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É«¿Ø´«Ã½ Awarded Inaugural Honor in New Category at AI Summit

SAN FRANCISCO ¡ª September 28, 2017 ¡ª É«¿Ø´«Ã½ (NYSE: PSTG), the market¡¯s leading independent all-flash data platform vendor for the cloud era, today announced that its FlashBlade? array won Best Innovation in AI Hardware at . Optimized and self tuned for any workload powered by unstructured data, FlashBlade provides?the fast, highly scalable and effortlessly simple storage infrastructure required by data-intensive analytics such as artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning. ¡°While the conversation around AI and ML solutions tends to focus on analytics software, a new, comprehensive set of purpose-built infrastructure software and hardware support is essential to capitalize on the AI revolution,¡± said Par Botes, VP of Product, É«¿Ø´«Ã½. ¡°With processing power at both the GPU and storage layer a prerequisite of any AI advancement, it is imperative to recognize the framework on which nearly all AI functionality is conducted.¡± The AIconics are the world¡¯s only independently-judged awards celebrating Artificial Intelligence for business. The winners were announced during a ceremony at AI Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, September 27. This year¡¯s awards were the most competitive yet, with more than 300 entries across all categories. For more information on FlashBlade for AI, visit us on the web.

Additional Resources:

• The AIconics ¨C Best Innovation in AI Hardware Shortlist
• Why the AI Industry Needs to Rethink Storage
• White Paper: Real World AI

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