NetApp has collaborated with Intel to boost AI for businesses.
Takeaway Points
- NetApp collaborates with Intel.
- The aim is to boost AI for businesses.
- They also released NetApp AIPod Mini with Intel.
- It will be available in the summer of 2025.
NetApp and Intel
NetApp , the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced on Tuesday the release of NetApp AIPod Mini with Intel, a joint solution designed to streamline enterprise adoption of AI inferencing. This collaboration addresses the unique challenges businesses face when deploying AI, such as cost and complexity, at the department and team level.
Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer at NetApp, commented, “Our mission is to unlock AI for every team at every level without the traditional barriers of complexity or cost. NetApp AIPod Mini with Intel gives our customers a solution that not only transforms how teams can use AI but also makes it easy to customize, deploy, and maintain. We are turning proprietary enterprise data into powerful business outcomes.”
Greg Ernst, Americas Corporate Vice President and General Manager at Intel, said, “A good AI solution needs to be both powerful and efficient to ensure it delivers a strong return on investment. By combining Intel Xeon processors with NetApp’s robust data management and storage capabilities, the NetApp AIPod Mini solution offers business units the chance to deploy AI in tackling their unique challenges. This solution empowers users to harness AI without the burden of oversized infrastructure or unnecessary technical complexity.”
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The Partnership
NetApp said that it has collaborated with Intel to provide businesses with an integrated AI inferencing solution built on an intelligent data infrastructure framework that enables particular business functions to leverage their distinct data to create outcomes that support their needs.
According to the report, NetApp AIPod Mini will allow businesses to interact directly with their business data through pre-packaged Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows, combining generative AI.
Availability
NetApp AIPod Mini with Intel will be available in the summer of 2025 from strategic distributors and partners around the world, the company said.
These initial launch partners will include the company’s distributor partners Arrow Electronics and TD SYNNEX as well as integration partners Insight Partners, CDW USA, CDW UK&I, Presidio, and Long View Systems, who will provide dedicated support and service to ensure a seamless purchasing and deployment experience for customers’ unique AI use cases, the report stated.
About NetApp
NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data storage, integrated data, and operational and workload services to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability and AI to enable the industry’s best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world’s biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless flexibility.
In addition, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application agility. Our operational and workload services provide continuous optimization of performance and efficiency for infrastructure and workloads through observability and AI. No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can transform your data infrastructure to realize your business possibilities.
