NetApp announces that Nebul, a European AI-native cloud provider, is the first to implement NetApp Novus. According to NetApp, this architecture is designed to deliver high storage performance.
Nebul is building the Intelligent Cloud, a European sovereign platform that brings together accelerated infrastructure, enterprise data services, and AI capabilities. NetApp Novus is intended to optimize the use of millions of GPUs. The architecture is designed for a throughput capacity of up to 100 TB per second.
Nebul and NetApp are working on the implementation of this technology. They are exploring ways to help organizations gain a competitive edge with AI and derive greater value from their data. By combining Nebul’s AI services with the NetApp platform, the two companies are investigating how they can accelerate the adoption of sovereign AI. In addition, they aim to provide organizations with the security, management, and control that their data requires.
“Neoclouds and GPU-as-a-Service providers are building AI factories on a scale for which traditional storage architectures were never designed,” says Willem Hendrickx (photo), Senior Vice President and General Manager for EMEA and LATAM at NetApp. “As demand for data sovereignty grows in Europe, AI providers such as Nebul must also design their infrastructure to meet the compliance, security, and multitenant requirements of regulated sectors. This applies to sectors such as government, healthcare, and biotechnology. Novus combines an architecture developed for AI factories with the capabilities of the NetApp platform. This makes data AI-ready and secure.”
Flexible scaling of storage capacity
Thanks to Novus’s decoupled architecture, Nebul’s GPUs can remain productive within the multitenant environment. Additionally, performance, capacity, and the number of concurrent operations can be scaled independently of one another within a single namespace. This happens as customer demand grows.
Because Novus is built on NetApp ONTAP software, organizations using the NetApp platform can extend their existing data environments to sovereign cloud environments. This ensures that security, protection, and governance remain consistent, while existing data jurisdiction and access rules are maintained.
“With this architecture, we can scale our AI factory to meet growing customer demand without compromising the performance, security, or compliance they rely on,” says Arnold Juffer, founder and CEO of Nebul. “By combining NetApp’s enterprise data infrastructure with our sovereign Intelligent Cloud, organizations can transform their existing data into production-ready AI services and applications, all while retaining ownership and control of their data.”