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).

SDXI 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.

• Who: Archive & Cold Storage users interested in green, sustainable longterm storage such as Ceramic, Glass, DNA and Molecular Storage.
• What: A session on establishing a new long-term storage tier. Green and sustainable storage, typically not requiring migration of data. Not requiring human involvement or energy while retaining data on media. The session may include organic & inorganic physical storage media technologies (complementing SSD, HDD or Tape in active Archive implementations).

Discuss updates to the Computational Storage Architecture, Computational Storage API, and SDXI with Computational Storage. Answer questions and discuss use cases.

Engage in a dynamic BoF session focused on understanding the landscape of S3 incompatibilities. Let's openly exchange our experiences, thoughts, and ideas, and work together to identify effective strategies for overcoming shared challenges. Whether you've faced compatibility issues or have valuable insights to offer, this is an opportunity to connect with peers who share your interests.

Do you want to hear about different specs that are being worked on in SFF? Do you want to hear some thoughts towards future specifications in SFF? Do you want to provide feedback to what SFF should be doing?

Do you want free alcohol? If you said yes to any of these then please join our BoF.