NetApp and Lenovo offer converged infrastructure solutions optimized for generative AI

Simple, affordable, and robust infrastructure solutions can improve the accessibility of AI to businesses

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetApp® (NASDAQ:NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced the availability of NetApp AIPod with Lenovo ThinkSystem servers for NVIDIA OVX. This converged infrastructure is optimized for the era of generative AI. NetApp and Lenovo have taken their collaboration to the next level with more than five years of strong partnership and now with this simple, cost-effective, and powerful enterprise AI solution. 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 Enhanced Generation (RAG), enabling customers to leverage their private proprietary data to support AI technologies without the need for large-scale model training.

Generative AI creates a wealth of opportunities for businesses, but many may find AI out of reach due to factors such as cost, integration complexity, and deployment time. At the same time, prebuilt large language models (LLMs) are often not trained on the most up-to-date or relevant data that businesses need to generate valuable insights or effectively automate routine tasks.

NetApp has been a leader in unstructured data storage for more than three decades, with the majority of the world's enterprise unstructured data stored in NetApp storage systems. Unlocking the full value of this data requires much more than foundational model training. By enabling inference and RAG, NetApp AIPod, combined with Lenovo's leading server reliability, quality, and performance, can seamlessly, simply, and quickly combine the power of LLMs with accurate, up-to-date, and relevant information in NetApp storage systems.

"NetApp AIPod, which includes Lenovo ThinkSystem servers for NVIDIA OVX, transforms enterprise AI by providing a pre-integrated, high-performance solution that accelerates the deployment and scaling of generative AI workloads," said Sandeep Singh, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage, NetApp. Through its partnership with NVIDIA and Lenovo, NetApp is helping enterprises leverage the power of AI more efficiently, ensuring they can focus on creating value and gaining insights from their data without the complexities of building and managing AI infrastructure from scratch. ”

NetApp AIPod combines NetApp's powerful storage systems with hybrid cloud data management, including Lenovo's high-performance ThinkSystem SR675 V3 server, a leading platform with NVIDIA L40S GPUs, NVIDIA-certified OVX architecture, and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Networking, providing a complete, Seamless infrastructure solutions. With this solution, customers will be able to perform AI RAG and inference operations for use cases such as chatbots, knowledge management, and object recognition. NetApp has partnered with Lenovo and NVIDIA to simplify AI deployments by seamlessly integrating into the ecosystem, streamlining operations, accelerating implementation, and securing AI infrastructure, enabling enterprises to unlock the full potential of AI.

"Lenovo is expanding its collaboration with NetApp and NVIDIA to bring the power of AI to every enterprise as part of our ongoing commitment to enabling and simplifying hybrid AI for our mutual customers," said Kirk Skaugen, president of Lenovo's Infrastructure Solutions Group. As customers deploy AI technology, they demand critical business availability, ease of management, and infrastructure efficiency. NetApp AIPod, which includes Lenovo ThinkSystem servers for NVIDIA OVX, provides an optimized and validated solution that makes generative AI more accessible to businesses of all sizes. ”

"It's more important than ever to make AI accessible and scalable across industries," said Bob Pette, vice president of enterprise platforms at NVIDIA. NetApp AIPod, which includes Lenovo servers for NVIDIA OVX, provides a powerful and easy-to-use AI-ready platform that enables enterprises to drive innovation. ”

NetApp AIPod with Lenovo servers for NVIDIA OVX will be available in summer 2024.

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NetApp is a leader in intelligent data infrastructure, combining unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps solutions to help customers seize opportunities in a time of disruption. NetApp creates an island-free infrastructure and leverages observability and artificial intelligence for industry-leading data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world's largest cloud platform, our data storage solutions offer unmatched flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage for our customers through superior cyber resiliency, governance, and application agility. Our CloudOps solution continuously optimizes performance and efficiency through observability and artificial intelligence. Regardless of data type, workload, or environment, NetApp can help you transform your data infrastructure to realize limitless business possibilities. For more information, visit www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

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