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NVIDIA Blueprint: PDF Ingestion
NVIDIA Blueprints: PDF Ingestion, also known as NVIDIA-Ingest, or NV-Ingest, this blueprint is a scalable, performance-oriented document content and metadata extraction microservice. Including support for parsing PDFs, Word and PowerPoint documents, it uses specialized NVIDIA NIM microservices to find, contextualize, and extract text, tables, charts and images for use in downstream generative applications.
Cisco AI PODs: A Groundbreaking Advancement in AI Infrastructure
Cisco AI PODs offer a plug-and-play AI infrastructure solution, integrating compute, storage, networking, and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform for seamless deployment. Optimized for various AI workloads, these pre-validated bundles accelerate AI adoption, ensuring scalability and efficiency. Centralized management and flexible integration make AI infrastructure straightforward and future-ready. Available now!
AIPG: Innovation Lab with NVIDIA DGX
NVIDIA DGX H100 integration and validation environment for enterprise AI workflows.
Introducing the Pure Storage FlashArray //XL
Get our perspective on the new FlashArray //XL launch from Pure Storage.
Pure Storage FlashArray //X Lab
*** This is a read-only lab that gives you view permissions on a lab array. If you'd like to have full access to a FlashArray, check out one of our other Pure Storage labs (ActiveCluster, ActiveDR, FA Files, Remote Client/vVols) as those labs give you full access to make changes. ***
The FlashArray //X Series is the Pure Storage primary all flash, NVMe offering. This lab is intended to give users experience with the Purity operating system via both HTML 5 Web Interface and the Purity CLI on real hardware in the WWT ATC.
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Pure Accelerate 2025 Recap
WWT's Storage Experts recap the Pure Accelerate '25 conference as it relates to the new announcements, hardware platforms and Enterprise Data Cloud vision.
Pure Storage FlashArray //C Lab
Pure Storage FlashArray //C lets you consolidate workloads and simplify storage with consistent all-flash performance at a lower TCO over hybrid storage. This lab consists of Pure's capacity-optimized array offering - FlashArray //C60 running Purity 6.x with File Services enabled.
Pure Storage Remote Client Plugin for vSphere, vVols and Storage Insights Lab
Welcome to WWT's lab for Pure's Storage Remote Client Plugin for VMware, vVols, NFS datastores and Storage Insights. We designed this lab to showcase the new Remote Client Plugin and many of the features it enables for the VMware Administrator as it pertains to storage. After a brief introduction to you will dive right in to getting the Remote Client Plugin virtual appliance deployed and configured along with walking you through the many of the integrations the plugin brings.
Pure Storage ActiveDR Lab
In this lab you will walk through the simple configuration to setup and configure ActiveDR replication between PODs running on two FlashArrays. You will also see how Pure's ActiveDR replication can be used to aid in the recovery process should one of your data centers experience an outage or an array failure.
Partner POV | Transforming Recovery Operations: Pure Storage and Commvault's Partnership in Cyber Resilience
Commvault, a global leader in cyber resilience, is both a trusted partner and customer of Pure Storage. The company leverages FlashBlade//S to protect its most critical workloads.
Partner POV | Accelerating Enterprise Insights: Pure Storage and NVIDIA AI Data Platform Empowers Precision Reasoning at Scale
Delayed insights mean missed opportunities. With a Pure Storage-powered NVIDIA AI Data Platform, organizations can turn huge volumes of data into real-time intelligence. In today's fast-paced business world, milliseconds matter. The NVIDIA AI Data Platform, integrated with FlashBlade//EXA and Portworx, enables organizations to not just accelerate inference but also unlock precision reasoning at scale.
Pure Storage FlashArray //X Lab
*** This is a read-only lab that gives you view permissions on a lab array. If you'd like to have full access to a FlashArray, check out one of our other Pure Storage labs (ActiveCluster, ActiveDR, FA Files, Remote Client/vVols) as those labs give you full access to make changes. ***
The FlashArray //X Series is the Pure Storage primary all flash, NVMe offering. This lab is intended to give users experience with the Purity operating system via both HTML 5 Web Interface and the Purity CLI on real hardware in the WWT ATC.
