Listen to interviews with SNIA experts on data who cover a wide range of topics on both established and emerging technologies. SNIA is an industry organization that develops global standards and delivers vendor-neutral education on technologies related to data.
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Members of the SNIA Technical Council interview storage industry movers and shakers. Find out about new technologies, standards and opportunities from the experts in this field.
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Imagine a world where your data could last thousands of years without requiring even a watt of energy. The world is literally running out of data storage, and DNA may be the answer. DNA exceeds many times the storage density of magnetic tape or solid-state media and can store hundreds of petabytes in a mere gram of DNA! Esther Singer and Dave Lands…
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The Power of Edge AI and Data Management
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Will AI revolutionize the way businesses operate and the way we live? Hear AI pioneer Dr. Rita Wouhaybi, an expert focused on AI, share her excitement over the rapid advances in AI technology. She explains why she is obsessed with the concept of Edge AI and how Edge breaks down some of the fundamental assumptions that we have had about AI for years…
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Data Protection in the Ransomware Era: Strategies and Insights
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The impact of ransomware has upended how organizations approach data protection strategies, causing significant shifts from traditional operational recovery. Many CIOs and data center managers still have the perception that their current backup strategies are sufficient until a bad actor sneaks into their network to make sure that the backup is use…
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SNIA Membership: One Fee Unlocks All SNIA Groups
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Curious about the future of data and how it's evolving? Join us for a chat with Dr. J Metz, Chair of the Board of Directors for SNIA, an industry organization that develops global standards and delivers education on all technologies related to data. In this episode, J explains how SNIA is evolving the structure of the organization and moving toward…
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Standards Innovations with IEEE and SNIA
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International standards organizations play a crucial role in accelerating the adoption of technology. In this episode, Tom Coughlin, president of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), discusses how standards bodies like SNIA and IEEE shape the global market and its products through multi-vendor collaboration and shared goals…
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Computing in Space: What’s Happening on the International Space Station
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Can commercial off-the-shelf technology survive the rigors of space? Join us as Cameron Brett from the SNIA SCSI Trade Association Forum and Dr. Mark Fernandez of HPE's Spaceborne Computer Project tackle this provocative question. Learn how they've successfully adapted enterprise SAS Solid State Drives (SSDs) and NVMe technologies to work on the In…
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Next-Gen SSD Performance: The Power of Flexible Data Placement
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This episode of the SNIA Experts on Data podcast features Bill Martin who discusses flexible data placement in the context of storage devices. Bill highlights the importance of efficiently placing data to minimize write amplification factor, which can improve the lifetime and performance of SSDs. The discussion delves into the origins of flexible d…
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AI is upon us, and enterprises today are looking at leveraging its power while addressing the challenges it creates. In this episode, SNIA expert David McIntyre discusses how organizations are building out AI solutions from an infrastructure standpoint. He details real-world concerns around security, data privacy, and the balancing act of managing …
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The Future of Financial Services: AI, Big Data and Data Architecture
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Ready to unravel the complex world of data architecture in financial services? Join us for this conversation with SNIA member Parviz Peiravi, Global CTO for Financial Services at Intel, as he dives deep into the dynamics of data structure and its impact on the financial services industry. The interview takes a close look at the challenges faced by …
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SNIA Setting the Standard for Storage Innovation
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Philip Alsop, Digitalisation World Editor, interviews Dr. J Metz, Chair of the SNIA Board of Directors on the many ways SNIA is setting the standard for storage innovation. Listen as they discuss several new exciting innovations, including computational storage devices, DNA data storage and SDXI (Smart Data Acceleration Interface). SNIA is an indus…
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Storage Technology Update: SNIA and SCSI Trade Association Join Forces
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Uncover the alliance of SNIA and SCSI Trade Association in a conversation with Cameron Brett from the SNIA STA Forum and Dr. J Metz from the SNIA Board of Directors. They'll guide you through the compelling history of these two organizations, their recent unification, and the benefits for members and end-users. Learn how the STA Forum, while being …
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The World of Storage Management: Insights and Standards
