When it comes to AI, Pure twists FlashBlade in NetApp's A700 guts
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/07/pure_beats_netapp_at_ai/
Pure Storage's AIRI FlashBlade is faster than NetApp's A700 all-flash array, according to two AI benchmark runs.
The two suppliers have both designed tech using Nvidia DGX-1 GPU servers and their own storage arrays to provide storage-server systems for "AI" applications such as deep learning.