Storage Titans Team Up With NVIDIA to Power Next-Gen AI Agents

Data Infrastructure Enters the AI Era

AI agents are only as powerful as the data streams that feed them—and with exponential growth in AI workloads, today’s storage technologies are undergoing a seismic transformation. In a major push to address this challenge, leading storage firms including Dell Technologies, NetApp, Vast Data, and WEKA are collaborating with NVIDIA to architect new data infrastructures purpose-built for the AI age. At the heart of this initiative is NVIDIA’s AI Enterprise and the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, offering accelerated data pipelines that ensure AI agents can consume, process, and learn from vast datasets in real-time. These partnerships aim to eliminate data bottlenecks, seamlessly integrate storage with generative AI workflows, and usher in a new standard of performance and scalability for enterprises leveraging AI.

Future-Proofing AI Workloads With Smarter Storage

From AI-powered customer support to autonomous workflows, enterprises are adopting agents that need persistent, high-throughput access to data lakes, vector databases, and LLMs. This marks a turning point for data infrastructure, requiring smarter software-defined storage systems. NVIDIA’s collaboration brings storage directly into the AI value chain—embedding data preprocessing, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and vector search directly into storage platforms. For example, NetApp integrates with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever to support AI reasoning directly on enterprise data, while Vast Data’s platform leverages GPU-driven parallel compute to eliminate latency in AI training. These advancements go beyond raw storage capacity, focusing on orchestrated, intelligent, and scalable pipelines tuned for the unique demands of enterprise-grade AI deployments.