Avi Shetty, Solidigm | RAISE Summit 2026

In this interview from RAISE Summit 2026, Avi Shetty, vice president of AI ecosystem, solutions and market enablement at Solidigm, joins theCUBE's John Furrier to discuss why storage has become the critical path for unlocking GPU performance in the AI infrastructure buildout. Shetty highlights how simple prompts can generate gigabytes of data once system and tool activity are accounted for, driving cache evictions that stall GPUs mid-workload. He points to the emergence of the KV cache tier as evidence that storage economics are being rewritten around token-per-watt and dollar-per-token-per-watt metrics rather than traditional capacity pricing. The conversation also explores Solidigm's co-design partnership with NVIDIA, including the industry's first liquid-cooled SSD built to meet the demands of fanless AI data centers. Shetty details the company's AI Central Lab, an open ecosystem initiative that validates reference designs at petabyte and exabyte scale with partners across compute, networking and software. He breaks down how consolidating hard-drive-based storage into high-capacity SSDs can shrink a 12-rack deployment into a single rack while cutting power consumption by up to 90%, freeing capacity for GPUs. From floating-gate NAND engineering to the rise of agentic workloads reshaping enterprise organization, Shetty makes the case that efficient, dense storage is now inseparable from AI performance itself. Find more SiliconANGLE news and analysis https://siliconangle.com/ Follow theCUBE's wall-to-wall event coverage https://siliconangle.com/events/ Learn about the latest theCUBE events https://www.thecube.net/ 00:00 - Title: Unveiling the Future: RAISE Summit Insights on AI Infrastructure and Storage 03:00 - Advancements in Data Centers 05:00 - Storage Innovations and Density 07:44 - Collaborative Innovation: Strategies for Co-Design 11:40 - Title: Navigating AI: Balancing Workloads and Constraints 14:59 - Title: Innovative Pathways in AI Storage Solutions #theCUBE #RaiseSummit #theCUBEresearch #Solidigm #AIInfrastructure #DataCenters