The 2025 SNIA Preview will be held on January 15, 2025. This virtual event will highlight the significant accomplishments and future plans of SNIA’s Technical Work Groups (TWGs), Forums and Initiatives (F&I), Committees, and Technology Affiliates (TA). These sessions offer an inside look at the innovative technologies and exciting activities SNIA has planned for 2025!

Unlocking a Sustainable Future for Data Storage
In a world of surging data demands, how can we reduce the environmental toll of storage solutions? Discover the power of the circular economy to reshape the storage industry for a greener tomorrow with this webinar, featuring Jonmichael Hands (Co-Chair SNIA SSD SIG and Board Member, Circular Drive Initiative) and Shruti Sethi (Sr. PM at Microsoft and Leadership Team, Open Compute Project-Sustainability).

Key Highlights:

This presentation examines the critical role of storage solutions in optimizing AI workloads, with a primary focus on storage-intensive AI training workloads. We will highlight how AI models interact with storage systems during training, focusing on data loading and checkpointing mechanisms. We will explore how AI frameworks like PyTorch utilize different storage connectors to access various storage solutions. Finally, the presentation will delve into the use of file-based storage and object storage in the context of AI training:

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The SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) conducted a poll early in 2024 during a live webinar “Navigating Complexities of Object Storage Compatibility,” citing 72% of organizations have encountered incompatibility issues between various object storage implementations. These results resulted in a call to action for SNIA to create an open expert community dedicated to resolving these issues and building best practices for the industry.

New Memories like MRAM, ReRAM, PCM, or FRAM are vying to replace embedded flash and, eventually, even embedded SRAM.  Are there other memory technologies threatened with similar fates?  What will the memory market look like in another 20 years?

Join SNIA in Santa Clara, CA for SDC'25. The the annual conference FOR developers BY developers. It's the destination for expert technical discussions and education on the latest technologies and standards.

SNIA’s Storage Management Initiative (SMI) will host a SNIA Swordfish® Plugfest the week of April 28-May 2, 2025 in conjunction with SNIA’s Regional SDC Denver event. 

The collaborative event targeted at client users will include hands-on access to Redfish and Swordfish systems in the SNIA Innovations Lab. Attendees will be able to participate in interactive sessions for consuming the Swordfish API.

The Cloud Object Storage Plugfest is a unique, one-of-a-kind open forum opportunity for industry innovators to collaborate and enhance interoperability among private and public cloud object storage solutions. Join this multi-vendor community to address cloud object storage incompatibilities.

This is the first in a series of 400G for AI workshops put together by SNIA/SFF, Ethernet Alliance (EA), The Open Compute Project (OCP) and the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF). The goal of these workshops is to accelerate the standardization efforts of 400G/lane interconnects.