Modern data centers invariably face performance challenges due to the rising volume of datasets and complexity of deep learning workloads. Sizeable research and development has taken place to understand AI/ML workloads. These workloads are computationally intensive, but also require vast amounts of data to train models and draw inferences. The impact of storage on AI/ML pipelines therefore merits additional study.

The conflicting needs of datacenters managers hosting 3rd party and internal data securely and storage vendors needing to have a stream of vendor unique fleet telemetry for monitoring and debug has historically not found a scalable solution. This paper describes how a new proposal driven from the OCP Storage Workgroup facilitating standardized telemetry to be securely shared with storage vendors enabling vendor deep learning failure analysis and debug. The approach even allows vendor specific telemetry in a standard way vs current solutions such as NVMe SMART.

Should SSDs supporting power states higher than the maximum TDP dissipation supportable in a system? Many industry standards for drive form factors are targeting =25W, but will Gen6 SSDs be viable in a x4 configuration or will these form factors be abandoned? What is proposed is a framework currently supported in NVMe and OCP's Datacenter NVMe SSD Specification of allowing enhanced latencies in cases where there is thermal margin above the maximum TDP of the form factor using either host orchestrated NVMe power state management or device orchestrated Host Controlled Thermal Management.

Abstract: Fibre Channel extends its renowned compatibility and reliability with a new speed, 128GFC. This talk will discuss the newly completed 128GFC specification as well as uses of Fibre Channel in storage disaggregation and machine learning. The speakers, Rupin Mohan and Craig Carlson, have decades of experience in the architecture and standards definition of Fibre Channel and storage systems.

Tail latencies in networking tend to worry us all, whether we implement distributed storage and compute or whether we connect systems-of-systems in automotive or factory automation, for example. Same goes for the computational burden of processing networking protocols. One of the foundations of reliable networking is TCP, the Transmission Control Protocol which was introduced half a century ago. Today, TCP is ubiquitous: In the datacenter, in mobile communication, the Internet and in (embedded) systems-of-systems.

The Open Programmable Infrastructure (or OPI) is an open-source effort within the Linux Foundation to develop a standard API for utilizing SmartNICs, DPUs and IPUs, and other coprocessors or processing elements. It will allow users to provision and orchestrate all devices in the same way, thus allowing them to handle many different devices, implement new devices, and change or replace devices without learning a new command structure. It will also allow manufacturers to create a standard API, deliver new or upgraded devices faster, and benefit from a large ecosystem.

Software-Enabled Flash™ is a new storage paradigm engineered as a vendor neutral Linux Foundation project. This technology is dedicated to delivering the full power and flexibility of software-definable flash to developers. It is built on a hardware architecture focused on low-level flash management and abstraction, combined with an open-source, host-based software stack optimized for data placement control, latency prioritization, and protocol creation. Hardware from KIOXIA implementing this new Software-Enabled Flash technology will be sampling soon with select customers.

The cloud storage market is expected to exceed $390B by 2028. Data growth is driven by new cloud-native applications incl. AI/ML, continued enterprise application migration to the cloud, and the continued growth of hybrid deployments . This explosive growth in cloud storage is expanding the manner in which the underlying storage technologies - HDDs, Flash, archival media - are used by the cloud storage platform, and is also driving the need for innovation in storage media technologies.

For the past 10 years, Backblaze has collected SMART statistics and failure data for over 250,000 hard drives and SSDs. Over that time, for over 100+ drive models, we have reported on drive failure rates as it relates to drive size, manufacturer, temperature, drive class, drive type and more. For this session will deliver our latest research on these attributes including any relevant trends and observations.

Amazon S3 is one of the oldest and most widely used object storage services, and its API has become the industry standard for object storage. Ensuring compatibility with Amazon S3 API is crucial for object storage developers who want to benefit from the wide ecosystem of the existing applications. However, achieving 100% compatibility can be challenging due to the complexity and variety of S3 APIs, access control mechanisms, and performance and scalability requirements.