Object store for AI workloads | Anand Babu Periasamy, cofounder and CEO of MinIO

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Anand Babu "AB" Periasamy is the cofounder and CEO of MinIO, a high performance object storage for AI that's built for large scale workloads. They have raised $126M in funding from the likes of General Catalyst, Softbank, Intel Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners. It's the world's fastest growing object storage company with more than 1 billion Docker pulls and more than 35K stars on GitHub. He's also an angel investor with investments in companies like H2O.ai, Isovalent, Starburst, Postman, and many more. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of Gluster, which got acquired by Red Hat.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Why is storage important for AI workflows
- What are the characteristics of a good data storage product
- Repatriation of data from public cloud to on-prem
- Running ML experiments in parallel
- AI compute offerings from data infrastructure providers
- Making data infrastructure faster and cheaper
AB's favorite book: An Awesome Book! (Author: Dallas Clayton)
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