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Laura Shepard

Author: Laura Shepard

Laura Shepard is a Principle Worldwide Specialist, Storage at AWS. She has been in storage product management, business development, and marketing since interning at a supercomputing company in the 90s. If you run a file system with x in the name, chances are good that she has launched, managed, or open-sourced it. Her interests are really, really fast storage solutions that save her customers time and money—because waiting for slow storage wastes compute. Think about it!

Migrating SAS grid to the cloud: How Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering delivers low cost, high performance, storage

For nearly two decades, organizations across healthcare, drug discovery, and financial services have relied on SAS Grid to power their most critical analytics workloads. SAS Grid (formally known as SAS Grid Manager) is an enterprise software platform developed by SAS Institute that distributes and manages large-scale analytical workloads across a cluster of servers. It acts […]

High-performance cloud storage comes of age with Amazon FSx for Lustre

The rapid maturation of cloud tools for high-performance workloads in the past several years has made it possible for household names like T-Mobile, Toyota, and Rivian to move their high-performance analytics and AI/ML environments to the cloud. These are hugely data-intensive workflows that many companies five years ago believed would never be able to be […]