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Channel Post MEA
25-03-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Pure Storage Integrates NVIDIA AI Data Platform into FlashBlade
Pure Storage has announced it is integrating the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design into its FlashBlade platform, expanding its commitment to deliver validated, enterprise-grade, scalable, AI-ready solutions for customers to manage the high-performance data and accelerated compute requirements necessary for successful AI deployments. This announcement follows the launch of Pure Storage's FlashBlade//EXA, the industry's highest performing data storage platform engineered for the most demanding requirements of AI and high-performance computing. Achieving certification as a high-performance storage (HPS) platform for NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Partners: Pure Storage is now officially HPS certified for NVIDIA Cloud Partner Reference Architectures with NVIDIA HGX systems using NVIDIA B200 or H200 GPUs, further strengthening our collaboration with certification acknowledges Pure Storage as a trusted storage partner and validates Pure Storage's ability to support NVIDIA Cloud Partners with a proven reference architecture that meets all performance and technical requirements for building state-of-the-art GPU clouds. Pure Storage is now officially HPS certified for NVIDIA Cloud Partner Reference Architectures with systems using or H200 GPUs, further strengthening our collaboration with certification acknowledges Pure Storage as a trusted storage partner and validates Pure Storage's ability to support with a proven reference architecture that meets all performance and technical requirements for building state-of-the-art GPU clouds. Achieving NVIDIA-Certified Storage Partner approval for both Foundation and Enterprise levels, showcasing capabilities for enterprise AI factories: NVIDIA-Certified Storage Systems addresses the massive data demands of AI factories by offering a comprehensive storage certification. It rigorously tests storage systems to ensure they meet the highest standards of quality, efficiency, and reliability. This program complements NVIDIA-Certified™ Systems and NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architectures (RAs), enabling partners and customers to efficiently deploy AI infrastructures. By integrating validated storage with NVIDIA's accelerated computing and software technologies, customers can confidently build AI factories that leverage data for faster, more accurate, and reliable AI models, unlocking new possibilities and driving innovation across industries. 'GPUs have fast become a driving force behind the next wave of AI innovation. The incorporation of the NVIDIA AI Data Platform into FlashBlade provides the AI-ready storage necessary for peak performance. Additionally, our recent NVIDIA certifications affirm that Pure Storage is supporting the pace and scale that AI models need to create change. Through our purpose-built storage solutions, enterprise customers can easily and efficiently harness the power of AI to accelerate success,' said Rob Lee, Chief Technology Officer, Pure Storage. Along with Pure Storage's recent certification of FlashBlade//S500 with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, these new certifications provide NVIDIA Cloud Partners and enterprises with high-performance storage that meet all requirements for building state-of-the-art AI infrastructure. By leveraging Pure Storage, customers can confidently deploy AI factory infrastructure while ensuring performance and scalability. The advent of large-scale AI and ML workloads has led to the rapid growth of GPU cloud providers that are scaling infrastructure to meet enterprise demand for accelerated computing. Enterprise AI projects rely on high-performance storage systems to keep up with the pace and scale of model training, inference, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows. However, traditional storage solutions often limit GPU efficiency, creating bottlenecks in data access and directly impacting time to outcomes. In addition, these traditional storage architectures introduce complexities in managing storage at scale and struggle with multi-tenant environments, increasing operational inefficiencies and risk of security gaps. With Pure Storage, organizations can deploy a storage solution that is compatible with NVIDIA accelerated computing and removes the barriers to real ROI and GPU workload efficiency. The Pure Storage platform eliminates bottlenecks and seamlessly handles multi-tenancy while promoting always-on quality of service (QoS). Pure Storage offers a solution with high-level read/write performance guarantees that can accelerate large-scale training and inference for AI workloads. Pure Storage also balances comprehensive and robust data storage with an easy-to-manage interface, further removing common complexities associated with legacy storage systems. 'The new wave of AI reasoning will be powered by massive datasets and requires an always-on data processing pipeline. By integrating NVIDIA AI Data Platform capabilities into Pure Storage FlashBlade, enterprises can equip AI agents with near-real-time business data to achieve new levels of personalized customer service, operational efficiency, and unprecedented productivity,' said Rob Davis, Vice President, Storage Networking Technology at NVIDIA. 0 0


Tahawul Tech
25-03-2025
- Business
- Tahawul Tech
'Pure Storage is supporting the pace and scale that AI models need to create change.' – Rob Lee, Pure Storage
