Supermicro Open Storage Summit Showcases the Impact of AI Workloads on Storage: Starts August 12

• Expanded virtual event features 9 sessions, 23 companies and 40 speakers, up from 7 sessions in 2024
• Focused on AI workloads including distributed inference infrastructure models, enterprise AI using Agentic, RAG, and GenAI and their impact on storage
• Other topics include Storage-as-a-Service, software defined storage

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions manufacturer with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.

All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

• Expanded virtual event features 9 sessions, 23 companies and 40 speakers, up from 7 sessions in 2024
• Focused on AI workloads including distributed inference infrastructure models, enterprise AI using Agentic, RAG, and GenAI and their impact on storage
• Other topics include Storage-as-a-Service, software defined storage

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions manufacturer with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.

All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

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Supermicro Open Storage Summit Showcases the Impact of AI Workloads on Storage: Starts August 12

The world-renowned luxury jeweller brings her signature precision and taste to a new era of bespoke "all-inclusive" where ultra-luxury amenities are included essentials in every stay

ELORA, ON, Jan. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kat Florence Hotel, restored and designed by seven-time world record–breaking rare gem jeweller Kat Florence, announces an expanded collection of ultra luxury, inclusive experience layers arriving this month.

Kat Florence, who grew up in Canada's famously beautiful village of Elora where her retreat resides, invested millions to personally restore the historic 1848 limestone building to its immaculate, present-day aura. "I approach a space the same way I approach a rare gemstone," says Florence. "Its history and composition tell you what it wants to become. My role is to honour that story and elevate it. Our elaborate guest gifts and amenities also directly reflect the space, as well as our ethos of being a true home away from home. We're thrilled to launch the next chapter of the hotel with even more signature, always included layers of wellness, nature, Michelin-level nourishment, and the most luxurious self-care elixir on earth (La Mer)."

Officially launching this month, the hotel debuts its private, guest-only Nordic Wellness Spa, a secluded plein air sanctuary within its hidden outdoor space. Steps from each suite, this intimate wellness garden features a hand-crafted cedar sauna, open-air hot pool, a restorative cold-plunge circuit for contrast therapy and a firepit lounge area; all supported by discreet, on-demand drink and snack service. Elemental, calming, and meticulously scaled, the spa is a sensorial extension of Florence's design philosophy: purity, balance, and craftsmanship at every turn.

To further complement their already much loved, daily 60 minute full-body massages for all staying guests, delivered in the privacy of their suite by expert in-house RMTs, Kat's daily ritual will soon be incorporating her personal favourite self-care product. From January, massages will be enhanced with a La Mer the renewal oil–infused face, neck, and décolleté finishing ritual (the La Mer elixir which famously retails for $395 per mini 30ml ounce bottle). The treatment also incorporates sound bath therapy and the Nordic practice of steam and ice, alternating warm and cool towel compresses to awaken the senses and create a harmony of temperature, grounding guests in the moment.

Adding to the hotel's sensory and wellness offerings, December 18 also marks the debut of the Kat Florence Hotel's new infinity-style Patisserie, a private, guest-only experience of daily edible art creations led by Chef Marc Collyer. The bakes and bonbons collection will be crafted using the most expensive ingredients on earth. While the collection will change every day, guests can expect delights like 'mille feuille of housemade caramelized puff pastry, green apple caviar and hazelnut creme,' 'Caramelized white chocolate eclair with Amarena cherry mousse and burnt orange & Champagne powder,' and signature house croissants Chef ferments for 3 full days prior to baking resulting in magnificently deepened flavours. Prior to collaborating with Kat, Marc spent 14 years honing his culinary distinction and imaginative flair at twice Michelin-starred Manor House in the British Cotswolds. Now innovating fine dolce delights at the Elora retreat, his guests are encouraged to visit in limitless tasting fashion throughout their stays (all at no charge; Chef's high design cakes, chocolates and pastries are included for guests). In addition, each morning Chef Marc hand-churns his own butter and fresh bakes pastries, breads and more, sending energizing creations to be personal concierge-delivered to each suite as part of the hotel's bespoke breakfast service. His patisserie program now forms an essential pillar of the property's culinary identity, blending technique, artistry, and an intimate, at-your-leisure approach to Michelin heights indulgence.

Reflecting Florence's celebrated eye for rarity and refinement, the hotel remains intentionally exclusive, welcoming a maximum of only 14 guests at any time and offering an unprecedented 2:1 staff-to-guest ratio; one of the highest in North America versus a luxury hotel average of 10:1. The result is a sanctuary of calm and privacy, with made-to-measure service for every stay.

Every booking at the Kat Florence Hotel includes her famous roster of signature high end gifts, services and experiences, all crafted to feel effortless and personal:

• Daily, 60-minute full body massages in-suite including La Mer the renewal oil infused face, neck and decolletage ritual (Kat's personal favourite self-care ritual)
• A multi-course Chef's Tasting Dinner on guests' arrival night, prepared and hosted by renowned Chef Anthony Bish in his Anthony's Private Restaurant reserved exclusively for hotel guests.
• Suite-delivered Breakfast Baskets every morning with daily rotating pastries, breads, hand-churned butter and more presented by Chef Marc Collyer (formerly of twice Michelin-starred Manor House in the British Cotswolds)
• A full bottle of Veuve Clicquot Champagne awaiting each guest upon arrival
• Rolls Royce & Bentley chauffeur service around town as well as complimentary valet
• Dedicated, personal concierge throughout your stay available for any request — from unpacking to private shopping to meal delivery to laundry service
• Enjoyment of the new ultra-private outdoor Nordic Spa just steps from the suites in the garden including hand-crafted cedar sauna, hot-pool therapy, cold-pool circuit and on-demand drink service
• Infinity visits to Kat Florence Hotel's private, guest-only Patisserie day to night to experience Chef Marc's daily edible art creations in unlimited fashion (at no cost)

The brand philosophy is one of complete ease with every detail anticipated, every moment curated.

Media contact: Jessica Rodrigues, Email: Rodriguesjess@gmail.com

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Kat Florence Hotel Unveils Daily La Mer Massages Included, Michelin-Origin 'Infinity Pâtisserie,' and a Nordic Winter Spa