Pierre Roman sits down with Vamshi from the Azure Storage team to explore how Azure Blob Storage underpins AI workloads, supporting innovations with OpenAI and new data management features for enterprise developers.

How Azure Storage Powers AI Workloads: Behind the Scenes with OpenAI, Blobfuse & More

In this episode of E2E: 10-minute Drill, Pierre Roman chats with Vamshi from the Azure Storage team to discuss how Azure Blob Storage supports the growing demands of AI, including foundation models like ChatGPT and DALL·E.

Key Highlights

  • Azure Blob Storage is critical for storing and serving large datasets needed for AI and machine learning, from training data to user content in AI applications.
  • The collaboration between Microsoft and OpenAI has resulted in technological advances like Azure Scaled Accounts and Blobfuse2 (a Linux FUSE adapter for Azure Blob Storage), which are available to Azure customers.
  • Enterprises can now securely integrate their data into Azure AI services, benefiting from advanced access controls (RBAC), performance at exabyte scale, and improved compliance.
  • Microsoft’s tools allow organizations to train their own large language models (LLMs), fine-tune proprietary models, and manage robust AI data pipelines.

Useful Resources

Why It Matters

As AI continues to become central to enterprise workloads, understanding reliable data storage, secure access, and scalable infrastructure is increasingly important. Microsoft enables both developers and enterprises to build modern, intelligent apps using the same technologies that support OpenAI’s renowned models.

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If you have questions or feedback, Pierre encourages you to reach out in the comments.

Interview by Pierre Roman. Episode published August 12, 2025.

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