NVMe® IP-based SANs (including TCP, RoCE, iWARP) have the potential to provide significant benefits in application environments ranging from the Edge to the Data Center. However, before we can fully unlock NVMe IP-based SAN’s potential, we first need to overcome the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) discovery problem. This discovery problem, specific to IP based fabrics, can result in the need for Host administrators to explicitly configure each Host to access each of the NVM subsystems in their environment.

SNIA develops a wide range of standards to enhance the interoperability of various storage systems.  With new technologies like computational storage, standards do not exist. As companies develop solutions, questions arise.  Should computational storage have standards for recommended behavior for hardware and software?  Should an application programming interface be defined?

Seamless standards-based open source management will be demonstrated at the first event in the new Intel ON series: Intel InnovatiON. Stop by the SNIA virtual booth and learn how SNIA and DMTF^® are working with the OpenFabrics Alliance to provide IT administrators the ability to add seamless standards-based management of their fabrics and networks to the same SNIA Swordfish^™ and DMTF Redfish ecosystem they are using for their storage and server management.

Storing objects has become commonplace. Object storage provides bulk and undifferentiated storage for unstructured data like photos, video & audio, DNA sequences, files, backups, and it can even protect against ransomware. Object access is also simplified because there are no built-in hierarchies or filesystems of objects, and no devices to manage that look like disks.

The automotive industry is effectively transforming the vehicle into a data center on wheels. Connectedness, autonomous driving, and media & entertainment bring in more and more storage onboard and into the networked data centers. But all the storage in (and for) a car is not created equal. There are 10s if not 100s of different processors on the car. Some are attached to storage and some are not. Each application demands different characteristics from the storage device.

We invite you to attend our 2022 Annual Members Symposium virtually this coming year. Since this event is virtual, we have organized updates to members from all the current Technical Working Groups (TWG), the Forums and Initiatives (F&I) and Committees. We would also like to share a virtual lunch session from the leadership about the 2022 vision and plans for SNIA as a whole. Please join us to see who our Membership Award Recipients are for 2021. As always, we are excited to share and support our membership and working groups and highlight some of the great successes of 2021!

As storing data in the cloud has become ubiquitous and mature, many organizations have adopted a multi-cloud strategy. Eliminating dependence on a single cloud platform is quite a compelling case.

The 20th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '22) will bring together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.

SNIA EMEA is excited to host the 2022 Storage Developer Conference which will again be virtual. The same high quality content will be delivered via a combination of live and pre-recorded sessions, and will give storage developers the opportunity to hear all the latest technology trends and directions from the data storage industry.

Ransomware is malware that encrypts valuable data and then asks the victim for ransom in lieu of providing the decryption keys. One way to not fall prey to Ransomware is to keep regular backups, and use them as last line of defence. Lately some of the ransomware attacks have started encrypting or destroying the backup images as well. They target predominately Windows as of now, though other systems are also targeted.