NetApp이 Peak:AIO를 인수해 메타데이터 혁신과 병렬 NFS 기능을 ONTAP 스토리지 플랫폼에 통합하여 AI 클라우드 워크로드를 지원합니다.
NetApp announced on September 25, 2026, its intent to acquire PEAK:AIO, a developer of next-generation metadata architecture and high-performance parallel file systems. The planned acquisition is expected to accelerate NetApp's AI infrastructure roadmap by augmenting metadata services and parallel namespace innovation designed to help AI clouds scale shared storage alongside growing GPU clusters.
As AI embeds itself across enterprise workloads, organizations face a new constraint: traditional storage architectures were not engineered for the scale, concurrency, and performance demands of AI factories, AI clouds, and data-intensive applications. NetApp is building an architecture that disaggregates metadata from data, enabling metadata services to scale independently and supporting trillions of files, exabyte-scale environments, and massively parallel workloads.
The acquisition reinforces NetApp's strategy to address the rapidly growing AI infrastructure market. By combining PEAK:AIO's metadata innovations with NetApp ONTAP software, customers will benefit from 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, Chief Executive Officer at 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."
PEAK:AIO's technology originated from collaborations with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University and was designed to address 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, Chief Technology Officer and Founder at PEAK:AIO. "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 with NetApp, we have an opportunity to help shape that future and deliver technologies that make managing data at a massive scale both practical and accessible."
PEAK:AIO's metadata innovation extends metadata scale, delivers a global namespace, and enables parallel NFS-based access for massively parallel workloads. NetApp contributes ONTAP expertise, global reach, and operational maturity. Together, they are expected to deliver capabilities that simplify deployment and operation of shared storage for large AI environments.
The architecture is designed to support trillions of files and multi-exabyte deployments while preserving the resiliency, security, and operational simplicity expected from ONTAP. It combines 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.
NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, delivering the NetApp data platform—a unified, enterprise-grade foundation connecting, protecting, and activating data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on NetApp ONTAP, its leading data management software, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it provides observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world's largest clouds, NetApp gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.
PEAK:AIO is a Manchester UK-based software-defined AI storage company delivering high-performance AI storage from a single server to exabytes on industry-standard hardware. PEAK:AIO is deployed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NHS AIDE, Oxford Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Liverpool, University of Strathclyde MediForge Hub, and Zoological Society of London.