A³I AI Storage Platform

Overview

The DDN A³I AI Storage Platform is designed to enhance business differentiation and market leadership through optimized data utilization, AI, and advanced analytics. It supports digital transformation with a robust data infrastructure, enabling up to 25% more productivity from GPU resources, resulting in faster insights and reduced costs.

Features

• Enterprise AI Storage: Simplifies deployment, management, and scaling for large AI applications.
• Comprehensive Features: Easy deployment and management, predictable scaling, and complete data protection.
• Performance: Offers unmatched performance with efficient data handling.

Modern AI Data Platform

The platform provides turnkey AI solutions that simplify design, acquisition, and deployment, scaling with growing datasets. It facilitates rapid transition to production, standardizing data practices, and directly impacts AI applications with faster, more accurate results.

Integration with NVIDIA DGX H100 SuperPOD

Designed to minimize complexity and scale easily, the platform integrates with NVIDIA infrastructure, providing leadership-class solutions for enterprises. Its parallel architecture ensures rapid access and maximizes AI productivity.

Enterprise-Grade Simplicity

Standard protocols ensure smooth interoperability across AI pipelines, with enhanced monitoring and health reporting for comprehensive oversight.

Optimal Locality and Security

Direct access improves performance in data-heavy tasks, maintaining efficient connections with both on-premises and cloud storage. Native multi-tenancy ensures secure data management, optimizing model performance and reliability.

Cost Efficiency and Performance

The platform's AI appliances offer high performance with efficient packaging, addressing data-intensive AI demands. It enhances GPU productivity, accelerates training and inference, and reduces data center space, power, and cooling costs.

• 15x Faster Checkpoints: Efficient checkpointing reduces training run times, returning GPU cycles to productive work.
• 4x Data Load Performance: Accommodates growing model sizes to accelerate training and inference.
• 20x Less Data Center Space: Efficient storage reduces space, power, and cooling costs, saving millions over five years.

Performance and Flexibility

The AI400X2 offers top IOPs and throughput per rack, accelerating training workloads without bottlenecks. It balances performance and capacity with simplicity, using QLC for massive capacity and performance without complex backend networks.

For cooler data, disk drives provide cost-optimized capacity, with efficient data reduction for comprehensive AI data archiving.