Pure Storage redefines AI-ready infrastructure, speeds time to insights with AIRI//S

Data storage technology company Pure Storage announced AIRI//S, the next generation of its complete AI-ready infrastructure, developed with NVIDIA. AIRI//S provides enterprises a simple, on-demand infrastructure that accelerates AI initiatives at any scale.

Enterprises across industries have recognized the power of AI to speed innovation and gain a competitive edge with critical business insights. However, the complexity and rigidity of legacy infrastructure technology – both on premises and in the cloud – is a barrier for enterprises looking to achieve the promise of AI-based data science. Too many AI initiatives are stalled by the intricacies of a “do-it-yourself” approach, leading to significant delays and idle time.

Instead, AI requires a completely new infrastructure to facilitate faster innovation and obtain actionable, modern analytics. To meet this need, Pure Storage, in collaboration with NVIDIA, launched AIRI in 2018, the first AI-ready

infrastructure reference architecture, purpose-built to enable organizations to achieve better utilization

and uptime, and ultimately scale their AI and data science investments without complexity.

Pure announced the next step in its collaboration with NVIDIA with the release of AIRI//S, powered

by FlashBlade//S, NVIDIA DGX A100 systems and end-to-end networking, based on NVIDIA Quantum

and Spectrum networking platforms. AIRI//S provides enterprises with a proven, simple, and scalable

infrastructure for all stages of the AI data pipeline. The first solution to include Pure’s revolutionary new

FlashBlade//S, AIRI//S delivers significant advancements in non-disruptive performance, density, power

efficiency and scale, resulting in optimal alignment to the industry-leading AI training performance and

parallelism gains that DGX systems deliver.

Since launch, AIRI has supported hundreds of AI workloads across customers ranging from startups to

national security departments to multinational technology conglomerates, and every type of data-driven

industry in between.

Critical benefits of AIRI//S include:

● Ease of Use: AIRI//S can be set up, deployed and managed quickly and seamlessly as an

end-to-end AI pipeline solution. Not only does AIRI//S ensure that infrastructure teams are not

overwhelmed by growing AI requirements, but also that data teams remain productive and spend

more time delivering insights and less on worrying about their infrastructure.

● Performance at Any Scale: AIRI//S is optimized out-of-the-box to deliver multi-dimensional

performance for all stages of the AI data pipeline, and can seamlessly scale storage and AI

compute capabilities, allowing organizations to start their AI journeys at any scale and grow as

needed.

● Agile AI Platform: As the AI data science landscape and customer requirements evolve,

enterprises can now adapt their AI infrastructure to accelerate time to competitive advantage with

faster responses to fluctuating market dynamics.

● Sustainable, Efficient AI Infrastructure: AIRI//S is the first to include Pure Storage’s

revolutionary new FlashBlade//S, which enables more powerful, high-performance AI

infrastructure in the same footprint by delivering high density, reduced power consumption, and

unmatched data center efficiency.

Additionally, leveraging Evergreen™//Forever (formerly Evergreen Gold) and Evergreen//One (formerly

Pure as-a-Service), customers can take advantage of both always-modern infrastructure subscriptions

and true, consumption-based storage subscriptions to efficiently manage their investments as they grow

their AI infrastructure.

“Traditional approaches to AI infrastructure often result in silos of servers and storage that are either

over-spent on capacity or starve AI workloads. With a focus on simplicity and scalability, AIRI//S enables

global enterprises to achieve better time to insights and make the most out of their data with AI. We’re

incredibly excited to expand on our collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver the next-generation of AI-ready

infrastructure," said Amy Fowler, Vice President, Strategy and Solutions, FlashBlade, Pure Storage.

“Enterprises are turning to AI to grow top-line results while enhancing customer experiences and reducing

costs. These complex challenges require integrated, full-stack computing optimized for AI, and AIRI//S

built on NVIDIA DGX systems provides customers with modular, high-performance enterprise

infrastructure that scales easily as these demands continue to grow.” – Charlie Boyle, Vice President,

DGX systems, NVIDIA