Million-Dollar GPUs, Penny-Pinching Storage: AI’s Embarrassing Bottleneck

Did your IOPS metrics explode during model training? Well, you’re not alone. Companies around the world are finding that their traditional storage architectures are buckling under the write amplification and random I/O patterns that LLMs generate.

While the industry buzzes about transformer architectures and parameter counts scaling past a trillion, many AI initiatives are hitting a wall at the storage layer. The culprit: it’s legacy NFS systems and traditional SANs, which simply can’t…