In the high-stakes worlds of AI development, 8K video post-production, and edge computing, there has long been a sacred rule: If you want maximum performance, the drives must be installed directly inside the target server. For years, this meant building "fat nodes"—servers stuffed with local NVMe drives. But this model creates a rigid architecture where you can't scale storage without buying more expensive CPUs, and you can't share fast storage across your cluster. Enter NV