NetApp Revolutionizes Enterprise AI with Intelligent Data Infrastructure and Hyperscaler Partnerships

NetApp redefining hyperscaler partnerships for AI storage - SiliconANGLE

How NetApp's strategic cloud partnerships drive enterprise flexibility and infrastructure control NetApp Inc. is rethinking its strategic positioning in enterprise storage. Beyond just hardware, the company is embracing the cloud, through hyperscaler partnerships, in ways that meet the needs of a rapidly evolving tech landscape. "Thanks to all three major hyperscaler partners in Amazon, Microsoft and Google, we are in more than 100 regions now," said Pravjit Tiwana (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of the Cloud Storage Business Unit at NetApp. "The global availability; if a customer needs data in a local sovereign or wants an air gap, all those capabilities are there. On top of that, they also get a lot of things around security which hyperscaler partners are investing in." Tiwana spoke with theCUBE Research's Rob Strechay and Rebecca Knight at NetApp Insight, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's livestreaming studio. They discussed NetApp's strong cloud hyperscaler partnerships, AI integration, hybrid cloud data management and a focus on security and customer-driven innovation. (* Disclosure below.) NetApp's unique position allows the company to offer global availability and high security standards, combining their ONTAP storage capabilities with the cutting-edge technologies of hyperscalers. This partnership-driven strategy provides customers with strong security, compliance and seamless access to powerful tools such as Amazon Bedrock and Google's AI services. "We are together raising the bar on security, getting the best from the hyperscaler side of the things, best from ONTAP side," Tiwana said. "The same thing goes around compliances. Our customers can get all those capabilities now natively available as part of the first-party service. It's a combination of all the goodness which we have both on the ONTAP side and the hyperscaler side, which is powerful for our customers." NetApp's cloud partnerships also extend into the AI realm. As AI continues to reshape industries, NetApp ensures that customers can use tools such as Vertex AI without the complexity of moving data, according to Tiwana. "Every solution which is out there or every capability which is out there is based on what they're hearing from their customers, and our customers have trusted with us for storage needs for more than two decades at this point," he said. Here's the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE's and theCUBE Research's coverage of NetApp Insight:

NetApp Expands Hardware, Software, AI With Eye On Intelligent Data Infrastructure

