Is it still realistic to rely solely on DRAM for vector index storage when Large Language Models are driving petabyte-scale growth? Traditional in-memory indexing strategies quickly exhaust host memory as vector collections expand. DISKANN (Disk-Accelerated Approximate Nearest Neighbor) is a hybrid vector search algorithm developed by Microsoft, designed to offload portions of the search index to NVMe SSDs.
Since the Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) was created, the biggest complaint about EDSFF has been that there are too many form factors. While this was by design, EDSFF still has more form factors than what was supported previously in Enterprise and Datacenter application. So introducing E2 as a new EDSFF form factor in the market is obviously going to get a lot of scrutiny.
Learn about the new SNIA Emerald V1.0 Device Power Measurement Test Specification, the tools and methods to measure an enterprise data storage device. A useful new metric for system supply chain and hypervisor vendors to evaluate devices with enterprise data enter workloads. In the near future, some regulatory bodies may cross-reference in their regional energy conservation programs. Learn about the changes as part of SNIA Emerald V5.0 System Power Measurement Test Specification, the tools and methods to measure an enterprise data storage system.
As the demand for cloud services continues to grow, so does the environmental impact of datacenters. Accurately measuring and managing carbon emissions is essential to advancing sustainability goals—but today’s approaches to carbon assessment vary widely across the industry. The panelists include Sustainability experts from Google, Meta, and Microsoft to discuss how the cloud industry can align on Product Category Rules (PCRs) and Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) standards to drive consistency, transparency, and real impact.
SDXI is an emerging standard for a memory data movement and acceleration interface. NVMe is an industry leading storage access protocol. Memory transfers are integral to storage access, including NVMe.Data is transferred by DMA from host memory to device memory or from device memory to host memory. With SDXI as the data mover, data movement is standardized and new transformation (compute) capabilities are enabled. Transparent memory data movement within and across storage nodes remains an active area of optimization for NVM subsystems.
