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PEAK:AIO Partners with Stormgrid on High Performance AI Solutions

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PEAK:AIO Partners with Stormgrid on High Performance AI Solutions

Manchester, England, Aug. 7, 2023 — PEAK:AIO, a provider of a software defined storage platform designed for artificial intelligence, today announced a partnership with Stormgrid, a provider of hybrid AI solutions. Together, PEAK:AIO and Stormgrid plan to offer AI infrastructure providing enhanced performance and scalability for Stormgrid’s customer base.

“Stormgrid is known for its state-of-the-art solutions that can tackle any AI workload. The company prioritizes being flexible enough to meet all of its customer’s unique needs by utilizing a wide range of AI technologies and tools,” said Mark Klarzynski, CEO and Founder of PEAK:AIO. “At PEAK:AIO, we bring ultra-performance AI data storage to Stormgrid’s customers, bringing unprecedented value that easily aligns with their storage modernization efforts.”

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PEAK:AIO Incorporates Micron’s 30TB Drives for Optimized AI Performance

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PEAK:AIO Incorporates Micron’s 30TB Drives for Optimized AI Performance

MANCHESTER, England, June 20, 2023 — PEAK:AIO has announced that it has collaborated with Scan and Micron Technology, Inc. to deliver unparalleled artificial intelligence (AI) performance and scalability with PEAK:AIO’s introduction of Micron’s ground-breaking 30TB drives.

Micron turbocharges PEAK:AIO’s AI Data Server, unlocking new levels of performance and scale, delivering up to 650TBs of storage capacity in a single 2U server with enough performance to supercharge the hardiest of AI projects. With over 171GB/sec internal performance, PEAK:AIO is futureproofing compatibility while maximizing NVIDIA’s network connectivity such as the Connect-X range and BlueField DPUs.

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Why the traditional storage vendors have failed to sell into the AI market

| By PEAK:AIO Founder and CEO Mark Klarzynski | Featured on Digitalisationworld.com

Why the traditional storage vendors have failed to sell into the AI market (without mouthwatering discounts)

The storage industry is once again at an inflection point. Most recently it has been the move from centralized, on premises storage solutions to more flexible, scalable solutions that accommodate the endusers immediate requirements. This time it is AI that has the storage industry reevaluating, pivoting and embracing this evolving market.

Throughout the last generations storage vendors have defined not only the technologies, but these vendors have also actively created the demand. It is this particular vision and perception of the market that has led to the development of new technologies. The vendors would evaluate the market from their perspective, which is sometimes a narrow vision, and determine what could be improved and add value, if presented correctly. The vendors then evangelise that new technology, create the value and in some situations create the feeling of fear of not having such features.

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PEAK:AIO provides HPC-level performance for AI with NAS simplicity and low cost

| By Chris Mellor | Featured on Blocks and Files

PEAK:AIO provides HPC-level performance for AI with NAS simplicity and low cost

UK startup PEAK:AIO has rewrittten some of the NFS stack and LInux RAID code to get a small 1RU server with a PCIe 5 bus sending 80GB/sec of data to a single GPU client server for AI processing.

Three cheap servers doing this would send 240GB/sec to the GPU server, faster than high-end storage arrays using GPUDirect which pump data to an Nvidia DGX-A100 GPU server at 152 to 191GB/sec. PEAK:AIO provides storage to the AI market and has a user base ranging from startups to world status projects including the UK NHS AI deployment trials. It supports server vendors such as Dell EMC, Supermicro, Gigabyte, and will be distributed by PNY Technologies.

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PEAK:AIO NVMe AI Data Server Launched

| By Harold Fritts | Featured on StorageReview.com

PEAK:AIO NVMe AI Data Server Launched

PEAK:AIO launched the latest version of its AI Data Server, doubling the performance of the previous version with 80GB/s from a single storage node and reducing the cost of ultra-performance AI data storage by up to 70 percent. PEAK:AIO provides a software-defined storage platform for artificial intelligence applications.

An established vendor in the EMEA AI market, PEAK:AIO’s new software range is deployed on server technology, made in collaboration and support from vendors like Dell, Supermicro, and Gigabyte, and will be distributed by PNY Technologies. With the performance of the latest generation of CPUs, PCIe5, and NVIDIA’s networking technology, PEAK:AIO has achieved HPC-level performance within a single node giving resellers the chance to deliver AI solutions at a reasonable price.

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Peak:AIO Cranks the Storage Throughput for Affordable AI Data Serving

| By Alex Woodie | Featured on Datanami.com

Peak:AIO Cranks the Storage Throughput for Affordable AI Data Serving

Organizations that want to keep their pricey GPUs fed with data for machine learning training purposes but don’t want to break the bank with a big parallel file system installation may be interested in a fast new NFS-based storage offering unveiled today by Peak:AIO, which delivers 80 GB per second of I/O capacity from a 1U server.

Peak:AIO develops server-agnostic data storage systems designed for AI workloads, such as the DGX systems from Nvidia. The British company’s previous iteration of the AI Data Server, which it sells via hardware partners like DellEMC and Supermicro, could deliver 40 GB per second of storage I/O via RDMA atop NFS from a 2U box. With the latest iteration of the AI Data server the company has doubled the data I/O while cutting the size of the box in half, to a 1U system.

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