Strategic collaboration delivers data science
and IT teams a common platform and processes for AI across the
hybrid cloud, aligned with business objectives and without
compromises
LAS
VEGAS, Sept. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today
at NetApp INSIGHT, Domino Data Lab, provider of the leading
Enterprise AI Platform trusted by the largest AI-driven companies,
and NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced
a strategic collaboration to help enterprises unlock AI's full
transformative power using NetApp's advanced hybrid file storage
technology in Domino. For the first time, companies can use one
platform to manage both workloads and data movement in the hybrid
cloud as well as across environments — making data AI-ready
anytime, anywhere and simultaneously scaling data and AI, all with
the efficiency, portability, and auditability required by
enterprises.
AI's transformational power remains elusive
because enterprises compromise their AI initiatives. Data
scientists and IT operate in silos where valuable resources, effort
and time are spent trying to scale AI. These initiatives lack the
security and efficiency to innovate at the pace business leaders
expect, and fall short of governance to comply with policies and
regulations. The result is increased risk, excessive costs and lost
revenue opportunities. By combining enterprise data and AI
management across the AI lifecycle, Domino and NetApp are opening
the path for new strategies devoid of such compromises.
"Enterprises cannot capture AI's opportunity
without a unified approach to data and models," said Jonsi Stefansson, SVP and CTO, Cloud
Operations at NetApp. "Intelligent data infrastructure from
NetApp helps customers more easily manage their data across a
hybrid cloud estate for AI training and inferencing. Our
collaboration with Domino allows organizations with a single
advanced, unified AI and data stack to scale AI innovation easily,
quickly, safely and responsibly across the world's largest
clouds."
The two companies will co-develop a joint
capability streamlining hybrid data and AI operations – allowing
data scientists using Domino to provision and share
high-performance storage volumes across cloud and on-premises
environments with a single click. Powered by NetApp ONTAP and
BlueXP™, the integration will offer industry-leading
snapshotting, caching, and synchronization features, ensuring full
data traceability and model reproducibility—a critical requirement
for preserving audit trails and meeting regulatory compliance. With
seamless access to data, AI developers can innovate on models
faster while simultaneously satisfying IT needs for secure data
management.
"AI innovation stalls when teams must balance it
with technical complexity and governance," said Nick Elprin, co-founder and CEO of Domino.
"Together with NetApp, we're smashing these barriers, helping our
customers unleash AI's full potential immediately."
"Enterprises have invested heavily in big data,
analytics, and cloud-based initiatives over the past decade, yet
many still struggle to unlock the full potential of AI," said
Howard Dresner, founder and chief
research officer at Dresner Advisory. "Cohesive methods for
orchestrating models across any infrastructure and governing data
precisely is key for responsible and efficient AI deployment."
The joint Domino and NetApp solution also
eliminates the need to choose between velocity and enterprise
readiness, innovation and risk management, or value and return on
investment (ROI) of AI initiatives. It does this by creating a
common operating environment across all data and models,
integration with the world's largest clouds, and a common control
plane – coupled tightly with the AI model development lifecycle to
streamline the AI and data lifecycle. This allows enterprises
to:
- Scale AI and data simultaneously across any
infrastructure. Costly data movements or delays impede
data, infrastructure, and tool orchestration. Efficient data
movement and replication, powered by NetApp ONTAP, makes that data
instantly and securely available at scale on the infrastructure
where it's needed for training and inferencing of models, with full
resilience and security. Teams can co-locate data, infrastructure,
and AI tooling with seamless cloud bursting to accelerate AI
projects, ensure compliance with data sovereignty regulations, and
drive cost-efficient cloud or repatriation strategies.
- End-to-end AI and data governance to trust AI at enterprise
scale. Joint governance capabilities enable full
traceability, reproducibility, and auditability of all data,
including metadata and artifacts. Domino captures this data from
users and systems, while NetApp ONTAP's efficient snapshotting
capabilities ensure full data provenance via immutable dataset
copies, visibility on policy compliance, and enable audits without
disrupting the AI lifecycle. This unprecedented governance scope
spanning AI and data saves time lost to forensics, compliance
assessments, and risk mitigation.
- Put enterprise data at the fingertips of data scientists and
AI builders. NetApp's innovative Data Explorer will power an
unprecedented abstraction of underlying infrastructure allowing
data scientists to directly search and access available enterprise
data anytime, anywhere without delay as they build models and
processes. This shrinks AI project timelines and prevents the need
for data engineering.
The collaboration's foundational capability,
Domino Cloud running on Amazon FSx for NetApp's ONTAP, is available
today, offering customers:
- Curation and sharing of robust, versioned data resources
allowing data scientists to collaboratively iterate on model
development faster, with write speeds improved by 417% and read
speeds by 94% – reducing data loading times, training delays, and
retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) inefficiencies—maximizing the
return on AI projects and infrastructure investments.
- Efficient migration of data between on-premises and cloud
environments with NetApp
FlexCache® technology, ensuring just-in-time
availability, optimized performance, and consistent model
governance across environments with Domino.
- Storage that grows and shrinks automatically based on needs,
with integrated enterprise-grade security and no manual setup or
maintenance.
Availability
Domino Cloud powered by
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is available now on AWS Marketplace.
Additional capabilities will be available in early 2025.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Domino's partnership with NetApp.
- Learn to unlock the full potential of AI with Domino
and NetApp in a new NetApp Community blog.
- Learn more about the latest innovations in the Domino
Enterprise AI Platform.
- Follow Domino on LinkedIn and X/Twitter.
About Domino Data Lab
Domino Data Lab empowers the largest AI-driven
enterprises to build and operate AI at scale. Domino's Enterprise
AI Platform unifies the flexibility AI teams want with the
visibility and control the enterprise requires. Domino enables a
repeatable and agile ML lifecycle for faster, responsible AI impact
with lower costs. With Domino, global enterprises can develop
better medicines, grow more productive crops, develop more
competitive products, and more. Founded in 2013, Domino is backed
by Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and other
leading investors. Learn more at www.domino.ai.
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