Jonmichael Hands

A Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Model of storage provides a way to understand how customers make purchasing decisions by looking all the costs associated with purchasing and running IT equipment. Business objectives and purchasing criteria vary greatly between customers, and hence a one size fits all TCO Model is not adequate for all storage workloads. In this BoF, we will discuss how the latest SNIA TCO Model 2.0 updates the regular storage model TCO with software licensing costs and server configurations important for AI and storage companies.

AI infrastructure is dominated by GPUs — but should it be? As foundational model inference scales, performance bottlenecks are shifting away from compute and toward memory and I/O. HBM sits underutilized, KVCache explodes, and model transfer times dominate pipeline latency. Meanwhile, compression, CXL fabrics, computational memory, and SmartNIC-enabled storage are emerging as powerful levers to close the tokens-per-second-per-watt gap.

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The panel will discuss why interoperability in blockchain is important to the Storage Iindustry. What are the lessons learned. How companies can benefit.

The rapid growth of digital data and the increasing demand for storage solutions present challenges and sustainability opportunities. This session will explore how storage developers can embrace circular economy principles to reduce the environmental impact of storage devices and address supply chain constraints.

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