Enterprises must excel in artificial intelligence data management to stay competitive, navigating complex, disparate data across various platforms.

To help enterprises compete, World Wide Technology LLC integrates solutions in modern data centers, cloud platforms, AI and data strategies in partnership with NetApp Inc. Customers can bring their workload to World Wide Technology to test their hardware, with a focus on AI and Nvidia Corp., Derek Elbert (pictured), technical solutions architect at World Wide Technology, explained.

Derek Elbert, technical solutions architect at World Wide Technology, talking to theCUBE about AI data management.

“If you look at how we go to market, there’s really seven main solution areas that we go to market and NetApp plays in a large majority of those,” Elbert said. “We’re talking about modern data centers, so normal compute, storage, networking and then also in the cloud platform arena with all the cloud providers, plus the AI and data strategy solution area as well. So that’s where we’ve actually been spending quite a bit of time is in that AI and data strategy solution area inside WWT with NetApp.”

Elbert spoke with theCUBE’s Rebecca Knight and 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 how World Wide Technology’s strong culture and focus on partnerships with customers and partners, allows the company to provide high value. (* Disclosure below.)

Mastering AI data management for enterprise success

NetApp’s unique position with dedicated environment and Cloud connectivity allows customers to test and run AI workloads on their hardware, according to Elbert.

“We find ourselves in a unique position where everybody’s talking about AI, and I think there’s a small percentage that actually know how to do it or what to do with it,” Elbert said. “So we have this place where they can come. If they’re more advanced, they can actually bring their workload and run it on our hardware and actually test the use case. But usually where we find customers is they are still trying to identify and prioritize what these use cases are.”

WWT has been working with customers for over a decade on traditional AI use cases and is now evolving solutions for industry-specific needs, Elbert explained.

“We have started evolving the solutions on industry specifics, whether it’s global financials or healthcare and life sciences, or whether it’s retail. There’s a story that we can help them tell,” Elbert said. “Part of that is because we have such a good relationship, not just with NetApp, but also with Nvidia, that we can go in as a trio and present to the customer a full solution where we are providing the consultative business value of the actual hardware and software stack that NetApp and Nvidia bring to bear, but we can actually show that to the customer and take it to market.”

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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