NetApp and Lenovo Offer Converged Infrastructure Solution Optimized for GenAI
14 May 2024 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Simple, affordable, and powerful infrastructure
solution makes AI more accessible for enterprises
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
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