NetApp and Nvidia announce Ontap AI, an AI data platform for enterprise

The data on which they're trained is more important than the models themselves, some would argue, which is one of the reasons IDC predicts that more than 44 zettabytes of digital data will be created by 2020. Thankfully, the rise of big data has coincided with a continued decline in cloud storage pricing, motivated in part by cheaper media costs, better management tools, and innovations in object storage. But not all cloud storage providers are created equal. Some lack the fine-grain management tools required to collate, process, and transfer AI model data quickly and efficiently. And not all enterprises have storage stacks optimized for data science workflows. Nvidia and data storage company NetApp today jointly announced what they believe is a solution: Ontap AI, which they describe as an "AI-proven architecture."