Pure Storage Airi Mini enables any AI initiative

Powered by Pure Storage FlashBlade and Nvidia DGX-1, This software and hardware solution provides organizations with the data-centric infrastructure needed to harness the potential of Artificial Intelligence.

Pure Storage announced Airi Mini, its second infrastructure ready for Artificial Intelligence operational with technology Nvidia.

Created by Pure Storage and Nvidia, Airi has been designed for architects, data scientists and entrepreneurs deploy the power of the Nvidia DGX-1 system. With Airi Mini, organizations, of all sizes and budgets, can implement a simple and powerful solution that allows them to achieve a competitive advantage thanks to Artificial Intelligence, with a price that is affordable for virtually any company in any sector.

Artificial Intelligence offers organizations an opportunity to improve their functioning, provide a better customer experience and drive business performance through data-driven initiatives.

According to a recent study by the MIT Technology Review, the 82% of companies and IT leaders believe ai can have a positive impact on their industry. Airi Mini allows organizations to access and scale this technology easily, as your initiatives in this field grow.

"While Airi simplifies AI for infrastructures of any scale, Airi Mini offers a powerful and affordable starting point for organizations to explore and scale as they advance in the field of AI.", says Matt Burr, General Manager of FlashBlade at Pure Storage.

Designed as a fully integrated software and hardware solution by Pure Storage and Nvidia, Airi Mini provides a simple architecture, but powerful, that gives organizations the data-centric infrastructure needed to harness the power of AI.

Airi Mini works with a Pure Storage FlashBlade, the industry-leading storage platform, designed for modern analytics and Artificial Intelligence, configured with 7 blades of 17 TB and two Nvidia DGX-1 servers providing two Petaflops of deep learning performance.

These systems are interconnected with 100 Gbe, supporting GPUDirect RDMA technology for maximum distributed training performance. Airi Leverages Nvidia GPU Cloud Deep Learning Software Stack, for maximum GPU performance, and Pure Storage's Airi Scaling Toolkit, optimized for multinode training with DGX-1 and FlashBlade. With this integrated stack, data scientists can get their AI initiatives up and running in hours, instead of taking weeks or months.

Pure has also announced that both Airi and Airi Mini are available with the Ethernet switches of 100 Gb Nexus9000 de Cisco. The thousands of customers of culm and Pure can now enjoy the additional solutions that both companies offer them together if they launch new AI initiatives.

Airi and Airi Mini are the first converged infrastructures purpose-built for artificial intelligence that enable architects and data scientists to provide an understanding of concepts at scale.. As organizations generate and store an increasing amount of data, it's more important for innovators to get value, insights and an impact of this data, to make your businesses smarter.

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