Pure Storage’s Latest Platform Enhancements Cater to AI Progress

The Pure Storage platform offers a streamlined, versatile, and secure storage solution designed to meet the diverse needs of organizations across various environments, including on-premises, public cloud, and hosted setups. Central to this platform is the Evergreen® architecture, renowned for its ability to deliver continuous and non-disruptive upgrades. This feature allows enterprises to keep pace with changing business environments while maintaining high levels of reliability, performance, and sustainability. With a record number of concurrent Service Level Agreements (SLAs), customers can trust in the platform’s ability to meet their business requirements consistently.

Charles Giancarlo, Chairman and CEO of Pure Storage, highlighted the platform’s capability to address nearly all enterprise storage needs, including critical challenges like AI and cyber resilience. By providing consistent, resilient, and SLA-guaranteed data storage services, the Pure Storage platform helps reduce costs and manage uncertainty in a complex business landscape.

Pure Storage has introduced several significant innovations to enhance the platform’s functionality:First-of-its-Kind Storage Automation: Pure Fusion™ represents a groundbreaking advancement, unifying storage arrays and optimizing storage pools dynamically across structured and unstructured data, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Fully integrated into the Purity operating environment, Pure Fusion is designed to improve continually through non-disruptive upgrades, and will be available to all global customers using the Pure Storage platform.

Industry-First Generative AI Copilot for Storage: This innovation marks a new era in data management and protection. The AI copilot uses natural language to assist storage teams in navigating complex performance and management issues and preventing security incidents. It leverages insights from tens of thousands of Pure Storage customers, offering a revolutionary way to manage and protect data.

To further support AI initiatives, a survey of 1,500 global CIOs and decision-makers commissioned by Pure Storage revealed that 98% of respondents believe their organization's data infrastructure needs improvement to support AI projects. As AI evolves rapidly, many companies are stuck with inflexible storage architectures that lack enterprise-grade reliability and the ability to resize or upgrade performance without complex planning.

Pure Storage aims to address these challenges with new platform innovations designed to accelerate AI deployments and future-proof infrastructure:New Evergreen//One™ for AI: This purpose-built AI storage-as-a-service guarantees the performance needed for GPU-intensive tasks such as training, inference, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. It extends Pure Storage's leadership in capacity subscriptions by allowing purchases based on dynamic performance and throughput needs, eliminating the need for complex planning or overbuying.

Secure Application Workspaces with Fine-Grained Access Controls: This feature integrates Kubernetes container management, secure multi-tenancy, and policy governance tools, facilitating advanced data integrations between enterprise mission-critical data and AI clusters. It offers automated access to AI innovations without compromising security, independence, or control.

Pure Storage is also expanding its support for AI infrastructure with plans to achieve NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD certification by the end of 2024. Building on its existing certifications, Pure Storage's Ethernet-based solutions simplify the integration and deployment of large-scale AI training and inference. The platform’s industry-leading energy efficiency, consuming up to 85% less energy than other all-flash storage solutions, addresses power constraints in large AI clusters.

Charlie Boyle, Vice President of DGX Platform at NVIDIA, noted the importance of storage performance and flexibility for enterprises adopting AI. Pure Storage’s certification with NVIDIA platforms ensures that customers have access to highly performant solutions at every stage of their AI journey.

Customer testimonials underscore the value of Pure Storage’s innovations. Keith Martin, Vice President of Global Cloud Engineering at ServiceNow, emphasized the platform’s ability to scale rapidly and meet the needs of businesses relying on automation and AI for near-real-time decisions. He noted that projects typically taking three years can be completed in just three months using Pure Storage's platform.

Dave Pinkawa, Engineering Manager – Virtualization at Paylocity, highlighted the critical role of data flexibility, precision, and automation in empowering customers to make strategic decisions quickly and accurately. He praised Pure Fusion’s potential to unlock flexibility and self-service for developers, promising a true cloud operating model that fosters faster and more efficient innovation.

In summary, the Pure Storage platform sets a new standard in enterprise data storage, offering unmatched agility, reliability, and innovation. With its continuous, non-disruptive upgrades, comprehensive automation features, and industry-first AI capabilities, Pure Storage enables organizations to unlock the full potential of their data while ensuring resilience, efficiency, and sustainability.