Watch Hafthor "The Mountain" Björnsson make history with his jaw-dropping 505kg deadlift, a new world record. VDURA is proud to partner with the World's Strongest Man.

This clip, shared by @australianstrengthcoach on Instagram, captures the raw power and precision it takes to reach the top of the sport. - https://www.instagram.com/p/DMlpLjihRKa/

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In this webinar, we explore how VDURA supports the evolving infrastructure needs of federal agencies across defense, energy, and aerospace domains. From AI acceleration to CFD-heavy simulations, learn how VDURA delivers the performance, scale, and security federal workloads demand.

You’ll hear from VDURA experts on:
- Why federal agencies are turning to AI and HPC at scale
- How VDURA supports complex simulations like Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- What makes the VDURA architecture resilient, secure, and scalable
- A look at our 1PB All-Flash System promotion—priced at $699K with 3 years of software and support
- A walkthrough of the new VDURA Configurator tool for partners

Whether you're a systems integrator, agency IT lead, or student exploring careers in federal tech, this session offers a real-world look at infrastructure built for the mission.

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At ISC 2025, Prof. Volker Lindenstruth, Director of the Center for Scientific Computing, shared how the university is accelerating AI-driven physics models and digital twin simulations using the VDURA V5000 all-Flash NVMe platform.

Built on the V11 data platform, the V5000 delivers 8.4 million IOPS and 670K metadata ops—designed for 24x7x365 AI workloads with unmatched durability and scalability.

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Samantha Clarke, VDURA VP of Global Partnerships, and Oliver Tennert, NEC Deutschland GmbH, Director HPC Marketing & Post Sales discuss the partnership, a key customer win, and the future together.

Samantha Clarke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samclarkenz/
Oliver Tennert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivertennert/


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Erik Salo, VDURA SVP of Marketing and Operations, and Andre Ambrosius, Seagate Enterprise Solution Sales (DACH and EMEA Channel OEM Systems) discuss the partnership, the current data explosion, the future of HDDs, power consumption, and VDURA's artchitecture.

Erik Salo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-salo-a9b5a9/
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The final cut of the VDURA AI Data Challenge live from ISC2025 featuring Hafthor Bjornsson, "The Mountain", from Game of Thrones and the World's Strongest Data Platform, VDURA.

Check out the entire miniseries on VDURA's YouTube Channel.


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Samantha Clarke, VDURA VP of Global Partnerships, and Glenn Rosenberg, BIOS IT General Manager discuss the partnership, and the future together.

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Live from ISC25

AI Pipeline Pressure: Why High-Performance Data Needs a Redesign

Explore how the exponential growth of AI workloads is straining data storage architecture—and why a new approach is critical. In this ISC presentation, Matt Swalley, Senior Director of Marketing at VDURA, reveals how VDURA’s parallel file system, flash-first architecture, and intelligent tiering reshape performance, durability, and cost-efficiency across the AI data pipeline.

AI storage, GPU performance, AI pipeline, HPC infrastructure, flash storage, metadata acceleration, checkpointing, parallel file system, VDURA, ISC2025

Matt Swalley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-swalley-59249533/

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The contestants face off with "The Mountain" himself live at VDURA's booth.


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This is it, the final event of the VDURA AI Data Challenge at ISC.

Watch as participants face off in this final grip test.

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Our Senior Director of Marketing, Matt Swalley, gave us a walkthrough of our ISC booth yesterday in anticipation of the big opening today at 3pm!

Take a quick behind-the-scenes tour with Matt and get a first look at how we’re gearing up to take on the mountain. Whether you're attending ISC or following from afar, here's your sneak peek at what we’ve built.

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What happens when Hafþór Björnsson puts your grip to the test?

In Episode 2 of our mini series, Thor leads a grip strength showdown on the show floor, armed with grippers ranging from 50 - 300lbs.

Watch as attendees step up to the challenge!

And just like Thor’s iron grip, VDURA’s data platform doesn’t let go, delivering GPU-saturating throughput, sub-millisecond latency, and unbreakable performance under AI and data pressure.

VDURA: Velocity. Durability. Victory.
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What happens when the strongest man in the world meets the strongest data infrastructure partners in the game?

Join Hafþór Björnsson as he tours the ISC 2025 show floor with VDURA. Hafþór makes stops at the booths of our incredible partners.

Missed us at ISC? Connect with us.

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What do grip challenges, strongman secrets, and a data platform have in common? All were on full display at the VDURA Partner Happy Hour/Party at ISC 2025.

In Episode 3 of our mini series, Hafþór Björnsson joins the crew for some late-night fun and lightning-fast lifts. From beer to block grips, attendees brought the energy—and found out just how humbling these challenges can be.

With this event, we showcased the kind of speed and power that only VDURA can match.

Just like the lightning lift, VDURA moves your most demanding workloads with precision, power, and unmatched performance.

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From defense to aerospace, federal agencies rely on performance and security that never flinch.

See how VDURA delivers high-speed throughput, petabyte-scale hybrid storage, and end-to-end security—purpose-built for AI, HPC, and complex simulations like Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

Used across the federal landscape for over 20 years, VDURA is engineered to support the mission, wherever it may be.

Highlights:
✔ Secure, scalable data infrastructure
✔ Optimized for AI, HPC & CFD
✔ Trusted in defense, energy, and aerospace
✔ Built for uptime, resilience, and speed

Learn more: https://www.vdura.com/solutions/by-industry/federal/

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