Santa Clara, Calif. – August 15, 2023 — Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced that Chungbuk Technopark, a regional innovation hub in Chungcheongbuk-do Province, has leveraged FlashBlade®, its unified fast file and object storage platform, to enhance the AI development environment it provides to local businesses by boosting storage data processing performance and significantly improving GPU usage.
Customer Challenge:
Chungbuk Technopark is an innovation hub that supports growth and economic development in the Chungcheongbuk-do province of South Korea, including a development environment for deep learning and machine learning that helps local companies develop AI products. To support AI initiatives, the company needed storage with AI-optimised performance, simple management, and that was easily upgradeable.
Customer Impact:
Chungbuk Technopark built its AI environment around the NVIDIA DGX A100 system. After comparing flash storage solutions, it selected Pure Storage FlashBlade for a seamless integration with its DGX systems, maximising the efficiency and management of data used to develop and train AI technologies. Benefits that Pure Storage delivers to Chungbuk Technopark include:
Advanced AI development infrastructure: Chungbuk Technopark increased data processing performance twofold, improved the GPU server’s data read speed, and expanded GPU usage from 30% to 80%—an increase of about 2.6x. It also enhanced performance, scalability, and data availability for the AI development environment, while also achieving a tenfold increase in reliability.
- Zero downtime to meet a growing workload: FlashBlade allows Chungbuk Technopark to increase performance and capacity without any downtime or data migrations. This means more reliable service for companies that rely on the AI platform.
- Simple, efficient storage management: With Pure's AI-powered full-stack storage management and monitoring software, Pure1®, Chungbuk Technopark’s staff spends much less time and cost managing storage capacity and performance.
Pure Storage supports Chungbuk Technopark’s efforts to help local companies innovate AI-enabled services and products. A promising beauty-tech startup, for example, uses the AI platform to analyse skin and scalp conditions and market customized beauty products. A fast-growing local startup successfully developed AI technology to analyse the movement of wild boars. This helps livestock farmers prevent African Swine Fever (ASF), a development that earned the company the ‘H1 2022 Best Patent Award of Korea’ by The Hankook Ilbo.
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