David Flynn

Enterprise IT infrastructures face soaring AI and analytics demands, driving the need for storage that leverages existing networks, cuts power-hungry server counts, and frees CAPEX for AI. Yet current solutions create isolated silos: proprietary, server-based systems that waste power, lack cloud connectivity, and force large teams to manage multiple silo technologies—locking data behind vendor walls and hampering AI goals. Modeled on the Open Compute Project, the Open Flash Platform (OFP) liberates high-capacity flash through an open architecture built on standard pNFS which is included in every Linux distribution. Each OFP unit contains a DPU-based Linux instance and network port, so it connects directly as a peer—no additional servers. By removing surplus hardware and proprietary software, OFP lets enterprises use dense flash efficiently, halving TCO and increasing storage density 10×. Early configurations deliver up to 48 PB in 2U and scale to 1 EB per rack, yielding a 10× reduction in rack space, power, and OPEX and a 33 % longer service life. This session explains the vision and engineering that make OFP possible, showing how open, standards-based architecture can simplify, scale, and free enterprise data.

David Flynn

CEO, Co-Founder

Hammerspace