Renen Hallak

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Uplink: AI, Data Center, and Cloud Innovation Podcast · Storage For The AI Tidal Wave · 19 May 2026 podcast

But suddenly it made sense because of performance reasons to start using Flash.

in the data center and extreme IO was one of those first systems.

It was back then.

It was, if you think 10 years back or even 11 years back into 2015, it was AI and it was very, very early AI.

I didn't know it would be anything like this, but I thought if we can help build the thinking machine, even if it's a very low probability of success and even if it

never actually materializes, it's worth a shot.

2015, Google just acquired DeepMind.

Yes.

And so it was very, very early days of neural nets starting to show promise.

But it was even then pretty clear, at least clear to me, that you needed very fast access to a lot of data in order for this to work.

And I looked, I was a part of EMC.

I looked at all of the different systems that we had in-house and

None of them were scalable enough.

None of them were performant enough to enable this next revolution.

Yes.

No, there was always a very clear trade-off between performance and capacity in the world of storage, in the world of data.

And you had many different types of systems and there was different tiers.

And there wasn't one that could do both.

And it was, again, for these new workloads, required to have not just access to a few numbers, but to pictures and genomes and video and sound.

And not just to a few CPUs doing analysis, but now we know it's GPUs at the time.

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