Pure Storage has announced it is integrating the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design into its FlashBlade® platform, expanding its commitment to deliver validated, enterprise-grade scalable, AI-ready solutions for customers that meet NVIDIA's rigorous standards. Pure Storage is advancing enterprise data storage and management by enhancing enterprise customers' ability to manage the high-performance data and accelerated compute requirements necessary for successful AI deployments, including: ● Delivering NVIDIA AI Data Platform capabilities with Pure Storage FlashBlade: Supporting NVIDIA's new reference design for building intelligent AI Data Platforms, FlashBlade enables customers to elevate storage in the era of AI, as a high-performance, distributed system that rapidly provides business insights from data. By tapping into NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, FlashBlade can process data with the speed and agility required for AI reasoning applications. This announcement follows the launch of Pure Storage's FlashBlade//EXA™, the industry's highest performing data storage platform engineered for the most demanding requirements of AI and high-performance computing. ● Achieving certification as a high-performance storage (HPS) platform for NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Partners: Pure Storage is now officially HPS certified for NVIDIA Cloud Partner Reference Architectures with NVIDIA HGX systems using NVIDIA B200 or H200 GPUs, further strengthening our collaboration with NVIDIA. This certification acknowledges Pure Storage as a trusted storage partner and validates Pure Storage's ability to support NVIDIA Cloud Partners with a proven reference architecture that meets all performance and technical requirements for building state-of-the-art GPU clouds. ● Achieving NVIDIA-Certified Storage Partner approval for both Foundation and Enterprise levels, showcasing capabilities for enterprise AI factories: NVIDIA-Certified Storage Systems addresses the massive data demands of AI factories by offering a comprehensive storage certification. It rigorously tests storage systems to ensure they meet the highest standards of quality, efficiency, and reliability. This program complements NVIDIA-Certified™ Systems and NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architectures (RAs), enabling partners and customers to efficiently deploy AI infrastructures. By integrating validated storage with NVIDIA's accelerated computing and software technologies, customers can confidently build AI factories that leverage data for faster, more accurate, and reliable AI models, unlocking new possibilities and driving innovation across industries. Along with Pure Storage's recent certification of FlashBlade//S500 with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, these new certifications provide NVIDIA Cloud Partners and enterprises with high-performance storage that meet all requirements for building state-of-the-art AI infrastructure. By leveraging Pure Storage, customers can confidently deploy AI factory infrastructure while ensuring performance and scalability. Customer Impact The advent of large-scale AI and ML workloads has led to the rapid growth of GPU cloud providers that are scaling infrastructure to meet enterprise demand for accelerated computing. Enterprise AI projects rely on high-performance storage systems to keep up with the pace and scale of model training, inference, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows. However, traditional storage solutions often limit GPU efficiency, creating bottlenecks in data access and directly impacting time to outcomes. In addition, these traditional storage architectures introduce complexities in managing storage at scale and struggle with multi-tenant environments, increasing operational inefficiencies and risk of security gaps. With Pure Storage, organizations can deploy a storage solution that is compatible with NVIDIA accelerated computing and removes the barriers to real ROI and GPU workload efficiency. The Pure Storage platform eliminates bottlenecks and seamlessly handles multi-tenancy while promoting always-on quality of service (QoS). Pure Storage offers a solution with high-level read/write performance guarantees that can accelerate large-scale training and inference for AI workloads. Pure Storage also balances comprehensive and robust data storage with an easy-to-manage interface, further removing common complexities associated with legacy storage systems. Executive Insights 'GPUs have fast become a driving force behind the next wave of AI innovation. The incorporation of the NVIDIA AI Data Platform into FlashBlade provides the AI-ready storage necessary for peak performance. Additionally, our recent NVIDIA certifications affirm that Pure Storage is supporting the pace and scale that AI models need to create change. Through our purpose-built storage solutions, enterprise customers can easily and efficiently harness the power of AI to accelerate success,' said Rob Lee, Chief Technology Officer, Pure Storage. 'The new wave of AI reasoning will be powered by massive datasets and requires an always-on data processing pipeline. By integrating NVIDIA AI Data Platform capabilities into Pure Storage FlashBlade, enterprises can equip AI agents with near-real-time business data to achieve new levels of personalized customer service, operational efficiency, and unprecedented productivity,' said Rob Davis, Vice President, Storage Networking Technology at NVIDIA. 'For customers, a simpler path to deploying AI at scale means fewer complexities and faster innovation. That's why Cisco partners with leaders like Pure Storage, which pushes AI data storage boundaries with offerings like FlashBlade//EXA and support for NVIDIA's new reference design. We're excited to extend this momentum through our FlashStack collaboration, integrating Cisco's data center infrastructure with Pure's advanced storage to help businesses streamline AI workloads and unlock the full potential of their data,' said Jeremy Foster, GM and SVP for Cisco Compute


