Beyond Bottlenecks: The Future of High Performance Storage for HPC and AI
December 9th, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST
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About the Session
The exponential growth of data in traditional HPC simulations, data analytics, and large-scale AI workloads is pushing storage infrastructure to its limits. Legacy solutions are no longer sufficient to meet the intense demands for performance, scale, and accessibility.
Join the Google Cloud Advanced Computing Community for a special panel session with industry-leading storage providers DDN, Sycomp, VAST, and WEKA. Experts from these leading HPC/AI storage companies will each provide a concise overview of their modern, high-performance storage solutions, sharing the architectures and advanced capabilities they offer for today's most demanding compute environments. Following the overviews, a moderated Q&A will focus on the road ahead, exploring how these companies see the future of advanced storage evolving to meet the challenges of the coming years. This is an ideal session for practitioners, architects, and leaders who are planning the next generation of HPC and AI infrastructure.
Speakers
Shimon Ben-David
Chief Technology Officer, WEKA
Shimon is WEKA’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), responsible for engaging with the company’s customers and partners to track emerging trends and bring actionable feedback and insights to its Engineering and Product Management teams. He previously held leadership positions in the company’s customer success and sales engineering functions.
Shimon brings deep enterprise IT domain expertise to WEKA, having previously run IT and support services at Primary Data, XtremIO (acquired by EMC), IBM, and XIV Storage, where he met WEKA’s founding team. He studied Computer Science and Philosophy at Ramat Gan University.
Santosh Erram
Vice President of Business Development, DDN
Andy Pernsteiner
Field CTO, VAST Data
John Zawistowski
Global Systems Solutions Executive, Sycomp
John Zawistowski (JZ) has nearly 40 years of experience in the technology sector, combining a strong engineering background with strategic customer success skills. He started his career writing assembler code for IBM mainframes, demonstrating his deep technical expertise. JZ spent 17 years as a systems programmer and managed data center and storage operations for a major East Coast bank, where he developed his skills in large-scale IT environments. He then spent 11 years at Sycomp, where his innovative vision led to the creation of Sycomp Intelligent Data Storage Platform. JZ's unique blend of technical expertise and strategic insight continues to drive innovation and success in data management and cloud solutions.
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