Two veterans of the storage industry discuss the impact of hardware innovation to the common deployment methods used in SDS.

At scale, embedded storage solutions fall away in favor of distributed approaches that encapsulate and aggregate the many previous steps taken, bringing us to the common SDS methods we use today. The session speakers were present for many of these baby-steps and major milestones, providing a unique perspective to our current “state of the art.”

During the last two decades, the data center world has been moving to a “Software Defined Everything” paradigm. This has been taken care of mostly by hypervisors running on the x86 up to recently.

Applications desire for higher IOPS & bandwidth is driving innovations at the hardware level. This requires software stack awareness to harness the benefits. Multi-actuator drives represent the next big innovation in performance.

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Hear from the experts on the latest from NVMe including implementation experiences.

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Security, unlike most technologies, is driven by changes to the threat landscape as well as the legal/regulatory responses. This BoF provides a forum to explore recent and anticipated developments. It may also serve as a forum to further explore details from the various SDC security and data protection sessions.

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Emerging workloads such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning demand new solutions. New ways to attach persistent memory are being developed. Join the chairs of the SNIA Persistent Memory Special Interest Group and SDC speakers including  Andy Rudoff of Intel in this live session to ask your questions on Persistent Memory and CXL developments and where the next generation of these technologies are headed.

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The SNIA Technical Council believes that it is important for storage developers to learn about the emerging technology of Data Processing Units (DPUs).  We have gathered a panel of leading DPU vendors to provide an overview and answer the following questions.

As the processor, networking, and storage speeds change over time, new bottlenecks are created. The new performance demanding applications like AI, video processing demand new storage architectures. Native Ethernet SSDs brings one such new architecture alive to get over the bandwidth and performance bottleneck coming out of storage. Let's explore how this ecosystem is evolving and what are new challenges to solve.

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