Pure
Storage announced the
expansion of its AI solutions with the new Pure Storage GenAI Pod, a
full-stack solution providing turnkey designs built on the
Pure Storage platform.
Organizations can use the Pure Storage GenAI Pod to accelerate
AI-powered innovation and reduce the time, cost, and specialty technical
skills required to deploy generative AI (GenAI) projects. As part of
today's news, Pure Storage also announced the certification of
FlashBlade//S500 with
NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, accelerating enterprise AI deployments with Ethernet compatibility.
Innovative Turnkey, Full-Stack Validated Designs for Automated Deployment of GenAI Initiatives
Companies today face significant challenges deploying GenAI and
retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in private clouds. This includes
navigating the complexity of deploying hardware, software, foundational
models, and development tools that power GenAI workloads in a timely and
cost-effective manner. At the same time, they need a single, unified
storage platform to address all of their storage needs, including the
most critical challenges and opportunities posed by AI.
The Pure Storage GenAI Pod, built on the Pure Storage platform,
includes new validated designs that enable turnkey solutions for GenAI
use cases that help organizations solve many of these challenges. Unlike
most other full-stack solutions, the Pure Storage GenAI Pod enables
organizations to accelerate AI initiatives with one-click deployments
and streamlined Day 2 operations for vector databases and foundation
models. With the integration of Portworx®, these services provide
automated deployments of NVIDIA NeMo and NIM microservices through the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, as well as the Milvus vector database, while further simplifying Day 2 operations.
The initial industry applications for these validated designs include
drug discovery, trade research and investment analysis, and RAG with
agentic frameworks for semantic search, knowledge management, and
chatbots.
Pure Storage's full-stack solution includes hardware, software,
foundational models, and professional services from leading industry AI
vendors. For this initial set of validated designs, Pure Storage has
partnered with Arista, Cisco, KX, Meta, NVIDIA, Red Hat, SuperMicro, and
WWT. The Pure Storage GenAI Pod is expected to be generally available
in the first half of 2025.
Pure Storage FlashBlade//S500 Now Certified with NVIDIA DGX SuperPod
Enterprises deploying large-scale AI are challenged with complex
architecture design and meeting performance, power, and space
requirements. To address these challenges, Pure Storage has announced
the certification of Ethernet-based FlashBlade//S500
with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. This certified offering gives customers the
confidence they need to accelerate high-end enterprise AI training with a
high-performance storage platform that is flexible, reliable, space and
energy-efficient, as well as future-proof to growing AI needs.
The new GenAI validated designs, along with FlashBlade//S500 with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, expand upon the Pure Storage AI solution portfolio, including AIRI with NVIDIA DGX BasePOD, validated NVIDIA OVX servers, and FlashStack for AI with Cisco.
With this announcement, Pure Storage continues to be a leading provider
of comprehensive AI infrastructure solutions spanning customers that
are just starting their AI journey to those that have large-scale,
high-compute, and data-intensive needs.
Executive Insight:
"The pace of innovation is
compelling enterprise customers to leverage AI across their business,
but customers are held back by the fundamental challenge of siloed data
platforms and complex-to-deploy Gen AI pipelines. Pure's expanded
portfolio of AI solutions with turnkey, validated designs for GenAI and
large enterprise AI clusters help customers navigate these challenges.
The validated designs dramatically reduce the time to value and
operational risks of AI projects by holistically addressing the needs at
every layer of the technology stack." - Dan Kogan
VP, Enterprise Growth and Solutions, Pure Storage
"AI is transforming industries at an unprecedented
pace, and enterprises need powerful, validated solutions and
infrastructure to achieve their AI strategies. The Pure Storage GenAI
Pod with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and the certification of
FlashBlade//S500 with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD can help organizations
eliminate infrastructure complexity, speed deployments, and simplify
operations." - Tony Paikeday, Senior Director of AI Systems, NVIDIA
"One of the top challenges we see with our customers today around
generative AI initiatives is accelerating time to value. We're excited
to partner with Pure Storage to deploy full-stack, reference designs in
the WWT AI Proving Ground focused on driving meaningful outcomes for our
joint customers. By leveraging the power of the Pure Storage Data
Platform, including FlashBlade//S500 for storage and Portworx for GenAI
deployment, in conjunction with WWT's best-in-class enterprise
capabilities, we anticipate significant reductions in the time to deploy
generative AI solutions." - Neil Anderson, VP of Cloud, Infrastructure and AI Solutions, WWT
"KX is excited to collaborate with Pure Storage on full-stack
solutions for GenAI, aiming to unlock significant value in capital
markets, particularly in trade research, execution, and risk management.
This collaboration leverages the power of KX to integrate structured
and unstructured data, enhancing decision-making and operational
efficiency. By using NVIDIA's AI Enterprise software platform with NIM
microservices and NeMo Retriever for retrieval-augmented generation
(RAG) and Pure Storage's proven AI capabilities for world-class
efficiency and reliability, this work will accelerate the performance of
AI workloads across the financial sector." - Ashok Reddy, CEO, KX