@HPCpodcast-107: Paul Bloch of DDN on AI Storage – Industry View
@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug BlackShow Notes
Our special guest today is Paul Bloch, President & Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company. AI runs on massive amounts of fast and reliable data, which makes topics related to storage systems especially important. We discuss a broad range: technical optimizations for AI storage, DPUs and future directions, alignment with streaming, HPC, and accelerated computing, pilot to production and training to inference technical and operational challenges, sovereign AI and data sovereignty, and more. Join us! [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/107@HPCpodcast_IV_DDN_Paul-Bloch_AI-Storage.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-107: Paul Bloch of DDN on AI Storage – Industry View appeared first on OrionX.net.
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