Marginal links and congestion have plagued storage fabrics for years and many independent solutions have been tried. The Fibre Channel industry has been keenly aware of this issue and, over the course of the last two years, has created the architectural foundation for a common ecosystem solution. Fabric Notifications employs a simple message system to provide registered participants with information about key events in the fabric that are used to automatically address link integrity and congestion issues.

Current workloads at data centers are changing at a blistering pace and fast becoming data-centric. Modern cloud-native applications are written as microservices distributed across network connected servers and many of these applications need to process large amounts of data quickly—data that cannot fit in a single server and therefore needs to be “sharded” or spread across many servers.

Computational storage is paramount for truly composable infrastructure. While there isn't yet broad adoption, computational storage is ready to move beyond test benches into widespread deployment. This presentation explore today’s cloud data center requirements using real-world use cases to show how to move compute to the data, instead of the data to the compute. Computational systems seek to address the limitations of hyper-converged infrastructure systems, in which users can only scale compute and storage by purchasing additional nodes.

The Key Per IO (KPIO) project is a joint initiative between the NVM Express® and TCG Work Groups (WGs) to define a new KPIO Security Subsystem Class (SSC) under TCG Opal SSC for NVMe® class of Storage Devices. Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) perform continuous encryption on user accessible data based on contiguous LBA ranges per namespace. This is done at interface speeds using a small number of keys generated/held in persistent media by the storage device. KPIO will allow large numbers of encryption keys to be managed and securely downloaded into the NVM subsystem.

This is an overview of the new standards work being defined in the storage work group of the TCG. This includes overview of the TCG Opal SSC, SIIS (Storage Interface Interactions Specifications), Configurable Namespace Locking, and Key Per IO. The session may also touch upon some of the enhancements being worked on in the work group such as Settable Trylimits and Persistence feature set.

With the growth of Containerized applications and Kubernetes as an orchestration layer, the ability to leverage these technologies within the storage device directly adds additional support to the implementation and parallel processing of data. By using an os-based Computational Storage Drive (CSD), a deployment of SPARK will be presented and the steps required to achieve this task. The ability to use a distributed processing operation and orchestrate it with the Host and the CSDs at the same time to maximize the benefits of the application deployment.

In this presentation the Co-Chairs of the Computational Storage Technical Working Group (CS TWG) will provide a status update from the work having been done over the last year, including the release of the new Public Review materials around Architecture and APIs. We will update the status of the definition work and address the growing market and adoption of the technology with contributions from the 47+ member organizations participating in the efforts. We will show use cases, customer case studies, and efforts to continue to drove output from the Technical efforts.

Data centers are under pressure. Competing needs for asset homogenization, supporting specialized workloads and delivering predictable performance lead to deployment tradeoffs that drive down data center utilization and drive up costs. Businesses need to continue to innovate, but budgets rarely reflect as such. A "one Cloud fits all" is expensive or simply does not work, but the same flexibility of the Cloud is essential as workloads repatriate to containers on bare metal.

If you’ve heard about the SNIA Swordfish open industry storage management standard specification and want to get a technical overview, this presentation is for you. This presentation provides a broad look at the Redfish and Swordfish ReSTful hierarchies, maps these to some common applications, and provides an overview of the Swordfish tools and documentation ecosystem developed by SNIA’s Scalable Storage Management Technical Work Group (SSM TWG) and the Redfish Forum.

If you haven’t caught the new wave in storage management, it’s time to dive in and catch up on the latest developments of the SNIA Swordfish™ specification. These include: - Expanded support for NVMe and NVMe-oF Devices - Managing Storage Fabrics - Standardized Capacity and Performance Metrics Management