On Tuesday, NetApp Inc. introduced new hardware designed to run demanding generative AI workloads in on-premises data centers.

The data storage and management company announced the NetApp AFF A-Series systems, all-flash hardware that will support acceleration of advanced workloads while optimizing storage costs.

Rob Strechay and Sandeep Singh on theCUBE set at NetApp Converge in Las Vegas.

“The major part of our announcement was that next major advance to unified data storage,” said Sandeep Singh (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of enterprise storage at NetApp. “What we mean by that is basically a single storage OS ONTAP that can underpin any application, data workload, any data type whether its structured or unstructured, across on-prem and cloud. It’s unified data storage built for the AI era.”

Singh spoke with theCUBE’s Rob Strechay at the NetApp Unveils Unified Data Storage Built for the AI Era event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed NetApp’s latest announcements around AI support and cyber protection. (* Disclosure below.)

NetApp unveils new platform with Lenovo and Nvidia

The AFF A-Series system announcement was accompanied by the launch of AIPod with Lenovo ThinkSystem servers for Nvidia Corp.’s OVX. The offering is a converged infrastructure platform for enabling companies to enhance generative AI models with proprietary data.

“The power for enterprises is to be able to take their enterprise data and combine that with the pre-trained generative AI models to make it more contextual for them,” Singh explained. “This is why we teamed up with Lenovo and Nvidia to build a new converged infrastructure.”

The company also unveiled a new Cyber Vault Reference Architecture that will leverage autonomous real-time ransomware detection and rapid data restoration.

“We’ve added in a cyber vault solution available to customers so they can now add an additional site that is a cyber vault,” Singh said. “It provides these indelible, immutable snapshots, full copies of the data that are available for recovery points for customers.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of the NetApp Unveils Unified Data Storage Built for the AI Era event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the NetApp Unveils Unified Data Storage Built for the AI Era event. Neither NetApp Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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