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April 26, 2024
Storage Trends: Your Questions Answered
At our recent SNIA SCSI Trade Association Forum webinar, “
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January 2, 2024
Power Efficiency Measurement – Our Experts Make It Clear – Part 1
Measuring power efficiency in datacenter storage is a complex ende
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June 14, 2023
Connector and Cable differences: SAS-3 vs. SAS-4
By: David Einhorn, SCSI Trade Association
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April 17, 2023
Questions & Answers from our January 2023 Webcast: Storage Trends in 2023 and Beyond
These questions were asked and mostly answere
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April 17, 2023
24G SAS: an Overview of the Technology & Products
Hyperscale and enterprise data centers contin
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May 6, 2022
Dynamic Speakers on Tap for the 2022 SNIA Persistent Memory + Computational Storage Summit
Our 10th annual Persistent Memory
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May 6, 2022
Dynamic Speakers on Tap for the 2022 SNIA Persistent Memory + Computational Storage Summit
Our 10th annual Persistent Memory + Computational Storage S
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March 2, 2022
Understanding How Data Privacy, Data Governance, and Data Security Differ
Ever wonder what’s the difference between data privacy, data governanc
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February 15, 2022
Multi-cloud Use Has Become the Norm
Multiple clouds within an organization have become the norm.
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February 2, 2022
Join Us for 15 Minutes in the Clouds
Everyone is familiar with the term “Cloud” but it’s still worth asking
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December 8, 2021
A Q&A on Big Data in the Cloud
The title of our recent live
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November 22, 2021
Why Use Multiple Clouds?
As storing data in the cloud has become ubiquitous and mature, many or
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October 4, 2021
Q&A (Part 2) from “Storage Trends for 2021 and Beyond” Webcast
Questions from “Storage Trends for 2021 and Beyond” Webcast Answer
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September 13, 2021
Genomics Compute, Storage & Data Management Q&A
Everyone knows data is growing at exponential rates.
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August 31, 2021
Can Cloud Storage and Big Data Live Happily Ever After?
“Big Data” has pushed the storage envelope, creating a seemingly perfe
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August 27, 2021
Deploying Confidential Computing Q&A
The third live webcast in our
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August 24, 2021
Q&A (Part 1) from “Storage Trends for 2021 and Beyond” Webcast
Questions
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July 27, 2021
Moving Genomics to the Cloud
The study of genomics in modern biology has revolutionized the discove
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July 19, 2021
Extending Storage to the Edge
Data gravity has pulled computing to the Edge and enabled significant
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July 6, 2021
An Easy Path to Confidential Computing
To counter the ever-increasing likelihood of catastrophic disruption a
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June 25, 2021
Confidential Computing FAQ
Recently, the SNIA Cloud St
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May 25, 2021
The Confidential Computing Webcast Series
The need for improved data security and privacy seems to grow bigger e
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April 28, 2021
Q&A: Cloud Analytics Takes Flight
Recently, the SNIA Cloud St
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April 26, 2021
Continuous Delivery Software Development Q&A
What’s the best way to make a development team lean and agile?
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March 25, 2021
Q&A on the Ethics of AI
Earlier this month, the SNI
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March 23, 2021
Continuous Delivery: Cloud Software Development on Speed
It happens with more frequency these days. Two companies merge, a
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March 10, 2021
Q&A from “SAS 201: An Introduction to Enterprise Features” Webcast
Questions from SAS 201 Webinar Answered In an effort to provi
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March 9, 2021
Q&A from “SAS 101: The Most Widely-Deployed Storage Interface” Webcast
Questions from SAS 101 Webcast Answered In an effort to provi
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February 25, 2021
Cloud Analytics Drives Airplanes-as-a-Service Business
On-demand flying through an app sounds like something for only the ric
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February 11, 2021
The Effort to Keep Artificial Intelligence Ethical
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are possibly the most substa
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February 9, 2021
Understanding CDMI and S3 Together
How does the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI
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January 6, 2021
How COVID has Changed Data Privacy and Data Protection
The COVID-19 Pandemic has amplified cybersecurity concerns, particular
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December 7, 2020
Implications of Internet of Payments Q&A
Internet of Payments (IoP) enables payment processing over many kinds
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October 21, 2020
A SNIA Superpower: PAS submitter to ISO
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October 1, 2020
Keeping Up with 5G, IoT and Edge Computing
The broad adoption of 5G, Internet of things (IoT) and edge computing
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September 2, 2020
The Impact and Implications of Internet of Payments
Electronic payments, once the purview of a few companies, have expande
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July 23, 2020
The Role of AIOps in IT Modernization
The almost overnight shift of resources toward remote work has introdu
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July 13, 2020
Kubernetes Business Resiliency FAQ
The SNIA Cloud Storage Tech
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June 25, 2020
Understanding the Power of SNIA’s Storage Management Initiative
By Don Deel, SNIA SMI Governing Board Chair
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May 20, 2020
Everyone Wants Their Java to Persist
In this time of lockdown, I'm sure we're all getting a little off kilt
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May 19, 2020
Everyone Wants Their Java to Persist
In this time of lockdown, I’m sure we’re all
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May 6, 2020
SNIA Exhibits at OCP Virtual Summit May 12-15, 2020 – SFF Standards featured in Thursday Sessions
All SNIA members and colleagues are welcome t
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May 6, 2020
SNIA Exhibits at OCP Virtual Summit May 12-15, 2020 – SFF Standards featured in Thursday Sessions
All SNIA members and colleagues are welcome to register to attend the
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April 29, 2020
What’s New with SNIA Swordfish™?
