{"id":19015,"date":"2018-05-24T09:17:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=19015"},"modified":"2018-05-24T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:18:13","slug":"pure-storage-announces-airi-mini-that-is-powered-by-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2018\/05\/24\/pure-storage-announces-airi-mini-that-is-powered-by-nvidia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Storage announces AIRI\u2122 Mini that is powered by NVIDIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pure Storage, the all-flash storage platform that helps innovators build a better world with data, has announced its second AI-Ready Infrastructure<\/a> offering, AIRI\u2122 Mini, powered by NVIDIA.<\/p>\n

Architected by Pure Storage and NVIDIA, AIRI is purpose-built to enable data architects, scientists and business leaders to extend the power of the NVIDIA\u24c7<\/sup> DGX-1\u2122 system. With AIRI Mini<\/a>, organisations of all sizes and budgets can implement a simple, powerful solution to build competitive advantage through AI at a price point that\u2019s accessible for virtually any organisation in any industry.<\/p>\n

AI represents an unprecedented opportunity for organisations to improve operations, deliver better customer experiences and drive business performance through data-driven initiatives. According to a recent MIT Technology Review study<\/a>, 82% of business and IT leaders believe AI is poised to have a positive impact on their industry. AIRI Mini offers a way for organisations to get started and scales easily as their AI initiatives grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of business leaders understand the incredible opportunity presented by AI,\u201d said Matt Burr, GM of FlashBlade, Pure Storage.<\/p>\n

\u201cYet implementation complexities often hold their AI initiatives back from moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile AIRI simplifies AI infrastructure for initiatives at any scale, AIRI Mini offers a powerful and affordable entry point for organisations to explore and scale as they grow into AI. AIRI Mini removes the final barriers for any organisation to leverage AI and scales as AI workloads grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Engineered as a fully-integrated software and hardware solution by Pure Storage and NVIDIA, AIRI Mini provides a simple, yet powerful, architecture that empowers organisations with the data-centric infrastructure needed to harness the true power of AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrganisations require infrastructure purpose-built for AI, a system that\u2019s easy to get started with and scales with their efforts,\u201d added Jim McHugh, Vice President and General Manager, NVIDIA.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth FlashBlade and DGX-1 are designed to scale seamlessly into the future, enabling customers to grow quickly and build upon their AI success.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>AIRI Mini is powered by one Pure Storage FlashBlade, the industry\u2019s first storage platform architected for modern analytics and AI, configured with 7x 17TB blades and two NVIDIA DGX-1 servers, delivering two petaFLOPS of deep learning performance. These systems are interconnected with 100GbE switches, supporting GPUDirect RDMA for maximum distributed training performance. AIRI also leverages the NVIDIA GPU Cloud deep learning software stack for maximum GPU performance and the Pure Storage AIRI Scaling Toolkit, optimised for multi-node training with DGX-1 and FlashBlade. With this integrated stack, data scientists can jumpstart their AI initiatives in hours, not weeks or months.<\/p>\n

Pure has also announced that both AIRI and AIRI Mini are now available with Nexus9000 100Gb Ethernet switches from Cisco. Cisco and Pure’s thousands of mutual customers can now take advantage of additional joint solutions as they embrace new initiatives around AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a universally accepted demand for AI initiatives at scale, but the opportunities and requirements for AI stretch far beyond the enterprise,\u201d said Patrick Moorhead, Founder, President and Principal Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrganisations of every size, at every stage in their life cycles, must leverage AI throughout the business to harness competitive advantage and differentiate from competition. AIRI Mini provides organisations without enterprise-level resources, an on-ramp to AI that\u2019s simple, performant and ready to deliver value within days.\u201d<\/p>\n

AIRI and AIRI Mini are the first converged infrastructure solutions purpose-built for AI, empowering data architects and scientists to deliver time-to-insight at scale. As organisations generate and store an increasingly vast amount of data, it is more important than ever that innovators drive value, insight and impact from their data to make their businesses smarter.<\/p>\n

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Pure Storage, the all-flash storage platform that helps innovators build a better world with data, has announced its second AI-Ready Infrastructure offering, AIRI\u2122 Mini, powered by NVIDIA. Architected by Pure Storage and NVIDIA, AIRI is purpose-built to enable data architects, scientists and business leaders to extend the power of the NVIDIA\u24c7 DGX-1\u2122 system. With AIRI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":19016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,46,13],"tags":[5384,5385,1854,5388,5387,5386,5333,5389,573],"class_list":["post-19015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-data-centres","category-top-stories","tag-ai-ready-infrastructure","tag-airi-mini","tag-flashblade","tag-jim-mchugh","tag-matt-burr","tag-mit-technology","tag-nvidia","tag-patrick-moorhead","tag-pure-storage"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19017,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015\/revisions\/19017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}