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Philip Alsop from Digitalisation World interviews Richelle Ahlvers, Chair of the SNIA Storage Management Initiative. They discuss what’s new with SNIA Swordfish®, the storage management standard, the latest developments on work with industry partner organizations, the new SNIA Swordfish Conformance Testing Program and Next-Gen Lab. For more informa…
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Breaking Barriers in Data Movement with SNIA SDXI
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Are you ready to gain a fresh perspective on the future of data movement? This episode features an insightful conversation with Shyam Iyer, chair of the SNIA Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) Technical Work Group. Get ready to explore why a standardized data accelerator interface is crucial in our increasingly complex data landscape and how S…
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Storage Futures – It’s All About the Data
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Dr. J Metz, Chair SNIA Board of Directors, and Scott Shadley, Chair SNIA Communications Steering Committee, discuss the association’s plans for the coming year, which include work on SNIA SDXI Smart Data Acceleration Interface, computational storage, DNA data storage, SNIA Swordfish®, SNIA Emerald™ and sustainability. They also provide a fascinatin…
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#146: Understanding Compute Express Link
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Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) is an industry-supported cache-coherent interconnect for processors, memory expansion, and accelerators. Datacenter architectures are evolving to support the workloads of emerging applications in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning that require a high-speed, low latency, cache-coherent interconnect. The CXL spe…
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#145: The Future of Accessing Files Remotely from Linux: SMB3.1.1 Client Status Update
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Improvements to the SMB3.1.1 client on Linux have continued at a rapid pace over the past year. These allow Linux to better access Samba server, as well as the Cloud (Azure), NAS appliances, Windows systems, Macs and an ever increasing number of embedded Linux devices including those using the new smb3 kernel server Linux (ksmbd). The SMB3.1.1 clie…
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The NVMe Key Value (NVMe-KV) Command Set has been standardized as one of the new I/O Command Sets that NVMe Supports. Additionally, SNIA has standardized a Key Value API that works with the NVMe Key Value allows access to data on a storage device using a key rather than a block address. The NVMe-KV Command Set provides the key to store a correspond…
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#143: Deep Compression at Inline Speed for All-Flash Array
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The rapid improvement of overall $/Gbyte has driven the high performance All-Flash Array to be increasingly adopted in both enterprises and cloud datacenters. Besides the raw NAND density scaling with continued semiconductor process improvement, data reduction techniques have and will play a crucial role in further reducing the overall effective co…
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#142: ZNS: Enabling in-place Updates and Transparent High Queue-Depths
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Zoned Namespaces represent the first step towards the standardization of Open-Channel SSD concepts in NVMe. Specifically, ZNS brings the ability to implement data placement policies in the host, thus providing a mechanism to lower the write-amplification factor (WAF), (ii) lower NAND over-provisioning, and (iii) tighten tail latencies. Initial ZNS …
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#141: Unlocking the New Performance and QoS Capabilities of the Software-Enabled Flash API
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The Software-Enabled Flash API gives unprecedented control to application architects and developers to redefine the way they use flash for their hyperscale applications, by fundamentally redefining the relationship between the host and solid-state storage. Dive deep into new Software-Enabled Flash concepts such as virtual devices, Quality of Servic…
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The NVM Express workgroup is introducing new features frequently, and the Linux kernel supporting these devices evolves with it. These ever moving targets create challenges when developing tools when new interfaces are created, or older ones change. This talk will provide information on some of these recent features and enhancements, and introduce …
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#139: Use Cases for NVMe-oF for Deep Learning Workloads and HCI Pooling
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The efficiency, performance and choice in NVMe-oF is enabling some very unique and interesting use cases – from AI/ML to Hyperconverged Infrastructures. Artificial Intelligence workloads process massive amounts of data from structured and from unstructured sources. Today most deep learning architectures rely on local NVMe to serve up tagged and unt…
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NVMe is the fastest growing storage technology of the last decade and has succeeded in unifying client, hyperscale and enterprise applications into a common storage framework. NVMe has evolved from a being a disruptive technology to becoming a core element in storage architectures. In this session, we will talk about the NVMe transition to a merged…
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#137: Caching on PMEM: an Iterative Approach
