The EDSFF E3 form factors bring more options and commonality that enterprises and hyperscalers desire compared to traditional U.2, but also bring new challenges. With power envelopes increasing in many cases, it is difficult to fit more components on board to maximize capabilities. With a lack of E3 enclosures on the market, there many uncertainties like enclosure geometries and airflow profiles, and the uncertainty of total system power delivery capability.

According to IDC forecast, global data will almost double in 3 years and 90% of the data generated is unstructured data which comes in many forms such as documents, videos, images, audio, IOT data, etc. The difficulty of managing the different forms of unstructured data exacerbated by myriads of interfaces and technologies in hybrid multi-cloud environments lead to data sprawl which is one of the major pain points for any organization.

SDXI v1.0 is a standard for a memory-to-memory data mover and acceleration interface that is extensible, forward-compatible, and independent of I/O interconnect technology. Among other features, SDXI standardizes an interface and architecture that can be abstracted or virtualized with a well-defined capability to quiesce, suspend, and resume the architectural state of a per-address-space data mover. This specification was developed by SNIA’s SDXI Technical Working Group, comprising of 89 individuals representing 23 SNIA member companies.

The SFF TA TWG within SNIA kicks out a bunch of specifications per year. But why should you care? Well, there is a very good chance your server has at least 1 SFF TA connector or cable or transceiver or device defined in it and likely many many more. As server technology changes, these components need to change for performance or size or thermals or to add functional capabilities. In this talk, the co-chairs of the SFF TA TWG will go through what detailed changes have been made to the specifications and what you need to care about.

Join us for a technical deep dive into open-source storage technology and its practical application with Ceph and its new SPDK-based NVMe-oF target. This session aims to explore an exciting advancement that brings together Ceph, an open-source software-defined storage system, and industry-standard protocols, focusing on NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF). NVMe-oF is a widely adopted, high-performance storage access protocol that provides users seamless access to Ceph clusters, opening up new possibilities for efficient data storage and retrieval.

For the past three decades, PCI-SIG® has delivered a succession of industry-leading PCI Express® (PCIe®) specifications that remain ahead of the increasing demand for a high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnect for compute-intensive systems in storage applications and diverse market segments. In 2022, PCI-SIG announced the PCIe 7.0 specification is targeted for release to members in 2025.

Software-Enabled Flash™ (SEF) technology fundamentally redefines how flash memory is used for cloud and enterprise applications. Using highly-tuned, custom hardware and a host-based API and SDK, SEF technology empowers developers with control over data placement, latency outcomes and isolation. It is managed by a vendor-neutral Linux Foundation open source project that’s dedicated to enabling industry collaboration on this next evolution of storage. This session will introduce the SEF software and hardware stacks and describe how developers can access it.

Learn what is happening in NVMe to support Computational Storage devices. Computational Storage requires two new command sets: The Computational Programs Command Set and the Subsystem Local Memory Command Set. We will introduce you to how these two command sets work together, the details of each command set, and how they fit within the NVMe I/O Command Set architecture.

Computational Storage standards are under active development at both SNIA and NVMe. The CS TWG in SNIA continues to work on enhancements to the Architecture and Programming Model after the successful release of the 1.0 revision of the standard in August 2022. The CS TWG also continues to refine the CS API, which was released for public review in July 2022, to ensure alignment and compatibility with NVMe. Many of the same companies are engaged with the SNIA CS work and the NVMe CS work and strive to ensure compatibility and cohesion between the SNIA and NVMe CS standards.

To implement SMB2 unix extensions, smbd needs to implement ntfs reparse points to present symlinks, sockets and other special files to clients. This talk will present an overview of what reparse points are at their core and where Samba stands to implement them. Also, it will highlight the current status of the Linux kernel SMB client implementation regarding reparse points and special files over SMB2.