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January 9, 2015 SNIA NVM Programming Group Receives a Visionary Company Award On January 5, 2015, at the Storage Visions Conference, SNIA’s NVM Programming Technical Work Group was given the Professional Storage Development Award for its work on Creating Next Generation NVM Programming Models. Congratulations on the great work! Submit a Proposal for a SNIA Tutorial Be a part of the SNIA Tutorial program, a vendor–neutral educational experience, and submit a proposal to present your own SNIA Tutorial. SNIA Tutorials are intended to present technical and business issues covering Information Technology in a fair and unbiased manner. Your submission will be considered for several upcoming events. The deadline to submit for USENIX FAST is January 13th. You may also still submit a tutorial proposal for SNIA’s Data Storage Innovation Conference even though the submission review process has already begun. View more information and submit your proposal here. Attend the SNIA Annual Members’ Symposium Attend the SNIA Annual Members’ Symposium on January 20 – 23, 2015 in San Jose and join your colleagues for networking, working group meetings, keynote presentations from industry luminaries, and other valuable workshops and sessions. Co–located Summits
SNIA Announces New Honorees to Hall of Fame SNIA is pleased to announce the selected of the following two individuals to the SNIA Hall of Fame. These individuals that will be formally inducted at Membership Recognition Awards and Reception during the SNIA Annual Members’ Symposium on January 21, 2015. Please join us in congratulating:
The honorees of the Annual Member Recognition Program and the Deborah K. Johnson award will also be announced during the reception. Product Selection Guide Revision Underway The Data Protection and Capacity Optimization (DPCO) Committee of SNIA is revising its Product Selection Guide (PSG) over the next four weeks to facilitate the listing of more of the newest storage products, such as cloud-related storage and data protection products and software defined storage products. All storage and data protection vendors, both those now a part of the PSG and those who are not, are invited to list appropriate products in the revised PSG at no cost to SNIA members. The online PSG has become a popular reference, and a hard copy of the updated Guide will be distributed at the upcoming Data Storage Innovation Conference in April. Please contact the DPCO Committee with questions at: dpco-chair@snia.org. |
In This Issue SNIA NVM Programming Group Receives a Visionary Company Award Submit a Proposal for a SNIA Tutorial Attend the SNIA Annual Members’ Symposium SNIA Announces New Honorees to Hall of Fame Product Selection Guide Revision Underway SNIA Europe News- New Authorized Training Provider in the Middle East Featured Article: NVMe Express
SNIA Webcasts and Education: Live Webcast: OpenStack Cloud Storage January 14, 2015 OpenStack is an open source cloud operating system that controls pools of compute, storage, and networking. It is currently being developed by thousands of developers from hundreds of companies across the globe, and is the basis of multiple public and private cloud offerings. In this Webcast you’ll hear:
The talk will also cover new developments in Cinder and Swift that enable advanced array features, QoS, new storage fabrics, and new types of drives. Live Webcast: OpenStack Manila January 29, 2015 Manila is the OpenStack file share service. Manila provides the management of file shares (for example, NFS and CIFS) as a core service to OpenStack. Manila currently works with a variety of vendors, including NetApp, Red Hat Storage (GlusterFS), EMC, IBM GPFS, and on a base Linux NFS server. Join us as we discuss:
Live Webcast: LTFS Bulk Transfer Standard February 10, 2015 LTFS tape technology provides compelling economics for bulk transportation of data between enterprise locations and to and from clouds. This Webcast provides an update on the joint work of the LTFS and Cloud Technical Working Groups on a bulk transfer standard that uses LTFS to allow for the reliable movement of data and merging of namespaces. This Webcast introduces the use cases for inter and intra-enterprise data transport, and cloud data transport, and describes the entities and XML documents used to control the data transfer process. Certification Training for the CompTIA Storage+ Powered by SNIA Certification March 16–20, 2015 This class will better prepare to do your job and to take the CompTIA Storage+ Powered by SNIA certification exam. SNIA Members receive a 10% discount on registration! Use code SpecialMemberDisc to receive the discount.
Find SNIA at these Events: SNIA Annual Members’ Symposium January 20 – 23, 2015 Don’t miss SNIA Annual Members’ Symposium where you and your colleagues can join together for networking, working group meetings, informative keynote sessions, and other unique programs designed for SNIA members. Storage Industry Summit: Non–Volatile Memory January 20, 2015 This summit will offer an expert line–up of speakers who will present critical insights into NVM and its relationship to storage. |
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SNIA Europe News – New Authorized Training Provider in the Middle East Datum Technology Services has been appointed the exclusive Authorized Training Provider for the SNIA SNCP Courses in the Middle East. The announcement was made during a recent launch event at the Atlantis Palm in Dubai, followed by the first SNIA training class in the region. SNIA SNCP courses are now available in UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait. For further information, see www.snia-europe.org or go to the DTS site at www.dtsme.com. Featured Article: NVMe Express (Excerpt from article recently published in DataCenter Solutions)
When I first started in storage technology (it doesn’t seem like that long ago, really!) the topic seemed like it was becoming rather stagnant. The only thing that seemed to be happening was that disks were getting bigger (more space) and the connections were getting faster (more speed). More speed, more space; more space, more speed. Who doesn’t like that? After all, you can never have too much bandwidth, or too much disk space! Even so, it does get rather, routine. It gets boring. It gets well, “what have you done for me lately?” Then came flash |
January 21, 2015 This summit will present best practices from IT professionals, technology vendors, users and consultants on analytics and big data applications and systems. February 16–19, 2015 FAST ’15 brings together storage–system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the desig As a feature of Fast '15, SNIA will be presenting a SNIA Tutorial Day of its vendor-neutral tutorials on Tuesday, February 17. Data Storage Innovation Conference April 7–9, 2015
SNIA’s DSI Conference is for decision–makers, technology implementers, and those expected to recognize, influence, and support data storage innovation as actual production solutions. DSI identifies the challenges you most frequently face while offering practical solutions from leading and innovative industry end–users, vendors, and consultants. See presentations from DSI 2014 here. For information on sponsorship, click here. Connect with SNIA www.snia.org
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