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Celebrating 10 Years of SNIA Swordfish®
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Swordfish is ten years old! SNIA’s Storage Management Community will celebrate the Swordfish 10th anniversary at SDC 2026 in September. Stay tuned for our retrospective blog “Swordfish: Swimming for 10 Years.” Visit snia.org/swordfish for updates.
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New Technical White Paper:
"An Architecture for a System Involving SDXI and NVMe Components"
This white paper discusses a reference architecture for a system that is enabled with NVMe® and SDXI components. In such an architecture, this white paper envisions facilities available in NVMe and SDXI to complement a storage read and write flow to NVMe subsystems. No extensions to SDXI or NVMe specifications have been proposed in this white paper.
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The SFF TWG has published the following specification updates:
Hybrid Orthogonal EDSFF Connector System (SFF-TA-1044 R1.0)
Defines the hybrid orthogonal interconnect system: a PCB mount connector with a standard EDSFF interface and a cable plug interface, a cable assembly that passes the high-speed signals from the connector to a host board, and a connection to a separate board for low-speed signals. The connector may accept 1C, 2C, or 4C EDSFF devices.
Pin and Signal Definition for the Hybrid Orthogonal EDSFF Connector Specification (SFF-TA-1045 R1.0)
Defines the pin and signal definition for the Hybrid Orthogonal EDSFF Connector and Plug.
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Post Training and Fine Tuning for LLMs in the Enterprise
April 23, 2026
Ulf Hanebutte, Marvell; Rohan Mehta, Micron Technology; Balachandran Rajendran, Dell; Erik Smith, Dell
Deconstructing the Storage Software Stack: From Legacy Silos to AI-Scale Architecture
May 14, 2026
Luis Freeman, IBM; Rohan Mehta, Micron Technology; Jayanthi Ramakalanjiyam, Celestica
AI Meets Storage: Comparing On-Prem, Cloud, and Hybrid Architectures Across the AI Lifecycle
June 11, 2026
Rohan Mehta, Micron Technology; Himabindu Tummala, Dell; Erik Smith, Dell
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SNIA is pleased to welcome the following new members:
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Find SNIA at these Events
INTERMAG 2026 – Manchester, UK – April 13-17, 2026
SNIA SMB3 Interoperability (IO) Lab EMEA – Goettingen, Germany – April 22-23, 2026
SDC: StorageAI™ – Denver, CO – April 29, 2026
SNIA Cloud Object Storage Online Plugfest – Online – May 4-6, 2026
Storage and Computing with DNA – Rome, Italy – May 27-29, 2026
AI Infrastructure Field Day 5 – Silicon Valley, CA – June 10-11, 2026
SNIA Cloud Object Storage Online Plugfest – Online – July 7-9, 2026
FMS 2026 – Santa Clara, CA – August 2-6, 2026
AI Infra Summit – Santa Clara, CA – September 15-17, 2026
SNIA Developer Conference (SDC) – Santa Clara, CA – September 28-30, 2026
SC26 – Chicago, IL – November 15-20, 2026
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SDC: StorageAI™ is Almost Here!
SDC: StorageAI in Denver, CO is happening this month on April 29, 2026. This one-day SDC (SNIA Developer Conference) event will explore how AI is exposing challenges in data services, particularly in how storage, networks, and compute must work together to meet new performance demands. The agenda features industry leaders who are on the front lines of the biggest trends shaping the AI landscape. Registration is just $149.
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SDC’26 Call for Presentations – Priority Deadline is April 15
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Ready to share your expertise at SDC'26? Now’s your chance! The call for presentations is open. Join industry leaders in Santa Clara, CA September 28-30 and showcase your insights to a dynamic audience of tech professionals. The priority submission deadline is April 15, 2026.
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SNIA SMB3 Interoperability (IO) Lab EMEA –
April 21-23
SNIA is pleased to host the 2026 SNIA SMB3 IO Lab EMEA, April 21–23, in Goettingen, Germany, immediately following SambaXP April 20–21, 2026. The IO Lab provides a collaborative forum for vendors to test SMB3 implementations, identify and fix issues, and work together toward interoperable products.
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SNIA Cloud Object Storage Plugfest Expands Online – May 4 - 6
The SNIA Cloud Object Storage Plugfest program has expanded online. In addition to our face-to-face Plugfest at SDC’26, we are hosting 3 online Plugfests to expedite interoperability testing among cloud object storage solutions. The next online Plugfest starts on May 4.
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