KUALA LUMPUR: NetApp Malaysia Sdn Bhd (NetApp) has announced new developments aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) innovation in Malaysia and supporting the country's ambition to become Southeast Asia's AI hub.
Its country manager Alwyn David said by providing essential infrastructure for generative AI (GenAI), NetApp enables Malaysian organisations to harness transformative technologies and overcome data challenges.
"Building a robust, intelligent data infrastructure is crucial for organisations to drive AI innovation. Our latest innovations position us to help Malaysian businesses unlock the full value of their data with AI and achieve their strategic goals," he said in a statement.
At the NetApp Insight 2024 conference recently, chief executive officer George Kurian emphasised that AI challenges are fundamentally data challenges.
He outlined how intelligent data infrastructure can secure, govern and continually update relevant data to support a unified GenAI stack.
NetApp is undergoing Nvidia certification for its Ontap storage system with the Nvidia DGX SuperPOD AI infrastructure, enabling organisations to manage large-scale AI projects effectively, particularly those involving large language models.
The company has created a global metadata namespace to allow secure exploration and management of data across hybrid multi-cloud environments, facilitating feature extraction and data classification for AI applications.
"Additionally, NetApp Ontap now offers an integrated AI data pipeline that automates the preparation of unstructured data, enabling high-scale, low-latency semantic searches and retrieval augmented generation inferencing," said David.
NetApp is also enhancing its native cloud services by providing an integrated data platform for data ingestion, discovery, and cataloguing.