Name: Software Defined Storage Demystified
Start: 2021-07-27T18:30:00Z
End: 2021-07-27T18:30:41.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.8

Supermicro is a global technology leader committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for AI, Enterprise, Cloud, Metaverse, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Rack-Scale Total IT Solutions provider that designs and builds an environmentally-friendly and energy-saving portfolio of servers, storage systems, switches, software, along with global support services.

Generative AI opportunities are increasingly attracting the attention of industry leaders and organizations. As enterprises explore these new use cases, they also require more computing resources and new technical expertise. 

Join this webinar where experts from Supermicro and NVIDIA will discuss:

• How to recognize the use cases that your organization can tap into using your proprietary data and reap the benefits
• How crucial accelerated computing is for generative AI success
• A blueprint to build your AI technology stack so you can run generative AI models for almost any application

Presenters: 

- Yusuke Kondo, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Supermicro
- Anthony Larijani, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, NVIDIA
- Luis Ceze, Co-founder & CEO, OctoML; Professor, University of Washington (Moderator)

Why AI-ready Platforms are Crucial for Generative AI Success

Join Supermicro, AMD and IDC experts to discuss some of the best practices to start and grow your CSP infrastructure and business. 

Here's what you'll learn from our speakers:

- Ashish Nadkarni leads IDC’s worldwide infrastructure research group including cloud, edge, storage and compute and will present an overview of trends in the CSP market and advice for service providers. 

- Suresh Andani is a Senior Director in the Server Business Unit at AMD responsible for Go-To-Market Strategy and Execution of AMD EPYC-powered Cloud Infrastructure. He'll focus on performance, cost, energy efficiency and security of AMD's EPYC-powered Cloud infrastructure.

- Sim Upadhyayula leads Supermicro’s Solution Enablement working with customers to design customized solutions for large scale data centers. 

- Balancing future data center trends with practical advice based on Supermicro’s experience working with many CSPs.

Speakers:

- Sim Upadhyayula, VP, Solutions Enablement, Supermicro

- Suresh Andani, Sr. Director Product Management, Server Cloud, AMD

- Ashish Nadkarni, Group Vice President and General Manager, Worldwide Infrastructure Research, IDC (Guest Speaker)

- Wendell Wenjen, Director of Storage Market Development, Supermicro (Moderator)

Accelerate Your Cloud: Best Practices for CSPs

Do you want to learn how to overcome the barriers of time-to-market, cost-efficiency, and performance with Open RAN and 5G? Join us for a webinar on how you can leverage the potential of emerging AI innovations for your network or enterprise. 

Experts from Supermicro, Intel and Rakuten Symphony will discuss:

- How moving AI resources to the edge can improve response times and reduce strain on the network
- The latest hardware advancements, including vRAN Boost accelerator featured in 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- How to deploy Open RAN networks and AI solutions at scale

Presenters:

- Mory Lin, VP of IoT/Embedded & Edge Computing, Supermicro
- Michael Clegg, VP and GM of 5G & Edge, Supermicro
- Daniel Lynch, Director, Wireless Access Division, Intel
- Mehran Hadipour, VP Global Business Development and Alliances, Rakuten Symphony

Seizing the Edge AI Opportunity with Open RAN at Scale

Is your infrastructure struggling to keep up with the I/O demands for AI and ML? 

Supermicro offers complete, proven reference storage architectures built for performance and capacity of todays and tomorrow’s workloads. 

Join our webinar with experts from Supermicro and WEKA, where you’ll learn:

• How to balance high performance with large capacity data delivery requirements
• How Supermicro and WEKA collaboration leads to validated and integrated software-defined storage, shortening deployment with Supermicro’s rack-scale integration process
• How Petascale class servers deliver exceptional performance and capacity with 32 E3.S drives enabling up to 491.52 TB* raw capacity of all-flash storage

*Raw value is based on vendor raw base capacity of 15.36 TB.  TB is base-10 decimal.

Presenters:

• Paul Mcleod, Product Director, Storage Systems, Supermicro
• Shimon Ben-David, Chief Technology Officer, WEKA
• Wendell Wenjen, Director, Storage Market Development, Supermicro (Moderator)

Unlocking Your Data: Optimized Storage to Accelerate Your AI Data Pipeline

The growing AI market is changing the perception of data processing. Once relegated to the sidelines, lightning-fast storage is a critical business initiative that is opening new worlds of operating.  

Join us for our webinar with NVIDIA where you will learn more about: 

- The limitations inherent in traditional storage architectures 

- The advantages of GPUDirect storage and RDMA for AI 

- Combining rack-level resources of multiple systems into one massive compute cluster 

- How the Data Processing Unit (DPU) can help offload compute tasks to improve storage performance

AI Storage Optimization with GPUDirect Storage and RDMA

Today's data-intensive applications and environments require storage solutions that can meet exponential demand and higher operating costs. Join our webinar and learn how flash and spinning disk storage are evolving to help businesses overcome performance, capacity and scalability challenges. 

