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Racers, start your engines! Pure Storage is excited to announce FlashBlade//EXA™—an ultra-scale data storage platform optimized for AI workloads by providing massive storage throughput and operating at extreme levels of performance and scale.
What do high-performance car manufacturers and Pure Storage have in common? Just as top-tier automakers design cutting-edge race car models that push the limits of speed and efficiency, FlashBlade//EXA is built to deliver next-level performance for AI and HPC workloads. FlashBlade//EXA is similar to those examples in that it is a FlashBlade® system with Purity//FB highly optimized to provide next-level performance for the most demanding AI workloads. It complements the high-performance FlashBlade//S™ and high-density FlashBlade//E™ models that have been proven in the enterprise market and recognized in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for File and Object Storage Platforms as a leader for four years in a row.
The Business Challenge of Rapid AI Advancements
As AI innovation expands, many businesses are quickly discovering value in augmenting or revolutionizing their existing operations with model training and inference. This accelerated growth has increased the adoption of AI workflows across pre-processing, training, testing, fine-tuning, and deployment—each benefiting from more powerful GPUs and larger, multimodal data sets.
This expansion has also introduced
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