Summary
FlashBlade//EXA and FlashBlade//S enhancements can accelerate AI adoption and address the requirements of organizations at any scale from extreme-scale AI factories to enterprise AI workloads. These game-changing innovations give partners an exciting opportunity to initiate new customer engagements and lead the AI storage revolution.
AI and HPC are evolving at an unprecedented pace, and organizations are struggling with infrastructure and data architecture that limits AI innovation and scale. This is where you, our partners, have an unmatched opportunity to lead the next wave of AI-driven transformation. Last week, Pure Storage set a new industry standard for performance in AI solutions with the launch of FlashBlade//EXA™—a game-changing AI data storage platform designed for large-scale AI factories and extreme performance workloads. At the same time, we continue to expand enterprise AI solutions with FlashBlade//S™ and deepen our collaboration with NVIDIA. Whether your customers are just starting with AI or scaling to thousands of GPUs, Pure Storage has the right solution to support their journey no matter where their data resides.
Pure Storage has always been a partner-first company. Together, we’ve helped lead the industry-wide transition to all-flash storage, and now, as AI reshapes IT infrastructure, our partners are once again at the forefront of this transformation. For our partners, this is an unmatched opportunity to lead AI conversations—from inference at the edge to exabyte-scale training in AI data centers. With an expanded AI portfolio from Pure Storage, you can help customers build AI infrastructure that is scalable, efficient, and ready for the future.
Read the press release to see why this moment matters.
Innovating for the Future of AI
AI isn’t new to Pure Storage—we’ve been helping customers across industries scale their AI initiatives for years. From powering enterprise AI with AI-ready infrastructure, FlashStack for AI, and FlashBlade//S to enabling cutting-edge AI supercomputers at Meta and CoreWeave to accelerating AI workload deployment with Portworx®, we’ve continually redefined what’s possible.
Now, we’re taking the next leap forward. FlashBlade//EXA powers the ultimate storage platform for large-scale AI and HPC, delivering an architecture purpose-built for large AI factories and GPU-driven environments. Built on our proven FlashBlade® and Purity//FB innovations, it delivers:
- Disaggregated metadata and data architecture without restrictions—removing bottlenecks that limit traditional parallel file systems, all powered by Purity
- Extreme performance—delivering 10+ TB/s read throughput to ensure AI workloads never stall
- Seamless scalability—expanding to exabyte scale and beyond to support the most data-intensive AI factories
At the same time, we’re strengthening enterprise AI with FlashBlade//S. Recognized with new NVIDIA certifications, FlashBlade//S provides tested, validated, and high-performance AI storage that helps organizations accelerate AI deployment with best practices and design guidance. For our partners, this provides a robust and expanded AI portfolio that meets every customer’s AI needs.
Accelerate Your NVIDIA AI Data Platform for Enterprises
Pure Storage is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to enable a modern AI data platform that will include agents for task planning/execution and reasoning, always-on ingestion and embedding, semantic search, and generative functionality. The combination of Pure Storage and NVIDIA provides a new class of AI infrastructure that integrates enterprise storage with NVIDIA-accelerated computing to power AI agents with near real-time business insights.
NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) Certification
FlashBlade//S is now certified for high-performance data storage in NVIDIA Cloud Partner environments, ensuring seamless integration and high-performance support for GPU-accelerated AI workloads. This enhances the capabilities of our partners and enables them to deliver comprehensive AI solutions to customers of all sizes.
AI Opportunity Comes in All Sizes
Customers are investing in AI infrastructure at every stage—from pilots and proofs of concept to full-scale AI data centers. Most organizations need a scalable, enterprise-grade AI storage solution which is optimally addressed with FlashBlade//S. A proven AI storage platform, FlashBlade//S is certified with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, NVIDIA DGX BasePOD, NVIDIA-Certified Systems in Foundation and Enterprise configurations, and is also certified high-performance storage for NVIDIA Cloud Partners.
With the addition of FlashBlade//EXA, partners have the opportunity to initiate new customer engagements. These innovations can spark deeper AI conversations around infrastructure strategy, scaling challenges, and future investments.
We’ve recently worked with a major telecom provider to repatriate their AI workloads to help them drive improved data governance, security, and cost efficiency.
AI Is Growing—and So Is Your Market Opportunity
AI adoption is surging, and customers are seeking trusted advisors to help them build scalable, high-performance infrastructure. This presents a unique opportunity for our partners to:
- Engage AI leaders and innovators—from organizations small to large to exabyte-scale AI factories.
- Expand into new AI market segments that demand extreme performance.
- Position FlashBlade//S for most scenarios while leveraging FlashBlade//EXA for ultra-high-scale AI deployments.
- Unlock new revenue streams—help customers design, deploy, and optimize AI infrastructure while monetizing professional and managed services, creating long-term value for customers.
- Capitalize on AI trends—driving long-term strategic value with customers.
- Support modern AI application stacks—with Portworx enabling resilient, containerized AI workloads whether in a data center or in the cloud.
This isn’t just a new product launch—it’s a chance to future-proof your AI practice, deepen customer engagement, and drive new revenue opportunities.
Want to hear more? Register for our webinar where we will discuss how Pure is simplifying and accelerating AI at every scale.
Artificial Intelligence
From Pilot to Exabyte Scale: Implementing AI-ready Storage for Any Stage
April 24, 2025 | 9:00AM PT • 12:00PM ET
Let’s Win Together!
The AI market is growing fast across all customer segments, and Pure Storage has the right solution wherever your customer is in their AI journey. Now is the time to take action and position yourself as a leader.
- Get up to speed: Explore Pure.AI and our AI solutions page
- Engage your customers: Leverage our announcements to start AI conversations around inference, RAG, tuning, or large-scale model training
- Find us at NVIDIA GTC: Experience our entire AI solution portfolio and connect with our AI experts in booth #1309.
- Host a joint AI workshop with Pure Storage and NVIDIA: Contact your Regional Pure Storage AI Field Solution Architect to get started.
AI is reshaping industries—and this is our moment to lead. Let’s capture the opportunity together!
