{"id":27946,"date":"2018-07-19T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=27946"},"modified":"2018-07-25T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T11:03:22","slug":"pure-storage-announces-new-converged-infrastructure-solutions-to-accelerate-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2018\/07\/19\/pure-storage-announces-new-converged-infrastructure-solutions-to-accelerate-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Storage announces new converged infrastructure solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>FlashStack with FlashBlade and AIRI enable customers to establish a range of data analytics at any stage of the data journey.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pure Storage, the all-flash storage platform that helps innovators build a better world with data, has announced FlashStack with FlashBlade to accelerate data warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>The company also announced that AIRI and AIRI Mini, the AI-ready infrastructure solutions from Pure Storage and NVIDIA, are now available with Cisco Nexus ethernet switches.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco and Pure Storage customers can now establish a spectrum of data analytics to turn data into innovation, no matter what phase in their data journey.<\/p>\n<p>In time, more data will live in \u2018hot\u2019 or \u2018warm\u2019 tiers, where value can easily be extracted. With this shift, organisations must leverage the latest tools of extraction, and the storage models that allow these tools to work most effectively and efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cData is the lifeblood of today\u2019s economy and the fuel for innovation. New cures, new industries, new possibilities will arise &#8211; all because of data. This new era demands a new data mindset and strategy,\u201d said Michael Sotnick, VP Partners, Services and Business Development, Pure Storage. \u201cFor organisations to stand the test of time, they must understand how to innovate and differentiate through data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>AI-Ready-Infrastructure \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Data is the fuel driving today\u2019s AI revolution. While many pioneers have pushed the limits of what\u2019s possible with AI within their own industries, the vast majority of enterprises have had to struggle to get started.<\/p>\n<p>Today, not all data\u2019s value is easily accessible. Without fast, easy access, data becomes an organisation\u2019s most expensive asset rather than its most valuable. AI needs to reach more enterprises faster and provide value immediately. Pure Storage is working with Cisco to make this reality for customers with AIRI, the industry\u2019s first solution to simplify AI-at-scale, powered by the NVIDIA DGX-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe days where value is measured in dollar per GB have passed. Value is now measured in simulations per day. The industry focuses on outcome orientation because simplicity, performance and resiliency afford us the time to do so,\u201d said Ed Horley, VP of Engineering at IT solutions provider Groupware Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith AIRI, customers can begin their AI initiatives within hours and its simple scalable design allows it to grow with your AI needs. By eliminating these infrastructure complexities, customers can focus on what\u2019s important &#8211; creating innovative products and services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AIRI is the industry\u2019s first complete AI-ready infrastructure, architected by Pure Storage and NVIDIA to extend the power of NVIDIA DGX systems. Powered by FlashBlade storage and NVIDIA DGX-1 servers, AIRI offers enterprises a simple, fast, and future-proof infrastructure. It is configured with four NVIDIA DGX-1 Systems, four petaFLOPS of deep learning performance, Pure FlashBlade 15x 17TB Blades, 1.5M NFS IOPS, and two 100Gb switches with RDMA.<\/p>\n<p>AIRI Mini is powered by one Pure Storage FlashBlade, configured with 7x17TB blades, two NVIDIA DGX-1 servers, Cisco 100 GbE switches, supporting GPUDirect RDMA for maximum distributed training performance, and delivers two petaFLOPS of deep learning performance. All software comes included, so that data scientists can get started on their projects by simply turning the system on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FlashStack Powered by FlashBlade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While some organisations are using data lakes or AI data pipelines, many organisations still deploy most of their mission critical work on a data warehouse. FlashStack powered by FlashBlade, purpose-built for Oracle Data Warehouse, is an integrated infrastructure solution validated by Cisco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile AIRI is the perfect fit for organisations that need to deploy AI, there are many organisations just dipping their toes into single server solutions,\u201d said Matt Burr, GM of FlashBlade, Pure Storage. \u201cFor organisations that need an interim step between single-server and AIRI, FlashStack is the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are three primary problems with existing data warehouse solutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Performance<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; Data warehouse appliances historically have not kept up with data growth<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Pricing<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; When compute and storage are coupled, as with warehouse appliances, organisations end up buying too much of one or the other<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Flexibility<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; An inflexible appliance is only effective for a single workload. Data warehouses aren\u2019t protected for the future when data pipeline and AI are involved<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new FlashStack, built on FlashBlade and engineered specifically to modernise the Oracle Data Warehouse, delivers more than 2x faster performance than the next-best system. Customers only pay for the amount of compute and blades needed for their project or initiative.<\/p>\n<p>FlashStack for FlashBlade is ready for extension into modern analytics and AI when ready.<\/p>\n<p>AIRI and AIRI Mini are available now through select reseller partners. FlashStack for FlashBlade is available now through all FlashStack certified reseller partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FlashStack with FlashBlade and AIRI enable customers to establish a range of data analytics at any stage of the data journey. 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