To wrap up the DNA Data Storage track, Dave Landsman, along with session presenters and others from the DNA Data Storage Alliance, will host an open and informal Q&A. The notion of DNA data storage is still very new to those not having been in the emerging field over the last decade, and we will answer all your questions to help make it more real.

The next generation of automobiles moves to the adoption of PCIe for data communications in vehicles, and the JEDEC Automotive SSD solution enables a high performance, high reliability solution for this shared centralized storage. Features such as SR/IOV highlight the requirements of these computers on wheels with multiple SoC functions for vehicle control, sensors, communications, entertainment, and artificial intelligence.

NVMe over TCP has emerged to provide a more powerful, and compute resource friendly NVMe-oF technology deployment option. Not only does NVMe over TCP help with lower deployment costs and reducing design complexity, it also enables higher performance with lower latency. In essence, NVMe over TCP extends NVMe across the entire data center (from on-prem core to edge to cloud) using the simple, standard, and efficient well known TCP/IP fabric networks. This panel explores the challenges, issues, and benefits of addressing NVMe over TCP deployments without compromise.

Adding Support for VFIO Live Migration

This Birds-of-a-Feather will provide an interactive followup to the Wednesday afternoon SDC presentation on addressing capacity and cost challenges for Oracle workloads using software memory tiering applications like those from VMware. We will discuss how CXL and PCIe can play a role, and talk about real world use cases in enterprise and cloud environments. Bring your questions and ideas!

Everything else is the data center is software-defined, so it’s time to bring that concept to flash. This session will be an open forum making flash software programmable in the host for the data center. We’ll discuss Software-Enabled Flash concepts, the reference FTL, and the reference ZNS and block VirtIO drivers. Moderated by representatives of the Linux Foundation’s™ open source Software-Enabled Flash™ Project, we hope to cover its software defined architecture, internal workings, and their fit in cloud-scale applications.

Software memory copies have been the gold standard for applications performing memory data movement or operations in system memory. With new accelerators and memory types enriching the system architecture, accelerator-assisted memory data movement and transformation needs much-needed standardization. SNIA's SDXI (Smart Data Accelerator Interface) TWG is at the forefront of standardizing this and has been working towards a v1.0 since its formation in June 2020.

This session is an open forum to discuss security and privacy protection issues that are of concern to you. Topics are likely to include the current threat landscape, legal/regulatory developments, potential countermeasures and risk mitigation strategies, security implications for emerging technology, and the state of relevant standards. Moderated by the editor of the ISO storage security standard, the dialogue could influence industry initiatives and formal standards.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

With the NVMe/TCP and disaggregated storage gaining rapid market adoption, it is more clear than ever that Storage Initiator (SI) needs to be more performant and efficient to provide applications with DAS (Direct Attached Storage) like performance and latency. At the same time, there is a growing need from virtualized applications for secure transport and storage performance near bare metal. The Host CPU can save a significant number of cycles by offloading the NVMe/TCP to a DPU based Storage Initiator (SI).