If you haven’t caught the new wave in storage
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April 14, 2020
Share Your Experiences in Programming PM!
by Jim Fister, SNIA Director of Persistent Memory Enabling
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February 18, 2020
Wish You Knew More About Storage? Geek Out with SNIA
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February 17, 2020
Take the Leap to SMI-S Version 1.8.0
If you’re a storage equipment or management software vendor that us
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December 12, 2019
24G SAS Feature Focus: Inherent Scalability and Flexibility
[Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of blog posts discussing
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November 22, 2019
SAS Lives On and Here’s Why
By: Rohit Gupta, Enterprise Segment Management, Western Digital In th
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November 12, 2019
24G SAS Feature Focus: Active PHY Transmitter Adjustment
[Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of upcoming blog posts di
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October 21, 2019
24G SAS Feature Focus: Forward Error Correction
[Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of upcoming blog pos
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October 4, 2019
Show Your Persistent Stuff
Persistent Memory software development has been a source of server dev
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July 23, 2019
Join SNIA at Pure//Accelerate 2019: Austin, September 15-18
Equal parts education, information, and inspiration, Pure//Accelera
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July 9, 2019
SNIA’s Self-contained Information Retention Format (SIRF) v1.0 Published as an ISO Standard
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July 8, 2019
SNIA at Flash Memory Summit 2019 – Your Guide Here!
SNIA technical work and education advances will play a prominent role
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July 1, 2019
SNIA LTFS Format – New Version with Improved Capacity Efficiency
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June 4, 2019
Storage Management – Standards Matter
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May 14, 2019
New Conference Seeking PIRLs of Wisdom
UCSD Computer Science and Engineering, the Non-Volatile Systems Labora
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May 14, 2019
New Conference Seeking PIRLs of Wisdom
UCSD Computer Science and Engineering, the Non-Volatile Systems Labora
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December 11, 2018
Take the Leap to SMI-S 1.8 v3 for Streamlined Storage Management
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December 11, 2018
Take the Leap to SMI-S 1.8 v3 for Streamlined Storage Management
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October 11, 2018
Deciphering the Economics of Building a Cloud Storage Architecture
Building a cloud storage architecture requires both storage vendors, c
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October 1, 2018
An Introduction: What is Swordfish?
To understand Swordfish, let’s start with the basics to examine how
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August 3, 2018
SNIA Swordfish™ - Your Questions Answered
The Storage Networking Industry Association’s (SNIA’s) Storage Mana
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August 3, 2018
SNIA Swordfish™ - Your Questions Answered
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April 18, 2018
Data Security is an Integral Part of any Business Endeavor
In the wake of all the
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February 21, 2018
Marketing Your New Website From the Cloud
Launching a new website is an exciting venture, but it’s crucial to ha
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October 24, 2017
Expert Answers to Cloud Object Storage and Gateways Questions
In our most recent SNIA Cloud webcast, “
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May 31, 2017
Managing Your Computing Ecosystem Part Two
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May 24, 2017
IP-Based Object Drives Q&A
At our recent SNIA Cloud Storage webcast “
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May 22, 2017
Security and Privacy in the Cloud
When it comes to the cloud, security is always a topic for discussion.
