Pure Storage has introduced FlashBlade//EXA, the industry’s highest-performing data storage platform engineered for the demanding requirements of AI and high-performance computing (HPC). This innovative platform is set to transform the storage landscape by delivering unprecedented performance, scalability, and efficiency.
FlashBlade//EXA is designed to overcome the limitations of legacy storage systems, which have hindered the potential of AI and HPC. With a proven architecture based on FlashBlade technology, FlashBlade//EXA breaks the metadata bottleneck, offering high concurrency and handling massive amounts of metadata operations typical of large-scale AI and HPC workloads. Preliminary testing indicates that FlashBlade//EXA can deliver more than 10 terabytes per second read performance in a single namespace, setting a new industry benchmark.
Rob Lee, Chief Technology Officer at Pure Storage, highlighted the significance of this launch: “FlashBlade//EXA delivers a massively parallel architecture that enables independent scaling of data and metadata to provide customers with unmatched performance, scalability, and adaptability for some of the largest, most demanding data environments in the world. Storage is now accelerating the pace of large-scale HPC and AI evolution.”
The FlashBlade//EXA architecture scales data and metadata independently, providing near-unlimited scalability with off-the-shelf, third-party data nodes. It reduces complexity in deployment, management, and scaling through the use of standard protocols and networking. This platform is expected to become available in mid-2025, offering enterprises a modern storage solution that meets the evolving demands of AI and HPC workloads.