NetApp, a leader in intelligent data infrastructure, announced a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design into the NetApp AIPod solution. This partnership aims to fast-track the adoption of agentic AI across enterprises by leveraging NetApp’s robust data management capabilities through ONTAP®. By deploying NetApp AIPod built on NVIDIA’s AI Data Platform, organizations can establish secure, scalable, and governed AI data pipelines optimized for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and inferencing—unlocking the full potential of AI-driven innovation.
As AI continues to reshape business landscapes, companies increasingly require intelligent data infrastructure to break down data silos that hinder innovation. According to the latest NetApp Data Complexity report, 79% of technology and business leaders recognize that unifying their data estates is essential to achieving leading AI outcomes in 2025.
As an NVIDIA-Certified Storage partner, NetApp delivers intelligent data infrastructure embedded with advanced enterprise-grade data management and scalable multi-tenancy. This enables NetApp AIPod users to remove data silos and confidently build and operate high-performance AI factories, deploying agentic AI to address complex real-world challenges.
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“A unified and comprehensive understanding of business data is the vehicle that will help companies drive competitive advantage in the era of intelligence, and AI inferencing is the key,” said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp. “We have always believed that a unified approach to data storage is essential for businesses to get the most out of their data. The rise of agentic AI has only reinforced that truly unified data storage goes beyond just multi-protocol storage. Businesses need to eliminate silos throughout their entire IT environment, whether on-premises and in the cloud, and across every business function, and we are working with NVIDIA to deliver connected storage for the unique demands of AI.”
The NetApp AIPod solution, powered by the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, harnesses NVIDIA accelerated computing to run NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices, connecting these nodes to scalable storage. This reference design empowers enterprises to intelligently scan, index, classify, and retrieve vast repositories of private and public documents in real time. Such capabilities enhance AI agents’ ability to reason and plan, tackling complex, multi-step problems to transform data into actionable knowledge—boosting the accuracy and effectiveness of agentic AI across diverse applications.
“Agentic AI enables businesses to solve complex problems with superhuman efficiency and accuracy, but only as long as agents and reasoning models have fast access to high-quality data,” said Rob Davis, Vice President of Storage Technology at NVIDIA. “The NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design and NetApp’s high-powered storage and mature data management capabilities bring AI directly to business data and drive unprecedented productivity.”
