Supermicro announces the return of its Open Storage Summit 2025, showcasing how AI workloads are reshaping enterprise storage solutions.
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| Supermicro’s 2025 Open Storage Summit will convene industry leaders to address AI storage use cases, distributed inference, data lakes, RAG, and software-defined infrastructure. Image: SMC |
SAN JOSE, United States – July 31, 2025:
Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in enterprise IT infrastructure, today announced the return of its Open Storage Summit, a virtual industry event dedicated to the convergence of artificial intelligence and enterprise storage. Now in its sixth year, the 2025 edition of the Supermicro Open Storage Summit will run from August 12 through August 28 and is poised to deliver deep technical insights into the shifting landscape of AI workloads and their storage demands.
Hosted in partnership with theCUBE and SiliconANGLE, the summit will include nine highly focused sessions, featuring over 40 expert speakers and representatives from 23 prominent technology companies. The event aims to equip IT leaders, architects, and data infrastructure professionals with actionable strategies and real-world use cases at the intersection of AI, cloud, storage-as-a-service, and software-defined architectures.
“Changes in AI workloads, particularly enterprise inference and their impact on storage and data management, are central to this year’s summit,” said Michael McNerney, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Network Security at Supermicro. He emphasized the need for open and collaborative solutions across silicon, systems, networking, and software, calling Supermicro a driving force in leading this industry effort.
Throughout the summit, participating companies—including NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Nutanix, Solidigm, Cloudian, VAST Data, Western Digital, and new entrants like EDB, Lightbits Labs, and Voltage Park—will explore topics ranging from agentic AI architectures to the storage backbones of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and inference-at-scale infrastructure. Sessions will also address innovations in tiered storage design, software-defined platforms, data lake strategies, and storage-as-a-service models customized for cloud service providers.
Rob Strechay, Managing Director and Principal Analyst at theCUBE, noted the event’s depth and influence, describing the summit as unlike any other in its ability to unite leaders from across hardware, software, and enterprise end-users. “Each session dives into real-world challenges and provides practical guidance from experts actively shaping the next phase of open storage infrastructure,” he said.
Supermicro, headquartered in San Jose, California, designs and manufactures its complete IT solutions in-house and leverages global operations across the U.S., Taiwan, and the Netherlands. The company is known for its Server Building Block Solutions, which allow customers to tailor infrastructure for specific workloads with maximum efficiency and environmental responsibility.
As the demand for AI applications accelerates across industries, the Supermicro Open Storage Summit aims to be the definitive industry touchpoint for understanding how storage technologies must evolve to meet the challenges of modern inference, model training, enterprise automation, and edge deployments.