NetApp AIPod with NVIDIA DGX solves the real challenges organizations face when adopting AI: complex integrations, siloed infrastructures, unpredictable performance, and data security concerns. The solution combines NVIDIA's H100 Tensor Core GPUs with NetApp's unified hybrid data architecture to deliver a complete platform that supports the entire AI lifecycle, from data preparation and model training through fine-tuning and production inference. AIPod includes NetApp ONTAP data management software with advanced capabilities like snapshots for rapid experimentation, instant dataset copies, and scalability. All of this is managed through a single namespace that spans on-premises and multi-cloud environments.
NetApp AIPod eliminates storage bottlenecks through high-performance NFS over RDMA with NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage, delivering throughput to keep GPUs fully utilized and maximize your AI infrastructure investment. The platform provides robust data protection and governance features essential for enterprise AI deployments: policy-driven security, built-in ransomware protection, automated audit trails for model traceability, and compliance support. With support for popular MLOps platforms, data scientists and developers can automate workflows and provision resources on demand without needing storage administrator intervention.
Validated by thousands of deployments and backed by seven years of proven collaboration between NetApp and NVIDIA, AIPod scales from departmental AI projects to enterprise-wide SuperPOD configurations supporting hundreds of GPUs. Organizations deploy AIPod for diverse use cases, including large language model training, computer vision, recommendation systems, drug discovery, autonomous systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for enterprise generative AI applications. The solution supports flexible consumption models, including traditional purchase, NetApp Keystone pay-as-you-grow, and first-party cloud services in major hyperscalers. This flexibility lets organizations align AI infrastructure investments with business outcomes and scale as their AI initiatives mature.