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Measuring power efficiency in datacenter storage is a complex endeavor. A number of factors play a role in assessing individual storage devices or system-level logical storage for power efficiency. Luckily, our SNIA experts make the measuring easier! In this SNIA Experts on Data blog series, our experts in the SNIA Solid State Storage Technical Work Group and the SNIA Green Storage Initiative explore factors to consider in power efficiency measurement, including the nature of application workloads, IO streams, and access patterns; the choice of storage products (SSDs, HDDs, cloud storage, and more); the impact of hardware and software components (host bus adapters, drivers, OS layers); and access to read and write caches, CPU and GPU usage, and DRAM utilization. Join us on our journey to better power efficiency as we begin with Part 1: Key Issues in Power Efficiency Measurement. Bookmark this blog and check back in February, March, and April for the continuation of our four-part series. And explore the topic further in the SNIA Green Storage Knowledge Center. Part 1: Key Issues in Power Efficiency Measurement Read More

These questions were asked and mostly answered during our webcast, Storage Trends in 2023 and Beyond. Graphics included in this article were shown during the webcast, and several of the questions refer to the data in the charts.

Thank you to our panelists:

Don Jeanette, Vice President, TRENDFOCUS
Patrick Kennedy, Principal Analyst, ServeTheHome
Rick Kutcipal, At-Large Director, SCSI Trade Association and Product Planner, Data Center Solutions Group, Broadcom

Q1: What does the future hold for U.3? (SFF-TA-1001) Was it included in the U.2 numbers?

U.2 should be U.X in the pie chart. There are some shipments out there today, customers are taking it, and it will likely grow — but all the efforts and priorities are really E3S, E1S and then, to some extent, E1,L.

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Hyperscale and enterprise data centers continue to grow rapidly and to use SAS products as a backbone. Why SAS, and what specific SAS products are helping these data centers to grow? This article briefly discusses the technology evolution of SAS, bringing us to our latest generation of 24G SAS. We will examine recent market data from TRENDFOCUS, underscoring the established and growing trajectory of SAS products. We will highlight our latest plugfest, which smoothed the way for 24G SAS to seamlessly enter the existing data storage ecosystem. Finally, we will help the reader to understand the availability, breadth, and depth of 24G SAS products that are available today, and where you can get those products.

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Our 10^th annual Persistent Memory + Computational Storage Summit is right around the corner on May 24 and 25, 2022.  We remain virtual this year, and hope this will offer you more flexibility to watch our live-streamed mainstage sessions, chat online, and catch our always popular Computational Storage birds-of-a-feather session on Tuesday afternoon without needing a plane or hotel reservation! This year, the Summit agenda expands knowledge on computational storage and persistent memory, and also features new sessions on computational memory, Compute Express Link ^TM (CXL)^TM, NVM Express, SNIA Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI), and Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe). Read More

Questions from “Storage Trends for 2021 and Beyond” Webcast Answered

This is part two of the Q&A portion of the roundtable talk between Rick Kutcipal, board director, SCSI Trade Association (STA); Jeff Janukowicz, Research vice president at IDC; and Chris Preimesberger, former editor-in-chief of eWeek, where they discussed prominent data storage technologies shaping the market. If you missed this webcast titled “Storage Trends for 2021 and Beyond,” it’s available on demand here.

Part One of the Q&A can be found at https://www.scsita.org/library/qa-part-1-from-storage-trends-for-2021-and-beyond-webcast/.

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Questions from “Storage Trends for 2021 and Beyond” Webcast Answered

It was a great pleasure for Rick Kutcipal, board director, SCSI Trade Association (STA), to welcome Jeff Janukowicz, Research vice president at IDC and Chris Preimesberger, former editor-in-chief of eWeek, in a roundtable talk to discuss prominent data storage technologies shaping the market. If you missed this webcast titled “Storage Trends for 2021 and Beyond,” it’s now available on demand here.

The well-attended event generated a lot of questions! So many in fact, we’re authoring a two-part blog series with the answers. In part one, we recap the questions that were asked and answered during the webcast, but since we ran out of time to answer them all, please watch for part two when we tackle the rest.

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SNIA’s Technical Council is one of the crown jewels of the organization. Made up of a group of acknowledged storage experts, the Technical Council oversees and manages SNIA Technical Work Groups, reviews architectures submitted by work groups, and is SNIA’s technical liaison to standards organizations. One of the Council’s superpowers is its ISO JTC-1 designation as an ARO and a PAS submitter. What does that actually mean? It’s a very big deal! SNIA is only one of 13 organizations worldwide that have the PAS submission capability, putting it in exclusive company. The list includes: Read More