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With PMEM boasting a much higher density and DRAM-like performance, applying it to in-memory caching such as memcached seems like an obvious thing to try. Nonetheless, there are questions when it comes to new technology. Would it work for our use cases, in our environment? How much effort does it take to find out if it works? How do we capture the …
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Software-based memory-to-memory data movement is common, but takes valuable cycles away from application performance. At the same time, offload DMA engines are vendor-specific and may lack capabilities around virtualization and user-space access. This talk will focus on how SDXI(Smart Data Acceleration Interface), a newly formed SNIA TWG is working…
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#135: SmartNICs and SmartSSDs, the Future of Smart Acceleration
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Since the advent of the Smart Phone over a decade ago, we've seen several new "Smart" technologies, but few have had a significant impact on the data center until now. SmartNICs and SmartSSDs will change the landscape of the data center, but what comes next? This talk will summarize the state of the SmartNIC market by classifying and discussing the…
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#134: Best Practices for OpenZFS L2ARC in the Era of NVMe
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The ZFS L2ARC is now more than 10 years old. Over that time, a lot of secret incantations and tribal knowledge have been created by users, testers, developers, and the odd sales or marketing person. That collection of community wisdom informs the use and/or tuning of ZFS L2ARC for certain IO profiles, dataset sizes, server class, share protocols, a…
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#133: NVMe based Video and Storage solutions for Edged based Computational Storage
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5G Wireless technology will bring vastly superior data rates to the edge of the network. However, with this increase in bandwidth will come applications that significantly increase overall network throughput. Video applications will likely explode as end users have large amounts of data bandwidth to operate. Video will not only require advanced com…
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#132: Emerging Scalable Storage Management Functionality
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By now, you have a good understanding of SNIA Swordfish™ and how it extends the DMTF Redfish® specification to manage storage equipment and services. Attend this presentation to learn what’s new and how the specification has evolved since last year. The speaker will share the latest updates ranging from details of features and profiles to new vendo…
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DMTF's Redfish® is a standard API designed to deliver simple and secure management for converged, hybrid IT and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). Both human readable and machine capable, Redfish leverages common Internet and web services standards to expose information directly to the modern tool chain. This presentation will provide an over…
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#130: SNIA Nonvolatile Memory Programming TWG
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The SNIA NVMP TWG continues to make significant progress on defining the architecture for interfacing applications to PM. In this talk, we will focus on the important Remote Persistent Memory scenario, and how the NVMP TWG’s programming model applies. Application use of these interfaces, along with fabric support such as RDMA and platform extension…
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#129: So, You Want to Build a Storage Performance Testing Lab?
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Whether you are a storage vendor, consumer, or developer, the performance of storage solutions affects you. Assessing the performance of large and complex storage solutions requires some level of performance testing lab, and there are many factors to consider. From network topology to load generator CPU, all components must be selected and configur…
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SMB 3.1.1 is the state of the art for secure remote file access, but deploying it for clouds and mobile users can be very challenging; TCP/445 is often blocked, networks are often slow, and edge file servers are often feared. The Microsoft SMB3 team has now built the first implementation of SMB3 over QUIC, a UDP/TLS transport pioneered by Google. T…
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#127: Object Storage Workload Testing Tools
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Attendees of this presentation will learn how to use several open source tools ( https://github.com/jharriga/ ) to evaluate object storage platforms. These tools provide automation and customer-based object storage workloads for activities such as filling a cluster, aging a cluster and running steady-state mixed operation workloads. One of the tool…
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#126: Introducing the SNIA Swordfish™ PowerShell Tool Kit and Windows Admin Center Integration
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PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language that helps rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes. PowerShell is open-source, object-based and includes a rich expression parser and a fully developed scripting language with a gentle learning curve. The PowerShell Toolkit fo…
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#125: Opening up Linux to the wider world
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After a year of implementation progress of the The SMB3 .1.1 POSIX Extensions, a set of protocol extensions to allow for optimal Linux and Unix interoperability with NAS and Cloud file servers- what is the current status- what have we learned- what has changed in the protocol specification in the past year- what advice do we have for implementers- …
