SNIA, DMTF and NVMe Form Strategic Alliance

SNIA, together with the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and the NVM Express Inc. organizations, announced an alliance at NVM Express Developer Day of the formation of a new alliance to coordinate standards for managing solid state drive (SSD) storage devices.  
 
This alliance brings together multiple organizations and standards for managing the issue of scale-out management of SSDs to help improve the interoperable management of information technologies to enable a holistic management experience. Click here for additional details on this alliance.

Storage Security: Data Protection Technical White Paper

Data protection is an essential element of storage security that can be nuanced, depending on industry requirements. This can be seen in the ISO/IEC 27040 (Storage security) standard, which while not directly addressing data protection, does identify relevant security controls.  This technical white paper, written by the SNIA Security Technical Work Group, provides an introduction of important topics in ISO/IEC 27040:2015 and offers considerations and guidance to augment the existing storage security standard, covering: 

• Key facets of data protection
• ISO/IEC 27040 controls related to data protection
• Securing backup, replication and CDP
• Data retention and preservation
• Data authenticity
• Archive security
• Data disposition/sanitization

 Download the white paper here.

Fujitsu Contributes Traces to the SNIA IOTTA Repository

SNIA and OpenFabrics Alliance Announce Collaboration

SNIA Emerald V3.0 Training

• Adds a test methodology for file access storage devices based on the SPEC SFS2014 benchmark, substantially expanding the range of testable storage devices
• Clarifies and updates many elements of the specification based on usage experience
• Improves organization of the specification
• Retains all the major elements of V2.1.1 including the storage taxonomy and the block IO test methodology

Join Open Calls on SNIA Persistent Memory Activities

SNIA Swordfish Goes Global

SDC 2018 Call for Presentations Deadline May 10th

SNIA is pleased to welcome the following new member: Netint Technologies who joins our growing list of member companies.

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What’s Next in Storage: Analysts and Experts Share their Predictions
May 2, 2018
Greg McSorley, SNIA Technical Council (non-voting); Rick Kutcipal, President, SCSI Trade Association (STA); Don Jeanette of TRENDFOCUS

You won’t want to miss the opportunity to hear leading data storage experts provide their insights on prominent technologies that are shaping the market. With the exponential rise in demand for high capacity and secured storage systems, it’s critical to understand the key factors influencing adoption and where the highest growth is expected. From SSDs and HDDs to storage interfaces and NAND devices, get the latest information you need to shape key strategic directions and remain competitive.
 
Everything You Wanted To Know...But Were Too Proud To Ask - Part Aqua - Storage Controllers
May 15, 2018
Peter Onufryk, Microsemi; Craig Carlson, Cavium; Chad Hintz, Cisco; John Kim, Mellanox; J Metz, Cisco
 
Are you a control freak? Have you ever wondered what was the difference between a storage controller, a RAID controller, a PCIe controller, or a metadata controller? What about an NVMe controller? Aren’t they all the same thing?

In Part Aqua of the “Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask” webcast series, we’re going to be taking an unusual step of focusing on a term that is used constantly, but often has different meanings. When you have a controller that manages hardware, there are very different requirements than a controller that manages an entire system-wide control plane. From the outside looking in, it may be easy to get confused. You can even have controllers managing other controllers!

Here we’ll be revisiting some of the pieces we talked about in our introduction to this webcast series, Part Chartreuse, but with a bit more focus on the variety we have to play with:

• What do we mean when we say “controller”?
• How are the systems managed differently?
• How are controllers used in various storage entities: drives, SSDs, storage networks, software-defined
• How do controller systems work, and what are the trade-offs?
• How do storage controllers protect against Spectre and Meltdown?

• If we can run various network storage protocols over Ethernet, what differentiates them?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of FCoE, iSCSI and iSER?
• How are they structured?
• What software and hardware do they require?
• How are they implemented, configured and managed?
• Do they perform differently?
• What do you need to do to take advantage of them in the data center?
• What are the best use cases for each?