F-AIRI-nuff: Pure Storage takes its machine-learning platform hyperscale

Pure Storage has updated its AIRI platform for accelerating artificial intelligence workloads with a hyperscale configuration that includes Nvidia's DGX-1 and DGX-2 GPU boxes and Mellanox networking. The firm today also unveiled an alternative platform aimed at the more mainstream enterprise market. This is based on its …

[m0rt]

F-AIRI-nuff

Me an a mate have a years long continuation with different spelling of Fair Enough.

Fairy Nuff

Pheurrie Nough

Phurry Nuff

Furry Nuff

Furrie Neurf

Ferry nerf

Fir E Nuf

...and so on.

[Anonymous Coward]

AIRI's not selling well

and so the next play is to package GPUs with UCS. This won't work either.

[Jjo]

Re: AIRI's not selling well

Funny you say that..

This link states otherwise

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6511958953235148800

I also attended a webinar they did with the customer last week - ElementAI and I really loved it. as well as few other customers in Europe and Taiwan that they mentioned in their press release.

I think they have more customers than NetApp, Dell EMC combined for AI.

Disclaimer: We use Pure & NetApp in our data center and I closely follow these two companies.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: AIRI's not selling well

I have yet to see a vendor saying a product of theirs is not selling well...

There's a big difference between having a few customers vs generating noteworthy revenue...

[Jjo]

Re: AIRI's not selling well

AI is still a niche market for storage vendors. The fact that a company can boast 15-20 customers in public (how many are non public) in a year is a noteworthy accomplishment. Question is why has NetApp or DellEmc not been able to do so? For example, Dell published their AI Ready ref arch with DGX 6 months ago and officially announced last week. They didn't have a single customer quoted as the users of the platform?

Secondly, Pure seems to doubling down on AIRI with scaling across racks of DGX apart from the new FlashStack. I also find it interesting to see 'hyperscale'. My assumption that some hyperscale companies are using AIRI here.

Disclaimer: We use Pure & NetApp in our data center and I closely follow these two companies.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: AIRI's not selling well

Do you really believe claiming to be a customer works?

When you're attacking a couple of vendors one of which you claim to be using, the signal you're sending is not that of a customer but rather someone from Pure with a newly created profile...

[Jjo]

Re: AIRI's not selling well

It does. And here is why. I am not representing my company. I am representing my opinion based on using both. Are you telling me that I can't hold an opinion based on my experience? I was transparent upfront that I use them and I know what I am talking about. Clearly you don't, and hence u deflect.

Besides, the last person who can comment about disguise is an 'anonymous coward' . You CLEARLY sound like someone from NetApp or Dell, butt hurt..

Good night.