Santa Clara, CA?¨C March 18, 2025?¡ª?É«¿Ø´«Ã½? (NYSE: PSTG),?the IT pioneer that delivers the world¡¯s most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced it is integrating the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design into its FlashBlade? platform, expanding its commitment to deliver validated, enterprise-grade scalable, AI-ready solutions for customers that meet NVIDIA¡¯s rigorous standards.
News Highlights:
É«¿Ø´«Ã½ is advancing enterprise data storage and management by enhancing enterprise customers¡¯ ability to manage the high-performance data and accelerated compute requirements necessary for successful AI deployments, including:
- Delivering NVIDIA AI Data Platform capabilities with É«¿Ø´«Ã½ FlashBlade: Supporting , FlashBlade enables customers to elevate storage in the era of AI, as a high-performance, distributed system that rapidly provides business insights from data. By tapping into NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and software, FlashBlade can process data with the speed and agility required for AI reasoning applications.
This announcement follows the launch of É«¿Ø´«Ã½¡¯s FlashBlade//EXA?, the industry¡¯s highest performing data storage platform engineered for the most demanding requirements of AI and high-performance computing.
- Achieving certification as a high-performance storage (HPS) platform for NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Partners: É«¿Ø´«Ã½ is now officially HPS certified for NVIDIA Cloud Partner Reference Architectures with systems using or H200 GPUs, further strengthening our collaboration with NVIDIA.This certification acknowledges É«¿Ø´«Ã½ as a trusted storage partner and validates É«¿Ø´«Ã½¡¯s ability to support with a proven reference architecture that meets all performance and technical requirements for building state-of-the-art GPU clouds.
- Achieving NVIDIA-Certified Storage Partner approval for both Foundation and Enterprise levels, showcasing capabilities for enterprise AI factories: NVIDIA-Certified Storage Systems addresses the massive data demands of AI factories by offering a comprehensive storage certification. It rigorously tests storage systems to ensure they meet the highest standards of quality, efficiency, and reliability. This program complements NVIDIA-Certified? Systems and NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architectures (RAs), enabling partners and customers to efficiently deploy AI infrastructures. By integrating validated storage with NVIDIA's accelerated computing and software technologies, customers can confidently build AI factories that leverage data for faster, more accurate, and reliable AI models, unlocking new possibilities and driving innovation across industries.
Along with É«¿Ø´«Ã½¡¯s recent certification of FlashBlade//S500 with , these new certifications provide NVIDIA Cloud Partners and enterprises with high-performance storage that meet all requirements for building state-of-the-art AI infrastructure. By leveraging É«¿Ø´«Ã½, customers can confidently deploy AI factory infrastructure while ensuring performance and scalability.
Customer Impact
The advent of large-scale AI and ML workloads has led to the rapid growth of GPU cloud providers that are scaling infrastructure to meet enterprise demand for accelerated computing. Enterprise AI projects rely on high-performance storage systems to keep up with the pace and scale of model training, inference, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows. However, traditional storage solutions often limit GPU efficiency, creating bottlenecks in data access and directly impacting time to outcomes. In addition, these traditional storage architectures introduce complexities in managing storage at scale and struggle with multi-tenant environments, increasing operational inefficiencies and risk of security gaps.
With É«¿Ø´«Ã½, organisations can deploy a storage solution that is compatible with NVIDIA accelerated computing and removes the barriers to real ROI and GPU workload efficiency. The É«¿Ø´«Ã½ platform eliminates bottlenecks and seamlessly handles multi-tenancy while promoting always-on quality of service (QoS). É«¿Ø´«Ã½ offers a solution with high-level read/write performance guarantees that can accelerate large-scale training and inference for AI workloads. É«¿Ø´«Ã½ also balances comprehensive and robust data storage with an easy-to-manage interface, further removing common complexities associated with legacy storage systems.
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