Media Alert: SNIA Announcements at Flash Memory Summit

Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA     

August 8-10, 2023

As a platinum sponsor at this event, SNIA has some exciting news that you don’t want to miss. Be sure to attend the SNIA mainstage presentation listed below for details.

SNIA will be at two locations in the FMS Exhibit Hall, Tuesday August 8 – 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm; Wednesday August 9 – 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm, and Thursday, August 10 – 10:00 am – 2:30 pm

• Booth #725, as part of the Open Standards Pavilion with SNIA groups Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative (CMSI), Storage Management Initiative (SMI), and SFF Technology Affiliate (SFF-TA); and Partners Compute Express Link™ (CXL™), PCI-SIG®, and Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™ (UCIe™). SNIA will demonstrate computational storage end-to-end integration, EDSFF E1 and E3 form factors, memory tiering, memory-to-memory data movement, SNIA Swordfish® management of NVMe™ SSDs, and storage-centric DPU concepts. Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to program persistent memory in a Persistent Memory Workshop and Hackathon.
• Booth #849, where the SNIA STA Forum will highlight the use of SAS in hyperscale and cloud storage topologies

SNIA Reception

• Monday, August 7, 5:30 -7:00 pm, Room B203-B204

SNIA Presentations

• SNIA Mainstage Presentation: “Trends in Storage and Data: New Directions for Industry Standards,” presented by Richelle Ahlvers, Vice Chair, SNIA Board of Directors, Wednesday, August 9, 2:10 pm; Mission City Ballroom
• SNIA-sponsored System Architecture (SARC) Track, featuring sessions on CXL, UCIe, Persistent Memory, and Computational Storage, Tuesday – Wednesday, August 8-9, 8:30 – 10:50 am and 3:20 – 4:25 pm; Thursday, August 10, 8:30 am – 1:20 pm, Ballroom G
• “SNIA Specifications for Energy Efficiency Measurement,” (SUST-201-1) Wednesday, August 9, 8:30 am, Ballroom A
• SNIA STA Forum presentation: “What’s Next for the SNIA STA Forum and SAS Standard Enhancements,” presented by Pankaj Kalra, SNIA STA Forum Director, Wednesday, August 9, 1:35 pm – 1:50 pm, Exhibit Hall Theatre
• SNIA-sponsored session - “The Latest on Form Factors – a Panel Discussion” (SSDS-301-1) Thursday, August 10, 8:30 am, Ballroom B
• “Catch the Wave – Managing NVMe-oF™ in the Enterprise” (NETC-301-1) Thursday, August 10, 8:30 am, Ballroom E
• “Scalable Management of Ethernet-Attached Drives and EBOFs with SNIA Swordfish” (SSDS-302-1) Thursday, August 10, 9:45 am, Ballroom B

News: SCSI Trade Association (STA) joins SNIA as a new STA Forum

• Be sure to stop by the SNIA STA Forum Booth # 849 for more details

Full details on SNIA activities at Flash Memory Summit can be found at www.snia.org/fms

Request a Briefing – contact Marty Foltyn (marty.foltyn@snia.org/619-992-2195) or Alice Tate (alice.tate@snia.org/781-492-1386)