NetApp Expands Intelligent Data Infrastructure Capabilities to Power Strategic Cloud Workloads
July 10 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New capabilities empower customers to run
data-intensive workloads like GenAI and VMware environments more
easily
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure
company, today announced the introduction of new capabilities
designed for strategic cloud workloads including GenAI and VMware.
These enhancements to NetApp data and storage services reduce the
resources and risks for customers to manage these strategic
workloads across increasingly complex hybrid multicloud
environments.
“Strategic workloads, including GenAI and virtualized
environments, are driving business innovation and have increasingly
complex and resource-intensive infrastructure requirements that are
pushing IT teams to the limit,” said Pravjit Tiwana, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Cloud Storage at NetApp. “NetApp is
helping customers take back control of their data with intelligent
data infrastructure that leverages unified data storage, integrated
data services, and automated cloud operations. Even when they are
up against specific and nuanced technology requirements for modern
workloads, NetApp gives them the tools they need to optimize and
simplify their data operations in their environments across the
hybrid multicloud.”
To advance intelligent data infrastructure deployments that
better support strategic workloads like GenAI and VMware
environments, NetApp is announcing new capabilities, including:
- NetApp BlueXP Workload Factory – for AWS: This
intelligent data infrastructure service uses defined industry
best-practices to automate the planning, provisioning, and
management of cloud resources and services for key workloads,
including GenAI, VMware cloud environments, and enterprise
databases. Customers can use BlueXP workload factory to optimize
deployment time, cost, performance, and protection of resources for
strategic workloads as well as their associated data. To simplify
workload migrations to the cloud, BlueXP workload factory allows
users to profile infrastructure requirements for target workloads
and compare different resource options for cost and performance
needs. Then, the service can provision the selected resources, move
any existing workload data to these newly provisioned cloud
deployments, and continually optimize the entire environment to
ensure the required cost and performance targets. AWS users can
read guidance on how to deploy this capability on the AWS Solutions
Library.
- NetApp GenAI Toolkit – Microsoft Azure NetApp Files
Version: Customers can now include private enterprise data
stored in Azure NetApp Files in their retrieval-augmented
generation (RAG) workflows in a secure, programmatic manner. The
result is an enhanced ability to generate unique, high-quality, and
ultra-relevant results from GenAI projects by combining their
proprietary data with pre-trained, foundational models (FMs). The
integration of the NetApp GenAI Toolkit with Azure NetApp Files
represents a powerful synergy that empowers customers to harness
advanced language generation capabilities.
- Amazon Bedrock with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Reference
Architecture: Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) and NetApp have
released a joint reference architecture which provides guidance for
customers on implementing RAG-enabled workflows that bring
proprietary data stored on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP into their
GenAI data pipelines. Amazon FSx makes it easy and cost effective
to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file
systems in the cloud. The reference architecture allows developers
to use APIs for Amazon Bedrock to connect with Amazon FSx for ONTAP
data stores, enabling the secure use of proprietary data with a
choice of high-performing FMs that can be customized to unlock new
insights and capabilities.
- Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Enhancements: AWS announced
the next-generation Amazon FSx for ONTAP cloud storage service with
enhanced capabilities to boost scalability and flexibility to
provide up to 6 GB per second of throughput for a single
highly-available (HA) pair from 512 TiB of SSD storage. Next-gen
file systems offer virtualized workloads more room to grow with a
300 percent increase in network burst throughput and a 150 percent
boost in disk burst throughput. For large-scale, high-performance
workloads like GenAI, second-generation Amazon FSx for ONTAP
systems support dynamic scalability by adding HA pairs as needed,
up to 24 nodes. This delivers up to 72 GB per second of throughput
from 1 PiB of SSD storage, providing greater flexibility and
performance for evolving business needs.
- NetApp BlueXP Disaster Recovery Support for VMFS: The
BlueXP disaster recovery service, which provides guided workflows
to design and execute automated disaster recovery plans for VMware
workloads across both on-premises and cloud environments, has been
expanded to support VMFS datastores for on-premises to on-premises
disaster recovery.
These updates build on NetApp’s existing offerings that support
storage and data operations for customers that need to implement
and manage high-powered, strategic workloads such as GenAI and
VMware environments. For example, NetApp recently announced that
its unique BlueXP data classification capability, which
automatically classifies and categorizes data for enhanced
governance and secure ingest into GenAI and RAG data pipelines, has
become a core control plane capability now available free of charge
to all NetApp customers.
“When it comes to GenAI, the prime focus for organizations is to
adapt their data strategies to ensure they can balance data
security, cost efficiency and innovation as they leverage pre-built
LLMs to surface relevant, useful insights from their proprietary,
business-relevant data,” said Archana Venkatraman, Senior Research
Director, Cloud Data Management at IDC. “NetApp’s intelligent data
infrastructure capabilities can help customers overcome the data
challenges and offer specific guidance to automate workflows that
can securely feed private data directly into public cloud
providers’ LLMs. In addition, NetApp’s BlueXP data classification
capability has the potential to mitigate the risks in data
operations for AI because it allows users to discover and
categorize data so that the right data is fed into the right model
without exposing confidential, personal or restricted
information.”
“Organizations are now facing different economic realities with
regards to virtualized environments, and we all need to move
quickly to address recent industry shifts,” said Derek Elbert,
Solutions Architect at WWT. “Optimizing the cost versus performance
equation of VMware workloads has become a primary initiative for
us, with the objective of continuing to provide scalability and
performance while reducing unnecessary system and software
resources. NetApp’s offerings, such as the BlueXP disaster recovery
service and the optimization metrics from Cloud Insights, help us
better ensure the right levels of resource allocation and
protection schemes for virtual environments, allowing us to focus
on putting our infrastructure to work without killing the FinOps
metrics.”
Additional Resources
- When You Realize It’s More About Data Than About Storage
- Big News For All NetApp Customers: Classify Your Data with an
Industry-Leading Solution at No Cost
- Power Your Generative AI on AWS
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
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