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April 12, 2017
Managing Your Computing Ecosystem
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September 19, 2016
New SNIA Swordfish™ Specification Enables Scalable Storage Management - A Conversation with the SNIA Technical Work Group Development Team
A new SNIA specification offers a unified approach to managing stor
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September 19, 2016
New SNIA Swordfish Specification Enables Scalable Storage Management - A Conversation with the SNIA Technical Work Group Development Team
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August 29, 2016
Innovate Here - Storage Developer Conference Returns September 19-22 in Santa Clara CA
The change of seasons is almost upon us, and what better activity to s
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June 27, 2016
Cloud Storage: Solving Interoperability Challenges
Cloud storage has transformed the storage industry, however interopera
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May 6, 2016
Out and About with SNIA
SNIA welcomes their friends and colleagues to join them at one or more
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April 29, 2016
Persistent Memory Featured at Open Server Summit and in New NVDIMM Webcast
April's Open Server Summit brought thought leaders together for two da
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April 25, 2016
A Topical, Timely, and Tuned Agenda - It's Time for Data Storage Innovation 2016
There is a sense of anticipation that awaits the unveiling of SNIA's D
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April 22, 2016
Break Out of the Mold at Interop 2016
From SNIA Event Partner, Interop Leadership isn't jut for managers an
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April 18, 2016
Explore Interop’s Storage Track
From SNIA Event Partner, Interop The skyrocketing increase in data, a
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January 18, 2016
SNIA NVM Summit Delivers the Persistent Memory Knowledge You Need
by Marty Foltyn The discussion, use, and application of Non-
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December 23, 2015
Implementing Stored Data Encryption - Learn the Latest at SNIA Education Day at Storage Visions Conference
by Marty Foltyn SNIA on Storage continues its preview of SNI
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December 22, 2015
How "Fog" Computing Delivers a Superior IOT User Experience - Learn More at SNIA Education Day at Storage Visions Conference
by Marty Foltyn SNIA on Storage continues its preview of SNI
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December 21, 2015
Massively Scalable File Storage Key to IOT - Learn More at SNIA Tutorial at Storage Visions Conference
by Marty Foltyn SNIA on Storage continues its preview of SNI
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December 18, 2015
Cache Optimization the Focus of Tutorial at SNIA Education Day at Storage Visions Conference
by Marty Foltyn SNIA on Storage co
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December 17, 2015
Privacy vs. Data Protection Tutorial Kicks Off SNIA Education Day at Storage Visions Conference
SNIA is a proud sponsor of the Storage Visions Conference, a partner p
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November 13, 2015
Upcoming Webcast: The Impact of International Data Protection Legislation on the Cloud
Data Privacy vs.
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October 20, 2015
Assessing SSD Performance in the Data Center
By Marty Foltyn As solid state drives (SSDs) are deployed in
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October 5, 2015
OpenStack File Services for HPC Q&A
We got some great questions during our Webcast on how OpenStack can co
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September 15, 2015
SNIA Leads the Way with 16 Sessions on "Disruptive Technologies" at SDC!
Posted by Marty Foltyn In the two weeks leading up to the 20
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September 14, 2015
"New Thinking" Track Delivers the Best of Academic Research and Industry Work to SNIA's Storage Developer Conference Attendees
Posted by Marty Foltyn In the two weeks leading up to the 20
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September 11, 2015
Simple, Modern, Secure Management Can Be Yours with these Sessions at SNIA's Storage Developer Conference
Posted by Marty Foltyn For the next two weeks leading up to
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July 30, 2015
SNIA Emerald™ Specification is now widely utilized by many vendors as part of the EPA EnergyStar Data Center Storage Program
Since the release of SNIA Emerald measurement test specification v2.0.
