INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Pure makes customers ‘AI-first’
infrastructure a reality
NVIDIA and Core Scientific
team up with Pure to get the
entire AI Pipeline moving.
P
ure Storage has announced a host of
new and improved AI solutions that
provide enterprise customers with the
features and functionality needed to execute
increasingly complex AI initiatives through
any phase or scale.
Built on Pure’s industry-leading file and
object system, FlashBlade, and its joint
AI-Ready Infrastructure (AIRI) offering
with NVIDIA, customers can develop and
deploy AI rapidly to keep pace with
modern business.
“Enterprise organisations that have existed
and done business one way for decades
now find themselves working hard to build
a business for the future. To truly compete
going forward will require large-scale, multi-
phase AI initiatives, and Pure has innovated
with that particular set of challenges in
mind, said Amy Fowler, VP of Strategy and
Solutions for FlashBlade at Pure Storage.
“With AIRI powered by NVIDIA DGX systems
and Pure Storage Flashblade, NVIDIA and
Pure have been making it faster, easier and
more cost-effective for every enterprise to
deploy and manage AI at scale,” said Charlie
Boyle, Vice 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
Powering the Artificial Intelligence
Pipeline – AI Data Hub
Built with industry leader and long-time
partner NVIDIA, AI Data Hub is an end-
to-end AI pipeline solution that gives
enterprise customers what they need to
design, develop and deploy AI quickly, and
at scale. Organisations today are stuck with
a siloed, traditional analytics infrastructure.
AI Data Hub extends traditional analytics
and provides more performance and
security at a lower cost. Data scientists can
expect major improvements in productivity,
faster time-to-market, and more informed
data-driven models.
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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
modeling, 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 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.” n
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