Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today is announcing the return of its Open Storage Summit for 2025.  Now in its sixth year, this free virtual conference brings together Supermicro, industry leaders, technology partners, customers, along with hosts, theCUBE and SiliconANGLE to explore the evolving landscape of Storage workloads, AI and its impact on modern storage infrastructure. 

Running from August 12 to August 28, the 2025 Open Storage Summit features nine sessions, forty expert speakers, and 23 companies. This year's Open Storage Summit brings together industry experts to discuss specific storage use cases, from agentic AI to storage-as-service for CSPs, to new developments in distributed inference frameworks, to modernizing enterprise applications for AI. The event will also yield concrete actionable advice for data center managers.

"Changes in AI workloads, particularly enterprise inference and the impact on storage and data management, is a major theme at the Supermicro Open Storage Summit," said Michael McNerney, senior vice president, Marketing and Network Security. "The complexity of modern IT and AI solutions, from systems, silicon, networking, software and storage media, requires open solutions with the leaders in these fields collaborating to deliver the best customer solutions and Supermicro is leading this effort." 

For more information and registration, please visit:  https://www.thecube.net/events/supermicro/open-storage-summit-2025

Returning participants include industry leaders such as AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Nutanix, Solidigm, Cloudian, DDN, Graid Technology, Kioxia, VAST Data, WEKA, Western Digital, and OSNexus.  New additions this year include EDB, MinIO, Scality, Lightbits Labs, Hammerspace, Sandisk, SteelDome and customers Iron Mountain and Voltage Park. 

"The Supermicro Open Storage Summit is unlike any other event I do during the year, with each session bringing together complementary leaders across hardware, software, silicon, and customers to spark real innovative thinking and outcomes," said Rob Strechay, theCUBE, Managing Director and Principal Analyst. "I was blown away by the depth of expertise from all forty speakers and how the conversations dove into real technical challenges and solutions. If you're exploring these technologies or planning a project, these sessions are packed with insights, best practices, and practical guidance from experts shaping the future of open storage."

Supermicro's 2025 Open Storage Summit Sessions

Session 1: Tiered Storage for AI Workloads

• Date: August 12 | Companies: Supermicro, NVIDIA, Scality, WEKA, and Kioxia
• Discusses tiered architecture combining parallel file systems and object storage previously used for training workloads.

Session 2: Agentic AI Storage Solutions

• Date: August 13 | Companies: Supermicro, AMD, DDN, Sandisk
• Explore the storage impact of agentic AI, where autonomous agents employ reasoning and planning to meet high-level objectives.

Session 3: Storage-as-a-Service for CSPs

• Date: August 14 | Companies: Supermicro, Intel, Iron Mountain, Scality, Lightbits,and Western Digital
• Storage-as-a-Service can either be a separate CSP offering or complement an existing compute service. Join our discussion to learn about Iron Mountain's newly launched Iron Cloud platform.

Session 4: Storage to Enable Inference at Scale

• Date: August 19 | Companies: Supermicro, NVIDIA, Solidigm, Cloudian Hammerspace
• Explore the new developments in distributed inference frameworks and new storage protocols by leaders in the industry.

Session 5: Modernizing Enterprise Applications for AI

• Date: August 20 | Companies: Supermicro, AMD, EDB, Lightbits Labs
• Learn about new hardware platforms, database re-platforming, and migration from legacy storage to new software-defined storage architectures.  

Session 6: Generative AI Enterprise Infrastructure

• Date: August 21 | Companies: Supermicro, Intel, MinIO, Nutanix
• Hear about the best practices for applying GenAI to the enterprise's needs including planning and prototyping, model development and deployment of software, data management capabilities, and compute and storage hardware resources.

Session 7: Data Lake and Lake houses for Enterprise AI

• Date: August 26 | Companies: Supermicro, AMD, EDB, MinIO
• Explore how data lakes are used for enterprise data strategy, that forms the foundation to implement enterprise AI applications. 

Session 8: Enterprise AI using RAG

• Date: August 27 | Companies: Supermicro, NVIDIA, Voltage Park, Solidigm, VAST Data, Graid Technology.
• Hear from experts in implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows and infrastructure for inference queries.

Session 9: Software Defined Storage Solutions

• Date: August 28 | Companies: Supermicro, DDN, NVIDIA, SteelDome, OSNexus.
• Features three separate sessions discussing joint reference design solutions, how storage is used in large-scale deployments, and the HyperSERV hypercoverged platform.