MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Sept. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the all-flash storage platform
that helps innovators build a better world with data, today
introduced a data hub, the company's vision to modernize storage
architecture for unstructured, data-intensive workloads. Built on
Pure Storage FlashBladeTM, Pure's data hub is designed
to be truly data centric and enable organizations to effectively
utilize today's most critical currency – data.
To innovate and survive in a business environment that is
increasingly data-driven, organizations must design infrastructure
with data in mind and have complete, real-time access to that data.
Today's mainstream solutions were designed for the world of disk
and have historically helped create silos of data. A data hub is
designed to deliver, share and unify data to ultimately unlock
unprecedented value.
"Organizational data silos are a universal pain point across
every industry. Businesses need to realize value from data even
when it's out of sight and out of mind, which is impossible without
insight into the full picture," said Matt
Burr, GM of FlashBlade, Pure Storage. "With a data hub,
we've created a central storage system that satisfies current and
future application requirements with a modern platform designed to
work on customers' behalf."
Today, organizations rely on four inherently siloed analytics
solutions: Data warehouse, data lake, streaming analytics and AI
clusters. A data hub integrates the most important features of
these four silos and unifies them into a single platform. A data
hub must have four key characteristics:
High-throughput for both file and object storage. Backup
and data warehouse appliances require massive throughput for
mainstream, file-based workloads and cloud-native, object-based
applications.
True scale-out design. The power of data lake is its
native, scale-out architecture, which allows batch jobs to scale
limitlessly as software -- not the user -- manages resiliency and
performance.
Multi-dimensional performance. Data is unpredictable and
can arrive at any speed – therefore, organizations need a platform
that can process any data type with any access pattern.
Massively parallel. Within the computing industry, there
has been a drastic shift from serial to parallel technologies,
built to mimic the human brain, and storage must keep pace.
"For decades, the storage industry has been a laggard. Not only
has storage failed to keep up with advances in networking and
compute, it has become a roadblock to innovation," said
Ritu Jyoti, Program Vice President,
Systems Infrastructure Research Portfolio at IDC. "In the era of AI
and real-time analytics, roadblocks have the potential to disrupt
Fortune 500 companies within a short span of time. It is time for a
paradigm shift for storage -- a new dynamic architecture,
purpose-built for modern challenges."
ElementAI, a company that delivers cutting-edge AI products at
scale for enterprises, has seen first-hand the need for a
fundamental shift in storage architectures that puts the emphasis
on data share and delivery rather than data storage alone.
"To keep pace with modern innovation, enterprises need to
jumpstart modern AI initiatives -- but are often burdened with
legacy data silos, in particular data lakes," said Jean-Francois Gagne, Founder and CEO of
ElementAI. "To build more powerful products and results, data needs
to be unified and delivered rather than simply captured and stored.
A data hub is the vision for a new storage architecture designed
for this evolution, purpose-built to power the next generation of
AI products."
"Enterprises in every industry are working to build their future
with AI," said Jim McHugh, vice
president and general manager of Deep Learning Systems at NVIDIA.
"While NVIDIA delivers leaps in innovation and performance to power
AI, data is the fuel and the storage industry must keep pace. The
data hub architecture will assist customers in modernizing their
storage infrastructure to maximize the compute power required for
AI."
PNY Technologies is a leader in high performance computing,
graphics virtualization and deep learning technologies. Its partner
network is focused on bringing AI and modern analytics to its
customers.
"The biggest challenge for our customers is how to make data
intelligent," said Jérôme Bélan, EMEA
CEO at PNY Technologies. "Currently with data sitting in
silos it isn't possible to deliver on its true value. We welcome
Pure Storage's call for a modern architecture to address this issue
and ensure businesses can make the most of their most important
asset. As more businesses look to AI, analytics and cloud-native
applications they need an architecture that can power new
technologies, now and in the future. We are looking forward to
working with Pure to deliver unprecedented value to our customers
through a data hub."
To learn more, please visit our website.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) helps
innovators build a better world with data. Pure's data solutions
enable SaaS companies, cloud service providers, and enterprise and
public sector customers to deliver real-time, secure data to power
their mission-critical production, DevOps, and modern analytics
environments in a multi-cloud environment. One of the fastest
growing enterprise IT companies in history, Pure Storage enables
customers to quickly adopt next-generation technologies, including
artificial intelligence and machine learning, to help maximize the
value of their data for competitive advantage. And with a certified
NPS customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B
companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the
happiest in the world.
Analyst Recognition:
Gartner
July 2018 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays
IDC MarketScape for All-Flash Arrays
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