SNIA Announces 2024 Member Lifetime Achievement Awards
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SNIA honored three of its long-time members last month at an award ceremony at SDC’24 with its Member Lifetime Achievement Award. The honorees are:
- Wayne Adams – Long-time SNIA Chair, Treasurer, and Chair Emeritus
- PK Gupta – One of the founding members of SNIA India and SNIA South Asia/Malaysia
- Kenichi Wada – Former SNIA Japan Executive Director
The Lifetime Achievement Awards recognize SNIA members who have tirelessly dedicated years of work to help achieve SNIA’s goals as a leading industry association and developer of industry standards and specifications.
"The name of this award is truly fitting," said Dr. J Metz, Chair of the SNIA Board of Directors. "These members have exceeded all expectations, dedicating countless hours over decades to advancing storage technologies generally, and SNIA initiatives in particular."
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SNIA Membership: Access All SNIA Groups with One Fee
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Curious about the future of data and how it's evolving? Join us for a chat with Dr. J Metz, Chair of the SNIA Board of Directors. J explains how SNIA is changing the organization’s structure 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 open SNIA communities to simplify participation and encourage greater collaboration.
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The SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) Roadmap was updated recently, defining key advancements in the technology’s future. Highlights include:
- Command Duration Limits (CDLs): offers more control over HDD latencies
- Logical Depopulation (Depop): allows drives to degrade in place
- Rebuild Assist for SSDs: improves RAID rebuild times
- Persistent Connections: reduces overhead for higher performance.
Updates under consideration are:
- SPDM Capability for device authentication and security
- Protection Information (PI) fields for greater data reliability
SAS continues to be a robust option for high-performance and scalable enterprise storage systems. Explore the updated roadmap here.
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New Parallel Traces Added to the SNIA IOTTA Repository
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The SNIA IOTTA Trace Repository recently added a new set of "Parallel Traces" that reflect parallel activity in a high-performance cluster.
The “Thesios Synthetic” traces (2.53 billion records over 2 months in 2024) are unique in that they are representative I/O traces synthesized by combining down-sampled I/O traces collected from multiple disks (HDDs) attached to multiple storage servers in a Google distributed storage system.
Established and maintained by the SNIA “Input/Output Traces, Tools, and Analysis Technical Work Group (IOTTA TWG),” the SNIA IOTTA Repository is a worldwide repository for storage related I/O trace files, associated tools, and other related information.
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CXL® and NVMe® Collaborating for Computation
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By Jason Molgaard, Co-Chair SNIA Technical Council
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SNIA Annual Members Meeting – October 24, 2024
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SNIA members are encouraged to attend the 2024 Annual Members Meeting on October 24, 2024, 8:00 – 9:00 am PT.
Join SNIA leadership for an update on the organization’s strategy, vision, technical and Initiative/Forum work, and financial health. This is an excellent opportunity to learn the latest on SNIA activities and provide your feedback to the SNIA Board of Directors.
Voting Member Company Representatives are specifically requested to dial–in or arrange for a proxy company representative (quorum required).
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Unlocking a Sustainable Future for Data Storage
In a world of surging data demands, how can we reduce the environmental toll of storage solutions? Discover the power of the circular economy to reshape the storage industry for a greener tomorrow.
Key Highlights:
- Circular Drive Initiative: Rethink the lifecycle of storage devices—from design to end-of-life—to unlock significant environmental benefits.
- Media Sanitization Best Practices: Securely erase data to enable reuse, extend device life, and cut down on e-waste. Explore techniques like:
- Cryptographic erase
- Block erase
- Overwrite methods
- Compliance & Transparency: Learn how standards like IEEE 2883-2022 and ISO/IEC 27040:2024 guide secure data disposal, with organizations like SERI R2 and ADISA leading the charge in setting industry benchmarks.
- Carbon Accounting in Storage: Understand how tracking and reducing carbon emissions in storage aligns with global sustainability goals.
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Find SNIA at these Events
OCP Global Summit – San Jose, CA, October 15-17, 2024
TEF 2024: Ethernet in the Age of AI – Santa Clara, CA, October 22-23, 2024
SNIA All Members Meeting – Virtual, October 24, 2024
SC24 – Atlanta, GA, November 17-22, 2024
2025 SNIA Preview – Virtual, January 15, 2025
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