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SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA

SNIA Chairman Emeritus

Industry Advisor

"Wayne Adams has over 40 years of IT industry experience spanning business development, technical product/solution management, and partner ecosystems. Wayne has been involved in SNIA leadership roles since 2002. Wayne has served on the SNIA Board of Directors since 2003 including roles as Chair, Chair Emeritus, Treasurer in addition to a number of leadership roles for forums and initiatives, conferences, and strategic alliances. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. Over his career, Wayne M. Adams was a Senior Technologist and Director of Standards within the Office of the CTO at EMC, technical alliances partner manager, and a manager of product managers for its portfolio of SRM products. Prior to EMC, Wayne was responsible for product marketing and business development for several strategic software and hardware products at Digital Equipment Corporation. He started his high-tech career at Eastman Kodak as a system designer of real-time control systems."

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Learn about the new SNIA Emerald V1.0  Device Power Measurement Test Specification, the tools and methods to measure an enterprise data storage device. A useful new metric for system supply chain and hypervisor vendors to evaluate devices with enterprise data enter workloads.  In the near future, some regulatory bodies may cross-reference in their regional energy conservation programs. Learn about the changes as part of SNIA Emerald V5.0 System Power Measurement Test Specification, the tools and methods to measure an enterprise data storage system.

Storage Device-Level Power Efficiency Measurement Specification

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Register to Attend this BoF

SNIA Green Storage TWG new specification work to complement the current SNIA Emerald system-level specification referenced by regulators. The session will review the value proposition to the supply chain, the testing tools, and moderate a discussion on test tools, test configurations and device types, IO workloads, and measurement metrics. The project stage is welcoming device vendors and stakeholders to join the effort.

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