Three Major AI Implementation Challenges, According to AI Architect at Pure Storage

Robert Alvarez, senior AI solutions architect at Pure Storage, says that storage has "...become the lynchpin of AI and analytics performance."

AI is breaking everything in IT. Once you add highly dense racks of GPUs, network bandwidth often becomes the choke point. Solve that, and further bottlenecks appear — data storage, lack of power to feed the data center, limited power distribution infrastructure within the data center, and inadequate cooling.

At Pure Storage’s Pure//Conference held this month in Las Vegas, the company laid out its vision of high-performance storage for the modern AI enterprise. Robert Alvarez, senior AI solutions architect at Pure Storage, explored the critical role of flash storage in enabling end-to-end AI/ML workflows as a means of ensuring fast, structured access to both raw and transformed data.

“Storage is the least talked about part of AI, yet it has become the lynchpin of AI and analytics ...