'We're going to help customers unleash the power of AI with their data, helping overcome the challenges of AI and data gaps, and be able to do that without creating a net-new data silo. So we'll be going much deeper on the AI front,' says Sandeep Singh, NetApp's senior vice president and general manager for enterprise storage. NetApp Tuesday opened its annual NetApp Insight conference with an expansion of the storage and cloud technology company's intelligent data infrastructure. That intelligent data infrastructure brings together unified data storage, integrated data services and AI-powered CloudOps to manage data seamlessly across any infrastructure, said Sandeep Singh (pictured), senior vice president and general manager for enterprise storage for the San Jose, Calif.-based company. NetApp is taking a four-pronged approach, starting with unified data storage that includes new technology to help customers modernize their block storage environments at every budget, Singh told CRN. Also included are improvements in cyber resiliency to help not only detect ransomware attacks in real time but also recover, as well as advances across NetApp's public cloud storage offerings and BlueXP. [Related: NetApp CEO: We Are 'Solving The Problems For The Era Of Data Intelligence By Bringing AI To Your Data'] "And we're going to help customers unleash the power of AI with their data, helping overcome the challenges of AI and data gaps, and be able to do that without creating a net-new data silo," he said. "So we'll be going much deeper on the AI front." For unified data storage, NetApp has a solid portfolio of NAS and unified NAS-block systems across its high-performance flash, capacity-optimized flash and hybrid flash systems, Singh said. The company also offers block-optimized ASA systems specifically targeting customers with stand-alone block environments, he said. To help simplify those environments, NetApp is expanding its ASA series with three new models: the ASA A70, A90 and A1K, he said. "They're simple so that anybody can manage it, starting off with being simple to deploy in minutes, provision in seconds, protect with one click," he said. "They pack a punch so you can accelerate VMware database applications. They bring in all the intelligent data management capabilities and proven reliability and are affordable." ASA A series' simplicity comes from its architecture, which features an underlying common storage pool or a global storage pool on the back end, while on the front end customers don't have to manage any of the logical layers, Singh said. Network configuration is automated for quick deployments, he said. "You just have to know the number of LUNs you want to present, the capacity and the host to which to present it, and that's it," he said. "It takes seconds to provision from a protection standpoint. With one click, customers can protect data using snapshot-based backups. ... We've automated a lot of the upgrade prechecks to simplify the environment end to end as well." NetApp's ASA family of block storage arrays is a great product line, but not necessarily just because of the performance for performance's sake, said Ned Engelke, CTO at Evotek, a San Diego-based solution provider and NetApp channel partner. "When we engage with our NetApp customer environments that have any kind of scale and any kind of age on them, we often see opportunities to take a fresh look at how to architect it," Engelke told CRN. "You know how tempting it was to create tons of silos, especially 20 years ago or so, when you had to really focus on performance. Well, some of that architecture has carried forward until today. So when we can find opportunities to rearchitect, to get customers to use just the right amount of the performance capability of these things, that affords them a better economic outcome." NetApp is also expanding its secondary storage capabilities for data backups and archiving with two new models in its FAS hybrid flash unified storage line, the FAS70 and FAS90, which Singh said have three primary customer use cases. "The first is about data tiering to lower the cost of data over the data life cycle," he said. We're finding 60 percent or more of the data in customers' environments may be cold data. We have built-in automated and granular tiering so customers can seamlessly lower the cost of data. Second, it can be used as a backup target environment for fast systems and yet provide the performance for recovery workflows. And third, it provides ransomware protection." When it comes to cyber resiliency, NetApp has been very focused on providing integrated ransomware detection directly within its storage for last several years, said Jeff Baxter, vice president of product marketing for the company. For the past six months or so, NetApp has been previewing enhanced autonomous ransomware protection with AI and machine learning models to basically create the next generation of ransomware detection built directly into enterprise storage, Baxter told CRN. "At NetApp Insight, we're now making this technology generally available," he said. "It's been testing out very well in tech previews with customers, so we'll be releasing this as a GA offering to customers. It will provide file-based, real-time, AI-powered ransomware detection. This will allow customers to auto-update it without Ontap operating system updates. It will just basically be constantly kept up to date. We're constantly getting feeds of malware from different industry sources, training our machine learning model, and allowing customers to update that ML model to fight ransomware in real time." Customers for now will have the option to accept automatic updates, but NetApp will be exploring whether to make those updates automatically, Baxter said. "We have an integrated ransomware protection dashboard in BlueXP, which is our unified hybrid control plane," he said. "We can now take actual classification information about data that we're able to gather to determine if data has PII [personally identifiable information] concerns, such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, things like that, and expose that through BlueXP as well as through services like ransomware protection service. Customers can both see the risks to their data sets and which data sets would cause the most issues if they were not protected properly." That ransomware protection also includes integration with SIEM (security information and event management) tools from such sources as Amazon Web Services Security Hub and Splunk via BlueXP to alert security administrators to potential issues and, via BlueXP, start follow-ups such as restoring impacted data, Baxter said. When Evotek sells NetApp technology to help a customer with ransomware protection, it includes all the vendor's capabilities in a programmatic discussion not focused on the efficacy of any individual feature but as part of a larger conversation, Engelke said. "What I love about NetApp is that they wrote their own file system, and they have the ability to deal with the metadata that comes out of it," he said. "They use that metadata for ransomware protection. It's not something we lead with because it's like building a race car. Here's a tire pressure gage. Well, cool, that helps. I can't do without it. But maybe there's more, right?" On the cloud storage front, NetApp already has first-party native cloud storage partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, Baxter said. With Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, the company is now making its Flex service level, which is its smallest starting level that scales to small workloads on small storage pools, available across all 40 Google Cloud regions, he said. "We're also making it so that our premium and extreme service levels let customers scale up to a petabyte in capacity and up to 12.5 GBs per second of throughput for extremely high performance on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes," he said. "We're also introducing that auto tiering capability we have with Azure on the Google Cloud NetApp Volumes for the premium and extreme service tiers there as well. We are doing some things in BlueXP specific to fleet management, with the ability to roll out end-to-end Ontap updates across your fleet." NetApp, while remaining a good VMware partner, has customers looking for alternatives and will help refactor their virtual machines to run directly within the cloud, Baxter said. "We'll be rolling out a migration assistant tool to help migrate from VMware to AWS EC2 running on top of NetApp or Amazon FSX for NetApp Ontap," he said. To help businesses looking to prepare their data for use with AI and intelligent data services, NetApp will be helping them federate their information into a single global metadata namespace that doesn't require them to deploy new software or catalog their data separately, Baxter said. "We track all the metadata about customers' data in their NetApp systems already, so we can stitch it together to provide a global metadata namespace for them they can use to explore the value in their data," he said. "And we'll be introducing things like a Data Explorer within BlueXP that will allow them, assuming they have the right access permissions, to ask questions of their data and conduct natural language searches to find data." Testing is underway by Nvidia of NetApp Ontap for SuperPOD with Nvidia, Baxter said. "Today, we have SuperPOD configurations with our E-series for high-performance computing, and we have a BasePOD certification for our NetApp Ontap software," he said. "A lot of customers love the E-series solution for high-performance computing but want a solution that provides the data management features of Ontap with the high performance necessary for SuperPOD."

