Reselling spare GPU and data center capacity | Mihai Mărcuță

Cloud Frontier

In this episode of Cloud Frontier, host Rob Pankow, CEO of Simplyblock, is joined by Mihai Mărcuță from NodeShift, a company building decentralized cloud platforms that helps connect enterprises with spare data center capacity, offering GPUs, storage, and compute.

In this episode of Cloud Frontier, Rob and Mihai discuss:

• Founding NodeShift and bootstrapping a cloud platform
• Spare data center capacity as a cost-effective cloud solution
• Challenges and strategies in fundraising for deep tech startups
• The future of AI and cloud infrastructure, including GPUs and interoperability

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You can find Robert Pankow on LinkedIn at /robertpankow and Mihai Mărcuță on X at @mihaimarcuta and on LinkedIn at /mihaimarcuta.

About Simplyblock:
Simplyblock is an intelligent database storage orchestrator for IO-intensive workloads in Kubernetes, including databases and analytics solutions. It uses smart NVMe caching to speed up read I/O latency and queries. A single system connects local NVMe disks, GP3 volumes, and S3, making it easier to handle storage capacity and performance. With the benefits of thin provisioning, storage tiering, and volume pooling, your database workloads get better performance at lower cost without changes to existing AWS infrastructure.

👉 Get started with Simplyblock: https://www.simplyblock.io/buy-now

🏪 Simplyblock AWS Marketplace: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=seller-fzdtuccq3edzm