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July 14, 2014 Storage Developer Conference Agenda Now Available The Storage Developer Conference (SDC) will host its 11th year in Santa Clara on September 15–18, 2014. After a record breaking number of submissions, SDC’s agenda is now available online. Assembled under the guidance of the SNIA Technical Council to ensure presentations meet strict criteria encouraging vendor neutrality, originality of content, and technical merit, the SDC 2014 agenda will include over 90 breakout sessions across as many as 5 tracks over 4 days. The agenda will focus on file systems, software defined X, big data and Internet of Things, cloud storage, object storage, SMB2/3, NFS, long-term preservation, solid state storage, storage networking, security, and more. View the full agenda here. Note that we are continuing to add speakers, Birds–of–a–Feather meetings, and panel sessions to the agenda, so check back regularly. Also, don’t forget to register before August 15th to save $300 on registration. Share Your Expertise at the Analytics and Big Data Summit Taking place in Santa Clara, CA on September 18th, the SNIA 2014 Analytics and Big Data Summit (ABDS) educates and offers clear insights into this fast growing market segment. The audience for SNIA Analytics and Big Data Summit is specifically for IT storage professionals and related colleagues who are looking for solutions for their IT environments. Share your knowledge and experience as an IT storage professional by submitting a presentation proposal for consideration for the 2014 SNIA Analytics and Big Data Summit. The deadline for this call for presentation proposals has been extended to July 16th. See more details here. Subject Matter Experts Needed SNIA and CompTIA are jointly looking for IT professionals to help to identify areas of competence required for the CompTIA Storage+ Powered by SNIA Certification Exam, and to ensure that the examination objectives are relevant to job roles and activities for the target audience. Assistance from subject matter experts (SMEs) is crucial in providing an industry relevant exam. Potential SMEs must be IT professionals with a strong background in networking with at least 2 years current experience working with network servers. Ideal candidates should be able to identify environmental issues, as well as understand and comply with disaster recovery and physical/software security procedures. It is preferred that SMEs are CompTIA Storage+ certified or have equivalent experience. The workshop and project dates are August 18–22, 2014. SMEs will receive a $300 per day stipend for the 5–day workshop. Meals will also be provided during the 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. working days. Recognition for SMEs includes listing on the CompTIA website pending full participation in the program. View more details here. Changes to the SNIA Board of Directors
David Dale, SNIA Chairman (left) and Leo Leger, SNIA Executive Director, (right) present a commemorative gift to Tony DiCenzo upon his retirement from the SNIA Board. Effective as of its June meeting, Tony Dicenzo of Oracle Corporation has retired from his position on the SNIA Board of Directors. Tony has served over two periods representing Brocade from 2002 – 2004 and in his current set of terms representing Oracle since 2011. Tony will otherwise remain active with SNIA, remaining as Chairman of the Standards Committee that oversees efforts to adopt SNIA specifications as ISO/IEC JTC 1 standards. David Dale, SNIA Chairman, and each of Tony’s colleagues on the Board extend our gratitude for his years of service to SNIA and the Board.
Ron Emerick, newly appointed SNIA Board Member Also effective since June, for a term through 2015, the Board appointed Ron Emerick, Principal Hardware Engineer, Oracle, as a new member. He joins the other distinguished members of the Board of Directors who are charged with oversight of the Association’s vision and mission as well as ensuring that tangible value accrues to member companies. SNIA Hosts Tutorial Day, Hands-on Lab, and Other Activities at Flash Memory Summit SNIA and the Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) invite SNIA members and colleagues to attend the Flash Memory Summit 2014, taking place Monday through Friday, August 4-8, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. SNIA and SSSI participation includes keynotes, panels, and presentations led by SNIA and SSSI members. Activities also include a SNIA Education Day on Monday, a Solid State Storage Reception on Monday evening, SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative education and demonstration in Booth 808 located in the Exhibit Hall, and a Hands–On Lab presented by the NVDIMM Special Interest Group. See details on all these activities. Register at www.flashmemorysummit.com. Use the code “SNIA” to sign up today and receive $100 off Full Conference, 3–Day Conference, or One–Day Technical Program registrations. SNIA on Solid State Blog: What a Solid State We Store In What can you expect if you were to ever upgrade to an SSD? Well, for starters your computing experience will be transformed with screaming fast random access speeds, multi–tasking proficiency, as well as fantastic reliability and durability... and you can choose between an external SSD or even a hybrid drive so you’ve got some options. A new SSD will make your system faster because the boot