Business Wire IndiaNetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today unveiled visionary new products, strengthening its enterprise-grade data platform for AI innovation. As the era of AI shifts from initial pilots to mission-critical agentic applications, AI-ready data on modern enterprise-grade data infrastructure delivers the results needed for AI-driven businesses.
The new NetApp AFX decouples performance and capacity with a disaggregated NetApp ONTAP that runs on the new NetApp AFX 1K storage system. NetApp AI Data Engine is a secure, unified extension of ONTAP integrated with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design that helps organizations simplify and secure the entire AI data pipeline – and managed via single, unified control plane. Together, these capabilities unify high-performance storage and intelligent data services into a single, secure, and scalable offering that accelerates enterprise AI retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and inference across hybrid and multicloud environments. Customers will be able to access these products through direct purchase or through a subscription to NetApp Keystone STaaS. With NetApp AFX and the NetApp AI Data Engine, the NetApp data platform is able to ensure that all applicable data is immediately ready for AI.
“With the new NetApp AFX systems, customers now have a trusted, proven choice in on-premises enterprise storage built on a comprehensive data platform to rapidly propel AI innovation forward,” said Syam Nair, Chief Product Officer at NetApp. “NetApp AI Data Engine enables customers to seamlessly connect their entire data estate across hybrid multicloud environments to build a unified data foundation. Enterprises can then dramatically accelerate their AI data pipelines by collapsing multiple data preparation and management steps into the integrated NetApp AI Data Engine, built with NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software complete with semantic search, data vectorization and data guardrails. The combination of NetApp AFX with AI Data Engine provides the enterprise resilience and performance, built and proven over decades by NetApp ONTAP, now in a disaggregated storage architecture, and all still built on the most secure storage on the planet.”
To accelerate modern AI workloads, NetApp introduced new capabilities including:
“Enterprises are looking for a trusted, high-performance data foundation to turn massive volumes of information into real intelligence that powers their AI journey,” said Justin Boitano, Vice President, Enterprise AI Products at NVIDIA. "NetApp’s data platform has transformed into an AI-native storage platform by integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing and software, including leading AI models. With this new platform, organizations can index and search vast amounts of unstructured data across their enterprise to drive innovation and deliver real business impact."
“Today’s new solutions from NetApp demonstrate the speedy fulfillment of an ambitious vision on how to manage data for AI,” said Michael Leone, Practice Director and Principal Analyst at Omdia. “The way NetApp solutions bring intelligence to enterprise data shows a deep understanding of customers’ real challenges and how to address them. Adding independent scaling of performance and capacity management to the robust data management capabilities in ONTAP, which has long defined NetApp's reputation, will enable enterprises to confidently invest in AI projects that deliver value quickly to the business.”
To learn about these updates and others across the NetApp portfolio, visit: https://www.netapp.com/product-updates
At NetApp INSIGHT 2025 in Las Vegas, October 14–16, NetApp will present sessions and demos, showcasing how it is driving transformation across industries. Tune in to the keynote sessions at: https://www.netapp.com/insight/
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About NetApp
For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.
At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.
Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.
With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.
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