AIRI//S provides pre-validated, simple, scalable
infrastructure for all stages of the AI data pipeline
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ANGELES, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at
Pure//Accelerate® techfest22, Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT
pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage
technology and services, announced AIRI®//S, the next generation of
its complete AI-ready infrastructure, developed by Pure Storage and
NVIDIA. AIRI//S provides enterprises a simple, on-demand
infrastructure that accelerates AI initiatives at any scale.
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Enterprises across industries have recognized the power of AI to
speed innovation and gain a competitive edge with critical business
insights. However, the complexity and rigidity of legacy
infrastructure technology – both on premises and in the cloud – is
a barrier for enterprises looking to achieve the promise of
AI-based data science. Too many AI initiatives are stalled by the
intricacies of a "do-it-yourself" approach, leading to significant
delays and idle time. Instead, AI requires a completely new
infrastructure to facilitate faster innovation and obtain
actionable, modern analytics.
To meet this need, Pure Storage, in collaboration with NVIDIA,
launched AIRI in 2018, the first AI-ready infrastructure reference
architecture, purpose-built to enable organizations to achieve
better utilization and uptime, and ultimately scale their AI and
data science investments without complexity.
Today, Pure announced the next step in its collaboration with
NVIDIA with the release of AIRI//S, powered by FlashBlade®//S,
NVIDIA DGX A100 systems and end-to-end networking, based on NVIDIA
Quantum and Spectrum networking platforms. AIRI//S provides
enterprises with a proven, simple, and scalable infrastructure for
all stages of the AI data pipeline. The first solution to include
Pure's revolutionary new FlashBlade//S, AIRI//S delivers
significant advancements in non-disruptive performance, density,
power efficiency and scale, resulting in optimal alignment to the
industry-leading AI training performance and parallelism gains that
DGX systems deliver.
Since launch, AIRI has supported hundreds of AI workloads across
customers ranging from startups to national security departments to
multinational technology conglomerates, and every type of
data-driven industry in between.
Critical benefits of AIRI//S include:
- Ease of Use: AIRI//S can be set up, deployed and managed
quickly and seamlessly as an end-to-end AI pipeline solution. Not
only does AIRI//S ensure that infrastructure teams are not
overwhelmed by growing AI requirements, but also that data teams
remain productive and spend more time delivering insights and less
on worrying about their infrastructure.
- Performance at Any Scale: AIRI//S is optimized
out-of-the-box to deliver multi-dimensional performance for all
stages of the AI data pipeline, and can seamlessly scale storage
and AI compute capabilities, allowing organizations to start their
AI journeys at any scale and grow as needed.
- Agile AI Platform: As the AI data science landscape and
customer requirements evolve, enterprises can now adapt their AI
infrastructure to accelerate time to competitive advantage with
faster responses to fluctuating market dynamics.
- Sustainable, Efficient AI Infrastructure: AIRI//S is the
first to include Pure Storage's revolutionary new FlashBlade//S,
which enables more powerful, high-performance AI infrastructure in
the same footprint by delivering high density, reduced power
consumption, and unmatched data center efficiency.
Additionally, leveraging Evergreen™//Forever (formerly Evergreen
Gold) and Evergreen//One (formerly Pure as-a-Service), customers
can take advantage of both always-modern infrastructure
subscriptions and true, consumption-based storage subscriptions to
efficiently manage their investments as they grow their AI
infrastructure.
"Traditional approaches to AI infrastructure often result in
silos of servers and storage that are either over-spent on capacity
or starve AI workloads. With a focus on simplicity and scalability,
AIRI//S enables global enterprises to achieve better time to
insights and make the most out of their data with AI. We're
incredibly excited to expand on our collaboration with NVIDIA to
deliver the next-generation of AI-ready infrastructure." –
Amy Fowler, Vice President,
Strategy and Solutions, FlashBlade, Pure Storage
"Enterprises are turning to AI to grow top-line results while
enhancing customer experiences and reducing costs. These complex
challenges require integrated, full-stack computing optimized for
AI, and AIRI//S built on NVIDIA DGX systems provides customers with
modular, high-performance enterprise infrastructure that scales
easily as these demands continue to grow." – Charlie Boyle, Vice President, DGX systems,
NVIDIA
Support for NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage is planned in
future updates. The innovative architecture of FlashBlade//S
includes powerful and modular hardware, making it easier to bring
further innovation to the AIRI//S platform as their AI requirements
evolve.
To learn more, visit:
- AIRI//S
- Blog: AIRI//S, The Next Generation AI Ready Platform from Pure
Storage and NVIDIA
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) uncomplicates data storage,
forever. Pure delivers a cloud experience that empowers every
organization to get the most from their data while reducing the
complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it.
Pure's commitment to providing true storage as-a-service gives
customers the agility to meet changing data needs at speed and
scale, whether they are deploying traditional workloads, modern
applications, containers, or more. And with a certified customer
satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's
ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the
world. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
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