Supercharging OpenAI Training with Azure Blob Storage - Architecture and Best Practices

Discover in this 49-minute conference talk from SNIA SDC 2024 how Azure Blob Storage has evolved to support massive-scale AI training operations. Dive deep into the internal architecture and capabilities that enable blob storage to deliver tens of terabits per second of throughput across a multi-exabyte scale hierarchical namespace. Learn from Microsoft engineers about workload patterns, implementation strategies, and best practices for managing large-scale AI training workloads. Explore API and tooling improvements that enable seamless integration with AI training and HPC workloads. Master the architecture behind blob storage scalability, understand the "scaled accounts" feature implementation, and gain practical insights for optimizing storage performance in AI applications. Presented by Jason Vallery and Jegan Devaraju from Microsoft, this technical session equips developers and architects with essential knowledge for leveraging advanced object storage technology in high-scale computing environments.