NetApp introduced its new capabilities, which are designed for strategic cloud workloads, including GenAI and VMware.
“Strategic workloads, including GenAI and virtualised 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 of Cloud Storage at NetApp.
“With a robust, intelligent data infrastructure, APAC organisations will be able to harness their entire data estate, maximise their GenAI investments, and usher in a new era of innovation,” said Matthew Swinbourne, CTO of Cloud Architecture at NetApp Asia Pacific.
New capabilities
The new capabilities include a NetApp BlueXP Workload Factory for AWS to automate the planning, provisioning, and management of cloud resources and services for key workloads, including GenAI, VMware cloud environments, and enterprise databases.
Further, NetApp GenAI Toolkit – Microsoft Azure NetApp Files Version aims to offer 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).
It also includes Amazon Bedrock with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Reference Architecture, a joint reference architecture that aims to guide on implementing RAG-enabled workflows that bring proprietary data stored on Amazon FSx for ONTAP into their GenAI data pipelines.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Enhancements with enhanced capabilities to boost scalability and flexibility aims to provide up to 6 GB per second of throughput for a single highly-available (HA) pair from 512 TiB of SSD storage.
NetApp BlueXP Disaster Recovery Support for VMFS aims to provide guided workflows to design and execute automated disaster recovery plans for VMware workloads across both on-premises and cloud environments and has been expanded to support VMFS datastores for on-premises to on-premises disaster recovery.