TECHx
25-03-2025
- Business
- TECHx
Pure Storage Enhances AI Solutions with NVIDIA Integration
Pure Storage Enhances AI Solutions with NVIDIA Integration News Desk - Share Pure Storage, an advanced data storage company, is expanding its AI-ready storage solutions by integrating the NVIDIA AI Data Platform into its FlashBlade® platform. This collaboration aims to deliver scalable, enterprise-grade solutions for AI-driven businesses. Key Announcements: FlashBlade Supports NVIDIA AI Data Platform Pure Storage's FlashBlade now integrates with NVIDIA's AI Data Platform reference design. This integration boosts storage performance and accelerates data processing, enabling real-time AI insights. By leveraging NVIDIA's AI Enterprise software and accelerated computing, FlashBlade ensures rapid data access for AI reasoning applications. Pure Storage's FlashBlade now integrates with NVIDIA's AI Data Platform reference design. This integration boosts storage performance and accelerates data processing, enabling real-time AI insights. By leveraging NVIDIA's AI Enterprise software and accelerated computing, FlashBlade ensures rapid data access for AI reasoning applications. Certified High-Performance Storage for NVIDIA Cloud Partners Pure Storage has achieved HPS certification for NVIDIA Cloud Partner Reference Architectures with NVIDIA HGX systems. This certification confirms that Pure Storage meets the high-performance requirements for GPU cloud infrastructure. Pure Storage has achieved HPS certification for NVIDIA Cloud Partner Reference Architectures with NVIDIA HGX systems. This certification confirms that Pure Storage meets the high-performance requirements for GPU cloud infrastructure. NVIDIA-Certified Storage for AI Factories Pure Storage has also received NVIDIA-Certified Storage Partner status for Foundation and Enterprise levels. This certification ensures that FlashBlade can handle the immense data demands of AI factories, accelerating AI model training and inference. These updates, including the FlashBlade//S500 certification for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, provide enterprises with the AI-ready storage they need for high-performance infrastructure. Overcoming AI Storage Challenges As AI and machine learning workloads scale, traditional storage solutions often become a bottleneck. FlashBlade eliminates these bottlenecks, offering: Ultra-fast read/write performance Seamless multi-tenancy and always-on QoS Scalability for real-time AI workloads By removing these barriers, Pure Storage ensures efficient, high-performance AI model training and inference. Rob Lee, CTO, Pure Storage: 'With NVIDIA AI Data Platform integrated into FlashBlade, we're providing the storage infrastructure needed for peak AI performance. Our certifications reinforce our commitment to powering enterprise AI at scale.' Rob Davis, VP, Storage Networking Technology, NVIDIA: 'AI requires real-time data processing. By combining NVIDIA's AI Data Platform with FlashBlade, enterprises can unlock new levels of efficiency and automation.' Jeremy Foster, GM & SVP, Cisco Compute: 'Pure Storage and NVIDIA make AI deployment easier. Our collaboration streamlines data infrastructure, helping businesses unlock the full potential of their data.' AI-Ready Storage for the Future As the demand for AI grows, enterprises need scalable storage solutions. Pure Storage and NVIDIA are at the forefront, offering AI-ready solutions that accelerate innovation and meet the data demands of modern enterprises.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Pure Storage Integrates NVIDIA AI Data Platform into FlashBlade to Fuel Enterprise AI Innovation
FlashBlade now certified for NVIDIA Cloud Partner and Enterprise deployments, transforms data into knowledge in near real-time, to fast-track agentic AI reasoning SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced it is integrating the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design into its FlashBlade® platform, expanding its commitment to deliver validated, enterprise-grade scalable, AI-ready solutions for customers that meet NVIDIA's rigorous standards. News Highlights: Pure Storage is advancing enterprise data storage and management by enhancing enterprise customers' ability to manage the high-performance data and accelerated compute requirements necessary for successful AI deployments, including: Delivering NVIDIA AI Data Platform capabilities with Pure Storage FlashBlade: Supporting NVIDIA's new reference design for building intelligent AI Data Platforms, FlashBlade enables customers to elevate storage in the era of AI, as a high-performance, distributed system that rapidly provides business insights from data. By tapping into NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, FlashBlade can process data with the speed and agility required for AI reasoning announcement follows the launch of Pure Storage's FlashBlade//EXA™, the industry's highest performing data storage platform