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AI, flash highlighted in 2025 data storage conference lineup
The 2025 storage conference calendar featured shows where vendors released major product updates and experts discussed top trends, such as AI, AI and AI.
The 2025 data storage conference calendar was loaded with high-profile events and more specific technical shows.
Shows ran throughout the year and featured heavyweight sponsor organizations such as Dell, Pure Storage, HPE and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). As is the case throughout the tech industry, AI is a theme that ran through the storage conference lineup. Memory technologies and flash storage were among the other major topics.
Conferences are generally back to in-person attendance, although many have a virtual element, such as live keynotes and on-demand video for people who can’t attend. This list is presented in chronological order.
Dell Technologies World, May 19-22, Las Vegas
Dell Technologies World is a mainstay on the data storage conference calendar. In 2025, private cloud and simplifying AI adoption were major focus areas. Dell launched several product updates, including integrations that support Nvidia's AI software and GPUs. Storage-specific sessions covered software-defined storage, midrange storage, AI storage and cyberstorage defense, among other topics. The speaker lineup included Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, Dell COO Jeff Clarke, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Pure//Accelerate, June 17-19, Las Vegas
Pure//Accelerate returned to Las Vegas in June, with focuses on the future of storage, how to solve demanding IT challenges and architecture for AI. Pure highlighted its Enterprise Data Cloud software, which manages and automates storage workloads across a user’s entire array platform. Data protection, cyber-resilience and sustainability were other top discussion points. Speakers included Pure Storage's CEO Charles Giancarlo and founder John Colgrove, as well as mentalist Oz Pearlman.
HPE Discover, June 23-26, Las Vegas
Like Dell and Pure Storage, HPE returned to Las Vegas for its signature show, Discover. The conference shined a spotlight on AI, hybrid cloud and networking. Product updates had a heavy focus on AI, such as new tools for Private Cloud AI powered by Nvidia's GPUs. Session topics with a storage and data protection angle included object storage, AIOps and ransomware response. Antonio Neri, HPE president and CEO, gave his keynote from The Sphere.
FMS: The Future of Memory and Storage, Aug. 5-7, Santa Clara, Calif.
FMS: The Future of Memory and Storage, previously known as Flash Memory Summit, has featured a new look and broader focus since 2024. The show is an “all-inclusive international memory and storage showcase,” according to the event's website. The data storage conference provided sessions on DRAM, memory-centric computing, storage for AI, NVMe and emerging technologies. Keynotes included representatives from such companies as Kioxia, Micron, Samsung, Sandisk and SK Hynix.
SNIA Developer Conference, Sept. 15-17, Santa Clara, Calif.
The SNIA Developer Conference returned in 2025. Speakers were from HPE, IBM, Microsoft, Pure Storage and Samsung, among other vendors. Sessions, which are available online, covered topics such as the evolution of NVMe, driving sustainability in data centers, rethinking storage for the AI/ML era and analysis of SSDs in AI data centers.
But wait, there's more
Here are other conferences in 2025 that included a storage element:
- Nutanix Next, May 7-9, Washington, D.C.
- Red Hat Summit, May 19-22, Boston.
- VMware Explore, Aug. 25-28, Las Vegas.
- MSST, Sept. 22-24.
- NetApp Insight, Oct. 13-15, Las Vegas.
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, Nov. 10-13, Atlanta.
- SC25, Nov. 16-21, St. Louis.
- AWS re:Invent, Dec. 1-5, Las Vegas.
Paul Crocetti is editorial director of Informa TechTarget's Infrastructure sites, which include SearchStorage, SearchDataCenter and SearchITOperations. Since starting at then-TechTarget in 2015, he has also served as editor on the SearchStorage, SearchDataBackup and SearchDisasterRecovery sites.