NetApp and NVIDIA Join Forces to Revolutionize Enterprise AI

NetApp® unveiled an advanced generative AI data vision and end-to-end integrated solutions that combine NVIDIA AI software and accelerated computing with NetApp intelligent data infrastructure for enterprise retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to power the future of agentic AI applications. This will bring new capabilities to the NetApp ONTAP unified storage operating system that can leverage a new NetApp global metadata namespace to unify data stores for the tens of thousands of enterprises that trust NetApp for their data infrastructure. It opens up exabytes of enterprise data stored across clouds and on-premises infrastructure to drive RAG capabilities that can put enterprises' entire data estate to work, accelerating next-generation agentic AI applications. The solution brings together proven NetApp AIPod architecture with NetApp ONTAP and the NetApp BlueXP unified control plane, with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever and NIM microservices, which are part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. "To power AI applications and drive transformative progress for their business, enterprises must unlock the potential of their data," said Harv Bhela, Chief Product Officer at NetApp. "Combining the NetApp data management engine and NVIDIA AI software empowers AI applications to securely access and leverage vast amounts of data, paving the way for intelligent, agentic AI that tackles complex business challenges and fuels innovation." "Data is fundamental to the evolution of generative AI," said Manuvir Das, vice president, Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA. "By combining NVIDIA AI software and accelerated computing with NetApp intelligent data infrastructure, enterprises can turn their data into knowledge, and AI agents can turn that knowledge into action." With the new NetApp AI capabilities built into NetApp AIPod - certified for NVIDIA DGX BasePOD infrastructure and NVIDIA OVX solutions -- and managed through BlueXP, NetApp customers will be able to easily discover, search, and curate data on-prem and in the public cloud based on a set of criteria, honoring existing policy-based governance criteria. Once the data collection has been established through NetApp BlueXP, it can be dynamically connected to NVIDIA NeMo Retriever, where the dataset will be processed and vectorized to be accessible for enterprise GenAI deployments with appropriate access controls and privacy guardrails. This creates the foundation for a generative AI flywheel to power next-generation agentic AI applications that can autonomously and securely tap into data to complete a broad range of tasks to support customer service, business operations, financial services and more. The end-to-end integration unlocks enterprise data for AI and takes a responsible approach by preserving the security and policy guardrails throughout the AI data and model lifecycle. This integration was first referenced as a proof-of-concept shown by Huang in his NVIDIA GTC 2024 keynote address. This secure and compliant GenAI integration will be available for customers to experience at NetApp INSIGHT today and is targeted to be released as a technology preview to customers later this calendar year. NetApp has also begun the NVIDIA certification process of NetApp ONTAP storage on the AFF A90 platform with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, which will enable organizations to leverage industry-leading data management capabilities for their largest AI projects. This certification will complement and build upon NetApp ONTAP's existing certification with NVIDIA DGX BasePOD. NetApp ONTAP addresses data management challenges for large language models, eliminating the need to compromise data management for AI training workloads.

