Unified Data Storage
UNLEASH THE POWER OF AI WITH UNIFIED DATA STORAGE
Explore NetApp's new way to unified data storage that enables you to streamline AI workloads, including GenAI, and activate your innovation.
AI innovation starts with a more unified approach to data.
With a common operating environment across all of your data, integration with the world's largest clouds, and a common control plane, you can advance AI initiatives and maximize performance for model training and inferencing, creating a critical business impact that will revolutionize your business.
Key Capabilities
At a glance
- Deliver on-demand data mobility
- Unlock data availability across your AI pipeline
- Leverage unmatched data security
- Reducing complexity
- Speedy AI model training
Features and Benefits
The capabilities that set Unified Data Storage apart.
The Challenge: Data Everywhere, Value Elusive
Scattered data
In today's landscape, GPUs and data are often located in different places – a chaotic sprawl across edge, core, and cloud. Robust data management is essential to ensure the necessary data mobility you need to support your AI workflows.
Bottlenecks
Traditional infrastructures can falter under heavy AI demands, impeding operations and causing costly delays. High-performing, intelligent data management approaches not only manage data efficiently through the pipeline; they also enhance productivity by ensuring swift data availability for AI modeling.
Security risks
AI collaboration involves many people, locations, datasets, and origin variables across the enterprise. Security, privacy, legal, and governance challenges are on the rise. You need trusted data management to keep models, data, and usage both profitable and safe.
It's time for an evolved unified data storage architecture
Deliver on-demand data mobility
Simplify your hybrid workflows and integrations by using AI-optimized data management to instantly classify, access, move, and serve data across any hybrid multicloud environment.
Unlock data availability across your AI pipeline
Get access to all the performance, efficiency, and scale you need to provision data – and optimize GPU utilization – for every workload across the AI lifecycle. Eliminate silos and simplify data management by operating in a single-OS environment.
Leverage unmatched data security
Confidently deploy and protect AI workloads with the AI/ML-based NetApp® Ransomware Recovery Guarantee. Enable versioning and traceability of AI models in production to meet compliance and responsible AI practices.
AI Fuels the Metaverse with NetApp - Customer story: Pong Yuen
Reducing complexity
Unified control allows Pong Yuen to build an approved AI cluster with preconfigured solutions that are right-sized for the most common use cases. This enables the minds behind the metaverse to get their workloads up and running quickly and easily.
Speedy AI model training
Getting to market fast demands efficient AI model training. Although training routines require massive amounts of computing power and storage, the NetApp® single-storage OS delivers an unparalleled data-reduction ratio that processes thousands of training images per second, accelerating AIOps, and reducing time to market.
Expert Guidance
Thrive with expert-led storage guidance
Get tailored advice on how Unified Data Storage fits your environment — from sizing and deployment to long-term optimization.
Technical Specifications
Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.
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Data MobilityAI-optimized data management to instantly classify, access, move, and serve data across any hybrid multicloud environment.
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Data AvailabilityPerformance, efficiency, and scale to provision data and optimize GPU utilization for every workload across the AI lifecycle.
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Operating EnvironmentSingle-OS environment to eliminate silos and simplify data management.
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Data SecurityAI/ML-based NetApp® Ransomware Recovery Guarantee.
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ComplianceVersioning and traceability of AI models in production to meet compliance and responsible AI practices.
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Integrated SystemNetApp AIPod consolidates a data center's worth of analytics, training, and inference computing into a single, integrated system.
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PartnershipDeep partnership with AI leaders like NVIDIA; certified, turnkey AI solutions.
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