Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) has announced its seventh annual Open Storage Summit, a virtual event running from August 11 through September 3, 2026.
The 12-session technical series is presented in partnership with theCUBE and brings together 38 industry experts from 21 leading technology companies.
Participating organizations include AMD, DDN, Hammerspace, IBM, Intel, KIOXIA, MinIO, Nutanix, Scality, Solidigm, VAST Data, Western Digital, Crusoe, and Iron Mountain, among others.
Sessions will cover AI inference, agentic AI, hybrid cloud storage, AI data platforms, context memory, unstructured data management, neocloud infrastructure, and cloud storage services.
The summit is designed to help enterprises move AI workloads from pilot stages into full-scale production deployments, with a focus on cost-efficient and high-performance infrastructure.
Michael McNerney, senior vice president of Marketing and Network Security at Supermicro, said, “Enterprise AI success depends on a data infrastructure that can scale with growing model complexity and inference demands.”
McNerney added, “The Open Storage Summit brings together industry leaders from across our ecosystem to share practical expertise on building high-performance, cost-efficient AI infrastructure.”
Rob Strechay, Principal Analyst at theCUBE, said, “Enterprise AI is forcing organizations to rethink infrastructure from the data outward.”
Strechay noted that “storage becomes a strategic platform, not simply for capacity, but for feeding GPUs, managing context, accelerating inference, and enabling trusted AI at scale.”
Practitioners from Crusoe and Iron Mountain will contribute real-world perspectives on AI and cloud storage deployments, grounding the technical sessions in production experience.
Supermicro’s Data Center Building Block Solutions architecture underpins the summit’s framework, offering modular infrastructure spanning individual servers to full rack-scale and data center-level configurations.
The event is available both live and on demand, allowing enterprise architects, infrastructure engineers, and technology decision-makers to engage with sessions at their own pace.
Supermicro, headquartered in San Jose, California, positions itself as a Total IT Solutions provider spanning server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services across global markets.
