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SNIA is working on an open standards project for efficient data services related to AI workloads, focusing on industry-standard, non-proprietary, and neutral approaches.The Storage.AI project will work to build broad ecosystem support with SNIA’s partners, including UEC, NVM Express, OCP, OFA, DMTF, and SPEC. 

In the modern AI era, networks are being stressed in new ways that are putting strain on multiple components of infrastructure. Storage.AI focuses on data-handling efficiency after packets reach their destinations. Founding members include AMD, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, NetApp, and Pure Storage.

SNIA’s new Storage.AI initiative, backed by tech giants, promises to clear the roadblocks that cripple modern AI performance. Storage.AI is an ambitious open-standards initiative backed by 15 industry titans—from AMD to Intel to IBM—to tackle one of AI’s most overlooked bottlenecks: data access after it hits the network.

SNIA is releasing a Storage.AI project that looks to reframe the AI storage discussion. Storage is becoming a bigger topic in AI clusters since keeping GPUs fed and working can have a multiple-billion-dollar ROI.

Datadobi CTO, Carl D'Halluin, will be a featured speaker at the 2025 SNIA Developer Conference (SDC'25), speaking on "War Stories from the Storage Trenches: Moving Data Across NFS, SMB, and S3."

The ever-growing demands of AI and HPC workloads mean that there’s a sense of urgency to solve the performance bottlenecks with current memory designs.

The SNIA’s DNA Storage Alliance has published a 52-page technology review looking at the data encode/decode tech, commercial readiness metrics, and the challenges ahead.

DNA Data Storage Technology Review, and DNA Data Storage Codecs - Examples, Requirements, and Metrics

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) computing and data storage are emerging fields that are unlocking new possibilities in information technology. Here, we discuss technologies and challenges regarding using DNA molecules as computing substrates and data storage media.

Designed for hyperscale data centers, a revolutionary new SSD form factor could soon redefine high-density storage in data centers by narrowing the capacity gap between mechanical hard drives and solid-state drives.  

Once reserved primarily for archival use, large-scale data lakes are now asked to support increasingly active workloads. New AI applications, analytics pipelines, and emerging digital services are driving up the “temperature” of previously considered cold data. The result is a growing middle ground, where data is accessed too frequently for HDDs to handle efficiently, but not hot enough to warrant the cost of performance SSDs. E2 is a new flash form factor to address this emerging “warm” storage tier. It is designed to bridge the gap between high-capacity hard drives and traditional enterprise SSDs, offering a more practical balance of performance, density, and cost.

SNIA assembled three CXL experts who provided an overview of the considerable progress in developing the CXL standard. From the performance data, it’s now possible to determine which applications are best suited for using CXL-based memory subsystems and which are not.