NetApp Teams with NVIDIA to Redefine Enterprise RAG and Power Agentic AI

NetApp's end-to-end enterprise AI vision and intelligent ONTAP data infrastructure -- combined with powerful NVIDIA NeMo Retriever and NIM microservices -- transform how customers discover, search and curate data across hybrid multi-cloud to fuel AI applications SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 25 September 2024 - NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today unveiled an advanced generative AI data vision and end-to-end integrated solutions that combine NVIDIA AI software and accelerated computing with NetApp intelligent data infrastructure for enterprise retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to power the future of agentic AI applications. This will bring new capabilities to the NetApp ONTAP unified storage operating system that can leverage a new NetApp global metadata namespace to unify data stores for the tens of thousands of enterprises that trust NetApp for their data infrastructure. It opens up exabytes of enterprise data stored across clouds and on-premises infrastructure to drive RAG capabilities that can put enterprises' entire data estate to work, accelerating next-generation agentic AI applications. The solution brings together proven NetApp AIPod architecture with NetApp ONTAP and the NetApp BlueXP unified control plane, with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever and NIM microservices, which are part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. "To power AI applications and drive transformative progress for their business, enterprises must unlock the potential of their data," said Harv Bhela, Chief Product Officer at NetApp. "Combining the NetApp data management engine and NVIDIA AI software empowers AI applications to securely access and leverage vast amounts of data, paving the way for intelligent, agentic AI that tackles complex business challenges and fuels innovation." "Data is fundamental to the evolution of generative AI," said Manuvir Das, vice president, Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA. "By combining NVIDIA AI software and accelerated computing with NetApp intelligent data infrastructure, enterprises can turn their data into knowledge, and AI agents can turn that knowledge into action." With the new NetApp AI capabilities built into NetApp AIPod - certified for NVIDIA DGX BasePOD infrastructure and NVIDIA OVX solutions -- and managed through BlueXP, NetApp customers will be able to easily discover, search, and curate data on-prem and in the public cloud based on a set of criteria, honoring existing policy-based governance criteria. Once the data collection has been established through NetApp BlueXP, it can be dynamically connected to NVIDIA NeMo Retriever, where the dataset will be processed and vectorized to be accessible for enterprise GenAI deployments with appropriate access controls and privacy guardrails. This creates the foundation for a generative AI flywheel to power next-generation agentic AI applications that can autonomously and securely tap into data to complete a broad range of tasks to support customer service, business operations, financial services and more. The end-to-end integration unlocks enterprise data for AI and takes a responsible approach by preserving the security and policy guardrails throughout the AI data and model lifecycle. This integration was first referenced as a proof-of-concept shown by Huang in his NVIDIA GTC 2024 keynote address. This secure and compliant GenAI integration will be available for customers to experience at NetApp INSIGHT today and is targeted to be released as a technology preview to customers later this calendar year. NetApp has also begun the NVIDIA certification process of NetApp ONTAP storage on the AFF A90 platform with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, which will enable organizations to leverage industry-leading data management capabilities for their largest AI projects. This certification will complement and build upon NetApp ONTAP's existing certification with NVIDIA DGX BasePOD. NetApp ONTAP addresses data management challenges for large language models, eliminating the need to compromise data management for AI training workloads.Hashtag: #NetApp The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. About NetApp NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability and AI to enable the industry's best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world's biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous optimization of performance and efficiency through observability and AI. No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can transform your data infrastructure to realize your business possibilities. Learn more at or follow us on,,, and. NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. NetApp

