President and General Manager of DGX
systems at NVIDIA.
“The AI Data Hub increases the value
of our joint solutions by accelerating
data science workflows, powered by
NVIDIA CUDA-X AI software and DGX
systems for faster iteration, with greater
developer productivity and accelerated
time-to-insight.”
Companies like Element AI, a global
provider of AI software, require rapid
access to massive amounts of data
through the entire lifecycle of a project.
“Element AI leverages Pure Storage to
help IT professionals understand how
to integrate AI science projects into the
mainstream data centre and to reduce
overall complexity for our customers,” said
Ludwig Gamache, Head of IT at Element AI.
“Advanced enterprises are looking for an
AI solution beyond what’s largely available
today. Pure Storage delivers not only fast
access, but also a secure and reliable AI
Data Hub for our development pipeline.”
From cleansing and tagging, through to
modelling, training and production, AI
Data Hub streamlines deployment for an
entire AI pipeline instead of a single phase
and eliminates risk of failure when scaling
from proof-of-concept to production. AI
Data Hub is an end-to-end solution, from
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ingestion to inference, orchestrated by
Kubernetes. It has three stages:
• Design. Customers can design and
explore data faster with RAPIDS and
PureTools.
• Develop. Customers will experience
faster training and model development
with AIRI and FlashStack for AI.
• Deploy. Customers benefit from
faster model deployment and inference
with T4.
“When we talk to AI innovators, the
conversation involves the entire AI
pipeline, from infrastructure and
management to orchestration and
deployment into production,” said Mike
Leone, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy
Group. “There are significant gaps across
the AI pipeline and because of that
somewhere in the range of 80% of AI
initiatives fail when moving from pilot to
production at scale. AI Data Hub helps
address the full AI spectrum for Pure
customers, and arms them with what
they need to move beyond simply training
models to handling batch and streaming
data at any scale.”
Making AI accessible for everyone
— AIRI-as-a-Service
In addition to AI Data Hub, Pure Storage has
announced the availability of AIRI-Ready
Datacenters, a group of partners to help
companies that do not directly manage
their own AI infrastructure. Designed to
help customers leverage AI for innovation,
the programme provides a wide range of
services from managed IT to colocation,
try and buy, managed services and true
Software-as-a-Service built on AIRI.
AI projects that start in the public cloud
but grow quickly can become too costly.
Customers that want to move from the
cloud to dedicated storage can do so
without giving up the benefits of cloud.
AIRI-as-a-Service is available through
partners like Core Scientific, an Elite Level
Partner within Pure’s Managed Service
Provider (MSP) Program.
“Modern organisations want to leverage
the cloud, but most public clouds available
today aren’t optimised for the requirements
of AI. We’ve designed a cloud purpose-
built for data-intensive applications like
AI and deep learning, built on top of AIRI,”
said Kevin Turner, CEO, Core Scientific.
“With AIRI at its core, our cloud equips
and enables data scientists to take on the
world’s most advanced AI challenges.”
For customers that want an owned AIRI
system but aren’t equipped to support it
on-site, select partner colocation providers
are equipped to support any AI initiatives
built on Pure technology. ◊
www.intelligentdatacentres.com