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July 9, 2015
Save the Date: SNIA Emerald Training Webinar July 20-21
The SNIA Green TWG (Technical Work Group) and
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June 1, 2015
SSD Data Retention Issue Debunked
For the past few weeks, there has been quite a commotion on tech sites
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May 4, 2015
Four Ways Disaster Recovery is Simplified with Storage Management Standards
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is a growing a
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March 2, 2015
SNIA CSI Welcomes Glyn Bowden
At our annual SNIA Members’ Symposium in San Jose, the Cloud Storage I
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February 27, 2015
LTFS Bulk Transfer Standard Q&A
Our recent live SNIA Cloud Webcast “
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January 30, 2015
MRAM Topic of Open SSSI TechDev Committee Call Monday February 2 at 2:00 pm PT
As part of their educational offering, the SNIA Solid State Storage In
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November 17, 2014
What’s New in the CDMI 1.1 Cloud Storage Standard
On December 2, 2014, the CSI is hosting a Developer Tutorial Webcast “
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October 29, 2014
Object Storage 201 Q&A
Now available
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August 21, 2014
NVM Programming Model Recognized for Enterprise Business Innovation
At the most recent Flash Memory Summit in August 2014, the SNIA NVM Pr
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June 3, 2014
Hear the Latest on UltraDIMM SSDs Monday June 9 at 4:00 pm PDT
Join the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative for an "open-to-all inter
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April 30, 2014
Help Develop Next Generation SSDs and Win Cool Stuff!
The SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative (SNIA SSSI) is working to bett
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October 21, 2013
Participate in the SSD Features Rating Project!
The SSSI has launched the SSD Features Rat
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July 9, 2013
New Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification Available for Public Review
A new revision of the Enterprise Solid State Storag
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May 22, 2013
How Many IOPS Is Enough?
SNIA's SSSI channel webcast of "How Many IOPS Is Enough?" was a smash
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March 25, 2013
Reaching Nirvana? Maybe Not, But You Can Help In Better Understanding SSD and HDD Performance via SNIA’s Workload I/O Capture Program
SNIA’s Solid State Storage Initi
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March 13, 2013
Take Our 10GBASE-T Quick Poll
I've gotten some interesting feedback on my recent 10GBASE-T blog, "
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January 23, 2013
January 29 NVM Summit At the SNIA Symposium Brings Experts Together
January 29th's Su
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January 3, 2013
SSSI Highlighting PCIe SSDs at the Storage Visions Conference
Join the SSSI at the Storage Visions Conference, January 6-7,2013 at t
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December 1, 2012
Carry the Momentum into 2013! Renew Your SNIA Membership - or Join for the First Time!
As a new SNIA fiscal year begins, SNIA Business Development and
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October 30, 2012
Solid State on Stage
The media buzz continues on solid state storage, now a prominent featu
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October 3, 2012
Flash Webcast Q&A
Our recent Webcast: Flash – Plan for the Disruption was very well rece
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September 12, 2012
SNIA Highlights NVM Programming TWG at Intel Developers Forum
SNIA is proud to participate at the Intel Developers Forum this week a
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September 12, 2012
Flash Webcast – Are You Ready for the Disruption?
There's no doubt that flash is a game changer.
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September 5, 2012
Solid State A Winner at Flash Memory Summit
SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) enjoyed a lively following
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July 16, 2012
SSSI PCIe SSD Taskforce Enters Final Stretch
With opening day of the Del Mar races in my home town on Wednesday, it
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June 4, 2012
Full Steam Ahead for SNIA SSSI PCIe Task Force - It's Not Too Late to Participate!
SSSI’s PCIe SSD Task Force has covered a lot of ground since the inaug
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February 28, 2012
The Future of Flash & SSDs Is Not-So-Bleak
You have have seen articles about the study by a UCSD researcher that
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January 25, 2012
Solid State Storage Contributors Honored at SNIA Symposium
Passionate and dedicated volunteers are vital to the success of SNIA a
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December 6, 2011
Holiday Education Before Our New Year Event!
These first weeks of December always fly by with the myriad of tasks a
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August 25, 2011
Plan to Attend Cloud Burst and SDC
Cloud Storage Developers will be Converging on Santa Clara in Sept
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July 5, 2011
CSI Quarterly Update Q3 2011
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May 18, 2011
Get your hands on a Storage Cloud
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May 1, 2011
CDMI Overview
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April 4, 2011
CDMI breaks out at SNW Spring
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May 11, 2010
Join SNIA Cloud at Standards Webcast
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May 10, 2010
Gluecon Cloud Conference
As the “cloud” becomes a common platform, web applications still li
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April 12, 2010
Cloud Device Giveaway
An
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April 6, 2010
Join the CSI at SNW - April 12-15 in Orlando FL
Take advantage of educational SNIA Tutorials on Cloud, a Pavilion devo
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March 13, 2010
Cloud Storage for Cloud Computing
Gary Mazzaferro and I have created a whitepaper that discusses the coo
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March 12, 2010
Hello world!
Welcome to the SNIA Cloud Weblog.
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March 1, 2010
Hello world!
Welcome to the new SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) blog!
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