NetApp Powers the Future of AI with Intelligent Data Infrastructure

Innovations across NetApp portfolio and collaborations with industry leaders including NVIDIA drive business outcomes with AI SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 25 September 2024 - NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced new developments in its collaboration with industry leaders to accelerate AI innovation. By providing the intelligent data infrastructure required to make GenAI work, NetApp is helping organizations tap into one of the most important developments for business and IT in the last decade. GenAI powers practical and highly visible use cases for business innovation such as generating content, summarizing large amounts of information, and responding to questions. Gartner research predicts that spending on AI software will grow to $297.9 billion by 2027 and that GenAI will account for over one-third of that. The key to success in the AI era is mastery over governable, trusted, and traceable data. Yesterday, NetApp CEO George Kurian kicked off NetApp INSIGHT 2024 with an expansive vision of this era of data intelligence. A large part of the AI challenge is a data challenge, and Kurian laid out a vision for how intelligent data infrastructure can ensure the relevant data is secure, governed, and always updated to feed a unified, integrated GenAI stack. Today at NetApp INSIGHT, NetApp will be unveiling further innovations in intelligent data infrastructure, including a transformative vision for AI running on NetApp ONTAP®, the leading operating system for unified storage. Specifically, NetApp's vision includes: NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Storage Certification for NetApp ONTAP: NetApp has begun the NVIDIA certification process of NetApp ONTAP storage on the AFF A90 platform with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD AI infrastructure, which will enable organizations to leverage industry-leading data management capabilities for their largest AI projects. This certification will complement and build upon NetApp ONTAP's existing certification with NVIDIA DGX BasePOD. NetApp ONTAP addresses data management challenges for large language models (LLMs), eliminating the need to compromise data management for AI training workloads. Creation of a global metadata namespace to explore and manage data in a secure and compliant fashion across a customers' hybrid multi-cloud estate to enable feature extraction and data classification for AI. NetApp separately announced today a new integration with NVIDIA AI software that can leverage the global metadata namespace with ONTAP to power enterprise retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for agentic AI. Directly integrated AI data pipeline, allowing ONTAP to make unstructured data ready for AI automatically and iteratively by capturing incremental changes to the customer data set, performing policy driven data classification and anonymization, generating highly compressible vector embeddings and storing them in a vector DB integrated with the ONTAP data model, ready for high scale, low latency semantic searches and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) inferencing. A disaggregated storage architecture that enables full sharing of the storage backend, which maximizes utilization of network and flash speeds and lowers infrastructure cost, significantly improving performance while economizing rack space and power for very high-scale, compute-intensive AI workloads like LLM training. This architecture will be an integral part of NetApp ONTAP, so it will get the benefit of a disaggregated storage architecture but still maintain ONTAP's proven resiliency, data management, security and governance features. New capabilities for native cloud services to drive AI innovation in the cloud. Across all its native cloud services, NetApp is working to provide an integrated and centralized data platform to ingest, discover and catalog data. NetApp is also integrating its cloud services with data warehouses and developing data processing services to visualize, prepare and transform data. The prepared datasets can then be securely shared and used with the cloud providers' AI and machine learning services, including third party solutions. NetApp will also announce a planned integration that allows customers to use Google Cloud NetApp Volumes as a data store for BigQuery and Vertex AI. "Organizations of all sizes are experimenting with GenAI to increase efficiency and accelerate innovation," said Krish Vitaldevara, Senior Vice President, Platform at NetApp. "NetApp empowers organizations to harness the full potential of GenAI to drive innovation and create value across diverse industry applications. By providing secure, scalable, and high-performance intelligent data infrastructure that integrates with other industry-leading platforms, NetApp helps customers overcome barriers to implementing GenAI. Using these solutions, businesses will be able to more quickly and efficiently apply their data to GenAI applications and outmaneuver competitors." NetApp continues to innovate with the AI ecosystem: Domino Data Labs chooses Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP: To advance the state of machine learning operations (MLOps), NetApp has partnered with Domino Data Labs, underscoring the importance of seamless integration in AI workflows. Effective today, Domino is using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as the underlying storage for Domino Datasets running in Domino Cloud platform to provide cost-effective performance, scalability, and the ability to accelerate model development. In addition to Domino using FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Domino and NetApp have also begun joint development to integrate Domino's MLOps platform directly into NetApp ONTAP to make it easier to manage the data for AI workloads. General Availability of AIPod with Lenovo for NVIDIA OVX: Announced in May 2024, the NetApp AIPod with Lenovo ThinkSystem servers for NVIDIA OVX converged infrastructure solution is now generally available. This infrastructure solution is designed for enterprises aiming to harness generative AI and RAG capabilities to boost productivity, streamline operations, and unlock new revenue opportunities. New capabilities for FlexPod AI: NetApp is releasing new features for its FlexPod AI solution, the hybrid infrastructure and operation platform that accelerate the delivery of modern workloads. FlexPod AI running RAG simplifies, automates, and secures AI applications, enabling organizations to leverage the full potential of their data. With Cisco compute, Cisco network, and NetApp storage, customers experience lower costs, efficient scaling, faster time to value, and reduced risks. "Implementing AI requires a collection of finely tuned pieces of technology infrastructure to work together perfectly," said Mike Leone, Practice Director, Data Analytics & AI, Enterprise Strategy Group, part of TechTarget. "NetApp delivers robust storage and data management capabilities to help customers run and support their AI data pipelines. But storage is one piece of the puzzle. By collaborating with other industry-leading vendors in the AI infrastructure space, NetApp customers can be confident that their compute, networking, storage, and AI software solutions will integrate seamlessly to drive AI innovation." Additional Resources Elevating Enterprise AI: NetApp's Latest Ecosystem Advancements for Superior Innovation Next Generation Data Management for AI AI Data Solutions AIPod: Delivering the Promise FlexPod Hashtag: #NetApp The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. About NetApp NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability and AI to enable the industry's best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world's biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous optimization of performance and efficiency through observability and AI. No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can transform your data infrastructure to realize your business possibilities. Learn more at or follow us on , , , and . NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. NetApp

