Webinar
Linux Storage Server and NFS Advancements: Creating a High-Performance Standard for AI Workloads
May 28, 2025 | 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7)
Join us for a Complimentary Live Webinar Sponsored by Hammerspace
The increasing importance of AI in the enterprise has transformed the management, movement, and storage of unstructured data. Enterprises now require the high levels of storage performance and scale previously reserved for elite HPC and Hyperscale environments, as well as advanced data services to find, stage, and process the data needed for GenAI and inference workloads.
The problem is that AI workloads require high-performance access to datasets that are often distributed across existing on-prem and cloud-based storage silos, requiring performance levels traditional enterprise IT architectures are not designed for.
But within every enterprise data center there are Linux-based servers that already contain a series of high-performance enhancements that help accelerate existing IT environments to meet these challenges.
With an ongoing series of updates to the Linux NFS kernel and pNFSv4.2, standard distributions now include key features for high-performance workloads and the distributed hybrid storage environments needed for AI and other GPU-based use cases. These enhancements enable modern data centers and clouds to support such workloads globally with standard Linux, and without the need for proprietary clients to support multi-vendor data environments.
In this session we will cover the latest kernel additions submitted by Hammerspace to enable such use cases, and look ahead to future enhancements coming in the next year.
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Speakers
Trond Myklebust, CTO & NFS Client Kernel Maintainer, Hammerspace
Trond Myklebust, co-founder and CTO, brings more than 20 years of experience with networked storage and Linux kernel development. As the maintainer and lead developer for the Linux kernel NFS client, Trond has nurtured the community to architect and develop several generations of networked filesystems. Before joining Hammerspace, Trond worked at NetApp and the University of Oslo. Trond also holds an MSc in quantum field theory and fundamental fields from Imperial College, London and worked in high-energy physics at the University of Oslo and CERN.
Molly Presley, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing, Hammerspace
Molly is the SVP of Global Marketing for Hammerspace and host of the very popular Data Unchained podcast. She brings a wealth of experience from leading product and marketing organizations, user communities, and customer advisory board for global technology innovators. Molly is the founder of the Active Archive Alliance, co-author of three books focused on putting data to use in research, analytics and AI environments, and was previously a board member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).