“As the market for enterprise AI evolves, customers are moving from proof-of-concepts to real-world deployments, driving the need to unify their data for business impact,” he said. “Our secure, cloud-integrated, silo-free infrastructure positions us as a leader in this transformation. We power AI pipelines from data preparation to model training to production deployments on-premises and in the cloud. In the fourth quarter, our AI business grew five-fold year over year, again performing ahead of plan.”
During the year, NetApp expanded its AI ecosystem with such partners as Nvidia, Domino, Dremio, the Open Platform for Enterprise AI open-source project, and hyperscaler AI providers, Kurian said.
This included the development of new AI reference architectures with partners including Nvidia for AIDP, Cisco for FlexPod, Lenovo for AIPod, and, most recently, Intel for AIPod Mini, Kurian said. The fourth quarter saw NetApp’s high-performance Ontap all-flash storage certified for Nvidia DGX SuperPOD, Nvidia cloud partners, and Nvidia-certified systems.
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