SNIA Swordfish™ 1.2.3 is Now a Working Draft for Review
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Approved by the SNIA Technical Committee as working draft, SNIA Swordfish™ 1.2.3 is now available for public review here. Your feedback is important to the continued development and adoption of this specification that extends the DMTF® Redfish Scalable Platforms Management API Specification to define a comprehensive, RESTful API for managing storage and related data services.
Version 1.2.3 of Swordfish adds 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. It also includes new content in both the User’s Guide and the Error Handling Guide.
Learn more about SNIA Swordfish and access developer resources at https://www.snia.org/swordfish
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SDC 2021 – Outstanding Sessions! Register to Access Content
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This year's SDC keynotes and sessions still await anyone who registers (or already has a conference login)! Get instant access to over 120 expert presentations on a wide range of storage and storage-related topics.
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Computational Storage: Go Beyond Computation Offloading
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Tong Zhang, SNIA Computational Storage Special Interest Group Member, explains the benefits of computational storage and why SNIA and many others are strong proponents of the technology in this SearchStorage article published by TechTarget.
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©2020 TECHTARGET. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Geek Out on Great Storage Debates
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SNIA is committed to explaining storage technology from the ground up in a vendor-neutral way. Our “Great Storage Debates” do just that by comparing technologies that perform broadly similar functions. There aren’t any winners or losers, but rather advantages and disadvantages, and specific use cases. We explain how they work, compare the pros and cons, and debate which technologies work best based on data, workloads, and different storage requirements. So, let the debates begin!
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Genomics Compute, Storage & Data Management Q&A
What’s the best compression ratio for human genome data? It's just one of the Genomics questions answered in this Q&A blog which dives into challenges to manage and store massive amounts of genomic data.
Storage at the Edge Q&A
SNIA experts take on questions related to the storage implications of data generated at the Edge.
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Here’s a “First Look” at one of the many SDC 2021 session tracks – “First Look: NVMe® and NVMe-oF™
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Presented by Bill Martin, SSD IO Standards, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and SNIA Technical Council Co-chair
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Remember: SDC 2021 sessions are available to registrants. Register here for access to them all.
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SNIA is pleased to welcome the following new members:
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Chia Network joined SNIA and the Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative
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SNIA Annual Members Meeting
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SNIA members are invited and encouraged to attend the 2021 Annual Members Meeting on October 21, 2021, 8:00 – 9:00 am PT. Join the SNIA Board, Chair, Treasurer, and Executive Director for an update on the organization’s vision, mission, technical and initiative/forum work, financial health, and strategy for the future of SNIA and the storage industry.
Voting Member Company Representatives are specifically requested to dial–in or arrange for a proxy company representative (quorum required). Members should be on the lookout for call details via e-mail and in the members area calendar.
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Seamless standards-based open source management will be demonstrated at the first event in the new Intel ON series: Intel InnovatiON. Stop by the SNIA virtual booth and learn how SNIA and DMTF® are working with the OpenFabrics Alliance to provide IT administrators the ability to add seamless standards-based management of their fabrics and networks to the same SNIA Swordfish™ and DMTF Redfish ecosystem they are using for their storage and server management.
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SNIA is pleased to be a sponsor of the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, November 9-10, 2021 in San Jose, CA and also as a virtual event. SNIA SFF standards will be featured in two sessions “SFF Driving Future Server Needs” by Anthony Constantine, and “Native NVMe-oF™ Drives: Optimizing Networked Storage Capacity” by Mark Carlson. The SNIA booth will feature “Chat with SNIA Experts” where SNIA leaders will answer questions on SNIA Swordfish™ and Redfish®, computational storage, persistent memory, SSD and form factor standards, NVMe® and NVMe-oF, and SNIA’s vision for 2021 and beyond.
SNIA members and colleagues can receive 20% off registration using the code SNIA27J6.
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Next-generation Interconnects: The Critical Importance of Connectors and Cables
October 19, 2021
Kent Lusted, Intel; Brad Smith, NVIDIA; Sam Kocsis, Amphenol; Tim Lustig, NVIDIA
There is an impressive array of data center infrastructure components designed to address expanding requirements for higher-bandwidth and lower-power. This includes defining new terminology and addressing the next-generation copper and optics solutions required to deliver high signal integrity, lower-latency, and lower insertion loss to achieve maximum efficiency, speed, and density.
Cloud Storage and Big Data, A Marriage Made in the Clouds
October 21, 2021
Vincent Hsu, IBM; Andy Longworth, HPE; Chip Maurer, Dell Technologies
Learn the history of “Big Data” and how it has pushed the storage envelope, eventually resulting in a seemingly perfect relationship with Cloud Storage. But local storage is the 3rd wheel in this relationship, and won’t go down easy. Can this marriage survive when Big Data is being pulled in two directions? Should Big Data pick one, or can the three of them live happily ever after?
Computational Storage – Driving Success, Driving Standards
October 26, 2021
Bill Martin, Samsung; Jason Molgaard, Arm; Oscar Pinto, Samsung; Scott Shadley, NGD Systems
For new technologies like computational storage, standards do not exist. As companies develop solutions, questions arise. Should computational storage have standards for recommended behavior for hardware and software? Should an application programming interface be defined? Join leaders of the Computational Storage Technical Work Group as they discuss how they define and develop standards with input from many different companies and users, what they perceive as important today and moving forward, and how you can participate.
NVMe-oF: Discovery Automation for NVMe IP-based SANs
November 4, 2021
Erik Smith, Dell Technologies; Fred Knight, NetApp; Curtis Ballard, HPE; Tom Friend, Illuminosi
NVMe® IP-based SANs (including TCP, RoCE, iWARP) have the potential to provide significant benefits in application environments ranging from the Edge to the Data Center. However, before we can fully unlock NVMe IP-based SAN’s potential, we first need to overcome the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) discovery problem specific to IP based fabrics. Several companies have been collaborating on innovations that simplify and automate the discovery process used with NVMe IP-based SANs. This session will explain:
- NVMe IP-based SAN discovery problem
- The types of network topologies that can support the automated discovery of NVMe-oF Discovery controllers
- Direct Discovery versus Centralized Discovery
- An overview of the discovery protocol
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Find SNIA at these Events
SNIA Annual Members’ Meeting - Teleconference – October 21, 2021
Intel InnovatiON – Virtual – October 27-28, 2021
OCP Global Summit – Hybrid – San Jose, CA and Virtual – November 9-10, 2021
SC’21 – St. Louis, MO and Virtual – November 14-19, 2021
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