Ben Di Qual is Senior Director of Product Management for Hyperscale at Pure Storage, leading AI-ready storage solutions for hyperscalers. With over 20 years in cloud and infrastructure, he has driven large-scale AI, HPC, and storage platforms across Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and now Pure Storage. Ben has led the delivery of dedicated cloud regions, hyperscale storage architectures, and AI infrastructure enabling high-performance compute at massive scale. His focus is building resilient, high-throughput platforms that power next-generation AI workloads.
At scale, storage failures are inevitable — outages are not. This talk focuses on architectural approaches that reduce operational disruption when drive failures occur, particularly in hyperscale environment supporting mission-critical workloads. We will discuss techniques for fault isolation, background rebuilds, and intelligent data management that allow systems to recover from device or component failures without service interruption or excessive traffic across the network.