Pure Storage's unified fast file and object
storage platform, FlashBlade, helps MediaZen cut time to market by
96%, open opportunities to the global market
MOUNTAIN
VIEW, Calif., May 23, 2023
/PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that
delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and
services, today announced that MediaZen, a leading artificial
intelligence (AI)-based voice recognition provider in South Korea, is leveraging
FlashBlade®, its unified fast file and object storage
platform, to accelerate time to market for new AI services and
enhance R&D capabilities that propel AI innovation and
competitiveness.
Customer Challenge:
MediaZen's leading voice recognition solutions serve customers
across industries including automotive, education, public service,
retail, and telecommunications. Driven by operations in its NAMZ
Language Engineering Research Institute and the Magok R&D
Center, MediaZen is at the cutting edge of AI-enabled voice
recognition technologies, with a goal to become the leading
provider of AI services in South
Korea.
In order to accelerate innovation across its AI R&D
capabilities, the company required a data storage solution that
could develop faster training data and combine training results in
its AI advancement research tasks. However, MediaZen faced
difficulties scaling GPU clusters due to the limited flexibility of
its legacy storage solution, as well as the inability to process
large volumes of unstructured data and AI workloads
effectively.
Customer Impact:
MediaZen selected FlashBlade for its high performance parallel
processing architecture, superior I/O performance, and simple
management and upgradability. Benefits Pure Storage delivers to
MediaZen include:
- Accelerated Time to Market: MediaZen has reduced voice
recognition modeling tasks that previously took up to 12 months to
two weeks (96% enhancement) with FlashBlade, and new speech
recognition models were created in just four weeks with high-speed
shared storage that can support a multi-GPU distributed processing
environment.
- Simple, Efficient Storage Management: Data movement
between GPUs and storage, and within shared storage environments,
can now be processed at high speeds, while integrated networking
reduces storage complexity and enables efficient operation of
compute and storage environments with no extra headcount.
- Enhanced R&D Capabilities to Propel AI Innovation:
With FlashBlade, MediaZen created a new infrastructure environment
to advance its AI R&D and to develop and expand services that
are specific to market needs, providing a foundation for global
growth. As a result, MediaZen has seen remarkable growth by
providing diverse markets with AI-powered voice and language
services.
Executive Insight:
- "With FlashBlade, MediaZen now has the infrastructure to
advance its AI services to meet current and future market demands.
Tasks involving STT modeling that would have taken up to 12 months
to complete using the legacy equipment were completed in just 2
weeks with the aid of Pure Storage's solutions. We at MediaZen are
thrilled with the superb performance of FlashBlade, and the simple
operation and maintenance of it that requires no additional
headcount to manage." -- Yoon JongSung, Deputy Director,
NAMZ AI R&D Group, MediaZen
- "The AI era has arrived, and the need for modern all-flash
storage systems to support large-scale AI workloads and advanced
data analytics is increasing daily. To support market leaders
including MediaZen innovating and growing their businesses, we at
Pure Storage will deliver higher performance, capacity density, and
reliability with our differentiated flash technology." --
Jaesung Yoo, Managing
Director, Pure Storage Korea
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