Operators of data storage systems are legally obligated to protect customer data, and can be subject to significant penalties. This presentation will explore existing and upcoming standards to show the best practices for sanitizing customer data. These standards will include IEEE 2883-2022 and ISO/IEC 27040,and will describe current work on new standards.

The audience for this presentation includes developers and users of data storage systems, as well as developers of software utilizing those systems.

With the growing trend for PCIe and CXL solutions, there is a need to improve the sideband management path as currently defined using SMBus. The newest SNIA SFF-TA-1009 specification for EDSFF PCIe devices released in January 2023 defined a method to allow I3C upgrade of the management SMBus/I2C bus. Other standards organizations, such as OCP and PCI SIG, are looking into adopting the same design.

The demand for data storage continues to grow exponentially with the overall data storage temperature cooling down with most data becoming cold after one month and subsequently infrequently accessed. Given the evolving storage pyramid and the growth of the overall storage ecosystem, especially cold storage, demand for significant capacity, longevity and sustainability scaling is increasing. 
 

Discuss topics related to manageability with SNIA and its alliance partners including DMTF, NVMe, OFA, SODA Foundation, CXL, UCIe.

Topics include:

• What initiatives and projects are underway right now?
• What more can SNIA do with alliance its partners?
• Learn how YOU can get involved!

The Storage Management Initiative will be providing refreshments and a special giveaway!

This Informal panel will help developers of storage monitoring and management applications to interact with Swordfish clients and ask questions, understand requirements, and provide opportunities  for client/vendor engagement.

The Storage Management Initiative will be providing refreshments and a special giveaway!

We will discuss the new flexible data placement: What are the benefits and what is required to take advantage of it.

BoF to discuss Why STA is Now Part of SNIA, and to let conference attendees know about and discuss the upcoming SAS plugfests in 2024.

Come join an informal discussion where you can get some in-depth answers to your questions about Software-Enabled Flash Project and Technology. Project members will discuss Software-Enabled Flash features like isolation and queuing control, the reference block, FDP, and ZNS drivers, and the different SDK and API components.

Selling to the US Government can require getting FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) certification.Many storage products are based on Linux and Open Source code, which by themselves do not promise compliance with any standards. Sometimes the storage protocols themselves are incompatible with the required FIPS-140 standards. Sometimes the Open Source code is old enough that they still hand-craft their own crypto code dating from a time when the US Government tried to restrict some crypto algorithms).