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Supermicro Open Storage Summit 2024: Scaling Up or Scaling Out: Making the Right Storage Architecture Decision

August 22, 2024 | 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. PT

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Session Description: Software defined storage has used both scale-up and scale-out architectures for a variety of file, block and object formats. Learn from Supermicro, Intel, Kioxia, Seagate, OSNexus and Graid Technology which architecture is the best fit and how to assemble an optimal design.

Session Speakers:

  • Paul McLeod, Product Director, Storage | Supermicro
  • Thomas Paquette, SVP and GM Americas & EMEA | Graid Technology Inc.
  • Iyer Venkatesan, Solutions Marketing Manager | Intel Corporation
  • Jason Zimmerman, Sr. Director of Technical Marketing | Seagate Technology
  • Anders Graham, Director of Marketing and Business Development for SSDs | KIOXIA
  • Steven Umbehocker, Founder & CEO | OSNEXUS Corporation

Why Attend? The Supermicro Open Storage Summit brings together technical experts from the entire software-defined storage ecosystem to talk about the latest developments. Every session will feature Supermicro product experts and leaders from processors, networking, SSDs, disk drives and software companies, which together enable software-defined storage solutions. Each session will cover a different storage use case from AI to HCI. Experts from leading companies — including NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Graid Technology, VAST Data, WEKA, DDN, OSNexus, Cloudian and many others — will be discussing their innovations which contribute to delivering powerful software storage solutions.

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