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Publication Date: 2025-08-21 07:00:00
With the global market for generative artificial intelligence projected to exceed 1.3 trillion by 2032, companies are eager for enterprise-grade storage solutions that can handle AI workloads.
A majority of gen AI and agentic proof of concepts are struggling to reach production. Storage companies want to help customers take that final leap.
Industry experts from Nutanix, Supermicro, MinIO and Intel talk with theCUBE about their latest collaboration efforts.
“The top reasons that those prototypes didn’t really get into production were that the cost was too high, the performance was not high enough or they didn’t have good IT alignment,” said Wendell Wenjen (pictured, front row right), director of storage market development at Super Micro Computer Inc. “The more recent research that we commissioned with IDC estimates that about a half of these companies are going into production, so I think the numbers are looking very good now.”
Wenjen, Kanchan Mirani (front row left), senior director of strategic marketing at Nutanix Inc.; Keith Pijanowski (pictured, back left), AI solutions engineer at MinIO Inc.; and Gary Brown (pictured, back right), technical product marketing at Intel Data Center Group at Intel Corp., spoke with theCUBE’s Rob Strechay at the Supermicro Open Storage Summit interview series, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed their partnerships and creating storage solutions for…
