Graphcore, an artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor company, is seeking to maximize customer investment returns and performance by recruiting a number of storage companies.

Graphcore recently announced that a number of leading storage systems providers have joined its Global Partner Program.

These include Pure Storage, DDN, Vast Data, and WekaIO.

Graphcore continues to expand its global partner program by recruiting leading, industry-recognized storage vendors.

The newly joined companies will provide Graphcore-certified data center reference architectures.

Additionally, these companies' storage solutions will complement the advanced AI computing provided by Graphcore's Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) and Poplar software stack.

These new partners are not only driving innovation in storage technology, but are also pioneering the development of systems designed to meet the unique storage demands of AI computing, such as ultra-low latency access, unstructured data utilization, and random and non-sequential data patterns.

Graphcore works closely with its partners to validate AI storage systems, ensuring customers get the best performance and value from IPU-POD configurations when building or expanding AI computing capabilities.

Big“Just as AI computing requires multiple types of processors, Graphcore’s IPUs, with their diverse potential, require a different approach to data center storage systems,” said Victoria Rege, director of global partnerships and strategic alliances at Graphcore. “We expect these new partners to provide this approach.”

He added, “With the addition of these trusted companies, Graphcore will now be able to better serve our customers by leveraging a broad partner ecosystem that includes distributors, resellers, server and storage manufacturers, and cloud service providers.”