engineered for the most demanding requirements of AI and high-performance computing. Achieving certification as a high-performance storage (HPS) platform for NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Partners: Pure Storage is now officially HPS certified for NVIDIA Cloud Partner Reference Architectures with NVIDIA HGX systems using NVIDIA B200 or H200 GPUs, further strengthening our collaboration with NVIDIA. This certification acknowledges Pure Storage as a trusted storage partner and validates Pure Storage's ability to support NVIDIA Cloud Partners with a proven reference architecture that meets all performance and technical requirements for building state-of-the-art GPU clouds. Achieving NVIDIA-Certified Storage Partner approval for both Foundation and Enterprise levels, showcasing capabilities for enterprise AI factories: NVIDIA-Certified Storage Systems addresses the massive data demands of AI factories by offering a comprehensive storage certification. It rigorously tests storage systems to ensure they meet the highest standards of quality, efficiency, and reliability. This program complements NVIDIA-Certified™ Systems and NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architectures (RAs), enabling partners and customers to efficiently deploy AI infrastructures. By integrating validated storage with NVIDIA's accelerated computing and software technologies, customers can confidently build AI factories that leverage data for faster, more accurate, and reliable AI models, unlocking new possibilities and driving innovation across with Pure Storage's recent certification of FlashBlade//S500 with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, these new certifications provide NVIDIA Cloud Partners and enterprises with high-performance storage that meet all requirements for building state-of-the-art AI infrastructure. By leveraging Pure Storage, customers can confidently deploy AI factory infrastructure while ensuring performance and scalability. Customer Impact The advent of large-scale AI and ML workloads has led to the rapid growth of GPU cloud providers that are scaling infrastructure to meet enterprise demand for accelerated computing. Enterprise AI projects rely on high-performance storage systems to keep up with the pace and scale of model training, inference, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows. However, traditional storage solutions often limit GPU efficiency, creating bottlenecks in data access and directly impacting time to outcomes. In addition, these traditional storage architectures introduce complexities in managing storage at scale and struggle with multi-tenant environments, increasing operational inefficiencies and risk of security gaps. With Pure Storage, organizations can deploy a storage solution that is compatible with NVIDIA accelerated computing and removes the barriers to real ROI and GPU workload efficiency. The Pure Storage platform eliminates bottlenecks and seamlessly handles multi-tenancy while promoting always-on quality of service (QoS). Pure Storage offers a solution with high-level read/write performance guarantees that can accelerate large-scale training and inference for AI workloads. Pure Storage also balances comprehensive and robust data storage with an easy-to-manage interface, further removing common complexities associated with legacy storage systems. Executive Insights "GPUs have fast become a driving force behind the next wave of AI innovation. The incorporation of the NVIDIA AI Data Platform into FlashBlade provides the AI-ready storage necessary for peak performance. Additionally, our recent NVIDIA certifications affirm that Pure Storage is supporting the pace and scale that AI models need to create change. Through our purpose-built storage solutions, enterprise customers can easily and efficiently harness the power of AI to accelerate success," said Rob Lee, Chief Technology Officer, Pure Storage. "The new wave of AI reasoning will be powered by massive datasets and requires an always-on data processing pipeline. By integrating NVIDIA AI Data Platform capabilities into Pure Storage FlashBlade, enterprises can equip AI agents with near-real-time business data to achieve new levels of personalized customer service, operational efficiency, and unprecedented productivity," said Rob Davis, Vice President, Storage Networking Technology at NVIDIA. "For customers, a simpler path to deploying AI at scale means fewer complexities and faster innovation. That's why Cisco partners with leaders like Pure Storage, which pushes AI data storage boundaries with offerings like FlashBlade//EXA and support for NVIDIA's new reference design. We're excited to extend this momentum through our FlashStack collaboration, integrating Cisco's data center infrastructure with Pure's advanced storage to help businesses streamline AI workloads and unlock the full potential of their data," said Jeremy Foster, GM and SVP for Cisco Compute. About Pure Storage Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) delivers the industry's most advanced data storage platform to store, manage, and protect the world's data at any scale. With Pure Storage, organizations have ultimate simplicity and flexibility, saving time, money, and energy. From AI to archive, Pure Storage delivers a cloud experience with one unified Storage as-a-Service platform across on premises, cloud, and hosted environments. Our platform is built on our Evergreen architecture that evolves with your business – always getting newer and better with zero planned downtime, guaranteed. Our customers are actively increasing their capacity and processing power while significantly reducing their carbon and energy footprint. It's easy to fall in love with Pure Storage, as evidenced by the highest Net Promoter Score in the industry. For more information, visit Pure Storage, the Pure Storage P Logo, FlashBlade, FlashBlade//S, FlashBlade//EXA, and the marks in the Pure Storage Trademark List are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. The Trademark List can be found at Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Pure Storage Sign in to access your portfolio


