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Sprandom - A Fast Method to Reduce the Random Preconditioning Time of SSDs from Days to Hours

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As SSD capacities increase beyond 16TB, the time to randomly precondition these drives has also increased from several hours to several days. Traditional methods involve a sequential write followed by multiple random writes to reach a steady state. We present Sprandom (SanDisk Pseudo Random) – a novel approach to random preconditioning that uses the Flexible I/O Tester (fio) to achieve near steady-state performance with just a single physical drive write.

SNIA and OCP - Driving Open Storage and Networking

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This talk will focus on areas of SNIA and OCP community overlap and collaboration, discussing our new alliance and OCP work areas as they relate to SNIA technical work groups: 

- OCP's Storage top-level project and 3 workstream 

- OCP's Composable Memory Systems (CMS) project - OCP's Open Systems for AI strategic initiative and Open Cluster Designs for AI 

- OCP's Networking project and OCP FTI workstreams: DCC and SROI 

- Other OCP areas of interest to the audience hardware management, cooling, OCP S.A.F.E certification of equipment

SNIA SDXI v1.1 Data Movement Accelerator Interface Update

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Join SDXI TWG chair Shyam Iyer and Editor/Contributor William Moyes to learn what’s new in this SNIA standard for memory-to-memory data movement and acceleration. Learn the key differences from v1.0, how SDXI v1.1 improves extensibility and open-ness, and exciting new features added to v1.1. This talk will also briefly discuss software ecosystem enablement and opportunities to engage with the TWG.

Storage for AI 102, A Further Perspective on Storage use in AI Workflows

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This presentation will build on the AI For Storage 101 presentations that were given at SDC last September and SDC Regional Denver.  There will be less intro/overview and it will focus more on the phases of AI with different styles of storage access, examples of some of the types of work performed in those phases, and discussion of the workload that the storage system would see for those phases.

Fibre Channel Update - What you need to know about the Dawn of 256GFC (Gen 9)

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The state of Fibre Channel is exciting as we embark on the development of 256GFC (aka Gen 9 Fibre Channel)! With 128GFC products coming out at the end of this year, the Fibre Channel community is feverishly working on the next generation speeds. Now is the time to step back a bit and view the Fibre Channel roadmap. In this session, we discuss the technical challenges associated with the creation of 256GFC products as well as explore the features of Gen 8 Fibre Channel.

Optimizing Hyperscale Flash Storage: Innovations in large-capacity QLC, Host-Based FTL, Configurable Indirection Unit and Application-Optimized Data Placement

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Hyperscale environments demand storage solutions that balance density, performance, and power efficiency—without compromising reliability. This session will explore how Pure Storage’s DirectFlash® Module (DFM) architecture and software innovations are enabling the seamless adoption of high-density QLC NAND in hyperscale deployments. We will examine how host-based Flash Translation Layer (FTL) and Pure’s DirectFlash software address the challenges of write amplification, power optimization, and drive endurance.
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