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🚨 SAVE THE DATE: CREATOR SUMMIT 2026 🚨

The 45Drives Creator Summit returns for its 4th year.

Join creators, innovators, and technology leaders for three days of ideas, collaboration, and conversations shaping the future of AI, open source, enterprise technology, and digital creation.

📅 October 20–22, 2026
📍 The Skyline Center | Wilmington, NC

We're building our biggest Creator Summit yet with more speakers, more hands-on experiences, and more opportunities to connect with the people driving innovation forward.

Learn more: ow.ly/Q73e50ZaGaR

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Is local AI inference really inefficient, or is there more to the story?

In this episode of What's Spinnin' with 45Drives, Brett Kelly and Doug Milburn discuss Sam Altman's recent comments on consumer RAM, cloud computing, and the future of local AI.

There's plenty to unpack, and we'd love to hear your take.

Watch the full episode and join the conversation. What do you think?
youtube.com/watch?v=lcFMP_…

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What makes Creator Summit special? The people, the connections, and the ideas that bring everyone together.

Creator Summit 2026 was a huge success, bringing together an incredible community for three days of collaboration, creativity, and fresh perspectives.

From groundbreaking conversations and innovative thinking to a little AI and plenty of laughs, hear how our attendees describe this year's Summit in one word (or a few!).

It's the people and shared experiences that make this community what it is.

That's Creator Summit 2026.

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Hardware RAID isn't the only way to protect critical data.

Join our free Intro to ZFS webinar on November 11 and learn how software-defined storage can deliver data integrity, performance, and protection without the complexity.

We'll cover ZFS fundamentals, drive failure protection, snapshots, accidental deletion recovery, and why more organizations are moving beyond traditional hardware RAID.

With hundreds of ZFS deployments across enterprise and government environments, 45Drives brings real-world experience to open-source storage.

📅 Wednesday, November 11, 2026 / 2:00 PM EST
🎟️ Free webinar – Register today!

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Missed Creator Summit 2026? Catch up on @allanjude session!

What does it take to build a reliable, high-performance storage foundation for AI and other demanding workloads?

Allan Jude, OpenZFS Solutions Architect, contributor, co-author of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, and co-founder of @klarainc ., explores why storage is a critical part of AI infrastructure and how ZFS helps address performance, data integrity, scalability, and data sovereignty.

From understanding the importance of on-prem infrastructure to exploring the features that make ZFS a powerful storage solution, this session is packed with insights for anyone building modern IT infrastructure.

🎥 Watch Allan’s full talk from Creator Summit 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=Wbu54T…

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