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Why should we have yet another Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor for SSDs?

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Since the Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) was created, the biggest complaint about EDSFF has been that there are too many form factors. While this was by design, EDSFF still has more form factors than what was supported previously in Enterprise and Datacenter application. So introducing E2 as a new EDSFF form factor in the market is obviously going to get a lot of scrutiny.

SNIA Emerald Update for V1.0 Device and V5.0 System Specifications

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Learn about the new SNIA Emerald V1.0  Device Power Measurement Test Specification, the tools and methods to measure an enterprise data storage device. A useful new metric for system supply chain and hypervisor vendors to evaluate devices with enterprise data enter workloads. In the near future, some regulatory bodies may cross-reference in their regional energy conservation programs. Learn about the changes as part of SNIA Emerald V5.0 System Power Measurement Test Specification, the tools and methods to measure an enterprise data storage system.

Data-Intensive Inference Done Better: Scaling Models and RAG in Limited Memory with SSD Offload

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Enterprises are rushing to adopt AI inference solutions with RAG to solve business problems, but enthusiasm for the technology's potential is outpacing infrastructure readiness. It quickly becomes prohibitively expensive or even impossible to use more complex models and bigger RAG data sets due to the cost of memory.

Choosing Your AI Storage Protocol: A Deep Dive into SMB and NFS Performance, Tuning, and Overhead

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The performance of network file protocols is a critical factor in the efficiency of the AI and Machine Learning pipeline. This presentation provides a detailed comparative analysis of the two leading protocols, Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File System (NFS), specifically for demanding AI workloads. We evaluate the advanced capabilities of both protocols, comparing SMB3 with SMB Direct and Multichannel against NFS with RDMA and multistream TCP configurations.

Panel: Driving Sustainability in Datacenters – Standardizing Carbon Assessment Methodologies

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As the demand for cloud services continues to grow, so does the environmental impact of datacenters. Accurately measuring and managing carbon emissions is essential to advancing sustainability goals—but today’s approaches to carbon assessment vary widely across the industry. The panelists include Sustainability experts from Google, Meta, and Microsoft to discuss how the cloud industry can align on Product Category Rules (PCRs) and Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) standards to drive consistency, transparency, and real impact.

Can SDXI work with NVMe?

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SDXI is an emerging standard for a memory data movement and acceleration interface. NVMe is an industry leading storage access protocol.   Memory transfers are integral to storage access, including NVMe.Data is transferred by DMA from host memory to device memory or from device memory to host memory. With SDXI as the data mover, data movement is standardized and new transformation (compute) capabilities are enabled. Transparent memory data movement within  and across storage nodes  remains an active area of optimization for NVM subsystems.

New Transports in Samba: QUIC and SMB-Direct Support

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The Samba file server is evolving beyond traditional TCP-based transport. This talk introduces the latest advancements in Samba's networking stack, including full support for SMB over QUIC, offering secure, firewall-friendly file sharing using modern internet protocols. We’ll also explore the ongoing development of SMB over SMB-Direct (RDMA), aimed at delivering low-latency, high-throughput file access for data center and high-performance environments.

State of the HPC-AI Market ― Highlights from End-User Research on Technology Gaps for HPC and AI

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Drawing from recent surveys of the end user members of the HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO), Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research will present the trends, needs, and "satisfaction gaps" for buyers of HPC and AI technologies. The talk will focus primarily on the Storage and Networking modules of the survey, with some highlights from others (e.g.
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