NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced the launch of NetApp AI Data Engine, a data platform developed in partnership with NVIDIA Corp. and integrated with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design.

The new platform creates an automated global metadata catalog with search capabilities designed to help enterprises locate and manage data across their systems. The system analyzes file content to enhance metadata without relocating data, according to the company's press release.

"Despite massive investments and market pressures to leverage AI for improved productivity and enhanced business decision making, data challenges are bottlenecking projects before they even reach production," said Syam Nair, Chief Product Officer at NetApp.

NetApp AI Data Engine will launch this month for select customers and partners, with broader availability planned for early summer. The platform will integrate with Microsoft Azure-based AI applications, Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, and LangChain.

The system will support deployment across various server configurations, including the newly announced NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. NetApp plans to extend support to its AFF A-Series, AFF C-Series, and FAS storage environments.

Additional features scheduled for summer release include hybrid cloud support, multimodal data capabilities for visual data, and support for agentic AI workflows.

NetApp will also support NVIDIA STX, a rack-scale storage reference architecture for agentic AI built with NVIDIA Vera Rubin and NVIDIA BlueField-4 data processing units.

"By integrating with NVIDIA's AI Data Platform reference architecture, NetApp provides a framework for enterprises to efficiently manage data for large-scale AI deployments," said Jason Hardy, Vice President of Storage Technologies at NVIDIA.