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#124: Standardization for a Key-Value Interface underway at SNIA and NVM Express
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NVMe KV (Key-Value) is an industry-wide proposal for a new command structure that allows access to data on an NVMe SSD controller using a “key” rather than a block address. Developed within the NVM Express technical working group, this Key Value command set provides a “key” to store a corresponding “value” on non-volatile media, then retrieves that…
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A variety of persistent memory technologies with DRAM-class performance, known as “memory class storage” or “MCS”, have appeared on the horizon. MCS will change the architecture of future computing systems. These technologies include carbon nanotube memory, phase change memory, magnetic spin memory, and resistive memory, and each has unique charact…
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#122: 10 Million I/Ops From a Single Thread
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One of the most common benchmarks in the storage industry is 4KiB random read I/O per second. Over the years, the industry first saw the publication of 1M I/Ops on a single box, then 1M I/Ops on a single thread (by SPDK). More recently, there have been publications outlining 10M I/Ops on a single box using high performance NVMe devices and more tha…
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#121: Storage Applications in Blockchain
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The applications using NVMe, SAS, SATA, USB based storage devices find a new use and one of them is mining for open source cryptocurrency such as Burst Coin. Using low power or solar power HDD’s, SSD and most importantly NVMe technology can improve turnaround latency and build blocks on a faster scale. Utilization of security protocols allows anony…
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#120: What Happens when Compute Meets Storage?
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Por cott Shadley, VP Marketing, NGD Systems and Nick Adams, Storage Architect, Intel
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Por Jim Harris, Principal Software Engineer,Intel and Paul Luse, Principal Engineer, Intel
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#118: Linux NVMe and Block Layer Status Update
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Por Christoph Hellwig, Kernel Hacker
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#117: Developments in LTO Tape Hardware and Software
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Por David Pease, Distinguished Engineer Emeritus, IBM, and Takeshi Ishimoto, Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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#116: Persistent Memory Programming Made Easy with pmemkv
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Introducing pmemkv, an open-source local key/value store for persistent memory based on PMDK. Written in C/C++, pmemkv provides optimized language bindings for Java, JavaScript, and Ruby. Pmemkv includes multiple storage engines that are tailored for different use-cases. Fast, flexible and bulletproof, pmemkv is an easy way to modify applications t…
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#115: Accelerating RocksDB with Eideticom’s NoLoad NVMe-based Computational Storage Processor
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RocksDB, a high performance key-value database developed by Facebook, has proven effective in using the high data speeds made possible by Solid State Drives (SSDs). By leveraging the NVMe standard, Eideticom’s NoLoad® presents FPGA computational storage processors as NVMe namespaces to the operating system and enables efficient data transfer betwee…
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#114: NVM Express Specifications: Mastering Today’s Architecture and Preparing for Tomorrow’s
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Since the first release of NVMe 1.0 in 2011, the NVMe family of specifications continue to expand to support current and future storage markets, increasing the amount of new features and functionality. With that natural, organic growth, however, comes additional complexity.In order to refocus on simplicity and ease-of-development, the NVM Express g…
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#113: Latency is more than just a number
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Over the years, SSD QoS has become more important to a variety of storage market segments. Traditional latency reporting methods do not always accurately depict QoS behaviors. This is problematic when attempting to understand what events lead to a specific QoS level and how to mitigate latency events that lead to levels of QoS. Defining correct sta…
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#112: Computational Storage Architecture Development
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With the onset of the Computational Storage TWG and growth of interest in the market for these new and emerging solutions, it is imperative to understand how to develop, deploy and scale these new technologies. This session will walk through the new definitions, how each can be deployed and show use cases of NGD Systems Computational Storage Device…
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SMB3 has seen significant adoption as the storage protocol of choice for running private cloud deployments. With the recent advances in persistent memory technologies, we will take a look at how we can leverage the SMB3 protocol in conjunction with SMBDirect/RDMA to provide very low latency access to persistent memory devices across the network.Wit…
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