SNIA is pleased to be an association sponsor of Chiplet Summit 2024, February 6-8., 2024 at the Santa Clara CA Convention Center, featuring the latest on generative AI and chiplet solutions, trends, and markets.  David McIntyre, SNIA Board of Directors member, will deliver a keynote on Thursday February 6, discussing SNIA’s data-focused mission and vision and how standards, industry consortiums, and open communities are working together to accelerate technology adoption.

2024's DMTF is a face-to-face event happening at a new time and in a new location in Manitou Springs, CO and virtual for those who can’t make it to CO.

The SNIA STA Forum is hosting a SAS Plugfest with testing, April 22 to 26, 2024 in Austin, TX. STA will own and help drive generating the test plan and test schedule as well as oversee, compile, and distribute final test results and summaries as an independent third-party to the testing.

A decade ago, the market was aggressively embracing public storage because of its agility and scalability. People are now rethinking that approach, moving toward on-premises storage with cloud consumption models. The new cloud native architecture on-premises has the promise of the traditional data center’s security and reliability with cloud agility and scalability. In this webinar, we will describe how Ceph is uniquely qualified to satisfy this architecture and how the technology community is investing to enable the vision of “Ceph, the Linux of Storage Today”.

Keeping Data Secure is one of the prime concerns of any organisation today, given that data is the new oil and attacks on data are on the rise. Therefore addressing security concerns is a key prerogative for any enterprise class block storage. We will discuss various aspects of keeping data secure on an Enterprise Class Block storage controllers and some latest trends in that space.:

Hear from industry experts Jeff Janukowicz, Research Vice President at IDC; Brian Beeler, Owner and Editor in Chief, StorageReview.com; and Cameron T. Brett, SNIA STA Forum Chair on new storage trends developing in the coming year, the applications and other factors driving these trends, and market data that illustrates the assertions. 

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Training large language models (LLMs) is a complex task which requires substantial computational resources and infrastructure. Fine-tuning LLMs for domain-specific data has emerged as a crucial technique to enhance their performance in specialized tasks and industries. In this talk we give an overview of the basic concepts of LLMs , their pre-training process, highlighting the transfer learning paradigm that forms the basis of fine-tuning.

The SNIA Technical Work Groups (TWGs) meet face-to-face on a regular basis to work on the development of SNIA technical specifications and standards. Join SNIA April 22-26 in Austin,Texas for a week filled with SNIA TWG meetings, Alliance meetings, Plugfests, and Regional SDC Austin.

The digital landscape is in hyperdrive, demanding an IT metamorphosis that transcends mere tools. Enter AIOps – not just a technological upgrade, but a paradigm shift redefining how we approach IT operations. This presentation delves beyond the nuts and bolts, unveiling AIOps as a revolution that infuses AI's intelligence into the very fabric of IT thinking and processes.

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SNIA's Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and DMTF's Redfish Forum are hosting the first joint Swordfish® and Redfish Plugfest on April 22-24 in Austin, TX, alongside SNIA's SDC Regional Austin event. Attendees will have hands-on access to Redfish and Swordfish systems in both labs, with interactive sessions for utilizing their APIs, live assistance from developers, and learning about their technologies and interoperability.