Podcast Episode Details
Back to Podcast EpisodesPodcast #142: What’s Next For Storage in the AI Era?
Brian and crew recently landed in Montreal to tour the Hypertec lab facility and witness some interesting immersion-cooling trends with the leader in the field.
Following the lab tour and product demos, Brian sits down with Scott Shadley, Director of Leadership Narrative at Solidigm. Scott and Brian have a lively, candid discussion as they trace the evolution of cooling, flash storage, and breaking away from legacy hard-drive form factors.
However, it’s not all about immersion technology. Brian and Scott discuss signal integrity challenges in PCIe Gen5/6 and the trade-off between performance and reliability. Of course, there can’t be a podcast without an AI segment, so we cover topics such as AI-driven data growth, RAID resiliency, and large-drive “blast radius” management.
Scott discusses Solidigm’s focus on developing products that customers want, rather than guessing what the industry needs. This only works when vendors work closely with customers to understand their pain points. Scott gets into the collaboration with NVIDIA. It is easy to hear the excitement in Scott’s voice. Of course, because it is a massive hardware environment, Brian has a hard time wiping the smile from his face.
This podcast covers everything from early Fibre Channel drives to flash and NVMe, and also explores edge computing applications, AI inference offload, and immersion-qualified SSD developments.
This pod is a must for anyone interested in the evolution of immersion cooling and flash storage, as well as why a strong partner ecosystem is crucial for customer success. If you have an extra 35 minutes, give this a listen or watch it from end to end; it’s worth the time. If you’d like to explore specific topics, we have broken it down into five-minute segments.
0:00 – 5:00 | Immersion Cooling and Industry Trends
Highlights:
- Opening from Montreal with Solidigm and Hypertec.
- Discussion of immersion cooling, liquid vs. air cooling, and touring H
Published on 4 days, 11 hours ago