We will cover:

- new features and improvements in E3.S and learn how they can help transform your business
- future capacity roadmap for flash and HDD storage, including new form factors such as E3.S, the path to 30TB HDD, and what’s in store for subsequent generations of storage
- how storage innovations increase performance and lower TCO
- how CXL can breathe new performance life into critical business applications

Presenters:

- Patrick Chiu, Sr. Director of Storage Product Management, Supermicro
- Tyler Nelson, Senior Manager – Application Performance Lab, KIOXIA
- Tahmid Rahman, Director, Data Center Product Marketing, Solidigm
- Eric Caward, Senior Manager for Emerging Memory, Micron
- Young Paik, Senior Director, New Business Product Planning, Samsung

All-Flash Innovation for Next-generation Storage Solutions Round Table

Join Supermicro and AMD experts for a live webinar to discover how Supermicro's new H13 GPU systems, powered by AMD Instinct™ MI300 series accelerators, can advance your large-scale AI and HPC infrastructure. 

In this webinar, you will learn about: 

- The new AMD Instinct MI300 series 
- Supermicro’s new AMD Instinct MI300 powered systems 
- Workloads and trends in AI and HPC infrastructure  

Presenters: 

- Daniel Chen, Sr. Director, Solution Management, Supermicro 
- Tom Ling, Product Management, Supermicro 
- Mark Orthodoxou, Sr. Director, Business Development, Datacenter GPU BU, AMD 
- Binh Chu, Sr. Product Manager, AMD 
- Michael Schulman, Sr. Manager, Supermicro (Moderator)

Advancing AI: New Supermicro Servers with AMD's MI300 Series Accelerators

How do you design next-gen AI storage solutions that have high-throughput and low latency? Join us for our webinar where you can learn more about building high performance storage architectures for the new generation of workloads.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

• Next-gen architectures for AI storage
• UP architecture for storage
• High Performance file systems

Presenters:

• William Li - Director, Solution Management, Supermicro
• Siddhartha Karkare - Director, Manufacturing & Server Ecosystem Development, AMD
• Shimon Ben-David, CTO, WEKA

Embracing the AI Era: High Performance AI Storage Solutions

As the technology for virtualized Open RAN matures, and new 5G use cases are deployed, operators are looking for ways to lower their TCO. Using knowledge gained from a proven track record of successful RAN deployments, Supermicro addresses this need by bundling its expertise into a unique COTS Distributed Unit with integrated timing and fronthaul features. The system is specifically designed for maximum scalability, energy savings, and cost-efficiency and is available now.

In this webinar, Supermicro teams up with Intel® to discuss developments in the OpenRAN industry, look back at lessons learned and share how the latest Supermicro 5G Servers featuring Intel’s Edge Enhanced chipset enables organizations to enhance their deployment models.

Presenters:

- Yaming Wang, Sr. Director, 5G and Edge Solutions, Supermicro
- Daniel Lynch, Senior Marketing Director, FlexRAN, Intel
- Michael Clegg, VP and GM of 5G & Edge, Supermicro (Moderator)

Scaling and Optimizing ORAN Deployments for Telco Operators

Looking for a flexible and efficient solution to power your AI and accelerated computing application? Join us for our webinar where we will introduce the Supermicro NVIDIA MGX platforms, the new modular architecture designed to standardize AI infrastructure in compact 1U and 2U form factors providing ultimate flexibility and scalability. 

In this webinar, we will explore:

• How to construct tailored solutions for your AI and Accelerated workloads with our broad portfolio of MGX Systems
• How Supermicro NVIDIA MGX™ Systems with Grace Hopper™ Superchip can dramatically speed up AI workloads and maximize performance per rack unit
• Solutions to scale your AI infrastructure with our building block approach

Presenters:

• Josh Grossman, Product Manager, Supermicro 
• Ivan Goldwasser, Director of Product Marketing, NVIDIA 
• Robert Moore, Marketing (Host), Supermicro

Supermicro MGX Systems: Flexibility and Scalability for AI Workloads

With the Supermicro BigTwin® system using 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, users can unlock the potential of vSAN. These new processors offer significant performance improvements over prior generations of CPUs. The Supermicro BigTwin architecture provides the scalability needed to meet the needs of scaling an AI environment. 

In this webinar, you will learn: 

• Why vSAN has become so popular and how it is traditionally implemented 

• How 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and vSAN unleash new possibilities for AI workloads 

• Why Supermicro's BigTwin® architecture is the ideal choice to maximize vSAN performance

Accelerating vSAN with Next-Generation Storage Technologies

The Supermicro H13 WIO, and short-depth front I/O systems, deliver energy-efficient single-socket servers that lower operating costs for enterprise, telco, and edge applications. Both feature the latest AMD EPYC™ 8004 series CPU (codename: Siena), extending the high efficiency 'Zen 4c' core architecture into lower core count CPU offerings with TDP ranges as low as 80W.

Join Supermicro and AMD in an upcoming webinar which explores the Supermicro H13 WIO and 5G/Telco solutions with experts from both Supermicro and AMD highlighting the unique features and design of the systems and CPU. They will also discuss some target markets and applications that these systems are designed for.

