NetApp to Acquire PEAK:AIO, Bringing Its Scale-Out pNFS Metadata Work to ONTAP
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NetApp has agreed to acquire PEAK:AIO, the Manchester, UK software company whose metadata and parallel NFS work NetApp says will accelerate its AI infrastructure roadmap. NetApp plans to combine PEAK:AIO's metadata services and parallel namespace technology with ONTAP, aiming at shared storage that scales alongside growing GPU clusters, in an architecture it says is intended to support trillions of files and multi-exabyte deployments. Terms weren't disclosed, and the deal is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. "AI clouds need high-performance shared storage that can scale alongside growing GPU clusters while maintaining the resilience, security, and operational simplicity organizations depend on," said George Kurian, CEO of NetApp. "With PEAK:AIO, we are delivering on our vision for a new generation of AI infrastructure that combines scalable metadata services with the proven foundation of ONTAP to help customers maximize infrastructure efficiency and support AI at hyperscale cloud." NetApp describes an architecture that disaggregates metadata from data so metadata services can scale independently of capacity. PEAK:AIO brings metadata scale, a global namespace, and parallel NFS access for massively parallel workloads, and NetApp brings ONTAP as the data foundation, with the resilience, security, and operational maturity its customers already run...
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