Vdura Appoints Garth Gibson as Chief Technology and AI Officer

Vdura, a active player in AI and HPC Infrastructure, announced the appointment of Garth Gibson as its first Chief Technology and AI Officer (CTAIO). Gibson, who co-invented RAID, pioneered parallel file systems, and most recently advanced global AI infrastructure as President & CEO of the Vector Institute, returns to Vdura to lead a mission unlike any other in the industry: to reinvent the storage stack for AI.

Gibson’s four-decade legacy defined the foundations of modern data infrastructure. As a co-inventor of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), he set the standard for reliability at scale. His pioneering work on parallel file systems at Carnegie Mellon University’s Parallel Data Lab and as co-founder of Panasas enabled the scale-out architectures that power today’s HPC and AI pipelines. At the Vector Institute, Gibson helped shape the future of generative AI, advising on infrastructure that spans from research clusters to $B-scale AI facilities.

“For four decades I’ve advanced high performance data storage, co-inventing RAID, pioneering the parallel file system, and driving innovation in AI applications and infrastructure. Today at Vdura I see a once in a generation opportunity: to reinvent the storage stack for AI. We’re solving challenges others haven’t cracked, building a data platform that powers the full AI lifecycle that sets a new standard for performance, scale, and reliability,” said Garth Gibson, CTAIO, Vdura.

“Garth is a legend in storage and AI infrastructure, and his return to Vdura is a pivotal moment. Garth brings unmatched vision for how storage must evolve for the AI era, and with him leading our technology, we’re building a platform that makes AI faster, more efficient, and massively scalable, setting the course for AI’s future,” added Ken Claffey, CEO, Vdura.

Gibson’s appointment comes as AI workloads are exploding, and today’s infrastructure is buckling under the pressure. Training requires unprecedented speed and throughput, while inferencing at global scale demands instant data access. Under his leadership, Vdura will deliver a platform that overcomes these limits and powers the full AI lifecycle with unmatched performance, economics, and simplicity.