The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is transforming nearly every industry. IDC predicts AI software revenues will experience massive growth - from $33.5 billion in 2022 to a projected $204 billion by 2027. Fundamentally powering this AI-fueled revolution are ever-expanding datasets requiring optimized data infrastructure. As a renowned expert in this arena, Prasad Venkatachar is pioneering innovative data solutions to enable next-gen workloads.
Currently serving as Senior Director of Product Management at Pliops, Prasad has over two decades of experience driving cutting-edge infrastructure advancements. With extensive expertise across databases, analytics, storage, and machine learning systems, he delivers a uniquely comprehensive perspective.
"The rapid proliferation of data is mandating fresh thinking on how infrastructure is architected and deployed. Legacy approaches won't scale," explains Prasad. "Entirely new data processing solutions are essential to fully capitalize on emerging tech like AI/ML and accelerate businesses into the future."
Revolutionary Data Processor
Prasad highlights Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP) as one game-changing innovation primed to optimize infrastructure for modern workloads. Purpose-built for cloud and enterprise databases, analytics, machine learning and real-time applications, this revolutionary data processor dramatically enhances efficiency and performance by offloading storage controllers.
Early customer deployments already showcase impressive results across SQL transactional processing, analytics, streaming analytics and AI use cases. MySQL transactions accelerated by up to 5x. Kafka streaming improved by 3x. Rockset real-time analytics dashboards sped queries by 10x. SciKit-Learn machine learning training and batch inference reduced time by 8x.
Strategic Insights for Data Infrastructure
Beyond innovating directly with XDP, Prasad also generously shares his extensive data infrastructure expertise as an influential thought leader. He currently serves on the prestigious Conference Advisory Board for the 2024 Future of Memory and Storage Summit - the leading event covering memory/storage innovations. Prasad has been a speaker and a panel expert in previous iterations of the Summit and has been invited to serve as the Advisory Board Member due to his thought leadership and impact in the field of building and productizing Storage Solutions for the future.
Prasad has also been invited to lead esteemed expert panel discussions on Architecting Smarter Data Centers and Building High Performant Data Infrastructures, and was also a part of the Gartner Conference, alongside Ed Soo Hoo, Global CTO, Lenovo, where they discussed about the Role of Database Accelerations in GenAI. Over ten thousand data infrastructure leaders gather annually to leverage crucial strategic insights from Venkatachar along with executives from Seagate, Western Digital, and other data giants.
With unrelenting commitment and vision, Prasad Venkatachar persists in pioneering the data solutions indispensable for businesses to fully harness AI and steer into a more automated, insight-driven future. "Data is the key catalyst propelling all next-generation innovations," emphasizes Venkatachar. "We're only scratching the surface of what's possible."
