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NetApp unveils fastest file system on the planet with great raft of other announcements

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NetApp launched Novus, a new file system designed for AI workloads, claiming it to be the fastest in the world.

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NetApp's new Novus is claimed to be the fastest file system on the planet, focussed on streaming huge amounts of data to GPUs for AI. It's being announced at NetApp's annual Insight event where NetApp is also introducing Keystone Sovereign, with new data sovereignty controls. Its AI Data Engine has been updated to expand metadata discovery across the full enterprise data estate, including NetApp ONTAP, StorageGRID, and non-NetApp storage. New hybrid multi-cloud capabilities with autonomous controls add a second fleet management delivery model to NetApp console. There is also a conversational ChatOps interface in NetApp Console delivering autonomous storage operations across ONTAP storage systems. Several existing partnerships are being updated as well as fleet management facilities being introduced. We'll look at each of these in turn, starting with Novus. Novus has disaggregated metadata and data servers, separating metadata from the data path so performance, capacity, and concurrency can scale independently under a single name space using industry-standard NFS. We noted that NetApp is acquiring parallel NFS software supplier Peak:AIO just days ago. The Novus file system is aimed at Neoclouds and GPU-as-a-Service providers building AI factories. This announcement sees NetApp saying it is fully able to compete with other high-performance AI factory storage suppliers such as...

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