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AI Data Engine is a metadata intelligence service, managed through NetApp Console, that scans your connected systems, builds a metadata catalog, and gives you the visibility and tools to optimize storage and govern data at scale. With governed AI access, AI clients can search that metadata through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

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Learn about AI Data Engine
AI Data Engine architecture
Quick start
What's new
Known limitations
Deploy
Deployment overview
AIDE requirements
Deploy AIDE as a single-node deployment
Deploy AIDE as a multi-node deployment
Learn about proxies for AIDE
Explore your data
Connect a data source
Manage data sources
Assess storage utilization from the dashboard
Investigate your data
Take actions on data
Explore storage optimization workflows
Policies and actions
Create a policy
Manage policies
Governed AI access (MCP)
Learn about governed AI access
Quick start for governed AI access
Maintain your MCP setup
Administer
Manage users and roles
Configure data classification thresholds and access scanning