic AI applications. This will bring new capabilities to the NetApp ONTAP unified storage operating system that can leverage a new NetApp global metadata namespace to unify data stores for the tens of thousands of enterprises that trust NetApp for their data infrastructure. It opens up exabytes of enterprise data stored across clouds and on-premises infrastructure to drive RAG capabilities that can put enterprises’ entire data estate to work, accelerating next-generation agentic AI applications. The solution brings together proven NetApp AIPod architecture with NetApp ONTAP and the NetApp BlueXP unified control plane, with Nvidia NeMo Retriever and NIM microservices, which are part of the Nvidia AI Enterprise software platform.