SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
AI BOF - Or, are you SMARTer than a hard drive Bridging gaps in building storage for AI
Lafayette/San Tomas
Tue Sep 17 | 7:00pm
Abstract
The SNIA Technical Council AI Taskforce is exploring the role of SNIA in serving the industry by identifying and addressing the needs of the industry for vendor neutral resolutions to gaps related to storage, transport, or acceleration of data for AI. Come and learn about some of the things that the taskforce is considering to propose for SNIA to address and come prepared to share your input about where there are gaps or differences between vendors that are barriers to progress in serving our customers with solutions for their AI storage, transport, and acceleration requirements.
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