CloudFest 2026: Toshiba to Showcase High-Performance AI and Petabyte-Scale Storage Solutions

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH (Toshiba) will be exhibiting at Cloudfest 2026, which runs from March 23-26 at Europapark, Rust. Together with partners Ugreen Group Ltd., Promise Technology and Microchip Technology Inc, Toshiba will showcase advanced storage architectures designed to meet the growing demands of AI, analytics and data-centric applications.As global data volumes continue to accelerate, organisations require scalable, cost-efficient and sustainable storage solutions. Toshiba’s enterprise HDD technology remains fundamental to delivering petabyte-scale infrastructure with optimal performance, reliability and total TCO.

At Cloudfest 2026, Toshiba will present multiple live demonstrations highlighting the flexibility and scalability of HDD-based storage solutions across a wide range of use cases.

The systems on display will include:

• Several NAS systems from Ugreen (2-bay to 8-bay), demonstrating performance and capacity scaling across different deployment sizes
• A performance demonstration of a 60-bay integrated AI storage server from AIC, delivering 1PB of total storage operated by TrueNAS software. This solution is ideally suited for data-centric analytics, classical ML, and CPU-based AI inference workloads, with a clear upgrade path toward GPU-accelerated AI
• A 2PB net storage configuration featuring more than 100 Toshiba 24TB HDDs deployed in AIC JBODs and server infrastructure, showcasing ZFS performance using Open-E’s JovianDSS software
• A live demonstration of a 1.3PB storage cluster built with a Promise 60-bay JBOD and a combined hardware and software RAID architecture, emphasising performance, redundancy and scalability

Keynote Presentation
Rainer W. Kaese, Senior Manager HDD Business Development at Toshiba Electronics Europe, will deliver a keynote presentation during the event:
Title: Designed for Decades: The Sustainability of Hard Disk Drives
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Time: 12:40 pm – 1:00 pm CET
Location: Studio Stage

This session will trace the evolution of SAS/SATA HDDs, examine why standardization remains fundamental to enable flexibility and support sustainability, and explore future technology paths towards ever-higher capacities.

Visitors can meet Toshiba and its partners – Ugreen Group Ltd., Promise Technology and Microchip Technology Inc – at Booth C04 to experience the live demonstrations, partake in daily ‘Crash and Win’ raffles and discuss next-gen storage strategies.