Pure Storage unveils NVIDIA-
powered solutions for full
spectrum of AI initiatives
AIRI, the industry’s first comprehensive
AI-Ready Infrastructure, is purpose-built
to enable data architects, scientists and
business leaders to operationalise AI-at-
scale for every enterprise.
Pure Storage’s portfolio of solutions for AI-
at-scale enables enterprise IT teams from
any organisation to deploy AI infrastructure,
which gives IT teams the freedom to build
applications at a faster rate and achieve
improved business outcomes.
Pure Storage’s full spectrum of AI
solutions, including hyperscale AIRI and
FlashStack for AI, is built to address the
manageability challenges and productivity
barriers by delivering a seamless and
flexible end-to-end AI pipeline solution.
Pure Storage Hyperscale AIRI
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ure Storage, a data solutions leader
that helps innovators build a better
world with data, has announced
the industry’s first complete portfolio of
solutions for any AI initiative, from early
inception to large-scale production.
Built jointly with the leaders of AI
supercomputing, NVIDIA and Mellanox,
hyperscale AIRI delivers multiple racks of
NVIDIA DGX-1 and DGX-2 systems with
both Infiniband and Ethernet fabrics as
interconnect options. In addition, Pure
Storage announced FlashStack for AI,
a solution built jointly with Cisco and
NVIDIA, to bring AI within reach for
every enterprise.
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With NVIDIA NGC software container
registry and AIRI scaling toolkit, data
scientists can begin building applications
with containerised AI frameworks and
rededicate time to deriving valuable
insights from data.
Tony Paikeday, Director of DGX
Systems, NVIDIA, said: “AI innovators
and their IT teams need a faster path
to growing infrastructure without the
setbacks of design complexity and
unexpected performance or operations
bottlenecks. Enterprises need a rack-
scale infrastructure solution that offers
a streamlined, predictable path for
growing capacity.”
“With hyperscale AIRI, enterprises are
getting a simplified solution that accelerates
deployments and scales predictably in
response to business demand.”
Hyperscale AIRI requires a network
compatible with large high-performance
computing environments.
Mellanox’s high-performance network
delivers the industry’s lowest latency
and highest bandwidthnetwork for
Hyperscale AIRI.
In addition, integration with Kubernetes
and Pure Service Orchestrator means any
IT team can deliver an AI-infrastructure
with cloud-like elasticity. Hyperscale AIRI
allows enterprises to scale beyond NVIDIA
DGX-1 to DGX-2.
“Businesses from a variety of industries
are discovering that AI is necessary to
tackle existing problems and create new
opportunities,” said Matt Burr, GM of
FlashBlade, Pure Storage.
“For example, healthcare organisations
from around the world are using AI
to bring advancements to treatments
and quality of care. AI is complex and
Matt Burr, GM of FlashBlade, Pure Storage
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An all-new hyperscale configuration of
AI-Ready Infrastructure (AIRI) is designed
to deliver supercomputing capabilities
for enterprises that pioneer real-world
AI initiatives and have grown beyond the
capabilities of AI-ready solutions available
in the market today.
Hyperscale AIRI, now supporting NVIDIA
DGX-2, delivers a simple yet powerful
architecture to allow organisations to
utilise the true power of AI by eliminating
the challenges that prevent organisations
from deploying AI-at-scale.
in its early stages, which means the
solutions built to enable AI must be
straightforward and user-friendly.
Hyperscale AIRI is designed to bring
supercomputing capabilities to pioneers
of real-world AI without the complexities
that often occur when scaling across
multiple racks.”