The open source event dedicated to advancing standards and technologies in data and storage that are indispensable to Cloud Native, AI/ML, IoT and more. Don’t miss two days of incredible opportunities to collaborate, learn and share. Hear from experts such as SNIA Board Advisor Richelle Ahlvers of Intel speaking on SNIA Swordfish™ and what’s next in storage management.

The COVID-19 Pandemic has amplified cybersecurity concerns particularly related to the cloud. Threat actors have recognized a unique opportunity to exploit pandemic-related vulnerabilities through social engineering attacks, business email compromise, work from home or other remote weak points. This results in increased risk and occurrence of ransomware attacks and data breaches that can disrupt or totally compromise organizations’ ability to conduct business. These security incidents can also subject victims to liability for violations of privacy and data breach notification laws.

So much of what we discuss within SNIA is the latest emerging technologies in storage. While it’s good to know about what technology is coming, it’s also important to understand the technologies that should be sunsetted.

In this webcast, you’ll learn about storage technologies and practices in your data center that are ready for refresh or possibly retirement. Find out why some long-standing technologies and practices should be re-evaluated. We’ll discuss:

We invite you to attend the 2021 SNIA Annual Members Symposium. Since this is a virtual event, we have organized updates from all of SNIA’s Technical Work Groups, Technology Forums, Initiatives, and Committees on Tuesday, January 26th 9:00 am - 1:00 pm PT. Hear SNIA’s leadership team discuss the many successes of 2020, SNIA’s vision and plans for the year ahead and an announcement of this year’s SNIA membership award recipients.

This second Webcast in the Storage Performance Benchmarking Series moves past the basics. With a focus on System Under Test (SUT), experts cover:

Abstract: With NFSv4.1 implemented on several commercial NFS systems, along with a new Linux server and client, there is a continued growth of NFS usage in the IT industry. NFSv4.1, first introduced in 2010, meets many needs in the modern datacenter, but there are still technologies and advanced techniques that NFS developers want to deliver. This presentation covers a brief update of where we are with NFSv4.1 and more detail on the proposed features for NFSv4.2 that are currently being ratified at the IETF.

Security has been dramatically improved in NFS; and internationalization (I18N) support along with a global namespace means that there are plenty of new features to consider when moving to NFSv4.1. We’ll outline a simple plan for testing, implementing and migrating to NFSv4.1 from NFSv3, and point out resources and NFSv4.1 compliant servers and clients that are available today.

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In this session, we’ll discuss specific items of interest around NFSv4.1 and pNFS, and look in more detail at what they offer the NFS user in a modern datacenter environment. Of specific interest and covered in more detail will be compound operations for efficient WAN usage, sessions and the elimination of NFSv3’s NLM (Network Lock Manager), layouts that support file, block and object, and trunking/pNFS for parallelization of IO operations.

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This talk will appeal to Virtual Data Center Managers, Database Server administrators, and those that are seeking a fundamental understanding of NFSv4.1 with pNFS. It will cover the four key reasons to start working with NFSv4.1 today; explain the storage layouts for parallel NFS; NFSv4.1 Files, Blocks and T10 OSD Objects; and improvements in security. We’ll conclude the session with use cases for grid, database access, enterprise and desktop virtualization.

Persistent Programming In Real Life (PIRL) 2020 brings (virtually) together software development leaders interested in learning about programming methodologies for persistent memories and sharing their experiences with others.This is a meeting for developer project leads on the front lines of persistent programming, not sales, marketing, or non-technical management. This month-long virtual event will enable leaders to learn what their peers have done, and want to do, with persistent memory, what worked, what was hard, and what was surprising.