Locked In at the Worst Possible Time: Why Proprietary Storage Hardware Is Now a Strategic Liability
By Petros Koutoupis, Product Manager, VDURA , June 2, 2026 – When neocloud operators and AI factory builders evaluate
By Petros Koutoupis, Product Manager, VDURA , June 2, 2026 – When neocloud operators and AI factory builders evaluate
VDURA Chief Technology and AI Officer Garth Gibson recognized among 75 of the most influential figures in scientific
There is a reason the largest AI builders in the world do not run all-flash storage. It is
For most of the AI infrastructure buildout, storage was optimized for one thing: feeding training runs. The playbook
The receipts are in on every claim made in “The Flash Emperor Has No Clothes,” and a closer
Source: Block and Files : VDURA CEO Ken Claffey reckons that flash price rises and shortages have finished off
A response to Everpure (aka Pure Storage), and to a decade of all-flash economics that were never as advertised By

HDDs Aren’t Dying. They’re Disappearing Off Shelves. The most resilient storage architectures in AI infrastructure have one thing in common:

Some storage architectures silently consume 5 GB of DRAM and up to 4 CPU cores per GPU node. At 500 nodes, that’s 2.5 TB of DRAM and 2,000 cores lost to storage overhead — a hidden tax you can no longer afford.

April 7, 2026 Source: CIO –The enterprise storage market is currently experiencing unprecedented SSD price volatility driven by massive AI