Pure Storage Clears Data Bottlenecks On Road To Artificial Intelligence

Just as it stepped on the accelerator in the race to develop artificial intelligence for self-driving cars, Zenuity hit a traffic jam of sorts. The data-storage technology used by the joint venture to make autonomous vehicles couldn't pump out visual data fast enough to let its new Nvidia (NVDA) graphics processors work at anything approaching top speed. Enter Pure Storage (PSTG) and its FlashBlade technology. As one of 10 vendors brought in to clear the bottleneck, Pure Storage left the competition in the dust and a partnership was born, according to the website Next Platform. "The partnership with Nvidia started in the field, which I think is generally, at least in my experience, where the best partnerships begin," Pure Storage President David Hatfield said on a recent company earnings call.