SODA Data Vision 2023, by SODA Foundation, is the premier open source conference for Data and Storage Management. This one day hybrid event will cover the recent innovations, future trends, real use cases, and practical challenges for data and storage.

Join the SNIA leadership for an update on the organization’s strategy vision, mission, technical and initiative/forum work, and financial health.

The days of simple, static, self-contained file systems have long passed. Today, we have complex, dynamic namespaces, mixing block, file, object, key-value, queue, and graph-based resources, accessed via multiple protocols, and distributed across multiple systems and geographic sites. These complexities result in new challenges for simplifying management.

The enterprise storage market is rapidly expanding to include NVMe® and NVMe-oF products pervasively. This presents the challenge: how do you manage these as part of your enterprise data center?

As the NVM Express family of specifications continue to develop, the corresponding Swordfish management capabilities are also evolving. The SNIA Swordfish® management bundle (including the specification, schema, documentation, and more) has expanded to include full NVMe and NVMe-oF technology enablement and alignment across DMTF, NVMe and SNIA for NVMe and NVMe-oF technology use cases.

The latest buzz around generative artificial intelligence (AI) ignores the massive costs to run and power the technology. Without any guard rails in place, what are the impacts of AI on sustainability and costs across our technology resources? This webinar will offer insights on the potentially hidden technical and infrastructure costs associated with generative AI, best practices and potential solutions to be considered.

Download PDF

The 2024 SNIA Preview will be held on January 17, 2024. This virtual event will highlight the significant accomplishments and future plans of SNIA’s Technical Work Groups (TWG), Forums and Initiatives (F&I), Committees, and Technology Affiliates (TA). This is an outstanding opportunity and an inside look at the innovative technologies and exciting activities SNIA has planned for 2024!

OK, I'll be honest, the title is a little dramatic, but ask yourself this question, how much data do you have today, and have you ever considered what impact you are having on the environment? The reality is, data centers have been shown to account for approximately 1 – 1.5% of global electricity use. In this session, we will explore what sustainability is, and I will give you a hint, it’s not just environmental.

Object Storage has firmly established itself as a cornerstone of modern data centers and cloud infrastructure. Ensuring API compatibility has become crucial for object storage developers who want to benefit from the wide ecosystem of existing applications. However, achieving compatibility can be challenging due to the complexity and variety of the APIs, access control mechanisms, and performance and scalability requirements.

SNIA is pleased to be an Association Sponsor of MemCon 2024 which breaks down the memory wall for practitioners working on data-heavy workloads with an agenda of enterprise data experts discussing systems design and emerging technologies. SNIA colleagues and friends can receive a 15% discount on tickets by using the code SNIA15. Register here.

Any discussion about storage systems is incomplete without the mention of Throughput, IOPs, and Latency. But what exactly do these terms mean and why are they important?