There are many permutations of technologies, interconnects and application level approaches in play with solid state storage today.  In fact, it is becoming increasingly difficult to reason clearly about which problems are best solved by various permutations of these. That’s why the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum, together with the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative, is hosting a live Webcast, “Architectural Principles for Networked Solid State Storage Access,” on June 2^nd at 10:00 a.m. PT.

As our presenter, we are fortunate to have Doug Voigt, chair of the SNIA NVM Programming Technical Working Group and a member of the SNIA Technical Council. Doug will outline key architectural principals that may allow us to think about the application of networked solid state technologies more systematically, answering questions such as:

• How do applications see IO and memory access differently?
• What is the difference between a memory and an SSD technology?
• How do application and technology views permute?
• How do memory and network interconnects change the equation?
• What are persistence domains and why are they important?

I hope you’ll register today and join us on June 2^nd for an hour that is sure to be insightful.

Interested in data protection and storage-related features of OpenStack? Then please join us for a live SNIA Webcast “Data Protection and OpenStack Mitaka” on June 22^nd. We’ve pulled together an expert team to discuss the data protection capabilities of the OpenStack Mitaka release, which includes multiple new resiliency features. Join Dr. Sam Fineberg, Distinguished Technologist (HPE), and Ben Swartzlander, Project Team Lead OpenStack Manila (NetApp), as they dive into:

• Storage-related features of Mitaka
• Data protection capabilities – Snapshots and Backup
• Manila share replication
• Live migration
• Rolling upgrades
• HA replication

Sam and Ben will be on-hand for a candid Q&A near the end of the Webcast, so please start thinking about your questions and register today. We hope to see you there!

This Webcast is co-sponsored by two groups within the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA): the Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI), and the Data Protection & Capacity Optimization Committee (DPCO).

 

Interested in data protection and storage-related features of OpenStack? Then please join us for a live SNIA Webcast “Data Protection and OpenStack Mitaka” on June 22^nd. We’ve pulled together an expert team to discuss the data protection capabilities of the OpenStack Mitaka release, which includes multiple new resiliency features. Join Dr. Sam Fineberg, Distinguished Technologist (HPE), and Ben Swartzlander, Project Team Lead OpenStack Manila (NetApp), as they dive into:

• Storage-related features of Mitaka
• Data protection capabilities – Snapshots and Backup
• Manila share replication
• Live migration
• Rolling upgrades
• HA replication

Sam and Ben will be on-hand for a candid Q&A near the end of the Webcast, so please start thinking about your questions and register today. We hope to see you there! This Webcast is co-sponsored by two groups within the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA): the Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI), and the Data Protection & Capacity Optimization Committee (DPCO).  

SNIA welcomes their friends and colleagues to join them at one or more upcoming conferences in May and June 2016. The second annual In-Memory Computing Summit is May 23-24, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco. This conference is the only industry-wide event of its kind, tailored to in-memory computing-related technologies and solutions. The IMC Summit is a multi-track conference that brings together in-memory computing visionaries, decision makers, experts and developers for the purpose of education, discussion and networking. SNIA’s Solid State Storage Initiative's NVDIMM SIG Co-Chair Arthur Sainio will deliver a keynote, and the SIG will feature an NVDIMM demonstration in their booth. As a friend and colleague of SNIA, you are eligible for a 20% discount on the ticket price. Just register with the discount code: SNIA20 to receive your discount. Next is SNIA's 4th annual Data Storage Innovation (DSI) Conference June 13-15, 2016 in San Mateo CA. The 3-day conference agenda features over 80 sessions spanning 20 themed topics reflecting the leading edge IT trends for next generation data center networked storage and file system solutions, the continued shift of enterprise computing to hybrid cloud, increased business driven big data analytics projects, and managing and optimizing these strategic IT investments. The full agenda is now posted and features SNIA tutorials and sessions from industry leaders and a busy Innovation Expo. Register here using this special code DSI16SocialMedia and receive $100 off the non-member registration fee. And here's a tip - extend your stay and prepare for one of the IT industry’s most in-demand technical certifications - the SNIA Storage Professional Certification - with a Storage Foundations certification training class June 16-17 in San Mateo. Learn more at http://www.snia.org/education/courses/training_tc. Finally, SNIA will wrap up June at the Creative Storage Conference in Culver City June 24, 2016, where digital storage aficionados will gather to explore the conference theme of “The Art of Storage”.  Attendees will find out the latest developments in digital storage for media and entertainment and network with industry professionals.  Six sessions and four keynotes will cover topics like tomorrow's blockbusters, storage for artists, content on the move, archiving, accelerating workflows and a conversations with independent storytellers.  Join SNIA in the exhibit area to discuss long term file storage, data protection and capacity optimization, and solid state storage data recovery and erase.  Register at http://www.creativestorage.org.