F5 And NetApp Collaborate To Accelerate And Streamline Enterprise AI Capabilities

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 - F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) and NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced an expanded collaboration to accelerate and streamline enterprise AI capabilities using secure multicloud networking solutions from F5 and NetApp's suite of data management solutions. This collaboration leverages F5 Distributed Cloud Services to streamline the use of large language models (LLMs) across hybrid cloud environments. By integrating F5's secure multicloud networking with NetApp's data management, enterprises can implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions efficiently and securely, enhancing the performance, security, and utility of their AI systems. As enterprises increasingly adopt AI technologies, the need for accurate and contextually relevant information becomes crucial -- and that's where RAG comes in. RAG is an artificial intelligence technique that combines retrieval-based and generation-based approaches to improve the quality and relevance of responses by securely incorporating relevant, often proprietary, documents or information from a large dataset into the generated answers without exposing them to public large language models. RAG integrates the most recent, relevant data into AI responses. This ensures that AI models can deliver precise and context-specific answers. RAG is quickly becoming a popular architecture among customers, but the fragmented distribution of enterprise data often forms silos, complicating integration with LLMs. F5 and NetApp solve this problem by providing secure access to private data from any location and facilitating data transfers for migrations and mobility. The combined solution significantly reduces the complexity of managing hybrid and multicloud infrastructure. By using F5 Distributed Cloud Services and NetApp BlueXP, customers can unify the operational models for data management, security, and networking, contributing to cost reduction and achieving multicloud RAG to support innovative AI projects. "F5 is accelerating enterprise AI adoption by integrating our secure, high-performance multicloud networking capabilities with NetApp's robust data management solutions. This powerful collaboration unlocks the potential of RAG, seamlessly blending enterprise data with foundational and frontier AI models," said Kunal Anand, Chief Technology and AI Officer at F5. "Our joint solution transforms how businesses train LLMs by delivering unparalleled high-speed performance and ironclad security, enabling enterprises to harness AI's capabilities within their unique business contexts confidently. With F5 and NetApp, businesses can now easily navigate the complexities of AI integration, turning their data into a strategic asset that drives innovation and competitive advantage." NetApp's Cloud Volumes ONTAP optimises cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection and compliance. This solution, combined with F5's networking capabilities, allows for quick and secure data mobility, reducing overhead for IT departments. Enterprises can migrate data effortlessly across zones and regions, leveraging NetApp's SnapMirror technology for data mobility. "Our collaboration with F5 helps address the complex challenges of AI deployments in hybrid cloud environments. By combining NetApp's data management solutions with F5's secure multicloud networking technology, we are providing enterprises with a seamless and secure way to manage, protect, and optimise their data to deliver business-critical LLM applications. Our work together supports businesses looking to leverage generative AI to drive innovation and growth," said Jonsi Stefansson, Chief Technology Officer at NetApp. F5 is sponsoring NetApp INSIGHT 2024 as a Gold Sponsor, and you can learn about the innovative solution for generative AI from F5 and NetApp during the breakout session on Tuesday, September 24. Register for NetApp INSIGHT at the event website: https://insight.netapp.com/ About F5 F5 is a multicloud application security and delivery company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world's largest, most advanced organizations to secure every app -- on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables businesses to continuously stay ahead of threats while delivering exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers. For more information, go to f5.com. (NASDAQ: FFIV) F5 is a trademark, service mark, or tradename of F5, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. The use of the terms "partner," "partners," "partnership," "partnering," "collaboration," or "joint solution" in this press release does not imply that a joint venture exists between F5 and NetApp or any other mentioned entities. About NetApp NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability and AI to enable the industry's best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world's biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous optimization of performance and efficiency through observability and AI. No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can transform your data infrastructure to realise your business possibilities.