en.Wedoany.com Reported - Supermicro announced the launch of a Kubernetes edge AI appliance developed in collaboration with Red Hat and Everpure. This appliance is a validated, full-stack edge Kubernetes solution based on Red Hat OpenShift and Everpure's Portworx data management platform for AI workloads, with hardware and software pre-integrated and delivered to customers by Supermicro.
Vik Malyala, Chief Business Officer at Supermicro, stated that edge AI inference requires not only hardware but also a validated, scalable platform. The company partnered with Red Hat and Everpure to provide a turnkey Kubernetes edge AI appliance, simplifying deployment and accelerating customer time-to-revenue, enabling customers to efficiently scale AI workloads in distributed edge environments.
By combining Red Hat OpenShift with Supermicro's edge computing infrastructure and Everpure's Portworx data management platform, enterprises can more easily deploy, manage, scale, and secure AI applications in distributed edge environments.
Kelly Switt, Senior Director of Intelligent Edge and Industrial Business at Red Hat, noted that AI-driven applications are continuously reshaping how enterprises operate at the edge, making the need for a robust, consistent, and scalable platform critical. Red Hat OpenShift provides a common hybrid cloud application environment that simplifies the deployment, orchestration, and management of AI workloads. The collaboration with Supermicro and Everpure aims to deliver a supported, integrated, and high-performance solution that accelerates time-to-value for customers performing AI inference at the edge.
Everpure's Portworx provides Kubernetes-native storage and data management for Supermicro's edge AI appliance. Enterprises can run AI inference, containers, and virtual machines at edge locations while receiving the same enterprise-grade data services as in core data centers. Unlike array-based storage solutions requiring dedicated hardware at each site, Portworx offers software-defined, aggregated local storage on Supermicro's compact edge servers, forming a resilient, self-healing data platform that operates autonomously even during network outages. This solution delivers enterprise-grade high availability and data protection at each edge location, with consistent storage policies and a unified operational experience spanning from edge to core to cloud.
Greg Muscarella, General Manager of Everpure's Portworx, stated that enterprises deploying AI at the edge face critical infrastructure gaps, requiring enterprise-grade storage and data protection in environments such as retail stores or factory floors, but cannot run traditional arrays. The validated turnkey solution provided in collaboration with Supermicro and Red Hat combines Portworx services customers trust, such as consistent management, built-in resilience, and operational simplicity, scaling to thousands of sites without requiring on-site IT expertise.
Supermicro is a total IT solution provider in the computing edge infrastructure space, with a broad portfolio of edge servers and appliances covering various form factors. Supermicro can develop custom solutions for each customer's use case, optimizing initial acquisition costs and total cost of ownership. Supermicro's DCBBS provides complete modular AI infrastructure built from validated components and subsystems, supporting flexible deployment from single servers and networking to full rack-level and data center-level solutions, including software and services.
Supermicro (Super Micro Computer, Inc., NASDAQ: SMCI) is a total IT solution provider founded and operating in San Jose, California. The company focuses on innovation for enterprise, cloud, AI, and 5G telecom/edge IT infrastructure, offering servers, AI, storage, IoT, switching systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's expertise in motherboard, power supply, and chassis design supports its development and manufacturing, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to edge for global customers. Its products are designed and manufactured internally in the United States, Taiwan, and the Netherlands, leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency, optimized to improve total cost of ownership and reduce environmental impact. The company's server building block solutions portfolio allows customers to choose from a wide range of systems built from reusable building blocks, covering comprehensive form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions.