The next Ethernet Storage Forum Webcast. “Evolution of iSCSI including iSER, iSCSI over RDMA Ethernet,” will focus on developments with iSCSI – the Internet Protocol standard for transferring SCSI commands across an Ethernet network, enabling hosts to link to storage devices wherever they may be.  At this Webcast on May 24th, I will be joined by Fred Knight, Standards Technologist at NetApp, and Andy Banta, Storage Janitor at SolidFire/NetApp, who will discuss the evolution of iSCSI up to iSER, which takes advantage of Ethernet RDMA fabric technologies to enhance performance. Register now to hear:

• A brief history of iSCSI
• How iSCSI works
• IETF refinements to the specification
• Enhancing iSCSI performance with iSER

The Webcast will be live, so please bring your questions for Andy and Fred. We hope to see you there!

The next Ethernet Storage Forum Webcast. "Evolution of iSCSI including iSER, iSCSI over RDMA Ethernet," will focus on developments with iSCSI - the Internet Protocol standard for transferring SCSI commands across an Ethernet network, enabling hosts to link to storage devices wherever they may be.  At this Webcast on May 24th, I will be joined by Fred Knight, Standards Technologist at NetApp, and Andy Banta, Storage Janitor at SolidFire/NetApp, who will discuss the evolution of iSCSI up to iSER, which takes advantage of Ethernet RDMA fabric technologies to enhance performance.  Register now to hear:

• A brief history of iSCSI
• How iSCSI works
• IETF refinements to the specification
• Enhancing iSCSI  performance with iSER

The Webcast will be live, so please bring your questions for Andy and Fred. We hope to see you there! Update: If you missed the live event, it's now available  on-demand. You can also  download the webcast slides.

April's Open Server Summit brought thought leaders together for two days of keynotes, sessions, and a demonstration showcase on converged server-storage-networking infrastructures and open specifications shaping the data center. SNIA board member Rob Peglar of Micron Technology delivered a keynote on new persistent memory directions that create new approaches for system architects. A Summit highlight was a SNIA's Solid State Storage Initiative sponsored panel on Providing Storage at Memory Speed Using NVDIMMs, where panelists reviewed how NVDIMMs operate in new interest areas for persistent memory like databases, Web 2.0, analytics, OLTP, and video and image processing. NVDIMM technologies were also featured on the showfloor with demonstrations from SNIA NVDIMM Special Interest Group (SIG) members Diablo Technologies, Netlist, and SMART Modular.  Download the presentation from Open Server Summit here. SNIA's NVDIMM SIG followed up the interest at Open Server Summit with a comprehensive webcast answering today's questions on NVDIMM and Non-Volatile Memory (NVM).  Jeff Chang, Co-Chair of the NVDIMM SIG from AgigA Tech, provided a quick refresh on NVDIMM types.  NVDIMM SIG member Mat Young from Netlist covered NVDIMM Performance Benchmarking.  Doug Voigt, Chair of the SNIA NVM Programming Technical Work Group from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, reviewed NVM Programming Model Updates, and Arthur Sainio, Co-Chair of the NVDIMM SIG from SMART Modular, wrapped up the session with answers to the NVDIMM questions raised at the January 2016 webcast and at Open Server Summit.  The webcast is now available for download on the SNIA BrightTALK channel at https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/663/197009. Next up from the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative will be a keynote and demonstration at May 23-24 In-Memory Computing Summit at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco.  Join us there!

