Pure Storage Announces FlashBlade//EXA: The Future of AI and HPC Scalability and Performance

FlashBlade//EXA is an advanced, purpose-built data storage platform designed to meet the most demanding AI and HPC workloads. It empowers AI innovators, specialized GPU clouds, leading AI enterprises, and tech giants to maintain a competitive edge in the AI innovation race. Utilizing the powerful Purity engine, FlashBlade//EXA achieves unprecedented data read/write speeds and file namespace management.

Legacy storage systems were not designed to meet the modern requirements of AI. When applied to large-scale AI and HPC, they encounter critical limitations in parallel and concurrent reads and writes, metadata performance, ultra-low latency, asynchronous checkpointing, and predictable high throughput.

Customers wanting flexibility will benefit from a disaggregated architecture that maintains Pure Storage’s famous dependability, scalability, simplicity, and performance. This cutting-edge technology enables companies to swiftly adapt to new requirements while staying true to their core software and values. Built on the same principles and technology as Pure Storage hyperscaler design, DirectFlash and Purity now integrate in new ways, allowing Pure Storage to deliver the world’s highest performance storage system for large-scale AI/ML and high-performance computing.

Here are some of the exceptional features Pure Storage is delivering with FlashBlade//EXA:

Extreme Performance

FlashBlade//EXA will achieve read speeds exceeding 10 TB/s and write speeds up to 50% of read speeds at General Availability (GA) this summer. This performance is sustained, with no caching involved!

Performance Density

FlashBlade//EXA will offer industry-leading performance in a compact form, delivering 3.4 TB/s per rack at GA this summer.

Unmatched Scale

FlashBlade//EXA will provide unparalleled namespace and capacity scaling, supporting trillions of files and exabytes of capacity at GA this summer.

Improved Adaptability

FlashBlade//EXA will give customers the flexibility to choose their own qualified data nodes, allowing for seamless and predictable scaling of read/write performance, metadata IOPS, and capacity.

Multi-Dimensional Performance

FlashBlade//EXA will deliver the extreme metadata performance required for multi-modal data access.

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