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.
Samantha Clarke, VDURA VP of Global Partnerships, and Glenn Rosenberg, BIOS IT General Manager discuss the partnership, and the future together.
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.
The contestants face off with “The Mountain” himself live at VDURA’s booth.
This is it, the final event of the VDURA AI Data Challenge at ISC.
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!
What happens when Hafþór Björnsson puts your grip to the test?
What happens when the strongest man in the world meets the strongest data infrastructure partners in the game?
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.
From defense to aerospace, federal agencies rely on performance and security that never flinch.
