FlashBlade now certified for NVIDIA Cloud Partner and Enterprise deployments, transforms data into knowledge in near real-time, to fast-track agentic AI reasoning
Pure Storage, a leader in cutting-edge data storage technology, has announced the integration of the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design into its FlashBlade® platform. This move reinforces Pure Storage’s commitment to delivering validated, enterprise-grade, AI-ready solutions that meet NVIDIA’s stringent standards.
Key Announcements
Enhancing AI-Optimized Data Storage with FlashBlade
Pure Storage is advancing AI-driven enterprise storage and data management by equipping businesses with the high-performance storage solutions required for large-scale AI deployments. The integration of the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design into FlashBlade enhances storage capabilities for AI workloads, offering:
- Seamless AI Integration: FlashBlade now supports NVIDIA’s latest reference design for building intelligent AI Data Platforms, ensuring enterprises can leverage high-speed, distributed storage to extract real-time business insights from vast datasets.
- Accelerated AI Processing: By utilizing NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and AI Enterprise software, FlashBlade enables organizations to process and analyze data with the speed and agility required for AI reasoning applications.
This announcement follows the introduction of FlashBlade//EXA™, Pure Storage’s high-performance storage platform engineered for the most demanding AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
Certified High-Performance Storage for NVIDIA Cloud Partners
Pure Storage has achieved certification as a High-Performance Storage (HPS) platform for NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Partners. This certification ensures:
- Proven Storage for AI Workloads: Pure Storage is now validated for NVIDIA Cloud Partner Reference Architectures with NVIDIA HGX systems powered by NVIDIA B200 or H200 GPUs.
- Optimized GPU Cloud Deployments: Enterprises and cloud providers can confidently deploy AI and GPU-accelerated cloud infrastructures with Pure Storage’s validated storage solutions.
NVIDIA-Certified Storage Partner for AI Factories
Pure Storage has also secured NVIDIA-Certified Storage Partner approval at both the Foundation and Enterprise levels. This certification demonstrates:
- End-to-End AI Infrastructure Support: The NVIDIA-Certified Storage Systems program rigorously tests storage solutions for AI factories, ensuring they meet the highest industry standards for performance, efficiency, and reliability.
- Seamless Integration with NVIDIA AI Ecosystem: Customers can build scalable AI factories with storage solutions that complement NVIDIA’s accelerated computing technologies and AI reference architectures.
Alongside Pure Storage’s recent certification of FlashBlade//S500 with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, these milestones solidify Pure Storage’s position as a key storage provider for high-performance AI infrastructure.
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Transforming AI Infrastructure for Enterprises
The rapid expansion of AI and machine learning (ML) workloads has fueled the growth of GPU cloud providers striving to meet the escalating demand for AI-driven computing. However, traditional storage architectures often create performance bottlenecks, limiting GPU efficiency and increasing operational complexities in large-scale AI projects.
Pure Storage eliminates these challenges by offering AI-optimized storage solutions that:
- Enhance GPU Utilization: By eliminating storage-related bottlenecks, Pure Storage ensures maximum efficiency for AI training, inference, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows.
- Support Multi-Tenant AI Environments: The platform is built to seamlessly handle multi-tenant workloads while maintaining always-on quality of service (QoS) and high-level read/write performance guarantees.
- Simplify AI Storage Management: Pure Storage balances high-performance data storage with an intuitive management interface, reducing complexities associated with legacy storage systems.
Rob Lee, Chief Technology Officer, Pure Storage: “GPUs have fast become a driving force behind the next wave of AI innovation. The incorporation of the NVIDIA AI Data Platform into FlashBlade provides the AI-ready storage necessary for peak performance. Additionally, our recent NVIDIA certifications affirm that Pure Storage is supporting the pace and scale that AI models need to create change. Through our purpose-built storage solutions, enterprise customers can easily and efficiently harness the power of AI to accelerate success.”
Rob Davis, Vice President, Storage Networking Technology, NVIDIA: “The new wave of AI reasoning will be powered by massive datasets and requires an always-on data processing pipeline. By integrating NVIDIA AI Data Platform capabilities into Pure Storage FlashBlade, enterprises can equip AI agents with near-real-time business data to achieve new levels of personalized customer service, operational efficiency, and unprecedented productivity.”
Jeremy Foster, GM and SVP for Cisco Compute: “For customers, a simpler path to deploying AI at scale means fewer complexities and faster innovation. That’s why Cisco partners with leaders like Pure Storage, which pushes AI data storage boundaries with offerings like FlashBlade//EXA and support for NVIDIA’s new reference design. We’re excited to extend this momentum through our FlashStack collaboration, integrating Cisco’s data center infrastructure with Pure’s advanced storage to help businesses streamline AI workloads and unlock the full potential of their data.”