Data privacy, data governance and data security are all terms that are mistakenly used interchangeably. They are indeed related, particularly when it comes to keeping data in the cloud protected, private and secure, but the definitions and mechanics of executing on each are all quite different.

Join us for another “15 Minutes in the Cloud” session for an overview of what each of these terms means, how and where they intersect, and why it’s a balancing act to pay adequate attention to each one or risk threatening the overall security of your data.

The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is committed to accelerating the development of high performance fabrics. The annual OFA Workshop is a premier means of fostering collaboration among those who develop fabrics, deploy fabrics, and create applications that rely on fabrics. It is the only event of its kind where fabric developers and users can discuss emerging fabric technologies, collaborate on future industry requirements, and address problems that exist today.

The purpose of this IO Lab is for vendors to bring their implementations of SMB3 to test, identify, and fix bugs in a collaborative setting with the goal of providing a forum in which companies can develop interoperable products. There are several new features that have recently been added to the SMB3 protocol.

Smarter NICs Make Better Networks.

SNIA is a sponsor of this event. SmartNICs have become the best way to offload network overhead. They reduce demands on system CPUs, allow for processing of data as it arrives, and enable rapid upgrades for new protocols. They provide large, scalable systems to handle more applications and big data. SmartNICs can also do complex tasks such as compression, pattern matching, and media processing. The SmartNICs Summit will help designers optimize networks for applications such as business analytics, AI/ML, and HPC.

As applications continue to increase in complexity and users demand more from their workloads, there is a trend to again deploy dedicated accelerator chips to assist or offload the main CPU. These new accelerators (xPUs) have multiple names such as SmartNIC, DPU, IPU, APU, NAPU. How are these different than GPU, TPU, CPU? xPUs accelerate and offload functions including math, networking, storage, cryptography, security, and management. This webcast will cover key topics about, and clarify questions surrounding, xPUs.

The SNIA India Storage Developer Conference (SDC India) has traditionally taken place in Bangalore, and will continue as a virtual conference for 2022, taking place in August. SDC India will be offering the same great technical storage education from subject matter experts, and opportunities for networking with the India storage developer community from within the event platform.

SNIA Storage Management Initiative and Compute Memory Storage Initiative invite you to attend Flash Memory Summit – in person August 2-4 at the Santa Clara CA Convention Center.  SNIA Booth 725 will feature demonstrations of scalable storage management with SNIA Alliance partners, computational storage use cases, DDR5 and the Persistent Memory Hackathon, green storage, and form factors. Attend the SNIA Reception on Monday August 1 and SNIA sponsored sessions throughout the conference.

This presentation will define the data protection landscape particularly in the context of modern cloud-native containerized applications. It describes various constructs and capabilities of these applications thereby articulating data protection challenges. We will also cover different Backup and Recovery solution considerations for scale, performance, optimizations and protection from any ransomware attack. 

Edge is the new frontier of compute and data in today’s world, driven by the explosive growth of mobile devices, work from home, digital video, smart cities, and connected cars. An increasing percentage of data is generated and processed at the edge of the network. With this trend comes the need for faster computing, access to storage, and movement of data at the edge as well as between the edge and the data center. 

As covered in our first webcast “SmartNICs and xPUs: Why is the Use of Accelerators Accelerating,” we discussed the trend to deploy dedicated accelerator chips to assist or offload the main CPU. These new accelerators (xPUs) have multiple names such as SmartNIC, DPU, IPU, APU, NAPU.   

This second webcast in this series will cover a deeper dive into the accelerator offload functions of the xPU. We’ll discuss what problems the xPUs are coming to solve, where in the system they live, and the functions they implement, focusing on: