The Datastorage.com Podcast: Building for Tomorrow's Cloud Infrastructure

What does it actually mean to own the GPU layer of AI? In this episode, John Kostros sits down with Sunny Smith, Founder and CTO of Massed Compute, one of the few operators building at the true infrastructure layer: owning hardware, deploying GPUs at scale, and powering what he calls the "underlying carrier layer" for next-gen cloud. Sunny has lived through every major tech wave, the PC revolution...

In this episode of the DataStorage.com podcast, John sits down with Lu Zhang, Founder and Managing Partner of Fusion Fund, to talk about where AI infrastructure, data quality, cloud architecture, and venture capital are headed next. Lu shares her perspective as both a former founder and an early-stage investor backing deep tech, healthcare AI, infrastructure, and enterprise startups. The conversat...

Russ Artzt, co-founder of Computer Associates (CA Technologies), joins the DataStorage.com podcast to discuss how AI is reshaping enterprise infrastructure. Drawing on decades of experience spanning the mainframe era, the rise of SaaS, cloud computing, and today’s AI boom, Russ explains why the current shift may be the most transformative yet. In this episode we cover: • Why GPUs changed the econo...

Synthetic data is rapidly becoming one of the most important building blocks in AI — from training autonomous vehicles to powering robotics on Mars. In this episode, we sit down with Brian Geisel, Founder of Symage from Geisel Software, to explore how synthetic data, robotics, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs) are reshaping AI infrastructure. We cover:  🚀 How NASA trained Mars ro...

What does cloud infrastructure look like after hyperscalers—and how does AI change the rules? In this episode of the Datastorage.com podcast, we’re joined by Seth Helgesen, Solutions Architect at IONOS, to unpack how cloud, object storage, and AI infrastructure are evolving—and why simplicity, performance, and transparency are becoming the real differentiators. IONOS started as a domains and hosti...

AI is great at pattern matching — but what happens when the most valuable insights don’t fit the pattern? In this episode of DataStorage.com, we sit down with Abhishek "AJ" Jha "(AJ), Founder & CEO of Elucidata, to break down why traditional AI approaches fail in drug discovery — and how data-centric AI is reshaping the future of pharma, healthcare, and beyond. AJ shares Elucidata’s journey fr...

In this episode of The Data Storage Podcast, we sit down with the CEO of Backblaze to discuss the broader state of cloud computing — from hyperscaler dominance to the rise of AI infrastructure and multi-cloud strategy. We explore: How the cloud market is evolving in the AI era Whether hyperscaler pricing models are sustainable The pressure egress fees create for modern workloads The rise of altern...