The use of genomics in modern biology has revolutionized the speed of innovation for the discovery of medicines. The COVID pandemic response has quickened genetic research and driven the rapid development of vaccines. Genomics, however, requires a significant amount of compute and data storage to aid discovery. This session is for IT professionals who are faced with delivering and supporting IT solutions for the required compute and data storage for genomics workflows.

SNIA experts will participate in two panels at the virtual Interop Digital: Data Management and Storage event. Alex McDonald, SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative Chair, will speak in the panel “Cloud-Enabled vs Cloud-Native Storage: What's the Difference and Why Should I Care?”.

Taking place virtually on July 26-July 30, 2021, this year’s DMTF’s APTS Conference will feature a keynote by SNIA board member Richelle Ahlvers. Tune in to hear: "Evolving SNIA and Storage Standards to match Shifting Industry Trends" on Tuesday, July 27, from 12:10 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. PDT.

SNIA members are encouraged to attend the 2021 Annual Members Teleconference on October 21, 2021, 8:00 – 9:00 am PT. Join the SNIA Board, Chair, Treasurer, and Executive Director for an update on the organization’s vision, mission, technical and initiative/forum work, financial health, and strategy for the future of SNIA and the storage industry

This talk will focus on the history of “Big Data” and how it has pushed the storage envelope, eventually resulting in a seemingly perfect relationship with Cloud Storage. But local storage is the 3rd wheel in this relationship, and won’t go down easy. Can this marriage survive when Big Data is being pulled in two directions? Should Big Data pick one, or can the three of them live happily ever after? This webcast will cover:

Join SNIA and industry association colleagues in an Industry Standards Pavilion, booth 1507, at SC21, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis, November 14-19, 2021  SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative will feature live computational storage and solid state architecture demonstrations, and a persistent memory workshop and software development hackathon.

Each SAN transport has its own way to initialize and transfer data. So how do initiators (hosts) and targets (storage arrays) communicate in Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Networks (SANs)?

Find out in this live webcast where Fibre Channel experts will answer:

SNIA is pleased to be a sponsor of the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, November 9-10, 2021 in San Jose, CA and also as a virtual event. SNIA SFF standards will be featured in two sessions on Wednesday, November 10: SFF Driving Future Server Needs by Anthony Constantine, and Native NVMe-of Drives: Optimizing Networked Storage Capacity by Mark Carlson.

Everyone enjoys having storage that is fast, reliable, scalable, and affordable. But it turns out different applications have different storage needs in terms of I/O requirements, capacity, data sharing, and security. Some need local storage, some need a centralized storage array, and others need distributed storage—which itself could be local or networked. One application might excel with block storage while another with file or object storage.

Modern data centers systems consist of hundreds of sub-systems that are all connected with optical transceivers, copper cables, and industry standards-based connectors and cages. For interconnecting storage subsystems, two things are happening: Speeds are radically increasing making the maximum reach of copper wire interconnects very short and, at the same time, increasingly larger storage systems are expanding in size and much further apart. This is making longer reach optical technologies much more popular.