April’s Open Server Summit brought thought leaders together for two days of keynotes, sessions, and a demonstration showcase on converged server-storage-networking infrastructures and open specifications shaping the data center. SNIA board member Rob Peglar of Micron Technology delivered a keynote on new persistent memory directions that create new approaches for system architects.

A Summit highlight was a SNIA’s Solid State Storage Initiative sponsored panel on Providing Storage at Memory Speed Using NVDIMMs, where panelists reviewed how NVDIMMs operate in new interest areas for persistent memory like databases, Web 2.0, analytics, OLTP, and video and image processing. NVDIMM technologies were also featured on the showfloor with demonstrations from SNIA NVDIMM Special Interest Group (SIG) members Diablo Technologies, Netlist, and SMART Modular.  Download the presentation from Open Server Summit here.

SNIA’s NVDIMM SIG followed up the interest at Open Server Summit with a comprehensive webcast answering today’s questions on NVDIMM and Non-Volatile Memory (NVM).  Jeff Chang, Co-Chair of the NVDIMM SIG from AgigA Tech, provided a quick refresh on NVDIMM types.  NVDIMM SIG member Mat Young from Netlist covered NVDIMM Performance Benchmarking.  Doug Voigt, Chair of the SNIA NVM Programming Technical Work Group from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, reviewed NVM Programming Model Updates, and Arthur Sainio, Co-Chair of the NVDIMM SIG from SMART Modular, wrapped up the session with answers to the NVDIMM questions raised at the January 2016 webcast and at Open Server Summit.  The webcast is now available for download on the SNIA BrightTALK channel at https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/663/197009.

Next up from the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative will be a keynote and demonstration at May 23-24 In-Memory Computing Summit at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco.  Join us there!

There is a sense of anticipation that awaits the unveiling of SNIA's Data Storage Innovation (DSI)  conference agenda. DSI is unique in its focus as a conference for those that use information technology.  Each year, the agenda expands as hundreds of submissions are received, reviewed, and considered for addition to the schedule. 2016 brings the most extensive topic agenda to date for DSI, set for June 13-15, 2016 and newly located in San Mateo for the convenience of those flying in to SFO, San Francisco and East Bay attendees, as well as those in Silicon Valley.  DSI's agenda committee, comprised of SNIA volunteer leaders from leading IT organizations, are attuned to the changing needs of an IT audience confronting next generation data centers, enterprise computing's shift to the cloud, and the drive to data analytics for business decisions. The agenda's 20 themed topics include hyperconvergence, cloud, data protection, big data, security, cloud, persistent memory, software defined storage, containers, and distributed storage.   And the 75 sessions within these topics are a mix of industry leadership, SNIA's vendor neutral tutorial education, and sponsored sessions. The DSI General Sessions emcee, reprising her highly received 2015 role, will be Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, the Evaluator Group, who will also co-host a keynote on enterprise storage architectures.  Additional keynotes at this time include "Storage Architectures for Next Generation Cognitive Analytics" presented by Huawei, and an IBM industry perspective on Enterprise Computing and Data Storage. New also for 2016 will be a session on results from a new survey co-sponsored by SNIA and the Evaluator group on enterprise deployment of hyperconverged solutions. We invite you to peruse the DSI Conference agenda online, and make your plans to attend and participate in a conference rich in one-on-one discussions, lots of opportunities for "hallway networking", and up-to-date technical knowledge presented without vendor bias. Register here.  If you want to understand more about how DSI works, a new video available on the DSI conference website walks you through the highlights of the conference, with perspectives from Wayne Adams, DSI Conference agenda chair, on how the sessions provide a roadmap of where the industry is going.  Camberley Bates also offers her feedback on why the conference is important in the ability to communicate with peers and learn firsthand their approaches to solving today's enterprise issues.

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