times will decrease, launching apps will be lightning fast, opening and saving docs will no longer drag, copying and duplicating file speeds will improve, and overall your system will have a new ‘pep in its step’. Furthermore, to promote being green, SSDs consume far less power than traditional hard drives, which means they also preserve battery life and stay cooler. Who doesn’t want and need that? Read the full blog entry here. Huawei and SNIA Collaborate on Massive Storage Innovation Forum In Chengdu, China, on June 6th, Huawei partnered with SNIA and SNIA China to hold the “Massive Storage Innovation – Featuring IP–driven Technologies Forum.” During the event, Huawei, along with leading manufacturers, industry customers and academic institutions such as Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, Hitachi, ARM, Marvell, QLogic, SanDisk, AliBaba, IBM, Symantec, Phoenix TV, China Telecom, China Mobile, the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, came together to discuss and explore trends in IP–based massive storage and changes brought about by the new technology. Read more about the forum. |
In This Issue Storage Developer Conference Agenda Now Available Share Your Expertise at the Analytics and Big Data Summit Changes to the SNIA Board of Directors SNIA Hosts Tutorial Day, Hands-on Lab, and Other Activities at Flash Memory Summit SNIA on Solid State Blog: What a Solid State We Store In Huawei and SNIA Collaborate on Massive Storage Innovation Forum
SNIA Webcasts and Education: July 14-17, 2014 The SNIA Emerald™ Program provides a variety of training materials addressing the SNIA Emerald™ Power Efficiency Measurement Specification, performing tests based on the Measurement Specification, and preparing and submitting test results to the SNIA Emerald Program. Attend Live Certification Training for the CompTIA Storage+ Powered by SNIA Certification July 21–24, 2014
SNIA is now taking its CompTIA Storage+ Powered by SNIA classes “on the road” to make storage certification training even easier for you to attain. This class will better prepare to do your job and to take the certification exam. Following the course in Portland, the next available course will take place in Colorado Springs, CO, at the SNIA Headquarters and Technology Center on September 8-12, 2014. August 18-21, 2014
On May 19-22, the SMI-Lab Plugfest was again truly international—and well attended! Microsoft hosted parallel plugfests in its Silicon Valley Campus in Mountain View, California and the Microsoft China Shanghai Technology Park in Shanghai, China. The plugfest had one of SMI-Lab's highest attendance counts—with some 70 attending in person, including 20 in Shanghai. View the May Plugfest report. The next plugfest will be August 18–21. Live Webcast: Expert Insights: Expanding the Data Center with FCoE August 20, 2014 As virtualization continues to evolve and data centers become more dynamic than ever, IT leaders are exploring ways to put in place a storage environment that can keep pace. Is FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) the answer? Hear our experts discuss:
Find SNIA at these Events: DMTF Alliance Partner Technical Symposium July 20–24, 2014 Hosted by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and jointly sponsored by SNIA, the eighth annual Alliance Partner Technical Symposium will offer meetings focusing on technical topics and addressing the technical work of interest to each of the DMTF’s Alliance Partners. The SMI Technical Steering Group (TSG) will run an SMI-S Technical Track. August 5–7, 2014 The Flash Memory Summit program is designed to provide attendees with practical information on the current state of flash memory and its applications. Summit themes will include: Solid State Drives (SSDs), Flash Controllers, Flash–Based Architectures, and New Technologies. Marty Foltyn will be organizing the SNIA–sponsored Hands–on Lab program. Look for Michael Meleedy also representing SNIA. September 9–11, 2014 The Intel Developer Forum is where developers, engineers, technology managers, and business leaders from across the industry can meet, share ideas, and learn about Intel’s latest developments. Representing SNIA at IDF will be Jim Pappas, Doug Voigt, Marty Foltyn, Karl Schubert, SW Worth, Wayne Adams, Ron Emerick, and Leo Leger. September 15–18, 2014 Now in its 11th year, the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) continues to be the only event created by storage developers for storage developers. Sponsorships are available. Click here for more information. September 18, 2014 The Analytics and Big Data Summit will again be co-located with the last day of SDC. This summit will present best practices from IT professionals, technology vendors, users and consultants on analytics and big data applications and systems.The Call for Presentations is now open. To learn about sponsoring this event and/or to become an underwriter of the newly announced Analytics and Big Data White Paper series, download the sponsorship brochure. October 28-29, 2014 The Powering the Cloud 2014 conference addresses the evolving role of IT as Europe’s IT Professionals grapple with the opportunities and implications that a Hybrid IT world, embracing Datacenter, Private, Public and Community Clouds, brings to enabling their organizations to reduce costs, become more agile and change the dynamics of their processes.
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