AI, caramba: NetApp pits scaly A800 ONTAP beast against Pure's AIRI fairy

Flashes next-gen unit to compete with FlashBlade box

The clash of the million-dollar AI titans resumes. NetApp has designed an ONTAP AI architecture based on its topline A800 flash array and Nvidia DGX-1 to try to win fat-pocketed customers away from Pure and Nvidia's AIRI AI system-in-a-box."