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A visionary company can leverage a strong core technology for many purposes. Consider the graphics processing unit (GPU), invented over 25 years ago, or Internet Protocol, developed over decades, and expected to continue advancing for many more. Both absorbed many other technologies, simplifying and unifying disparate technologies and practices.
Pure Storage leverages its core Purity technology in the same way for artificial intelligence (AI) with today’s introduction of FlashBlade//EXA™. FlashBlade//EXA is designed specifically for the challenges of today’s largest AI workloads, enabling the independent scaling and management of data and metadata through a platform that offers extreme performance, scalability, and adaptability while maintaining the simplicity and consistency Pure Storage is known for.
Our core technology includes DirectFlash®, enabling Pure Storage to directly manage flash NAND technology natively (rather than having flash “pretend” to be a hard disk), significantly improving price, performance, and reliability. And, our scale-out Purity operating system, built on our key-value-store core technology, provides extremely high-concurrency and low-contention access to data of all formats, which is especially critical to modern high-performance workloads.
A great technology also allows a leading company to quickly adjust to incorporate new requirements, yet stay consistent with its core software and value set. Built
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