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\n Purpose-built to bring unmatched performance, scalability and power of FlashBlade technology to next-generation, GPU-intensive AI and HPC workloads<\/i>\n <\/p>\n

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\n <\/span>, March 11, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0Pure Storage\u00ae (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, today debuted FlashBlade\/\/EXA\u2122, the industry’s highest performing data storage platform engineered for the most demanding requirements of AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC). While legacy approaches to data storage have held back AI potential, FlashBlade\/\/EXA breaks the metadata bottleneck with a proven architecture based on FlashBlade, built for high concurrency and the massive amounts of metadata operations typical of large scale AI and HPC workloads.\u00a0In preliminary testing, FlashBlade\/\/EXA is projected to deliver more than 10 terabytes per second read performance in a single namespace – setting a new bar as the industry’s highest-performing storage solution.<\/p>\n

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The FlashBlade\/\/EXA architecture scales data and metadata independently; provides near unlimited scale with off-the-shelf, third-party data nodes that enable highly scalable multi-dimensional performance; and reduces complexity in deployment, management, and scaling through the use of standard protocols and networking.<\/p>\n

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\n Driving a Paradigm Shift in Storage<\/u>
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More powerful GPUs have increased the pace and scale that foundational AI models can be trained. The explosive growth in model size and sophistication is driving a paradigm shift in storage requirements, where solutions must seamlessly keep up with the computational intensity and volume, and variety in data demands of AI and HPC.<\/p>\n

Legacy storage systems were not designed to meet modern AI requirements. When applied to large-scale AI and HPC, they face critical limitations with parallel and concurrent reads and writes, metadata performance, ultra-low latency, asynchronous checkpointing, and predictable, high throughput.<\/p>\n

A modern storage solution must provide a massively parallel, disaggregated architecture to deliver flexibility at scale \u2013 ensuring that storage helps accelerate the pace of AI.<\/p>\n

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\n A Modern Storage Architecture for AI and HPC Workloads<\/u>
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Legacy high-performance storage architectures were optimized for traditional HPC environments, with more predictable and regular workloads and a focus on raw performance scaling. Today’s AI workloads are complex and multi-modal \u2014 including text, images, videos \u2014 being processed simultaneously by tens of thousands of GPUs. This dramatic shift demands advanced metadata optimization alongside massive performance scaling to efficiently manage diverse data types and high concurrency.<\/p>\n

FlashBlade\/\/EXA is purpose-built for the challenges of AI workloads with unmatched performance and metadata management.\u00a0Its disaggregated, massively parallel architecture enables storage flexibility at scale. Enterprises can adapt to evolving multimodal models, optimize reliability, and eliminate idle time to accelerate AI model training and inference while improving GPU utilization. Additionally, the combination of Pure Storage’s metadata engine and Purity operating system with cost-efficient, off-the-shelf data nodes enables enterprises to achieve an unparalleled price-to-performance ratio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FlashBlade\/\/EXA is built on a decade of Pure Storage innovation to provide transformational storage for AI and HPC environments. FlashBlade\/\/EXA will:<\/p>\n