Samantha Clarke | Vice President AI Business Development
VDURA
Samantha Clarke is Vice President at VDURA, where she drives global sales, business development, and strategic partnerships across the AI and high-performance computing (HPC) ecosystems. With over two decades of leadership in data storage infrastructure, she specializes in architecting ultra-high-efficiency data platforms for "Neo Cloud" providers and hyper-scale AI clusters. Samantha Clarke is deeply specialized in resolving the data bottlenecks inherent to next-generation GPU deployments by building strategic partnerships with industry leaders like NVIDIA, AMD, and Solidigm to deliver robust reference architectures at scale.
Appearances:
Future of Memory and Storage - Day 1 @ 09:45
Panel Discussion – Storage as a Service: Neo-Cloud Economics vs Hyperscale Control
AI NeoClouds are racing to differentiate but storage margins often flow upstream. Hyperscalers increasingly bundle Storage-as-a-Service with GPU compute, capturing performance premiums and tightening ecosystem control. Meanwhile, scale-out storage platforms (Weka, VAST Data, DDN, Hammerspace) power NeoCloud clusters, abstracting flash volatility while competing on throughput and latency guarantees.Beneath them sit controller, NVMe, and flash suppliers whose economics depend on density, endurance, and bandwidth scaling. Open-source stacks and bare-metal storage clusters offer an alternative path but with operational trade-offs.This panel maps the full stack: hyperscale services, NeoCloud offerings, software, defined storage layers, component vendors, and flash technology providers, asking who owns margin, who owns performance, and how AI-era storage models evolve.
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