The NVM Express® (NVMe®) family of specifications, released in June 2021, allow for faster and simpler development of NVMe solutions to support the increasingly diverse NVMe device environment, now including Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). The extensibility of the specifications encourages the development of independent command sets like Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) and Key Value (KV) while enabling support for the various underlying transport protocols common to NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) technologies.

Over the past nearly three decades, PCI-SIG® has delivered a succession of industry-leading specifications that remain ahead of the curve of the increasing demand for a high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnect for compute-intensive systems in diverse market segments, including data centers, PCs and automotive applications. Each new PCI Express® (PCIe®) specification consistently delivers enhanced performance, unprecedented speeds, and low latency – doubling the data rate over previous generations.

This talk will discuss the latest trends in the growth of emerging non-volatile memories and look beyond at the emergence of new computer architectures which will use non-volatile memories for near memory and shared far memory. Emerging non-volatile memory technologies (such as 3D XPoint, MRAM and RRAM) are now available in the data center and in the next generation of AI-based IoT devices. Major foundries are making SoCs with MRAM and RRAM replacing NOR flash and SRAM. Non-volatile memory will play a big role in the data center, at the edge and endpoints.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platforms such as Jenkins, Bamboo, CircleCI and the like dramatically speed deployments by allowing administrators to automate virtually every process step. Automating the data layer is the final frontier. Today, hours are wasted manipulating datasets in the CI/CD pipeline. Allowing Kubernetes to orchestrate the creation, movement, reset, and replication of data eliminates dozens of wasted hours from each deployment, accelerating time to market by 500X or more.

Abstract Block storage access across Storage Area Networks (SANs) have an interesting protocol and transport history. The NVMe-oF transport family provides storage administrators with the most efficient and streamlined protocols so far leading to more efficient data transfers and better SAN deployments. In this session we will explore some of the protocol history to set the context for a deep dive into NVMe/TCP, NVMe/RoCE, and NVMe/FC. We will then examine network configurations, network topology, QoS settings, and offload processing considerations.

Amazon AWS S3 storage is widely deployed to store everything from customer data, server logs, software repositories and so on. Poorly secured S3 buckets have resulted in many publicized data breaches. The cloud service provider's shared responsibility model places responsibility on customers for protecting the confidentiality, availability and integrity of their data. Thales Cipher Trust Encryption Cloud Object Storage for S3 secures S3 objects by enabling advanced encryption along with dual end point access controls.

Zoned Namespace SSDs are SSDs that implement the ZNS command set as specified by the NVM Express organization. ZNS SSDs provide an interface to the host such that the host/applications can manage the data placement on these SSDs directly. This presentation plans to cover the basics of ZNS SSDs and demonstrate the software stack through which MySQL can be run on ZNS SSDs. MySQL integrated with RocksDB is called MyRocks, this presentation discusses about ZNS support in RocksDB and MySQL and evaluate the performance of and QoS benefits for MySQL on a ZNS SSD viz-a-viz a conventional SSD.

EDSFF (Enterprise and Data Center SSD Form Factor) SSD has been widely adopted in hyper-scale data centers because of superior manageability, serviceability, and power/thermal characteristics. The new form factor provides high performance (support up to PCIe Gen6) and high capacity (up to 128TB), and allows to support new type of devices like NIC, accelerator, and CXL DRAM device in a system. However, adopting of EDSFF in NVMe-oF system is non-trivial. For example, with EDSFF SSD, the capacity of single storage server can easily have Petabyte in total.

The ransomware attacks raised the need of an appropriate defense, bringing back the mature idea of WORM. Having pre-existing WORM capability in the disk storage alone is not enough for the backup area due to multiple problems like usage complexity, and potential for backup application mishandling of WORM partitions. Instead, integrated WORM support delivered by cooperation of the backup application with the disk storage delivers a complete WORM solution addressing these problems.

Opening day of SDC 2021.