In this talk, we will go through the inspiration of HCI, the main design goals, some key building blocks and finally discuss why this is a wonderful architecture to take on the new devices and hardware constructs coming in the future.

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Converged data centers running completely over Ethernet fabrics has been a desire for a many years now. How has the landscape evolved? Where do we stand today? Can Ethernet deliver on its promise, especially with respect to block storage access? Does the story look more promising today? The speaker shares his insights on these topics.Hosted by IBM

Failing to protect sensitive information can put a lot of people at risk of being exploited by cybercriminals, and can make a company face enormous legal penalties. The way information is shared and stored can put the information at risk. It is risky to store personal information on portable devices, which are easily lost or stolen. In addition, the consequences of a data breach can be devastating. Identity theft could lead to financial losses, and a company could face lawsuits and legal penalties.

FAST will bring together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.

The Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) has gained industry-wide recognition as a framework for building highly performant and efficient storage software with a focus on NVMe™. This includes software drivers and libraries for building NVMe-oF™ host and target solutions. In this presentation, technical leaders from SPDK will provide an overview of the project, NVMe-oF use cases that are best suited for SPDK, and insights into how SPDK achieves its storage networking performance and efficiency.

The Persistent Memory Hackathon program returns as a kick-off to the SNIA Persistent Memory Summit.  Join us Wednesday afternoon for fast-paced tutorials and new hackathon exercises led by SNIA experts.  Have you taken the PM Programming Challenge?  Enter now and show your solution during the Hackathon to like-minded colleagues.

Join software developer colleagues at the inaugural Persistent Memory Programming Tutorial and Hackathon at SDC EMEA.  SNIA experts will mentor attendees in all day programing tutorials and hackathon exercises to learn the basics of programming to persistent memory.  Attendance is included as part of the conference registration.

There are many types of storage technologies, both in how they are interconnected, consumed and designed. Object storage is no different in that it brings its own set of unique characteristics to the market. Join to hear storage experts explain:

Join the SNIA EMEA Virtual Meetup as we cover the important technology developments in data storage and what to look out for in 2020. Join Alex McDonald, Vice-Chair of SNIA EMEA, and Office of the CTO at NetApp, who will discuss current technology trends, standards that will prevail, and how new technologies may impact application performance.

QUIC is a new UDP-based transport protocol for the Internet, and specifically, the web. Originally designed and deployed by Google, it already makes up 35% of Google's egress traffic, which corresponds to about 7% of all Internet traffic. The strong interest by many other large Internet players in the ongoing IETF standardization of QUIC is likely to lead to an even greater deployment in the near future. This talk will highlight: