At the Supermicro Open Storage Summit 2025, theCUBE’s Rob Strechay sits down with Paul McLeod of Supermicro, Shiva Gurumurthy of AMD, Brenna Buuck of MinIO, and Simon Lightstone of EDB to explore how enterprises are shaping the future of AI with modern data architectures. The conversation dives deep into the role of data lakes and lakehouses in powering scalable AI, highlighting the critical importance of open standards, object storage performance and hardware-software integration. Buuck unpacks how MinIO object storage forms the foundation of next-gen lakehouses, enabling flexibility, durability and performance at massive scale. Lightstone details EDB’s contributions to Postgres AI and its integration with Supermicro hardware for turnkey data lakehouse deployments, including sovereign data and AI platforms built for high availability. Gurumurthy highlights AMD’s CPU, GPU and networking innovations that drive low-latency, high-throughput AI performance, while McLeod explains how Supermicro’s modular portfolio - from storage to compute to liquid cooling - helps customers accelerate time-to-deployment and prepare for rapidly advancing hardware generations. Key themes include rightsizing AI infrastructure, balancing ROI with long-term flexibility and reducing latency across data pipelines. The group emphasizes how open ecosystems and close vendor partnerships are enabling enterprises to future-proof their AI journeys, from initial pilots to full-scale deployments.