Tahawul Tech
13-03-2025
- Business
- Tahawul Tech
Pure Storage introduces data storage platform for AI and high-performance computing
Pure Storage®, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, has debuted FlashBlade//EXA™, the industry's highest performing data storage platform engineered for the most demanding requirements of AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC). While legacy approaches to data storage have held back AI potential, FlashBlade//EXA breaks the metadata bottleneck with a proven architecture based on FlashBlade, built for high concurrency and the massive amounts of metadata operations typical of large scale AI and HPC workloads. In preliminary testing, FlashBlade//EXA is projected to deliver more than 10 terabytes per second read performance in a single namespace – setting a new bar as the industry's highest-performing storage solution. The FlashBlade//EXA architecture scales data and metadata independently; provides near unlimited scale with off the shelf, third-party data nodes that enable highly scalable multi-dimensional performance; and reduces complexity in deployment, management, and scaling through the use of standard protocols and networking. Driving a Paradigm Shift in Storage More powerful GPUs have increased the pace and scale that foundational AI models can be trained. The explosive growth in model size and sophistication is driving a paradigm shift in storage requirements, where solutions must seamlessly keep up with the computational intensity and volume, and variety in data demands of AI and HPC. Legacy storage systems were not designed to meet modern AI requirements. When applied to large-scale AI and HPC, they face critical limitations with parallel and concurrent reads and writes, metadata performance, ultra-low latency, asynchronous checkpointing, and predictable, high throughput. A modern storage solution must provide a massively parallel, disaggregated architecture to deliver flexibility at scale – ensuring that storage helps accelerate the pace of AI. A Modern Storage Architecture for AI and HPC Workloads Legacy high-performance storage architectures were optimised for traditional HPC environments, with more predictable and regular workloads and a focus on raw performance scaling. Today's AI workloads are complex and multi-modal — including text, images, videos — being processed simultaneously by tens of thousands of GPUs. This dramatic shift demands advanced metadata optimization alongside massive performance scaling to efficiently manage diverse data types and high concurrency. FlashBlade//EXA is purpose-built for the challenges of AI workloads with unmatched performance and metadata management. Its disaggregated, massively parallel architecture enables storage flexibility at scale. Enterprises can adapt to evolving multimodal models, optimise reliability, and eliminate idle time to accelerate AI model training and inference while improving GPU utilisation. Additionally, the combination of Pure Storage's metadata engine and Purity operating system with cost-efficient, off-the-shelf data nodes enables enterprises to achieve an unparalleled price-to-performance ratio. FlashBlade//EXA is built on a decade of Pure Storage innovation to provide transformational storage for AI and HPC environments. FlashBlade//EXA will: Deliver industry-leading performance at scale, leveraging Pure Storage's proven metadata capabilities to maximise AI pipeline efficiency and minimise delays during training and inference workflows. Enabling multidimensional performance with massively parallel processing and scalable metadata IOPS to support high-speed AI requirements. Providing 10+ terabytes per second in a single namespace, delivering the industry's best performance. leveraging Pure Storage's proven metadata capabilities to maximise AI pipeline efficiency and minimise delays during training and inference workflows. Reduce management complexity by eliminating metadata bottlenecks Providing high metadata performance, availability and resiliency to handle massive AI datasets without manual tuning or additional configuration. Accelerate AI innovation with a highly configurable and disaggregated architecture Powering the evolving AI and HPC landscape with industry standard protocols; Incorporating high-speed NVIDIA ConnectX NICs, Spectrum switches, LinkX cables, and accelerated communications libraries. FlashBlade//EXA is expected to become available in summer 2025. 'FlashBlade//EXA delivers a massively parallel architecture that enables independent scaling of data and metadata to provide customers with unmatched performance, scalability, and adaptability for some of the largest, most demanding data environments in the world. Storage is now accelerating the pace of large-scale HPC and AI evolution', said Rob Lee, Chief Technology Officer, Pure Storage. Resources To learn more about FlashBlade//EXA, please visit our website, and read this blog. Image Credit: Pure Storage