NVIDIA-Certified Storage

NVIDIA-Certified Storage

High-performance storage for AI factories, certified to deliver mission-critical reliability, maximize infrastructure ROI, and accelerate time-to-market.

Overview

Accelerated Storage for the AI Era

AI factories require storage that can sustain performance across diverse AI workloads at scale. With NVIDIA-Certified Storage, enterprises and cloud providers can confidently deploy validated partner solutions that meet production demands for performance, security, reliability, and scale.

Benefits

What Does NVIDIA-Certified Storage Offer?

Faster Time to Production

We act as "Customer Zero" to validate storage solutions, reducing the burden of complex assessments. Pre-tested and benchmarked configurations help organizations bypass lengthy evaluation cycles and deploy AI infrastructure faster.

Proven Performance

Certification verifies sustained throughput and performance consistency under real-world conditions, helping prevent GPU starvation and ensuring storage keeps pace with compute demands.

Reduced Risk

Collaboration with storage partners helps identify and resolve architectural and readiness issues, helping organizations avoid costly redesigns and support long-term operations.

Ecosystem Integration

We validate interoperability with NVIDIA reference architectures to reduce integration uncertainty across compute, networking, and storage. Our standardized process streamlines product selection and supports full-stack compatibility.

Certification Types

Explore Available Certifications

NVIDIA-Certified Storage certification starts at the Foundation level, which proves a system’s baseline AI performance capabilities. From there, a system can go on to obtain Enterprise and NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP)-level certifications.

Enterprise

The Enterprise-level certification validates performance across a range of real-world workloads, including training, inference, query-retrieval, and agentic AI, each with unique read/write patterns and latency requirements. It runs these workloads on NVIDIA Reference Architecture deployments, ensuring seamless compatibility across compute, networking, and storage layers within the full-stack AI ecosystem.

NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP)

NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP)-level certification builds on the Enterprise certification by running AI workloads at cloud scale, with the addition of tests for tenant-level isolation and quality-of-service controls. Additionally, these platforms must be capable of tenant-specific security, encryption, key management, and network support for multitenancy. 

Partners

NVIDIA-Certified Storage Partners

NVIDIA-Certified Storage is available globally from leading data platform and storage providers.

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Unlock AI Factory Potential With Certified Storage

NVIDIA Reference Architectures combine NVIDIA-Certified Systems™ with high-speed networking and infrastructure software in validated, repeatable designs for building scalable AI factories. NVIDIA-Certified Storage systems meet the data demands of AI factories, from ingestion and training to fine-tuning, inference, and agentic workloads.

AI Factories

Unlock AI Factory Potential With Certified Storage

An AI factory is specialized infrastructure designed to meet the massive compute demands of processes like data ingestion, training, fine-tuning, and high-volume inference.  NVIDIA-Certified Storage systems are key to achieving the best performance of AI factory infrastructure, whether used as part of an enterprise reference architecture or an NVIDIA Cloud Partner.

Enterprise Reference Architectures

NVIDIA enterprise reference architectures provide proven and comprehensive design recommendations, including guidance on the full-stack AI hardware and software configurations needed to build high-performance, scalable data center infrastructure.

NVIDIA Cloud Partners

NVIDIA Cloud Partners—part of the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN)—offer hosted computing and services on high-performance infrastructure, purpose-built to handle diverse workloads and demanding applications, such as AI agents, generative AI, and industrial digitalization.

Next Steps

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NVIDIA-Certified Systems are accelerated systems from leading NVIDIA partners, certified to deliver maximum performance, reliability, and scale.

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