Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH will participate this year in Cloudfest 2026, an event that will take place from March 23 to 26 in Europa-Park, Rust (Germany). The company, together with its partners Ugreen Group Limited, Promise Technology and Microchip Technology Inc., will showcase advanced storage architectures designed to meet the growing demands of artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and data-centric applications.
As global data volume continues to accelerate, organizations need scalable, cost-effective and sustainable storage solutions. Toshiba’s enterprise hard drive (HDD) technology remains critical to delivering petabyte-scale infrastructures with optimal performance, high reliability and competitive total cost of ownership (TCO).
Storage solutions for the AI era
At Cloudfest 2026, Toshiba will be holding several live demonstrations to showcase the flexibility and scalability of HDD-based storage solutions across a wide variety of use cases. Systems to be exhibited include:
• Various Ugreen NAS systems (2 to 8 bays), which will demonstrate performance and capacity scalability across various deployment sizes.
• A performance demonstration of an AIC 60-bay integrated AI storage server, offering 1PB of total storage managed using TrueNAS software. This solution is ideal for data-centric analytics, classical machine learning, and CPU-based AI inference, with a clear upgrade path to GPU-accelerated AI.
• A 2PB net storage configuration with over 100 Toshiba 24TB HDDs deployed on JBODs and AIC servers, which will showcase ZFS performance using Open-E’s JovianDSS software.
• A live demonstration of a 1.3PB storage cluster built with a 60-bay Promise JBOD and a combined hardware and software RAID architecture, highlighting performance, redundancy and scalability.
The sustainability of hard drives
Also, during the event, the senior director of HDD Business Development at Toshiba Electronics Europe, Rainer W. Kaese, will give a presentation under the title ‘Designed for decades: the sustainability of hard drives’.
Toshiba to provide live demonstrations to show the flexibility and scalability of HDD-based storage solutions
In the session, which will take place on Wednesday, March 25 (12:40 – 1:00 p.m.) on the Studio Stage, the manager will review the evolution of SAS/SATA HDDs, analyze why standardization remains essential to ensure flexibility and sustainability, and explore future technological paths towards increasing capacities.
Toshiba will be present at booth C04 where visitors can attend live demonstrations, participate in daily “Crash and Win” drawings or discuss next-generation storage strategies with the company’s professionals.