Ansible Automation Workshop - Pure Ansible Lab
Learn to automate Pure FlashArray on Purity using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of Ansible and dives into how it works together to simplify automation for Pure Storage solutions.
Pure Storage FlashBlade
The Pure Storage FlashBlade family is an elastic scale out file and object, all flash storage solution that gives customers an advanced data-hub approach to managing their data. WWT has partnered with Pure Storage to provide this lab giving access to the Purity//FB operating environment on FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E Hardware in the Advanced Technology Center. This lab showcases Pure's RapidFile Toolkit that supercharges common Linux operating system commands running against NFS File Shares on the FlashBlade.
Pure Ansible Automation Lab
If you are familiar with Ansible and want to learn how to use Ansible with the Pure Storage FlashArray, continue on with this lab that demonstrates how to simplify automation of a Pure Storage FlashArray.
*** If you are a Storage admin, new to automation, and want to learn how to automate your Pure Storage environment using Ansible, check out this lab instead that teaches the basics of Ansible from a storage admin point of view.- "Ansible Automation Workshop - Pure Ansible Lab" (https://www.wwt.com/lab/ansible-automation-workshop-pure-ansible-lab)
Pure Storage Portworx Lab for Persistent Container Storage
Welcome to Pure Storage's Portworx lab for persistent container storage. Portworx's Enterprise Storage Platform is a complete storage and data management solution for your Kubernetes environments. Containers will benefit from container-granular storage, disaster recovery, data security, multicloud migrations and more.
Pure Storage FA Files Lab
In this lab you will walk through the simple configuration to setup and configure FA Files on a FlashArray along with setting up replication to a second FlashArray.
Pure FlashArray Files Video Series
As part of the Purity//FA 6.3 release, this playlist offers four videos covering the File System capabilities within a Pure FlashArray. Video 1: File System Setup — Video 2: File Replication Setup — Video 3: Day 2 Operations — Video 4: DR Testing and Failover
Pure Storage ActiveCluster Lab
Pure Storage has released synchronous replication technology in its FlashArray series of products. That product is called ActiveCluster, and this lab will show users how to setup, configure and utilize ActiveCluster in an vSphere 7.0 deployment.
NVIDIA GTC 2025 – Key Storage Takeaways
WWT attended the annual GTC conference in San Jose this year, and high-performance storage was highlighted during the keynote. This blog is a summary of the announcements made at GTC by the leading vendors providing high-performance storage solutions for AI and HPC use cases.
How Cisco and Pure are Shaping the Future for Enterprise AI
FlashStack unifies high-performance computing, GPU acceleration and advanced storage in a cohesive platform. Backed by Cisco Validated Designs, it ensures seamless integration and reduced deployment risks. Combined with Cisco's AI POD, FlashStack addresses AI deployment challenges, offering a future-ready blueprint for innovation and efficiency. To gain hands-on expertise, explore WWT's AI Proving Ground.
Primary Storage Briefing
The primary storage landscape has changed drastically over the last three years. The mass adoption of flash storage, the movement of workloads to the cloud and the emergence of new fabric technologies with NVMe are all trends that are reshaping how we go about selecting primary storage in the data center.
Partner POV | Why Storage Is the Unsung Hero for AI
Storage is the backbone of AI, but as model complexity and data intensity increase, traditional storage systems can't keep pace. Agile, high-performance storage platforms are critical to support AI's unique and evolving demands.
Pure Storage's Fusion for Fleet Management
Simplified management. Effortless automation. Unmatched efficiency.
Automate your enterprise storage by deploying and scaling workloads across any environment. Streamline complex tasks and boost efficiency, enabling your business to focus on growth while reducing risks and overhead.
NVIDIA Blueprint: PDF Ingestion
NVIDIA Blueprints: PDF Ingestion, also known as NVIDIA-Ingest, or NV-Ingest, this blueprint is a scalable, performance-oriented document content and metadata extraction microservice. Including support for parsing PDFs, Word and PowerPoint documents, it uses specialized NVIDIA NIM microservices to find, contextualize, and extract text, tables, charts and images for use in downstream generative applications.