Data intelligence is becoming the next battleground for enterprise AI and autonomous infrastructure as companies discover that copying information into dashboards and data lakes is too slow for agentic workloads. The shift is forcing IT teams to rethink architectures built for applications first and data second.<\/p>\n
That debate is also reshaping how infrastructure companies frame their AI strategies, as recent SiliconANGLE coverage of Pure Storage shows<\/a>. Breaking application silos and turning scattered repositories into live context for AI<\/a> is now a core goal, according to Chadd Kenney<\/a> (pictured), vice president of product management at Everpure Inc.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you were able to break down those silos, take the context and share it across each one of these applications and then later build a system of record with all of that data consolidated, AI agents now could actually be running on top of real-time data versus this latent copy,\u201d Kenney said. \u201cIf they only have access to Salesforce data, they would have to infer what the costs are and maybe just make up what would be profitable or not. If they understood what suppliers were, what the costs were and also what the total product cost was, they could actually infer what a profitable order is and make that workflow work.\u201d<\/p>\n Kenney spoke with theCUBE\u2019s\u00a0Christophe Bertrand<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Alison Kosik<\/a>\u00a0at Pure Accelerate 2026<\/a>, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media\u2019s livestreaming studio. They discussed how data intelligence, autonomous infrastructure and governance could make enterprise AI more practical in production. (* Disclosure below.)<\/p>\n Data intelligence becomes the live layer for AI and autonomous infrastructure<\/p>\n The next step requires a broader infrastructure reset. Rather than ask customers to centralize everything first, Pure Storage is using discovery and classification across on-prem, cloud and software-as-a-service repositories, often tied to a configuration management database, to map where data lives. That approach extends the reach of its FlashArray and FlashBlade platforms from storage into data intelligence.<\/p>\n \u201cWe typically integrate with a CMDB like in ServiceNow, and it shows you each of your data endpoints,\u201d Kenney said. \u201cIt spins up containers, interrogates the data and then brings it back to contextualize it and classify it. This knowledge map is what AI agents actually need to infer data across a wide swath of data.\u201d<\/p>\n That, in turn, shifts the IT mandate from constant operational firefighting to policy-driven automation. Kenney noted that autonomous compliance and performance management can reduce the time teams spend chasing outages, giving them more room to focus on governance, privacy and how controls eventually follow data instead of individual systems.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom the bottom up, they built an autonomous infrastructure,\u201d he said. \u201cBeyond that, there\u2019s an understanding of the data and they\u2019re getting full use of it. If three years from now people don\u2019t take advantage of this innovation, they\u2019re going to still be stuck managing infrastructure and not actually understanding their data yet.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE\u2019s and theCUBE\u2019s coverage of\u00a0Pure Accelerate 2026<\/a>:<\/p>\n (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Pure Accelerate event. 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