SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
On Demand Webinars
This session explores the evolution of transactions, implementation challenges, and insights into distributed database environments. Whether you're a database enthusiast or a tech enthusiast, this presentation offers valuable insights into the world of database management, and will include:
- Historical perspective of transactions
- Implementing transactions
- Challenges and trade-offs in ACID properties
- Distributed transactions in modern databases like Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, and Google Spanner
Key Takeaways: Understanding the evolution of transactions in databases Insights into the challenges of implementing ACID properties and exploration of distributed transaction models in leading database systems
Large Language models (LLMs) based on Transformers architecture have demonstrated the state-of-the-art performance in different code generation benchmarks such as MBPP and HumanEval. In this talk, we will demonstrate how we have used open source LLM models to develop a code generation workflow that can be trained internally in an on-prem infrastructure and used for improving developer productivity by aiding in tasks such as unittest generation, code documentation, code refactoring, code translation, search, and code alignment.
The digital landscape is in hyperdrive, demanding an IT metamorphosis that transcends mere tools. Enter AIOps – not just a technological upgrade, but a paradigm shift redefining how we approach IT operations. This presentation delves beyond the nuts and bolts, unveiling AIOps as a revolution that infuses AI's intelligence into the very fabric of IT thinking and processes.
A decade ago, the market was aggressively embracing public storage because of its agility and scalability. People are now rethinking that approach, moving toward on-premises storage with cloud consumption models. The new cloud native architecture on-premises has the promise of the traditional data center’s security and reliability with cloud agility and scalability. In this webinar, we will describe how Ceph is uniquely qualified to satisfy this architecture and how the technology community is investing to enable the vision of “Ceph, the Linux of Storage Today”.
Hear from industry experts Jeff Janukowicz, Research Vice President at IDC; Brian Beeler, Owner and Editor in Chief, StorageReview.com; and Cameron T. Brett, SNIA STA Forum Chair on new storage trends developing in the coming year, the applications and other factors driving these trends, and market data that illustrates the assertions.
Training large language models (LLMs) is a complex task which requires substantial computational resources and infrastructure. Fine-tuning LLMs for domain-specific data has emerged as a crucial technique to enhance their performance in specialized tasks and industries. In this talk we give an overview of the basic concepts of LLMs , their pre-training process, highlighting the transfer learning paradigm that forms the basis of fine-tuning.
The latest buzz around generative artificial intelligence (AI) ignores the massive costs to run and power the technology. Without any guard rails in place, what are the impacts of AI on sustainability and costs across our technology resources? This webinar will offer insights on the potentially hidden technical and infrastructure costs associated with generative AI, best practices and potential solutions to be considered.
Any discussion about storage systems is incomplete without the mention of Throughput, IOPs, and Latency. But what exactly do these terms mean and why are they important?
Collectively, these three terms are often referred to as storage performance metrics. Performance can be defined as the effectiveness of a storage system to address I/O needs of an application or workload. Different application workloads have different I/O patterns, and with that arises different bottlenecks, so there is no “one-size fits all” in storage systems. These storage performance metrics help with storage solution design and selection based on application/workload demands
In this webinar, we’ll cover:
- What storage performance metrics mean – understanding key terminology nuances
- Why users/storage administrators should care about them
- How these metrics impact application performance
- Real-world use cases
Keeping Data Secure is one of the prime concerns of any organisation today, given that data is the new oil and attacks on data are on the rise. Therefore addressing security concerns is a key prerogative for any enterprise class block storage. We will discuss various aspects of keeping data secure on an Enterprise Class Block storage controllers and some latest trends in that space.:
- Storage architects get a view on what is involved in building a secure and robust block storage controller
- Developers will get a view on the latest trends in this space
- Solution and ecosystem partners will get a view on what security aspects need to be considered for data security for a block storage controller
Industry experts from SNIA, Applied Research, Microsoft, and Objective Analysis will participate in a panel discussion to explore trends in memory and storage, CXL, and high bandwidth memory innovations, and how they will affect our future applications. This webinar will give you a preview into the topics and sessions at MemCon on March 26-27, 2024 in Mountain View CA, where SNIA is an Association Partner. This webinar is hosted by Memcon in Partnership with SNIA.
