AI Systems Push Data To Its Limits

Roy Kim leads FlashBlade products and solutions team at Pure Storage. Previously, Roy spent eight years at NVIDIA, leading product management and marketing efforts focused on artificial intelligence and analytics, helping drive a start-up within the company to a multi-billion dollar business. Roy has Masters of Computer Science and Bachelors of Science from M.I.T. IDG recently sat down with Roy Kim, an artificial intelligence and deep learning expert at Pure Storage, to discuss the data and storage needs of AI systems. Data is the fuel for AI, and as it turns out, AI challenges data storage systems like no other application ever has. There are generally two stages of AI processes, training and production.