The X-PHY Team at FMS 2025, (from L-R) Jaime Coreano, Camellia Chan, Jenevieve Que, Pradosh Verlekar

“In the race for speed, we can’t forget the race for trust.”

That was the biggest takeaway our Product Director, Pradosh Verlekar, had from his very first industry event with X-PHY Inc.

Together with CEO, Camellia Chan, and other members of the team, Pradosh attended his maiden event with X-PHY Inc at the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS), held between August 5–7 2025, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California’s Silicon Valley – the heart of the global technology ecosystem.

A marquee event for the memory and storage community, FMS is the world’s largest international showcase of its kind. Now in its 19th year, the summit brings together leading companies, researchers, and innovators to unveil the latest technologies, products, and trends shaping the future.

For X-PHY, FMS provides the perfect stage to spotlight how memory is no longer just about performance or capacity, but an essential frontier for intelligent, autonomous, and dynamic cybersecurity.

In this article, we revisit FMS 2025 through Pradosh’s lens – recounting the conversations that stuck with him, the lessons he carried forward, and how the conversation at this exclusive event highlighted the need for balance between speed and trust.

3 conversations that echoed our sentiments

At the X-PHY booth, where the team showcased the X-PHY SSD alongside Flexxon’s industrial storage solutions, Pradosh witnessed the industry’s pulse shift from speed to trust. Here are three standout moments:

• From slowdown to speed-up

A storage architect approached, skeptical that cybersecurity meant compromise. “Security always slows us down,” he said. By the end of the chat, he was sold on X-PHY’s hardware-level protection. His key takeaway? Secure storage doesn’t bottleneck performance – it accelerates trust, enabling faster deployments.

• Trust fuels collaboration

A European systems integrator raved about the Community-Based Root of Trust, presented by our US Sales Director, Jaime Coreano. He saw it not as “extra security” but as a catalyst for innovation. “When every link in the chain trusts the data, we innovate faster,” he noted.

• Security by design as the default

A startup founder came for Gen5 throughput specs but left buzzing about anomaly detection at the storage layer. He realized: security isn’t a bolt-on; it’s a design choice that builds scalable, confident products. Pradosh summed it up by sharing, “At an event obsessed with ‘bigger, faster,’ people leaned in when we talked safer, smarter, and more trusted.” This shift underscores an essential but often overlooked truth: performance and protection are two sides of the same coin.

Pradosh summed it up by sharing, “At an event obsessed with ‘bigger, faster,’ people leaned in when we talked safer, smarter, and more trusted.” This shift underscores an essential but often overlooked truth: performance and protection are two sides of the same coin. Watch the full video on-demand HERE.

Getting to know the team

For Pradosh, FMS2025 was not just about meeting customers and partners, it was also his first time spending full days on the ground with the X-PHY team. Those moments left just as strong an impression as the event itself:

• Camellia Chan, CEO: Even with a packed schedule of meetings, media briefings, and juggling the global team’s demands, Camellia still carved out time for her daily 5km runs – she even did 27 push ups in a row after day 2 of the event. That same discipline and stamina fuels how she leads the team: focused, prepared, and ready to make every conversation count.
• Jaime Coreano, US Sales Director: A former windsurfer, Pradosh notes that Jaime brings this same precision and balance to the booth as he did to the waves. Whether explaining the details of community-based root of trust or walking a customer through our range of products, he made sure every message landed with clarity and precision.
• Jenevieve Que, Business Strategist: Pradosh came to learn that Jenevieve has travelled to over 50 countries. And to that he notes: Jenevieve approaches every interaction like an explorer. She has a knack for drawing out new perspectives from people, uncovering opportunities the team might have missed otherwise.

Trust as the takeaway

One partner summed it up perfectly: “The future of storage isn’t just about moving data faster. It’s about knowing you can trust every bit you move.” In a data-driven world, speed without trust is chaos. Leaders need data that’s fast, accurate, and reliable. 

X-PHY’s mission at FMS? To ignite this conversation across the memory and storage community. 

As Pradosh looked back on his first event with X-PHY, he recognised a clear thread connecting all conversations together:

“In the race for speed, we can’t forget the race for trust. Seeing that vision resonate with engineers and executives alike made this event a milestone not just for me, but for X-PHY’s role in shaping the future of secure storage.”

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