NetApp to Acquire PEAK to Expand AI Storage Infrastructure Capabilities

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    "title": "NetApp to Acquire PEAK to Expand AI Storage Infrastructure Capabilities - citybiz",
    "excerpt": "NetApp has announced plans to acquire PEAK , a Manchester, U.K.-based AI storage software company, in a deal aimed at expanding NetApp’s infrastructure capabilities for large-scale artificial intelligence workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. The proposed acquisition will bring PEAK’s metadata architecture and high-performance parallel file system technology into NetApp’s data infrastructure portfolio. NetApp plans to combine those capabilities with its ONTAP software to create storage architecture capable of supporting trillions of files, multi-exabyte environments and increasingly large GPU clusters. The transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. NetApp is pursuing the acquisition as AI infrastructure requirements place greater pressure on conventional enterprise storage architectures. AI training and inference environments can generate highly parallel data access patterns, requiring storage systems to serve growing numbers of GPUs without allowing data availability or metadata processing to become a performance bottleneck. NetApp’s approach separates, or disaggregates, metadata services from the underlying data, allowing metadata capacity and performance to scale independently. PEAK’s technology is expected to accelerate that strategy by adding specialized metadata services, a global namespace and parallel NFS-based access...",
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    "related_company_domain": "peakengine.com"
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