NetApp completed its acquisition of software-defined storage platform Peak:AIo.

Announced in late September, the deal sees Peak:Alo's specialized metadata services integrated into NetApp’s flagship Ontap platform.

No financial details were disclosed, though NetApp claims additions from Peak’s high-performance parallel file system offerings will augment capabilities for shared storage across increasingly large AI environments.

“AI infrastructure is reaching unprecedented scale, demanding a new approach to storage built from the ground up,” NetApp CEO George Kurian noted in a statement. “By combining Peak:AIo’s expertise in metadata services and parallel namespace innovation with the proven scale, data management capabilities, and enterprise-grade services of the NetApp Platform, we are leapfrogging the market as we deliver our next-generation, zettabyte-scale architecture to support the growth of AI clouds and GPU-as-a-service providers.”

NetApp has acquired a firm founded in 2021, but one that has gone on to support some of the data-intensive computing environments, including efforts at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Their joint Lattice server project involves a server architecture designed to break open metadata bottlenecks in parallel file systems.

Peak has also secured work with Carnegie Mellon University, as well as the National Health Service and Ministry of Defense in its home in the U.K.

The vendor’s specialized metadata services and parallel namespace innovations will work their way into NetApp offerings to simplify customer deployments.

“NetApp and Peak:AIO were built around the shared conviction that the AI era needs data infrastructure designed to scale to extraordinary levels,” Peak CTO Mark Klarzynski added. “With the acquisition by NetApp, we can bring our innovation together with the reach, expertise, and trusted customer relationships of a global data infrastructure leader.”

The conclusion of its Peak acquisition is one of a handful by NetApp in recent weeks. California-based DataPelago joined in July, with VMware disaster recovery and migration vendor JetStream Software snapped up a month later.