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However, as EGP continues to grow and support an increasing number of customers, it faces a critical challenge: ensuring the scalability, reliability and performance of its storage infrastructure.
Need for speed and continuity
EGP’ s customers increasingly rely on datadriven decision-making and AI-powered solutions. The company needs reliable, high-performance storage that is capable of handling increasing volume and velocity of data while delivering continuous availability for the IaaS platform.
This challenge is evident for EGP client AI-InfraSolutions, a company in the Netherlands that uses AI to support intelligent infrastructure management.
“ The start-ups we have now in our incubator programme are software companies who need a lot of data,” said Reuver.“ We are using Pure Storage and for us it’ s a great working partnership. AI-Infrasolutions, our customer, is using an AI platform to get the maximum out of geodata.”
“ We have developed a sophisticated system that includes a‘ spatial studio’, enabling customers to work with geographic image data and integrate it with third-party sources such as drone or aerial data and existing databases from municipalities,” said Jeroen Zanen, Founder and CEO at AI-InfraSolutions.
The company operates a fleet of cars to capture geodata throughout communities. This results in a tremendous amount of data that needs to be processed and delivered to clients quickly.
“ We struggled with performance in the past,” said Jorrith Schaap, IT Director at AI-InfraSolutions.“ We had multiple bottlenecks in our process because the

“ storage couldn’ t keep up with what we needed to do.”

Flash storage for fast, nondisruptive operations
The Pure Storage platform delivers fast flash performance, high reliability and non-disruptive maintenance to help EGP ensure that its AI-ready infrastructure is always available for customers. The company uses a combination of Pure Storage FlashArray // X and FlashBlade // E to provide a robust storage foundation in a small footprint that supports sustainability goals with minimal power and cooling requirements.
The Evergreen // One subscription service streamlines storage management and
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