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.

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.

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.

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.