NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the leading company in intelligent data infrastructure, announced today the launch of NetApp AIPod with Lenovo ThinkSystem servers for NVIDIA OVX, a converged infrastructure optimized for the era of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI). NetApp and Lenovo, who have maintained a strong partnership for over five years, have taken their alliance to the next level with this simple, affordable, and powerful solution for enterprise AI. The new converged infrastructure will support NVIDIA NIM inference microservices, the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform for the development and deployment of generative AI, and retrieval augmented by generation (RAG), allowing customers to leverage their private and proprietary data without the need for large-scale model training.
Generative AI has created numerous opportunities for organizations, though many may feel distant from this technology due to costs, integration complexity, and deployment time. Additionally, pre-built large language models (LLMs) are often not trained with the most up-to-date or relevant data that organizations need to generate valuable insights or effectively automate routine tasks.
NetApp has led the way in unstructured data storage for over three decades, and much of the world’s enterprise unstructured data is stored on NetApp systems. Unlocking the full value of this data requires going beyond basic model training. By enabling inference and RAG, the NetApp AIPod, along with the reliability, quality, and performance of Lenovo servers, facilitates the merging of LLM power with accurate, up-to-date, and relevant information stored in NetApp.
“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 scalability of generative AI workloads,” said Sandeep Singh, senior vice president and general manager of enterprise storage at NetApp. “Through our collaboration with NVIDIA and Lenovo, NetApp is empowering organizations to harness the capabilities of AI more efficiently, ensuring they can focus on creating value and gaining insights from their data without the complexity of building and managing AI infrastructure from scratch.”
The NetApp AIPod combines NetApp’s robust storage systems with hybrid cloud data management, including Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 servers, leading platforms that support NVIDIA OVX certified architecture with NVIDIA L40S GPUs, as well as the NVIDIA Spectrum-X network, providing a seamless and complete infrastructure solution to streamline AI adoption. With this solution, customers will be able to perform RAG and AI inference operations for use cases such as chatbots, knowledge management, and object recognition. NetApp, in collaboration with Lenovo and NVIDIA, simplifies AI deployment by seamlessly integrating into ecosystems, simplifying operations, accelerating deployment, and protecting AI infrastructure, enabling organizations to unlock the full potential of AI.
“Lenovo is expanding our partnership with NetApp and NVIDIA to bring the power of AI to all businesses as part of our ongoing commitment to enable and simplify hybrid AI for our joint customers,” said Kirk Skaugen, president of Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group. “As customers deploy AI, they demand critical business availability, ease of management, and infrastructure efficiency. The NetApp AIPod with Lenovo ThinkSystem servers for NVIDIA OVX offers optimized and validated solutions to make generative AI more accessible for businesses of all sizes.”
“Making AI accessible and scalable for all industries is more important than ever,” commented Bob Pette, vice president of enterprise platforms at NVIDIA. “The NetApp AIPod with Lenovo for NVIDIA OVX offers a powerful, easy-to-use AI-ready platform, enabling companies to drive innovation.”
The NetApp AIPod with Lenovo for NVIDIA OVX will be available in the summer of 2024.
### About NetApp
NetApp is the company of intelligent data infrastructure that combines unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunities for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, leveraging observability and AI to enable the best data management in the industry. As the only native enterprise storage service in the largest clouds in the world, our data storage offers seamless flexibility. Additionally, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber-resilience, governance, and application agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous performance and efficiency optimization through observability and AI. Regardless of data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp, you can transform your data infrastructure to fulfill the possibilities of your business.