Compute, Memory, and Storage

The industry leading member companies of the SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Community support the industry drive to combine processing with memory and storage, and to create new compute architectures and software to analyze and exploit the explosion of data creation over the next decade.

What We Do

The SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Community and its special interest groups – Computational Storage, Persistent Memory, and Solid State Drives - engage users and educate on compute, memory, and storage technology, accelerate SNIA standards, in these areas, and propel technology adoption. Learn more.

Our Mission

The SNIA CMS Community is dedicated to fostering the growth and success of the market for computational storage, solid state storage, persistent and new memory technologies, and other advanced storage technologies in both commercial and consumer environments.

How We Do It

We execute on our mission by:

Presenting and demonstrating at industry events throughout the year
Hosting Persistent Memory and Compute Express Link (CXL) workshops and hackathons
Educating on SSD Form Factors, NVMe SSD Classification, Total Cost of Ownership Models, SSD Performance Testing, SSD Real World Workloads, and Media Sanitization
Presenting educational webinars, podcasts, and blogs

Technical Work

Through education, outreach, and enablement activities, the CMS Community supports the work of SNIA Technical Work Groups (TWGs) groups in:

CMS Committees and Special Interest Groups

CMS Community Committees and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) support the Accelerate, Store, and Transport SNIA Data Focus Areas.

CMS Governing Board

Bill Martin

Samsung, CMS Governing Board Chair

Leah Schoeb

AMD, CMS Governing Board Vice Chair

Willie Nelson

Intel, CMS Governing Board Treasurer

James Borden

KIOXIA, CMS Governing Board Member

Nicolas Maigne

Micron, CMS Governing Board Member

Scott Shadley

Solidigm, CMS Governing Board Member

Steven Yuan

StorageX, CMS Governing Board Member

Knowledge Center

The CMS Community Knowledge Center provides a starting point to learn about CMS work in the areas of computation, memory, and solid state technologies via webinars, podcasts, videos, white papers, and event presentations.

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