Renen Hallak

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

We then built a data engine, which is a way to orchestrate compute across all of these chips and across geographies in what we call the data space.

And so what started as a storage system is now trying to fill out that software infrastructure stack.

I like to call it the operating system for this new AI era because in a way we're abstracting these new applications from the new hardware and filling that middle.

Or partnering with everybody.

I think there's a big shortage right now because of this AI boom.

All of the data needs to move into flash-based solutions.

The flash vendors haven't built enough.

So there's a gap between supply and demand.

And like you said, having the choice of whichever one you want.

If we are to be the operating system, we need to be working with all of the different hardware vendors.

Yeah.

And what I found, especially in the last six to nine months, as this shortage becomes apparent, that the fact that our system is very efficient and that you need a lot less underlying hardware to have very fast access to a lot more information enables people to leverage us in a way that maybe... Yeah, I remember you had some very clever compression algorithms or is that the appropriate word?

It is.

We call it data reduction.

Yes.

And data.

Exactly.

We pick all of this unstructured data, pictures, and video, and we find similarities across a global namespace, and then we reduce it down based on those similarities.

And that's on top of a very efficient data protection scheme that doesn't waste a lot of space.

And that's on top of a data placement scheme that allows us to use very, very low cost SSDs.

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