Reinventing Storage for AI at Scale | Ahmed Shihab, CPO, WD | Computex 2026
What does the AI storage stack actually look like — and why does it matter? At Computex 2026, WD Chief Product Officer Ahmed Shihab breaks down the architecture powering today's AI infrastructure. Drawing on 20 years of experience at NetApp, AWS, Microsoft, and WD, Ahmed explains why AI creates a fundamentally different storage challenge than anything the industry has seen before. In this session, he covers: Why AI is two compute workloads (training and inference) but three storage workloads How inference output — not just training data — is one of the fastest-growing drivers of storage de…