SNIA Forms Zoned Storage Technical Work Group
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Zoned Storage is becoming a fundamental building block of today’s storage ecosystem. In a Zoned Storage system, the host and device cooperate regarding data placement on the device. For SSDs, this enables lower overprovisioning, more predictable performance, and potential device cost reduction. For HDDs, Zoned Storage enables the use of SMR drives, which deliver the highest capacities, as well as performance benefits.
Command interfaces for Zoned Storage have been standardized (ZAC/ZBC for SMR HDDs and ZNS for NVMe® SSDs), however, the specifications leave flexibility in how host software interacts with the Zoned Storage IO stack and Zoned Storage devices, resulting in different application best practices depending on the use case. The Zoned Storage ecosystem will benefit from the description of common use cases, and a nomenclature around which corresponding host/device models can be described. To meet this need, the SNIA Technical Council approved the formation of a new Technical Work Group (TWG) to facilitate a common industry understanding of Zoned Storage use cases and create a host/device architecture and programming model; providing a framework for Zoned Storage design and enabling the development of a robust Zoned Storage solutions ecosystem.
The TWG charter members are Western Digital, Samsung, NetApp, and Microsoft. To learn more or to get involved, visit the SNIA TWG page or email Arnold Jones at tcmd@snia.org.
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SNIA Swordfish™ 1.2.3 is Now a SNIA Storage Management Standard
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SNIA Swordfish™ 1.2.3 has been approved by SNIA as an official storage management standard. Updates include:
- Enhanced support for NVMe® advanced devices (such as arrays), with detailed requirements for front-end configuration specified in a new profile.
- Enhancements to the NVMe Model Overview and Mapping Guide.
- New content in both the User’s Guide and the Error Handling Guide.
The SNIA Swordfish specification extends the DMTF® Redfish Scalable Platforms Management API Specification to define a comprehensive, RESTful API for managing storage and related data services. It has expanded to include NVMe and NVMe-oF™ enablement and alignment across DMTF, NVMe, and SNIA.
Learn more about SNIA Swordfish and access developer resources at https://www.snia.org/swordfish
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Top 3 Reasons Members Join SNIA
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SNIA membership continues to grow! The 180 industry leaders that are a part of SNIA are actively influencing important technologies, engaging in open standards development, collaborating with industry experts and much more. Learn how SNIA members are leading the industry in this new SNIA Infographic.
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SNIA experts answer a wide range of questions on common pluggable connectors and media types, copper cabling and transceivers, and real-world use cases in this new Q&A blog.
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In order to fully unlock the potential of NVMe® IP-based SANs, we first need to address the manual and error prone process that is currently used to establish connectivity between NVMe Hosts and NVM subsystems. Several leading companies in the industry have joined together through NVM Express® to collaborate on innovations to simplify and automate this discovery process. Learn about the work that is being done to address these issues and frequently asked questions on this topic in this Q&A blog.
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Power-Efficient Data Processing with Software-Defined Computational Storage
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By Yang Seok Ki, Samsung
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SNIA is pleased to welcome the following new member:
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Check out the top reasons to join SNIA in our Membership Infographic and see the full list of SNIA Members here.
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SNIA Annual Members Symposium
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Virtual Meeting
We invite you to attend our 2022 Annual Members Symposium virtually next year on January 25, 2022, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm PST. This is an excellent opportunity to hear updates on the work being done by all the current Technical Work Groups (TWG), Forums and Initiatives (F&I), and Committees.
We would also like to share a virtual lunch session with SNIA leadership about the 2022 vision and plans for SNIA as a whole.
Please join us to see who our Membership Award Recipients are for 2021. As always, we are excited to support our members and working groups, and highlight some of the great successes of 2021!
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Why Use Multiple Clouds?
January 11,2022
Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Co-Chair, KIOXIA; David Slik, Co-chair SNIA Cloud Storage TWG, NetApp; Alex McDonald, SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative Chair
Taking advantage of the benefits of a multi-cloud environment without increasing complexity requires a strategy that ensures applications are not tightly coupled to cloud-specific technologies. Supporting a storage abstraction layer that insulates the application from the underlying cloud provider's interfaces allows an application to be easily used with multiple clouds.
How, and why, to support a storage abstraction layer will be the focus of this live webcast where our experts will cover:
- Risk mitigation of multiple clouds
- Transparent movement of data from cloud to cloud
- Political, regulatory and compliance considerations
- Multi-cloud as part of a business continuity strategy
- Exit cost reduction
- Running work in parallel across clouds
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Find SNIA at these Events
SNIA Annual Members Symposium – Virtual, January 25, 2022, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm PT
FAST’22 – Santa Clara, CA – February 22-24, 2022
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