Podcasts

Data Protection: Insights on Privacy, Security, and Regulations

The complex world of data protection encompasses key elements, including data integrity, availability, and privacy. Hear our SNIA experts discuss the implications of ensuring data is secure, protected and private as they discuss emerging regulations like GDPR, the differentiation between data security and privacy, and the vital importance of proper data management throughout its lifecycle. 

Optimize Your Infrastructure for Today's Data Era

This episode focuses on the evolving landscape of data optimization, emphasizing the intersections of standards, sustainability, and community collaboration. From tackling large-scale implementations to enhancing environmental efficiency, we investigate how SNIA's approach to managing data across various infrastructures has broadened beyond traditional storage paradigms. Our experts cover key trends, challenges, and solutions that organizations need to address data management and sustainably, while optimizing their infrastructure for future growth.

Breaking Barriers: Transport Technologies and Storage Innovations

Explore the collaborative efforts and expertise of SNIA in advancing data transport technologies. Hear from industry experts, Bill Martin, Craig Carlson, Fred Knight, and Anthony Constantine as they discuss the rise of NVMe, innovations like CXL, Fibre Channel's ongoing significance, and the role of standards in creating efficient data solutions.

Accelerating Tomorrow's Data Storage Technology and Standards

Discover how SNIA is redefining the future of data through collaboration and innovation. Join Scott Shadley, Jason Molgaard, and Shyam Iyer to hear how SNIA's initiatives, particularly in accelerating data, are blending storage solutions with data-centric strategies to drive the industry forward. The conversation highlights the significance of standardization in data management, emphasizing the importance of collaboration among competitors.

The Importance of Solid State Drives (SSDs) in the AI Revolution

What if you could optimize AI storage solutions without breaking the bank? Join Cameron Brett and Jonmichael Hands, Co-Chairs of the SNIA Solid State Drive (SSD) Special Interest Group, as they dive into the latest in solid state drive technology advances – including their increasing presence in artificial intelligence and high performance computing. This discussion looks at technological leaps in SSDs, zeroing in on how enterprise and data center class NVMe SSDs can transform AI system performance while balancing cost considerations. You'll hear about advancements in QLC SSD technology, and the introduction of PCIe Gen 6. It highlights the importance of energy efficiency and total cost of ownership in navigating the future landscape. 

DNA: The Future of Data Storage

Imagine a world where your data could last thousands of years without requiring even a watt of energy. The world is literally running out of data storage, and DNA may be the answer. DNA exceeds many times the storage density of magnetic tape or solid-state media and can store hundreds of petabytes in a mere gram of DNA!

Esther Singer and Dave Landsman, Co-Chairs of the SNIA DNA Data Storage Alliance, explain the potential of DNA as a data storage medium and how it presents a sustainable solution to the world’s insatiable demand for digital storage. You’ll learn how DNA data storage actually works (no, it’s not storing data on humans or animals) and hear how a collaborative partnership among a wide range of technology companies is innovating to make DNA data storage a reality.

The Power of Edge AI and Data Management

Focus Area: Accelerate

Will AI revolutionize the way businesses operate and the way we live? Hear AI pioneer Dr. Rita Wouhaybi, an expert focused on AI, share her excitement over the rapid advances in AI technology. She explains why she is obsessed with the concept of Edge AI and how Edge breaks down some of the fundamental assumptions that we have had about AI for years.

Looking beyond large language models and generative AI, she raises questions on all that we still need to learn about AI and her anticipation of amazingly rapid innovation, highlighting two critical abilities that we have yet to expose to the full extent.

Rita offers real-world deployments of Edge AI in practice today in manufacturing, explaining how these technologies are dramatically enhancing efficiency, quality, and sustainability in manufacturing, and she challenges the popular concept of "data is the new oil," arguing instead that data is more like water—perishable and complex. impact of ransomware has upended how organizations approach data protection strategies, causing significant shifts from traditional operational recovery. Many CIOs and data center managers still have the perception that their current backup strategies are sufficient until a bad actor sneaks into their network to make sure that the backup is useless, so they have no way of coming back.

Data Protection in a Ransomware Era: Strategies and Insights

Focus Area: Protect Data

The impact of ransomware has upended how organizations approach data protection strategies, causing significant shifts from traditional operational recovery. Many CIOs and data center managers still have the perception that their current backup strategies are sufficient until a bad actor sneaks into their network to make sure that the backup is useless, so they have no way of coming back.

Mounir Elmously, a senior manager at Ernst & Young, is on the front lines, helping organizations across industries navigate the complexities of data protection in a world full of ransomware risks. Hear his expert perspective on:

• The consolidation of backup vendors and the evolution of solutions
• Shifting to contemporary ransomware preparedness strategies
• Distinctions between resilience, redundancy, and recovery in IT infrastructure
• The realities of zero downtime  

SNIA Membership: One Fee Unlocks All SNIA Groups

Focus Area: Store Data

Curious about the future of data and how it's evolving? Join us for a chat with Dr. J Metz, Chair of the Board of Directors for SNIA, an industry organization that develops global standards and delivers education on all technologies related to data. In this episode, J explains how SNIA is evolving the structure of the organization and moving towards a more integrated ecosystem for SNIA members and the broader tech community.

Learn how SNIA has transformed membership fees to break down silos across various technical projects and unlock SNIA communities to simplify participation and encourage greater collaboration. The new fee structure fosters broader engagement and makes it easier and more affordable for companies to contribute to multiple initiatives within SNIA.  

Standards Innovations with IEEE and SNIA

Focus Area: Store Data

International standards organizations play a crucial role in accelerating the adoption of technology. In this episode, Tom Coughlin, president of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), discusses how standards bodies like SNIA and IEEE shape the global market and its products through multi-vendor collaboration and shared goals. Tom highlights the impact of past standards and the latest advancements in DNA data storage, solid-state storage, and memory. He also provides a personal perspective on the benefits of active involvement in standards organizations and trade associations.

SNIA is an industry organization that develops global standards and delivers vendor-neutral education on technologies related to data. In these interviews, SNIA experts on data cover a wide range of topics on both established and emerging technologies.

Computing in Space: What’s Happening on the International Space Station

Can commercial off-the-shelf technology survive the rigors of space? Join us as Cameron Brett from the SNIA SCSI Trade Association Forum and Dr. Mark Fernandez of HPE's Spaceborne Computer Project tackle this provocative question. Learn how enterprise SAS Solid State Drives (SSDs) and NVMe technologies have been successfully adapted to work on the International Space Station.  

You’ll learn about the real-world impacts of computing in space, including accelerating DNA analysis from months to minutes and enhancing astronaut health monitoring and safety protocols, ensuring mission success and crew well-being.

Looking to the future, hear how storage advancements are setting the stage for even greater achievements in space exploration. 

SNIA is an industry organization that develops global standards and delivers vendor-neutral education on technologies related to data. In these interviews, SNIA experts on data cover a wide range of topics on both established and emerging technologies.

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