VDURA, a leader in AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, has appointed Garth Gibson as its first Chief Technology and AI Officer (CTAIO). Gibson, renowned for co-inventing RAID and pioneering parallel file systems, previously served as President & CEO of the Vector Institute, where he advanced global AI infrastructure. He now returns to VDURA to spearhead an ambitious mission: reinventing the storage stack for the AI era.
Gibson’s contributions over the past four decades have fundamentally shaped modern data infrastructure. As the co-inventor of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), he established the benchmark for scalable and reliable storage. Additionally, his groundbreaking work on parallel file systems at Carnegie Mellon University’s Parallel Data Lab and as co-founder of Panasas enabled the scale-out architectures that power today’s HPC and AI workloads. At the Vector Institute, Gibson influenced the development of generative AI infrastructure, spanning research clusters to billion-dollar-scale AI facilities.
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Garth Gibson, CTAIO of VDURA, stated: “For four decades I’ve advanced high performance data storage—co-inventing RAID, pioneering the parallel file system, and driving innovation in AI applications and infrastructure. Today at VDURA I see a once in a generation opportunity: to reinvent the storage stack for AI. We’re solving challenges others haven’t cracked, building a data platform that powers the full AI lifecycle that sets a new standard for performance, scale, and reliability.”
Ken Claffey, CEO of VDURA, added: “Garth is a legend in storage and AI infrastructure, and his return to VDURA is a pivotal moment. Garth brings unmatched vision for how storage must evolve for the AI era, and with him leading our technology, we’re building a platform that makes AI faster, more efficient, and massively scalable, setting the course for AI’s future.”
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Gibson’s appointment comes at a critical time as AI workloads surge, putting immense pressure on current infrastructure. Training large AI models demands unprecedented speed and throughput, while inferencing at global scale requires instant access to vast datasets. Under Gibson’s leadership, VDURA aims to deliver a storage platform that overcomes these challenges, powering the entire AI lifecycle with unmatched performance, efficiency, and simplicity.
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