AIRI//S is a new generation of AI-ready infrastructure from Pure Storage, NVIDIA

Pure Storage, the advanced data storage technology and services provider, has announced AIRI//S, the next generation of its complete artificial intelligence (AI)-ready infrastructure, developed by Pure Storage and NVIDIA. Unveiled during the Pure//Accelerate techfest22 opening keynote, AIRI//S provides enterprises with a simple, on-demand infrastructure that accelerates AI initiatives at any scale.

According to Pure Storage, the complexity and rigidity of legacy infrastructure technology – both on premises and in the cloud – has been a barrier for enterprises looking to achieve the promise of AI-based data science. AI applications will require a completely new infrastructure to facilitate faster innovation and obtain actionable, modern analytics, the company said.

To meet this need, Pure Storage, in collaboration with NVIDIA, launched AIRI in 2018. The first AI-ready infrastructure reference architecture, purpose-built to enable organisations to achieve better utilisation and uptime, and ultimately scale their AI and data science investments without complexity.

On 8 June, Pure announced the next step in its collaboration with NVIDIA with the release of AIRI//S, powered by its new FlashBlade//S, NVIDIA DGX A100 systems and end-to-end networking, based on the NVIDIA Quantum and Spectrum networking platforms. AIRI//S provides enterprises with a proven, simple, and scalable infrastructure for all stages of the AI data pipeline. The first solution to include FlashBlade//S, AIRI//S also delivers significant advancements in non-disruptive performance, density, power efficiency and scale, Pure said.

AIRI//S features include:

Ease of use

AIRI//S can be set up, deployed and managed quickly and seamlessly as an end-to-end AI pipeline solution.

Performance at any scale

AIRI//S is optimised out-of-the-box to deliver multidimensional performance for all stages of the AI data pipeline, and can seamlessly scale storage and AI compute capabilities as needed.

Agile AI

As the AI data science landscape and customer requirements evolve, enterprises can now adapt their AI infrastructure to accelerate time-to-competitive-advantage with faster responses to fluctuating market dynamics.

Sustainable, efficient AI infrastructure

AIRI//S is the first to include Pure Storage's FlashBlade//S, which enables more powerful, high-performance AI infrastructure in the same footprint by delivering high density, reduced power consumption, and unmatched data centre efficiency. The FlashBlade//S architecture includes modular hardware, making it easier to bring further innovation to the AIRI//S platform as AI requirements evolve.

Additionally, leveraging Evergreen//Forever (formerly Evergreen Gold) and Evergreen//One (formerly Pure as-a-Service), customers can take advantage of both always-modern infrastructure subscriptions and true, consumption-based storage subscriptions to efficiently manage their investments as they grow their AI infrastructure.

"Traditional approaches to AI infrastructure often result in silos of servers and storage that are either over-spent on capacity or starve AI workloads. With a focus on simplicity and scalability, AIRI//S enables global enterprises to achieve better time to insights and make the most out of their data with AI. We're incredibly excited to expand on our collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver the next-generation of AI-ready infrastructure," said Amy Fowler, VP, Strategy and Solutions, FlashBlade, Pure Storage.

"Enterprises are turning to AI to grow top-line results while enhancing customer experiences and reducing costs. These complex challenges require integrated, full-stack computing optimised for AI, and AIRI//S built on NVIDIA DGX systems provides customers with modular, high-performance enterprise infrastructure that scales easily as these demands continue to grow," said Charlie Boyle,VP, DGX systems, NVIDIA.

Support for NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage is planned in future updates.

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