NetApp이 확장 가능한 AI 인프라 아키텍처 플랫폼인 PEAK:AIO 인수 의향을 발표했습니다.

NetApp has announced its intent to acquire PEAK:AIO, a developer of metadata architecture and high-performance parallel file systems, to accelerate its AI infrastructure roadmap. The acquisition aims to enhance metadata services and parallel namespace innovation for AI clouds managing massive GPU clusters and shared storage.

Traditional storage architectures were not designed for the scale, concurrency, and performance demands of AI factories and next-generation data-intensive applications. NetApp is building an architecture that disaggregates metadata from data, allowing metadata services to scale independently and support trillions of files, exabyte-scale environments, and massively parallel workloads.

By combining PEAK:AIO's metadata innovations with NetApp ONTAP software, customers will gain a differentiated architecture that preserves ONTAP's resilience, security, and operational maturity while introducing new scalability for AI workloads. "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, NetApp's Chief Executive Officer. "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."

PEAK:AIO's technology originated from collaborations with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University, addressing some of the industry's most demanding data-intensive computing challenges. The integration will add specialized metadata services and parallel namespace innovation to NetApp's ONTAP-based architecture while creating an evolution path for existing ONTAP customers.

"NetApp and PEAK:AIO connected through the shared belief that the AI era demands a fundamentally new approach to data infrastructure," said Mark Klarzynski, PEAK:AIO's Chief Technology Officer and Founder. "What excites us most about joining NetApp is the opportunity to pair our culture of innovation with the reach, scale, and customer trust of a global leader. Together, we have an opportunity to help shape that future and deliver technologies that make managing data at massive scale both practical and accessible."

The combined platform extends metadata scale, delivers a global namespace, and enables parallel NFS-based access for massively parallel workloads, while preserving ONTAP's proven resilience and operational maturity. The architecture is designed to support trillions of files and multi-exabyte deployments, combining scalable metadata services, standards-based parallel NFS access, and ONTAP as the resilient data foundation to reduce GPU stalls, improve infrastructure efficiency, and accelerate AI innovation.

The transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.