SNIA Swordfish® v1.2.6 Released as SNIA Standard
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SNIA Storage Management Initiative (SMI) is pleased to announce that the Swordfish® v1.2.6 is now available as a SNIA Standard. Swordfish provides a standardized approach to manage storage and servers in hyperscale and cloud infrastructure environments – leading to streamlined implementation, scalability and increased cost savings.
Swordfish v1.2.6 key features include:
- New “NVMe-oF and Swordfish” white paper, which discusses how NVMe® over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) configurations are represented in Swordfish Application Programming Interface (API)
- New metrics for FileSystem, StoragePool, StorageService, and enhancements to VolumeMetrics
- New mapping and masking models using Connections in the Fabric model and deprecates StorageGroups
- Support for new volume properties: ProvidingStoragePool, ChangeStripSize, Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) to manage reservations
- Enhancements to NVMe Domain Management, including ALUA support updates to NVMe namespaces, such as simplified Logical Block Address (LBA) Format representation and multiple namespace management
To download SNIA Swordfish v1.2.6, visit www.snia.org/swordfish.
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SNIA Experts on Data Podcast
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The SNIA Experts on Data podcast is an easy way to keep up with the latest industry developments. In this series, we interview SNIA experts from around the world who share candid insights on established and emerging technologies related to data that are making an impact and have the potential to reshape the industry.
This month’s featured episode is:
Next-Gen SSD Performance: The Power of Flexible Data Placement with Bill Martin, SNIA Technical Council Co-Chair. Download here or watch below.
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Power Efficiency Measurement – Our Experts Make It Clear – Part 4
Impact of Storage Architectures on Power Efficiency Measurement
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Measuring power efficiency in datacenter storage is a complex endeavor. A number of factors play a role in assessing individual storage devices or system-level logical storage for power efficiency. Luckily, our SNIA experts make the measuring easier in the conclusion of our four-part series on Power Efficiency Measurement, focusing on the impact of storage architectures on those measurements.
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Register Now for the SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Summit
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SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Summit, virtual on May 21-22, 2024, is all about solutions, architectures, and community. The 2024 Summit features a stellar lineup of 25 speakers in 30 sessions, covering artificial intelligence, the future of memory, critical storage security issues, and the latest from CXL®, UCIe™, and Ultra Ethernet Consortium. Check out the agenda and read our blog for more details.
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SNIA Developer Conference (SDC’24)
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Taking place in Santa Clara, CA, on September 16-18, 2024, SNIA Developer Conference (SDC) is the destination for technical discussions and education on the latest technologies and standards.
The submission deadline for presentation proposals is June 5, 2024.
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Storage Trends: Your Questions Answered
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At our recent SNIA SCSI Trade Association Forum webinar, “Storage Trends 2024,” industry experts discussed developing storage trends and shared market data that illustrated their assertions. Questions from the audience ranged from projections about the split between on-prem and public cloud to queries about different technologies and terms such as NVMe, LTO tape, EDSFF, and cyberstorage. Here are answers to the audience’s questions.
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AIOps introduces intelligence into the fabric of IT processes. The impact of AIOps and the shift in IT practices were the focus of a recent SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) webinar, “AIOps: Reactive to Proactive – Revolutionizing the IT Mindset.” The audience asked several intriguing questions. This Q&A blog answers them.
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The SNIA IOTTA Technical Work Group (TWG) may not be the best known SNIA TWG, but their exciting new developments in their repository of I/O traces, tools, and analysis, including NVMe drive reliability traces collected by Alibaba, merit a further look.
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SNIA welcomes the following new member:
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Shenglan Technology to the SNIA SFF TA TWG
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See the full list of SNIA Members here.
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Find SNIA at these Events
Coding Theory and Algorithms for DNA-based Data Storage Workshop – Athens, Greece, July 7, 2024
MSST – Santa Clara, CA, June 3-7, 2024
FMS – Santa Clara, CA, August 6-8, 2024
SNIA Developer Conference (SDC) 2024 – Santa Clara, CA, September 16-18, 2024
OCP Global Summit – San Jose, CA, October 15-17, 2024
SC24 – Atlanta, GA, November 17-22, 2024
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