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Everpure's Chadd Kenney: Data Primacy, AI Agents, and Autonomous Infrastructure

James Maguire

June 23, 2026

At Pure Accelerate 2026 in Las Vegas, Everpure Vice President of Product Management Chadd Kenney outlined the company’s evolution from a storage provider into a broader data management platform designed for the AI era. He discussed Everpure’s rebranding from Pure Storage, the company’s focus on data intelligence and autonomous infrastructure, and why he believes the next major enterprise technology shift will be a move toward “data primacy,” where data becomes the central organizing principle for AI-powered business operations.

Kenney explained that while enterprises have invested heavily in AI models and agents, many organizations remain unprepared to leverage AI effectively because their data remains fragmented across applications, clouds, SaaS platforms, and infrastructure silos.

Core Takeaways

Beyond Storage

Everpure's rebrand reflects a multi-year evolution from storage systems to autonomous infrastructure and now enterprise-wide data management designed for the AI era.

Shared Context for AI Agents

AI agents cannot make effective business decisions when limited to data inside a single application; enterprises need a shared context layer spanning CRM, ERP, ITSM, SaaS, and other systems.

Governance Through Data Intelligence

Building governance and access controls at the data layer enables organizations to provide AI agents with broader context while maintaining security, compliance, and role-based access control.

Data Primacy Is the Next Shift

Kenney believes enterprises are moving from an application-centric world toward data primacy, where understanding, contextualizing, and connecting data becomes more important than the applications themselves.

KEY QUOTES

The Rebrand Reflects a Much Larger Vision

We started off building really great storage solutions, but over time we evolved into building autonomy around infrastructure. We began abstracting away the storage stack and helping customers manage infrastructure at a higher level. As we continued down that path, we realized customers needed help understanding and rationalizing their data, especially as AI introduced new challenges around silos and fragmented information.

The rebrand to Everpure reflects that evolution. We're not moving away from storage, but we are expanding beyond it. We've gone from storage management to autonomous infrastructure to data management. We wanted our identity to reflect those broader ambitions and the larger role we now play in helping customers get value from their data.

AI Agents Need Shared Context Across the Enterprise

Many organizations are building agents inside individual applications, but those agents only understand the context available inside that application. If you build an agent inside a CRM system and ask it to approve profitable orders, it may know customer pricing but have no understanding of manufacturing costs, supplier expenses, or margin structures.

To answer those questions effectively, agents need shared context across the enterprise. They need to understand information from ERP systems, supply chain systems, CRM platforms, and other business applications simultaneously. That shared context becomes incredibly important because it allows agents to make decisions based on the full business picture rather than a narrow slice of information.

Better Context Can Improve Security and Governance

There's a common concern that giving agents broader access to information will increase risk, but in many ways the opposite is true. Today, organizations often connect agents directly to multiple applications, creating fragmented access paths and limited governance.

By creating a shared context layer, you can introduce governance at a higher level. You can implement role-based access controls and define exactly what information agents can access. That creates stronger oversight and helps ensure agents only see the data they should have access to while still benefiting from broader enterprise context.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Maguire

Executive Director

An award-winning journalist, James has held top editorial roles in several leading technology publications, covering enterprise trends in cloud computing, AI, data analytics, cybersecurity and more. He regularly communicates with industry analysts and experts and has interviewed hundreds of technology executives.

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The Rebrand Reflects a Much Larger Vision

AI Agents Need Shared Context Across the Enterprise

Better Context Can Improve Security and Governance

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