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Storage for AI: Feeding the Beast
The GPUs get all the glory, but if the storage tier can't keep up, the most expensive cluster in the world sits idle.

Feeding the model. The storage systems and data pipelines that keep a training run from starving — and the question of who holds the data.
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The GPUs get all the glory, but if the storage tier can't keep up, the most expensive cluster in the world sits idle.

Capacity is only the beginning; what separates adequate storage from good storage is what happens when things go wrong.

Distributed ledgers are reshaping how industries store, verify and share critical data — and the infrastructure choices underneath matter as much as the technology itself.
