NetApp Unified Data Storage: Powering Your AI Journey in the Hybrid Cloud

If there is one fact about our current digital age, it is that it is driven by data. Organizations today, are amassing more data than ever before, and the exponential growth in the use of Artificial Intelligence, has made having the right data infrastructure absolutely essential. Now, NetApp, a leader in intelligent data infrastructure solutions, has risen to the challenge and offers a powerful solution: NetApp Unified Data Storage

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The NetApp Unified Data Storage simplifies IT operations by enabling you to manage any data type, from structured to unstructured, on a single platform. This unified approach spans across on-premises and cloud environments, providing unmatched flexibility and scalability. NetApp’s solution integrates seamlessly with the three major public cloud providers, allowing you to consolidate workloads, reduce data costs, and eliminate data silos.

Removing the Limit on Al Capabilities

NetApp’s latest innovation, the NetApp AFF A-Series, unleashes AI through a powerful line of all-flash storage systems designed specifically for AI workloads. These systems deliver exceptional performance, reliability, and data efficiency, making them ideal for demanding tasks like generative AI, enterprise databases, and virtualized environments.

NetApp’s Unified Data Storage empowers your AI initiatives through:

Accelerated Data Pipelines: NetApp AFF A-Series systems boast industry-leading performance with up to 40 million IOPS and 1TBps throughput. This translates to faster data preparation and quicker time to insights for your AI projects.
Seamless Cloud Integration: NetApp’s Unified Data Storage integrates seamlessly with major cloud providers, allowing you to leverage the power of the cloud for specific AI workloads while keeping your on-premises data secure.
Modernize Data Lakes and Hadoop Environments: NetApp’s StorageGRID appliance portfolio offers refreshed and expanded capabilities, including support for capacity flash appliances. This simplifies AI adoption and data lake modernization, significantly improving the speed of data analysis.

Providing Unparalleled Security

NetApp understands that ransomware is a constant threat in today’s digital landscape, and offers industry-leading security features within their unified data storage solution.

Multi-Layered Cyber Resilience: NetApp AFF A-Series systems are equipped with robust security features like automatic malicious file type blocking, multifactor authentication, and immutable tamperproof snapshots. These features work together to protect your data, detect threats in real-time, and enable rapid recovery from ransomware attacks.
NetApp Cyber Vault: This innovative solution combines a layered approach to cyber resilience with logical and physical air-gapping. This additional layer of security safeguards your most critical data from even the most sophisticated attacks.

Building Your AI-Ready Ecosystem

NetApp simply goes beyond just providing storage solutions. Instead, they offer a complete ecosystem that redesigns, empowers and guides your entire AI journey. Here’s a glimpse into what NetApp offers:

NetApp AIPod with Lenovo for NVIDIA OVX: This pre-validated solution provides a perfect blend of performance, cost, and density for workloads like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and inferencing.
Integration with NVIDIA and the MLOps Ecosystem: NetApp integrates seamlessly with industry leaders like NVIDIA and the MLOps ecosystem, streamlining your AI development process.
Converged Infrastructure for AI: NetApp offers converged infrastructure solutions specifically designed for AI workloads, eliminating the need for complex integrations.

Partner With Axelliant

As a trusted NetApp partner, Axelliant empowers your organization to thrive in the AI era with NetApp Unified Data Storage. Our expertise ensures you maximize the benefits of NetApp’s powerful solutions, simplifying data management, accelerating AI workloads, and providing unmatched security. As Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp stated, ““Data is undeniably the most valuable asset for any company to outpace its competitors. Whether it’s mission-critical applications or leveraging enterprise data to fuel AI, the data infrastructure a company chooses to run it on makes all the difference.”
Collaborate with Axelliant to unlock the full potential of your data, securing your applications and users wherever they are. Secure your AI journey with Axelliant and NetApp Unified Data Storage for superior performance and robust protection.