SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
What’s New in SNIA Swordfish™ in 2021
Abstract
If you haven’t caught the new wave in storage management, it’s time to dive in and catch up on the latest developments of the SNIA Swordfish™ specification. These include: - Expanded support for NVMe and NVMe-oF Devices - Managing Storage Fabrics - Standardized Capacity and Performance Metrics Management
Learning Objectives
- Provide the audience with details on how the Swordfish specification and ecosystem has been updated.
- Describe how the latest Swordfish updates can improve storage management.
- Give a sneak peek of the next steps in the Swordfish development roadmap.
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