Company also announces certification of
FlashBlade//S500 with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD for the most demanding AI
data center requirements
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Nov. 18,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the
IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage
technology and services, today announced the expansion of its AI
solutions with the new Pure Storage GenAI Pod, a full-stack
solution providing turnkey designs built on the Pure Storage
platform. Organizations can use the Pure Storage GenAI Pod to
accelerate AI-powered innovation and reduce the time, cost, and
specialty technical skills required to deploy generative AI (GenAI)
projects. As part of today's news, Pure Storage also announced the
certification of FlashBlade//S500 with
NVIDIA® DGX™ SuperPOD™,
accelerating enterprise AI deployments with Ethernet
compatibility.
Innovative Turnkey, Full-Stack Validated Designs for
Automated Deployment of GenAI Initiatives
Companies today face significant challenges deploying GenAI and
retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in private clouds. This
includes navigating the complexity of deploying hardware, software,
foundational models, and development tools that power GenAI
workloads in a timely and cost-effective manner. At the same time,
they need a single, unified storage platform to address all of
their storage needs, including the most critical challenges and
opportunities posed by AI.
The Pure Storage GenAI Pod, built on the Pure Storage platform,
includes new validated designs that enable turnkey solutions for
GenAI use cases that help organizations solve many of these
challenges. Unlike most other full-stack solutions, the Pure
Storage GenAI Pod enables organizations to accelerate AI
initiatives with one-click deployments and streamlined Day 2
operations for vector databases and foundation models. With the
integration of Portworx®, these services provide
automated deployments of NVIDIA NeMo and NIM microservices through
the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, as well as the Milvus
vector database, while further simplifying Day 2 operations.
The initial industry applications for these validated designs
include drug discovery, trade research and investment analysis, and
RAG with agentic frameworks for semantic search, knowledge
management, and chatbots.
Pure Storage's full-stack solution includes hardware, software,
foundational models, and professional services from leading
industry AI vendors. For this initial set of validated designs,
Pure Storage has partnered with Arista, Cisco, KX, Meta, NVIDIA,
Red Hat, SuperMicro, and WWT. The Pure Storage GenAI Pod is
expected to be generally available in the first half of 2025.
Pure Storage FlashBlade//S500 Now Certified with NVIDIA DGX
SuperPod
Enterprises deploying large-scale AI are challenged with complex
architecture design and meeting performance, power, and space
requirements. To address these challenges, Pure Storage has
announced the certification of Ethernet-based FlashBlade//S500 with
NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. This certified offering gives customers the
confidence they need to accelerate high-end enterprise AI training
with a high-performance storage platform that is flexible,
reliable, space and energy-efficient, as well as future-proof to
growing AI needs.
The new GenAI validated designs, along with FlashBlade//S500
with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, expand upon the Pure Storage AI
solution portfolio, including AIRI® with NVIDIA DGX
BasePOD, validated NVIDIA OVX servers, and
FlashStack® for AI with Cisco. With this
announcement, Pure Storage continues to be a leading provider of
comprehensive AI infrastructure solutions spanning customers that
are just starting their AI journey to those that have large-scale,
high-compute, and data-intensive needs.
Executive Insight:
"The pace of innovation is compelling enterprise customers to
leverage AI across their business, but customers are held back by
the fundamental challenge of siloed data platforms and
complex-to-deploy GenAI pipelines. Pure's expanded portfolio of AI
solutions with turnkey, validated designs for GenAI and large
enterprise AI clusters help customers navigate these challenges.
The validated designs dramatically reduce the time to value and
operational risks of AI projects by holistically addressing the
needs at every layer of the technology stack." - Dan Kogan, VP, Enterprise Growth and Solutions,
Pure Storage
"AI is transforming industries at an unprecedented pace, and
enterprises need powerful, validated solutions and
infrastructure to achieve their AI strategies. The Pure Storage
GenAI Pod with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and the certification
of FlashBlade//S500 with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD can help organizations
eliminate infrastructure complexity, speed deployments, and
simplify operations." - Tony
Paikeday, Senior Director of AI Systems, NVIDIA
"One of the top challenges we see with our customers today
around generative AI initiatives is accelerating time to value.
We're excited to partner with Pure Storage to deploy full-stack,
reference designs in the WWT AI Proving Ground focused on driving
meaningful outcomes for our joint customers. By leveraging the
power of the Pure Storage Data Platform, including FlashBlade//S500
for storage and Portworx for GenAI deployment, in conjunction
with WWT's best-in-class enterprise capabilities, we anticipate
significant reductions in the time to deploy generative AI
solutions." - Neil
Anderson, VP of Cloud, Infrastructure and AI Solutions,
WWT
"KX is excited to collaborate with Pure Storage on full-stack
solutions for GenAI, aiming to unlock significant value in capital
markets, particularly in trade research, execution, and risk
management. This collaboration leverages the power of KX to
integrate structured and unstructured data, enhancing
decision-making and operational efficiency. By using NVIDIA's AI
Enterprise software platform with NIM microservices and NeMo
Retriever for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and Pure
Storage's proven AI capabilities for world-class efficiency and
reliability, this work will accelerate the performance of AI
workloads across the financial sector." - Ashok Reddy, CEO, KX
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
www.purestorage.com.
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trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage Inc. in the
U.S. and/or other countries. The Pure Storage Trademark List can be
found at purestorage.com/trademarks. NVIDIA, DGX, and SuperPOD are
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in
the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of
their respective owners. Other names may be trademarks of their
respective owners. For future product roadmap purposes, the
development, release, and timing of any features or functionality
described for Pure Storage products remains at Pure Storage's sole
discretion. The information provided is for informational purposes
only and is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to
deliver any material, code, or functionality and should not be
relied upon in making purchasing decisions or incorporated into any
contract.
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Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Primary Storage
Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File
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