Supermicro Open Storage Summit 2025

Agenda

Tiered Storage for AI Workloads Tiered storage architectures integrating parallel file systems and object storage combine the performance advantages of the former with the capacity and cost advantages of the latter. While this has been common in AI training infrastructure, we will discuss how this is now being applied to inference infrastructure and enabling higher performance inference workloads. Join this session as five experts from Supermicro, NVIDIA, WEKA, Scality and Kioxia unpack this new usage model and explain the latest technologies used.

Agentic AI Storage Solutions Agentic AI is the next wave in artificial intelligence, where autonomous agents employ reasoning and planning to meet high-level objectives. Deployment of agentic AI can create rapid increases in AI processing, including the storage workload. Explaining the impact of agentic AI on storage and how to plan for it are four industry leaders from Supermicro, AMD, DDN and Sandisk.

Storage-as-a-Service for CSPs Storage-as-a-Service (StaaS) enables service providers to generate new revenues from data management and storage. This session features a special guest Iron Mountain, a pioneer in information lifecycle management solutions for 74 years, discussing the newly launched Iron Cloud data management service based on Supermicro, Intel, Scality and Western Digital technology. Lightbits Labs discusses how software-defined block storage enables CSPs to provision storage for compute workloads.

Storage to Enable Inference at Scale As inference processing grows to utilize AI models, scaling of inference workloads, including the storage infrastructure, is needed. New developments in distributed inference frameworks and new storage protocols developed by NVIDIA and supported by Supermicro, Cloudian, Hammerspace and Solidigm are enabling large-scale inference processing. Attend this session from the leaders in this area to learn about the latest technologies to successfully scale inference workloads.

Modernizing Enterprise Applications for AI Enterprise custom applications benefit from modernization through lowering costs, improving performance and adding new functionality, including AI capabilities. These latest technologies include new hardware platforms, database re-platforming and migration from legacy storage to new software-defined storage architectures. This session includes experts in all of these areas from Supermicro, AMD, Enterprise DB and Lightbits Labs.

Generative AI Enterprise Infrastructure Generative AI, a form of AI that can create new content, has taken the AI field by storm. Applying gen AI to the enterprise’s needs requires a combination of planning and prototyping, model development and deployment software, data management capabilities, along with compute and storage hardware resources. Breaking all of this down are experts from Supermicro, Intel, Nutanix and MinIO.

Data Lake and Lakehouses for Enterprise AI Data lakes used for aggregating enterprise data and data lakehouses used for executing analytics and AI transactions on this data are key components for an enterprise data strategy, which is necessary to implement enterprise AI applications. This session features technologists from Supermicro, AMD, Enterprise DB and MinIO to explain how to implement data lakes and lakehouses to enable AI and analytics success.

Enterprise AI using RAG Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a very popular inference method to add additional context to inference queries. This session brings together experts in implementing RAG workflows and infrastructure from Supermicro, NVIDIA, VAST Data, Solidigm and Graid Technology. Also joining is a special guest from GPU service provider Voltage Park.

Software Defined Storage Solutions This special session contains three separate mini-sessions in one 30-minute information-packed session. First, DDN with guest NVIDIA will discuss joint solutions with Supermicro. Next, OSNexus will describe the latest developments in QuantaStor software-defined storage. Finally, SteelDome discusses the HyperSERV hyperconverged platform with Supermicro.

Speakers

HOST

Rob Strechay

Dir./Principal Analyst & Host

theCUBE Research

Wendell Wenjen

Director of Storage Market Development

Supermicro

Paul McLeod

Product Director, Storage

Supermicro

Sherry Lin

Storage Solution Product Manager

Supermicro

Ben Lee

Director, Solution Management

Supermicro

Tien Lee

Product Manager

Supermicro

Vince Chen

Director of Solutions Architecture

Supermicro

Allen Liu

Sr. Product Manager, Architecture Solution

Supermicro

Junxia Zhou

Product Manager

Supermicro

William Li

Director, Solution Management

Supermicro

Kevin Kang

Senior Product Marketing Manager, AMD, Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group

AMD

Shiva Gurumurthy

Senior Product Marketing Manager

AMD

Gary Brown

Sr Product Marketing PM, Xeon Products

Intel

Mark Iskra

Cloud Solution Architect

Intel

Harish Arora

Principal Product Manager

NVIDIA

Nave Algarici

Senior Product Manager, Generative AI

NVIDIA

John Kim

Director of Storage Marketing

NVIDIA

John Fragalla

Principal Architect

NVIDIA

Simon Lightstone

Director, Product Management

EDB

Sagy Volkov

Distinguished Performance Architect

Lightbits

Rex Manseau

CRO

Lightbits

Brenna Buuck

Developer Evangelist

MinIO

Keith Pijanowski

AI Solutions Engineer

MinIO

Kanchan Mirani

Senior Director, Strategic Marketing

Nutanix

Giorgio Regni

CTO, & Co-founder

Scality

Ace Stryker

Director of AI & Ecosystem Marketing

Solidigm

Tahmid Rahman

Director Product Marketing, Data Center Group

Solidigm

Cliff Madru

VP, Global Digital Solutions

Iron Mountain

Saurabh Giri

Chief Product and Technology Officer

Voltage Park

Peter Sjoberg

Vice President, Worldwide Solution Architects

Cloudian

Balaji Venkateshwaran

VP of Product Management

DDN

William Beaudin

VP Solutions Engineering

DDN

Kelley Osburn

Senior Director of OEM and Channel Business Development

Graid Technology

Tony Asaro

Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer

Hammerspace

Anders Graham

Sr. Director of Marketing and Business Development

KIOXIA

Praveen Midha

Director Segment & Technical Marketing, Data Center Flash

Sandisk

Phil Manez

Vice President, GTM Execution

VAST Data

Kevin Tubbs

Field CTO, HPC & AI

WEKA

Marc Tanguay

Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Western Digital

Steven Umbehocker

Founder & CEO

OSNEXUS Corporation

Jeffrey Slapp

CTO

SteelDome