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2026 SNIA Preview
Don’t miss the 2026 SNIA Preview on January 14, 2026. This virtual event will highlight the significant accomplishments and future plans of SNIA’s Technical Work Groups (TWGs) and Communities. These sessions offer an inside look at the innovative technologies and exciting activities SNIA has planned for 2026! This event is open to the public.
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SDC’25 Presentations On-Demand
The SNIA Developer Conference (SDC’25) delivered an outstanding experience this year with more than 90 technical sessions across a wide range of technologies. Whether you couldn’t make it to this year’s conference or you want to revisit your favorite sessions, videos and presentation PDFs are now available.

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SNIA Technical Work

The SFF TWG Specification Published Updates

  • Internal Low-Profile High-Speed Cable Interconnect (SFF-TA-1040 R1.0)
    Defines a shielded, board-to-board cable assembly and SMT board connector interface with 74 or 124 contacts based on bandwidth needs with right angle exit.
  • Cable Optimized Boot Peripheral Connector for OCP M-PIC (SFF-TA-1036 R1.0)
    Defines a shielded, board-to-board cable assembly and SMT board connector interface with 10 differential pairs, 12 single-ended contacts, and 2 power contacts with right angle and vertical exit.
  • Universal Backplane Management (UBM) (SFF-TA-1005 R1.5)
  • Cross Reference to Select SFF Connectors and Modules (REF-TA-1011 R1.3) 
    Defines the naming conventions for the various configurations of pluggable I/O solutions.
  • QSFP+ 4X Pluggable Transceiver Solutions (SFF-8665 R2.0) 
    Defines the physical interface, low speed electrical, and management interface 25 requirements of QSFP+ 4X pluggable transceiver solutions including: QSFP10, QSFP14, QSFP28, 26 QSFP56, QSFP112 and QSFP224.
View All SFF Specifications Here
Featured Video
The Future of Data: Fueling the AI Revolution with SNIA StorageAI™
By J Metz, Chair, SNIA Board of Directors
Member News
SNIA SCSI Trade Association Community Announces FY 2026 Board of Directors
The SNIA SCSI Trade Association community announced its FY 2026 Board of Directors, returning a full leadership team as membership doubles to 29 companies. STA continues advancing SAS and SCSI education and collaboration, reinforcing their importance in today’s data-driven enterprise landscape.
Nominate Your SNIA Colleagues
Volunteers are critical to SNIA fulfilling its mission. Every year, SNIA honors our individual volunteers and group volunteers for their extraordinary efforts through the SNIA Recognition Program.

Please take a minute to acknowledge our valuable volunteers for their efforts. The deadline to submit nominations is December 17th.
New Member
SNIA is pleased to welcome Wiwynn.
Learn about SNIA membership benefits and see the full list of SNIA Members here.
Featured Blogs
AI Model Inferencing Q&A
The Long, Long Tail of SAS
Upcoming Webinars

From Data to Decisions: Understanding How AI Models Learn
December 10, 2025
Cal Foshee, IBM; Eric Gamble, IBM; Erik Smith, Dell Technologies

Intelligent Data Management: Shaping the Future for AI Workloads
January 20, 2026
David Slik, Huawei; Gary Mazzaferro, Industry Advisor; Michael Hoard, SNIA, CST
 
How New Memories Will Accelerate Both Inference and General-Purpose Compute
January 20, 2026
Arthur Sainio, Moderator; Tom Coughlin and Jim Handy, Presenters
 
The Storage Security Shake-Up: Adapt Now or Get Left Behind
January 28, 2026
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, NIST; Eric Hibbard, Samsung; Paul Suhler, KIOXIA; Erik Smith, Dell Technologies
 
Accelerating AI Infrastructure: The Role of 400G and PCIe 8.0 in Next-Gen Interconnects
January 29, 2026
Anthony Constantine, Micron Technology; Tom Palkert, Samtec; Erik Smith, Dell Technologies

AI Meets Storage: Comparing On-Prem, Cloud, and Hybrid Architectures Across the AI Lifecycle
February 4, 2026
Bob Epstein, IBM; Rohan Mehta, Micron Technology; Himabindu Tummala, Dell Technologies Erik Smith, Dell Technologies;
 
How Agentic AI Transforms the Role of Storage
February 12, 2026
Himabindu Tummala, Dell; John Cardente, Dell; Fatemeh Azmandian; Dell; Michael Hoard, SNIA CST

Events

Find SNIA at these Events
2026 SNIA Preview – Virtual – January 14, 2026
Chiplet Summit 2026 – February 17-19, 2026 
DesignCon – Santa Clara, CA – February 24-26, 2026
DCD>Connect – New York, NY – March 23-24, 2026
SNIA SMB3 Interoperability Lab EMEA – Goettingen, Germany – April 22-23, 2026
SDC: StorageAI™ – Denver, CO – April, 29, 2026
SNIA Developer Conference (SDC) – Santa Clara, CA  – September 28-30, 2026

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