NetApp and Supermicro Collaborate to Power AI at Any Scale
Key Highlights
- ➤NetApp (NTAP) and Supermicro announce strategic AI infrastructure collaboration
- ➤Jointly validated solutions target AI factories, enterprises, neoclouds, and sovereign AI
- ➤NetApp Novus Data Director will run on qualified Supermicro servers
- ➤NetApp AFF A90 provides the high-performance ONTAP data layer
- ➤NetApp AIPod with Supermicro supports private AI platforms from dozens to hundreds of GPUs
Expert Statements
Alvaro Celis, Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial, Partner and Ecosystem Officer at NetApp
“Customers need AI infrastructure that drives innovation and transformation, delivers world-class economics, and works seamlessly at scale from day one”
Alvaro Celis, Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial, Partner and Ecosystem Officer at NetApp
“By combining Supermicro’s AI leadership and ability to scale with the NetApp Platform, we can give customers—from commercial, enterprise to internet-with the most demanding requirements—secure, reliable AI solutions they can deploy quickly to accelerate innovation and build market leadership.”
Matthew Thauberger, Chief Revenue Officer, Supermicro
“Supermicro and NetApp have collaborated to offer AI-optimized, rack-scale infrastructure with intelligent data infrastructure built for governance, cyber resilience, sovereignty, and hybrid cloud flexibility.”
Matthew Thauberger, Chief Revenue Officer, Supermicro
“Whether customers are deploying an enterprise AI cluster, building a neocloud, delivering GPU-as-a-service, or standing up a sovereign AI factory, this collaboration gives them a validated path where the infrastructure and the data are designed to work together from the start.”
Joint solution combines compute and data infrastructure to optimize GPUs at scale
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced a strategic collaboration with Supermicro to deliver jointly validated AI infrastructure solutions spanning large-scale AI factories, enterprise deployments, neoclouds, and sovereign AI initiatives. By combining Supermicro's AI-optimized compute and rack-scale systems with the NetApp Platform, the companies will help customers accelerate deployment, improve GPU utilization, strengthen data governance, and reduce operational complexity.
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