Pure Storage Selects Lablup as its AI Technology Alliance Partner in Korea

Seoul, Korea – November 15, 2021 — Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced today that it has selected AI platform provider Lablup as an AI Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) in Korea.

Pure Storage’s Technology Alliance Partner Program brings leading vendors in hardware, software, and multicloud together to deliver better technologies and experiences to customers. Working with TAP Program partners, Pure Storage provides a spectrum of joint solutions that span AI, data analytics, cloud and data protection. TAP Program partners also receive access to technical support as well as marketing benefits leveraging Pure’s global customer-base to expand their brand and businesses.

Through the alliance, Lablup has integrated Pure FlashBlade®, the leading unified fast file and object storage platform, providing  a high-performance, architecturally optimized and scalable solution, to support enterprises’ business innovations. Lablup has already started to gain traction on AI projects with several large customers including a leading electronics company in Korea.

Deployed on FlashBlade, Backend.AI allows data scientists to easily manage their AI infrastructure, which in turn enables them to focus on building AI models. Besides integrating FlashBlade into Backend.AI, the TAP relationship gives Laplup access to Pure’s global customer base and Pure’s Proof of Concept labs.