PEAK:AIO and Solidigm Scale AI Infrastructure Beyond Traditional Storage

As organizations race to operationalize AI, they are encountering a fundamental challenge. Simply put, traditional storage architectures were not designed for the scale, performance, and metadata demands of modern AI workloads. In this video, Mark Klarzynski, CEO and Founder of PEAK:AIO, explains how legacy file systems have reached their scalability limits, creating bottlenecks that both increase operational complexity and slow innovation.

At the center of this is PEAK:AIO’s AI Data Server, a platform engineered to deliver high performance, operational simplicity, power efficiency, and high storage density. To overcome the limitations of traditional file systems, PEAK:AIO developed Open pNFS, an open source, modular file system that allows organizations to scale seamlessly by adding building blocks as demands grow. The zero-touch design eliminates the need for specialized storage teams, making enterprise-scale AI infrastructure easier to deploy and manage.

Together, PEAK:AIO and Solidigm are addressing these challenges with an approach designed specifically for AI data infrastructure. Solidigm provides the high-capacity SSDs with intelligent data placement capabilities to help maximize performance, density, and power efficiency across large-scale deployments. Together, our companies are delivering a storage solution designed to handle AI’s rapidly increasing data and metadata requirements while reducing complexity and power consumption.

Watch the video to learn how PEAK:AIO and Solidigm are helping organizations build scalable, AI-ready infrastructure that moves beyond the limitations of traditional storage systems.

Traditional technology has simply run out of steam. I'm Mark Klarzynski. I'm the founder of PEAK:AIO.

Although we'd created this new AI data server which provided the density, the performance and simplicity, and the power requirements that are needed, we now needed to scale that but maintain those real key values. The way we scaled that is with what we call Open pNFS, which is a modern alternative to what the world is traditionally known as parallel file systems.

Traditional file systems, and there's many of them, have grown to fix certain challenges. Those file systems which were designed for certain challenges were not the same challenge. The workload was different. You can split that into data. We all know what data is and also what we call metadata, which is a very small part of the data. The problem being is as you grow, both of those grow. A lot of our systems could not deal with the growth of metadata, and those that did deal with the growth of metadata were really designed for that HPC world where you had a team of scientists looking after it. If you want to keep pace with the industry, you need to be able to grow with the industry. Not only grow, you might need to pivot with the industry.

The way that Open pNFS works is that you simply add in more modular building blocks. We added another one, we recognize it, and we automatically add it and tune it and make it available without the user really having to do too much with it or certainly needing a specialized team that's had training. It's a zero touch design. Paramount to our Open pNFS, as the name suggests, is it's not only a standard but it's open so it's not locked into us.

When we realized that our design goal was to create a single node that has the performance and the characteristics of what would traditionally be saved end nodes, we needed a partner that was able to fit within that and equally provide us with the characteristics that you would find in 10 nodes.

Solidigm are still the leaders in that market. They have intelligent data placements within the SSD, and we can piggyback onto that and add intelligent data placement higher up the stack, knowing that they're dealing with it down here. Solidigm’s focus on continuing to deliver large scale SSDs is paramount to us. Without that, we would not be able to deliver the performance, the density, and the power efficiency that we do. They're the foundation of our building block.

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