MOUNTAIN
VIEW, Calif., Aug. 31,
2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE:
PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a
multi-cloud world, today announced that Olympus, the world's
leading provider of endoscopes and other medical devices, selected
AIRI®, Pure's reference architecture for AI (artificial
intelligence), to contribute to the rapid provision of AI
development for the company.
AIRI®, a modern AI infrastructure jointly architected
using Pure Storage FlashBlade® and NVIDIA DGX-1 Systems, gives
Olympus the speed, scalability, and flexibility it needs to
continuously develop and deploy high-performance, data-intensive
applications. The FlashBlade Unified Fast File and Object (UFFO)
platform hosts hundreds of terabytes of data, feeding images and
other data into AI and ML (machine learning) models to produce
increasingly accurate results over time.
When Olympus introduced AIRI® into its architecture, they
also introduced on-demand storage provisioning for containerized
environments. Pure's proactive support has enabled the launch of a
container-based AI development platform and environment, while
helping to drive more efficient use of resources overall. This has
increased the delivery speed of the AI development environment,
empowering developers with self-service capabilities. In addition,
Pure's FlashBlade and Evergreen Storage™ solutions proved to be a
meaningful benefit by supporting swift upgrades without downtime.
Developers are now freed from the burden of resource management in
the AI development environment.
"In research and development related to AI, a large amount
of image data is generated and the infrastructure for storing it is
becoming more important. In addition, as the number of AI
development themes has increased, an environment that efficiently
uses GPU resources has become necessary," said Mr. Shuta Yanagita, Software Strategy Manager,
Software Strategy, at Olympus. "Therefore, the preparation of a
flexible AI development environment that solves these issues was a
challenge."
With 70% of the global market share for
gastrointestinal endoscopes, at Olympus, the amount
of data handled in AI development is steadily increasing, and it is
expected that the storage capacity will expand moving forward. It
is also being discussed with the expectation that the usage rate by
AI developers will increase in the future.
"There is enormous potential for AI-driven innovation in
healthcare. We're thrilled that Olympus is using AIRI to advance
the field of medicine and help doctors around the world," said
Yoshiyuki Tanaka, President,
Japan at Pure Storage.
By leveraging Pure, Olympus has been able to speed time to
market for innovative new solutions. With the integration of AIRI
and Red Hat OpenShift, its developers can rapidly spin up
development environments and simplify storage delivery to
container-native applications using Red Hat OpenShift. It helps
Olympus launch applications sooner and explore the virtually
limitless possibilities for solving global healthcare
challenges.
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