Delivering EPYC Density and Energy Efficiency

Go behind the scenes and learn how Supermicro and AMD are pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling with their new generation of technology. Hear from industry experts as they discuss how virtualization, advances in rendering and storage speeds, and real-time rendering engines are transforming the entertainment industry.

Agenda:

• Virtualization and collaboration: How virtualization can remove the limitations of physical sets and locations, aid collaboration, and optimize production workflows.
• Advances in rendering and storage speeds: How advances in rendering and storage speeds are opening up more complex visual effects and speeding up production timelines.
• A look at the way real-time rendering engines can stretch the boundaries of filmmaking.

Presenters:

Joining Supermicro will be James Knight, Global Media & Entertainment/VFX Director, AMD and Dean Takahashi, Lead Writer, GamesBeat (Moderator)

Cinematic Game-Changers: The Tech Pushing the Limits of Visual Storytelling

The increasing complexity and popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and generative AI diffusion has led to a number of benefits for businesses and individuals with even more expected in the future. In this webinar, we will explore the challenges in building AI infrastructure for these models and how Supermicro systems with NVIDIA L40S GPUs help to overcome these challenges.

We will discuss:

• The challenges of building AI infrastructure for LLMs and generative AI diffusion models
• How Supermicro Systems with NVIDIA L40S GPUs provide end-to-end acceleration for inference, training, graphics, and video workflows
• How to avoid development delays and deployments of AI applications

Speakers:

• Alok Srivastav, Senior Solutions Manager, Supermicro
• Anthony Larijani, Senior Product Marketing Manager, NVIDIA
• Yusuke Kondo, Product Marketing Manager, Supermicro (Moderator)

Supermicro NVIDIA L40S Systems: Accelerate AI, Availability and Performance

Join us as we talk about how to combine the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (previously codenamed: Sapphire Rapids) with Supermicro's SuperServer designs to create high-performance, efficient computing systems that accelerate many workloads.

We will explore how deeply integrating the software, compute, networking, storage, and system hardware can uncover new opportunities to optimize performance and efficiency.

Timothy Prickett Morgan of The Next Platform will discuss this topic and more with Ronak Singhal, Intel Fellow and chief architect of many generations of Xeon CPUs, and Vik Malyala, senior vice president at Supermicro.

Register today to learn how you can accelerate your workloads from the datacenter to the edge.

Accelerate Everything in the Data Center and at the Edge

How do you keep storage systems reliable and efficient while applications become more complex and demanding? Application optimized servers can help you build resilient systems that can scale effectively as your needs grow. 

 In this webinar, we will cover: 

- The challenges of optimizing storage and how to overcome them 
- How Intel Accelerators backup data compression with QAT, save computing resources and improve core performance 
- What is QAT and how it helps improve storage performance

Supermicro Storage Systems Enhanced with the Intel QAT Accelerator Engine

The cloud gaming industry is growing rapidly, and with it, the demand for high-performance gaming platforms. However, as games become more demanding, it can be difficult to keep up with the increasing performance needs without increasing costs.

In this webinar we will explore:

• How Supermicro, Ampere, Canonical, and NVIDIA partner to deliver next-gen gaming experiences
• The latest technologies and solutions that are available to help AICAN meet these demands

New Cloud Game Streaming Platform Delivering PC Quality Graphics to Mobile Games

AI, ML, and data analytics workloads require fast time to deployment and high performance. IT leaders struggle to move AI from proof of concept to production at scale. Supermicro and NVIDIA's end-to-end AI platform streamlines AI infrastructure, eliminates complexity, reduces silos, and simplifies AI deployments. It delivers scale, repeatability, certainty, and security. In this webinar, you'll learn how Supermicro and NVIDIA's platform provides the compute power, tools, and support that enterprises need to focus on creating AI business value.

The End-To-End Infrastructure Solution That Accelerates AI Deployment and Scale

Solution: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation & SMCI Servers

Leveraging Intel® Optane Technology with VMware Cloud Foundation

Software Defined Storage for Data Protection

What Enterprises Need to Know When Deploying Container Based Environments

QuantaStor™ Software-Defined Storage Solution

Software-Defined Durability, Protection and Availability at Massive Scale

The Speed of RAID Fused with the Scale of Object

Hybrid Cloud Deployment

How Software-Defined Storage Supports IT Infrastructure Modernization

Worlds fastest File System for HPC, AI and Machine Learning

Solving I/O Bottleneck with DAOS and PMEM

Orchestrating Data Storage to Enable New Performance & Cost/Performance Profiles

How Hardware Enhancements Drive Software-Defined Storage Improvements

Innovations and Software-Defined Storage Solutions

Open Storage Summit 2021

A new networked storage architecture called Software Defined Storage emerged from the world of cloud computing a few years ago. Called SDS for short, it took the storage world by storm with many startups emerging followed by investments and acquisitions from the larger storage vendors. But what is SDS? How does it fit into the networked storage landscape? What are its advantages over long time tried and true solutions like Fibre Channel SANs? Join this session at Supermicro’s Open Storage Summit and find out not only the answers to these questions, but also how to deploy SDS with Supermicro solutions.

Software Defined Storage Demystified

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