MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Nov. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that
delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, today
announced it has partnered with Microsoft Azure to significantly
speed next-gen chip design by delivering a data layer that can keep
up with massive, concurrent high-performance computing (HPC)
workloads running in the cloud. FlashBlade at Equinix with
Microsoft Azure for EDA is the first-ever validated solution to
leverage cloud-adjacent storage for engineering design and
automation (EDA) workloads.
The customer demand for development of advanced chips has
created a need for much higher performance than today's legacy
storage architectures can provide. Amid the global chip shortage,
organizations are looking to leverage the public cloud for HPC
workloads and to speed overall design and manufacturing.
Pure Storage and Equinix have joined forces with Microsoft Azure
to deliver cloud-adjacent storage for EDA, HPC and other highly
parallel workloads, such as software build and testing. The
solution leverages Pure Storage FlashBlade®, the leading unified
fast file and object (UFFO) storage platform that delivers
multi-dimensional performance at scale.
Built with next-generation chip design in mind, FlashBlade
offers improved efficiency and resource utilization as well as
advanced analytics to eliminate bottlenecks. FlashBlade's core
value proposition of simplicity, multi-dimensional performance, and
scalability enable reduction of job run time, making it the ideal
storage solution for EDA workloads.
"The processing resources in the public cloud empower chip
designers to drive innovation, but they still need high-performance
storage that can scale rapidly to keep pace. By coupling FlashBlade
with Azure, EDA customers are able to use the practically unlimited
compute ability of the public cloud for next-generation product
development while maintaining full control over data governance and
security." -- Amy Fowler, Vice
President, Strategy and Solutions, FlashBlade Business Unit at Pure
Storage.
FlashBlade at Equinix with Azure for EDA employs FlashBlade in
an Equinix data center with a low-latency connection to Azure. The
solution offers several benefits, including:
- Simplified Cloud Adoption: Using array-level features,
data can be staged and ready for cloud use at any time and in any
location geographically.
- Performance at Scale: FlashBlade is a high-performance,
all-flash storage system for file and object data. It can support
hundreds of thousands of parallel TCP connections per chassis to
enable high levels of parallel computation.
- Security and Control: Customers retain full control of
their data while leveraging FlashBlade's Purity operating system
with built-in security and data management features. Enterprises
will also have the ability to flex to multiple clouds without data
migration.
"Microsoft is pleased to work with Pure Storage on the
first-ever connected-cloud solution for EDA workloads, enabling
customers to speed up semiconductor design flows using Microsoft
Azure. This cooperation demonstrates our commitment to providing
customers with optimal storage options for high performance
scenarios and enabling partners across the ecosystem." --
Mujtaba Hamid, Head of Product,
Modeling & Simulation, Azure at Microsoft
"Expanding our relationships with Pure Storage and Azure to
deliver this cloud adjacent storage solution is a win for customers
- enabling them to more easily address the stringent performance,
governance, and security requirements of HPC and EDA for
semiconductor workloads. Critical to this solution is a
connected-cloud architecture that combines physical proximity and
ultra-fast, low-latency, private connections between the Pure
Storage FlashBlade and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute infrastructure
hosted at Equinix, unlocking a powerful new way for customers to
push the high performance compute envelope." -- Zachary Smith, Managing Director of Equinix
Metal
To learn more about Pure and our EDA solutions, visit FlashBlade
for EDA.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives
technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data
experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a
true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across
multiple clouds. Pure helps customers put data to use while
reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure
behind it. And with a certified 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. For more
information, visit www.purestorage.com.
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- Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage
Arrays
- Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File
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