Storage Giants Collaborate With NVIDIA to Power Next-Gen AI Agents

Major storage and server manufacturers including DDN, Dell Technologies, HPE, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, NetApp, Nutanix, Pure Storage, VAST Data, and WEKA are leveraging the NVIDIA AI Data Platform to develop systems for next-generation agentic AI applications. This platform combines NVIDIA's accelerated computing, networking, and software to enable real-time processing of vast unstructured data.

Key Developments:

• Enterprise AI Infrastructure: The reference design helps organizations deploy storage platforms that can scan, index, and retrieve documents/videos to enhance AI agents' reasoning capabilities using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices.
• ODM Collaborations: AIC, ASUS, Foxconn, Quanta Cloud Technology, Supermicro, and Wistron are designing hardware with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, BlueField DPUs, and Spectrum-X Ethernet to optimize NVIDIA AI Enterprise software performance.

Industry Impact:

• IBM Fusion integrates content-aware storage with NVIDIA’s platform to improve AI inference accuracy.
• NetApp AIPod combines compute nodes running NeMo Retriever with scalable NVIDIA-networked storage.
• VAST Data unifies its platform with NVIDIA’s AI-Q blueprint for multi-agent systems.

"Taiwan-based ODMs like AIC and ASUS are critical in delivering energy-efficient, compact hardware for scalable agentic AI," the report highlights. Supermicro’s Petascale All-Flash Array exemplifies innovations in this space.

Upcoming Event: Learn more at NVIDIA GTC Taipei (May 21-22).