With SMB3.1.1 POSIX Extensions now implemented in multiple open-source clients and servers, the protocol has matured to support a wide range of Linux/POSIX semantics over the network. However, as the Linux kernel and its ecosystem continue to evolve—with new filesystem syscalls, flags, and ioctls—further protocol enhancements are needed to maintain parity with local filesystems. This BoF offers an informal forum to discuss priorities for new features, explore support for emerging workloads, and identify performance improvements for key Linux use cases.

The arrival of true permanent and long-term storage technologies brings a new challenge: ensuring that the data we preserve today remains retrievable and meaningful in the distant future. What must a future IT expert know in order to independently access and interpret data stored on today’s long-term media? This session will launch a multidisciplinary discussion aimed at answering that question, with the ultimate goal of developing a new international standard for digital preservation.

Utilizing RDMA for S3 object data transfer has become an emerging trend for accelerating AI/ML workloads. This BoF invites those who want to discuss use cases, challenges and best practices related to this technology.

Exuberant industry adoption has proliferated S3 widely across client commercial applications, as well as deep within on-premise compute, storage, database and business analytic micro-services, while continuing robust growth across hybrid, cloud, and multi-cloud deployments. Much of this growth has been demanded by a wide spectrum of end-customers, who desire rapid innovation, yet expect flawless and seamless S3 interoperability, regardless of which application or storage vendor who provides the service.

Enterprise workloads migrating to the cloud often rely on standardized block storage protocols like iSCSI and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) for compatibility, performance, and operational continuity. To meet these needs, Azure Storage—a hyperscale, distributed, software-defined storage platform—is introducing native support for iSCSI and exploring NVMe-oF, bringing traditional storage interfaces into the cloud without sacrificing elasticity or scale.

As data center IO workloads grow and diversify, the various IO Performance tools commonly found in industry, both new and old, are adding power measurement metrics along with the performance IO metrics. Learn about SPEC, ML Commons, and other open source IO performance tools and their extensions and applicability to types of workloads.