NetApp introduces AI data platform stack

NetApp has introduced AI Data Engine (AIDE), a secure, unified AI data platform stack co-engineered with NVIDIA and integrated with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design.

The AIDE possesses an automatically created and continuously updated global metadata catalog with search capabilities.

This catalog actively analyses file content to semantically enrich metadata in place, rather than introducing additional security concerns and expense by moving the data multiple times.

This enriched metadata aims to enable enterprises to find, curate, use, and govern data in order to feed and use the correct and most up-to-date data throughout the AI data pipeline - from selection and transformation through retrieval and serving to AI applications and agents. 

“Despite massive investments and market pressures to leverage AI for improved productivity and enhanced business decision making, data challenges are bottlenecking projects before they even reach production,” said Syam Nair, chief product officer at NetApp.

“To take back control of their data, customers need a mature enterprise-grade data platform that was designed disaggregated and intelligent from the beginning so that storage, services, and control scale independently without lock-in. Leveraging the NetApp data platform, including NetApp AIDE and support for NVIDIA’s leading AI capabilities, we’re helping customers build enterprise grade AI factories supported by our high-performance unified storage platform.” 

NetApp AIDE will be launching this month for an initial wave of lighthouse customers and partners, with broad availability coming early winter.

The company also plans to add several more capabilities to NetApp AIDE later in the year. Hybrid cloud support will bring NetApp AIDE capabilities to enterprise data across on-premises and cloud storage.

NetApp AIDE will also evolve to include new multimodal data capabilities, extending the breadth of NetApp AIDE capabilities to include visual data, unlocking new use cases on a range of unstructured data.