NetApp and Supermicro team up on jointly validated AI infrastructure

NetApp announced a strategic collaboration with Supermicro to deliver jointly validated AI infrastructure spanning enterprise deployments, neoclouds, sovereign AI and large-scale AI factories. The first implementation runs NetApp Novus Data Director on qualified Supermicro servers with NetApp AFF A90 systems as the ONTAP data layer.

• Partnership covers AI factories, neoclouds and sovereign AI projects
• First step: NetApp Novus Data Director on Supermicro servers
• Metadata and data planes scale independently in a single namespace
• AIPod with Supermicro follows Nvidia reference architecture guidance