SNIA Storage Management Initiative and Compute Memory Storage Initiative invite you to attend Flash Memory Summit – in person August 2-4 at the Santa Clara CA Convention Center.  SNIA Booth 725 will feature demonstrations of scalable storage management with SNIA Alliance partners, computational storage use cases, DDR5 and the Persistent Memory Hackathon, green storage, and form factors. Attend the SNIA Reception on Monday August 1 and SNIA sponsored sessions throughout the conference.

This presentation will define the data protection landscape particularly in the context of modern cloud-native containerized applications. It describes various constructs and capabilities of these applications thereby articulating data protection challenges. We will also cover different Backup and Recovery solution considerations for scale, performance, optimizations and protection from any ransomware attack. 

Edge is the new frontier of compute and data in today’s world, driven by the explosive growth of mobile devices, work from home, digital video, smart cities, and connected cars. An increasing percentage of data is generated and processed at the edge of the network. With this trend comes the need for faster computing, access to storage, and movement of data at the edge as well as between the edge and the data center. 

As covered in our first webcast “SmartNICs and xPUs: Why is the Use of Accelerators Accelerating,” we discussed the trend to deploy dedicated accelerator chips to assist or offload the main CPU. These new accelerators (xPUs) have multiple names such as SmartNIC, DPU, IPU, APU, NAPU.   

This second webcast in this series will cover a deeper dive into the accelerator offload functions of the xPU. We’ll discuss what problems the xPUs are coming to solve, where in the system they live, and the functions they implement, focusing on:

The July SNIA Technical Symposium will be held on Monday, July 25 through Friday, July 29, 2022. This is a hybrid event, with options to attend in person in Portland, Oregon or to attend virtually. It is hosted by the DMTF and co-located with the 2022 DMTF Alliance Partner Technical Symposium (APTS). The event will be held at The Bidwell Marriott Portland.

Please check out the event details and register to attend at https://www.dmtf.org/news/events/2022apts.

What do you think is a more secure way of securely removing data from a hard drive - putting it through a shredder, or doing an instant secure erase? The answer might surprise you! Companies go to great lengths to secure their data and prevent confidential information from being made available to others. When a company is done using its ICT equipment, including the storage device, it is important to render the data inaccessible. Sanitization is a process or method to render access to target data on storage media infeasible for a given level of effort.

Organizations are adopting containers at an increasingly rapid rate. In fact, there are few organizations that haven’t implemented containers in their environment today.
 
Storage implications for Kubernetes will be the topic of this live webcast where storage experts from SNIA and Kubernetes experts from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) will discuss:

Our 1st and 2nd webcasts in this xPU series explained what xPUs are, how they work, and what they can do. In this 3rd webcast, we will dive deeper into next steps for xPU deployment and solutions, discussing:

When to deploy

• Pros and cons of dedicated accelerator chips versus running everything on the CPU
• xPU use cases across hybrid, multi-cloud and edge environments
• Cost and power considerations

Where to deploy

The DNA Data Storage Alliance will be at iPres 2022, a conference of global members who are working to deliver resilient long-term access to digital content.

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis will feature three SNIA technology areas and six SNIA Alliance Partners.