2024 Year of the Summit Kicks Off – Meet us at MemCon

2023 was a great year for SNIA CMSI to meet with IT professionals and end users in “Summits” to discuss technologies, innovations, challenges, and solutions.  Our outreach at six industry events reached over 16,000 and we thank all who engaged with our CMSI members. We are excited to continue a second “Year of the Summit” with a variety of opportunities to network and converse with you.  Our first networking event will take place March 26-27, 2024 at MemCon in Mountain View, CA. MemCon 2024 focuses on systems design for the data centric era, working with data-intensive workloads, integrating emerging technologies, and overcoming data movement and management challenges.  It’s the perfect event to discuss the integration of SNIA’s focus on developing global standards and delivering education on all technologies related to data.  SNIA and MemCon have prepared a video highlighting several of the key topics to be discussed. Read More

Power Efficiency Measurement – Our Experts Make It Clear – Part 3

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 continue with Part 3: Traditional Differences in Power Consumption: Hard Disk Drives vs Solid State Drives. And if you missed our earlier segments, click on the titles to read them:  Part 1: Key Issues in Power Efficiency Measurement, and Part 2: Impact of Workloads on Power Efficiency Measurement..  Bookmark this blog  and check back in April for the final installment of our four-part series. And explore the topic further in the SNIA Green Storage Knowledge Center. Read More

So Just What Is An SSD?

It seems like an easy enough question, “What is an SSD?” but surprisingly, most of the search results for this get somewhat confused quickly on media, controllers, form factors, storage interfaces, performance, reliability, and different market segments.  The SNIA SSD SIG has spent time demystifying various SSD topics like endurance, form factors, and the different classifications of SSDs – from consumer to enterprise and hyperscale SSDs. “Solid state drive is a general term that covers many market segments, and the SNIA SSD SIG has developed a new overview of “What is an SSD? ,” said Jonmichael Hands, SNIA SSD Special Interest Group (SIG)Co-Chair. “We are committed to helping make storage technology topics, like endurance and form factors, much easier to understand coming straight from the industry experts defining the specifications.”   The “What is an SSD?” page offers a concise description of what SSDs do, how they perform, how they connect, and also provides a jumping off point for more in-depth clarification of the many aspects of SSDs. It joins an ever-growing category of 20 one-page “What Is?” answers that provide a clear and concise, vendor-neutral definition of often- asked technology terms, a description of what they are, and how each of these technologies work.  Check out all the “What Is?” entries at https://www.snia.org/education/what-is And don’t miss other interest topics from the SNIA SSD SIG, including  Total Cost of Ownership Model for Storage and SSD videos and presentations in the SNIA Educational Library. Your comments and feedback on this page are welcomed.  Send them to askcmsi@snia.org. The post So just what is an SSD? first appeared on SNIA Compute, Memory and Storage Blog.

It’s A Wrap – But Networking and Education Continue From Our C+M+S Summit!

Our 2023 SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit was a success! The event featured 50 speakers in 40 sessions over two days. Over 25 SNIA member companies and alliance partners participated in creating content on computational storage, CXL™ memory, storage, security, and UCIe™. All presentations and videos are free to view at www.snia.org/cms-summit. “For 2023, the Summit scope expanded to examine how the latest advances within and across compute, memory and storage technologies should be optimized and configured to meet the requirements of end customer applications and the developers that create them,” said David McIntyre, Co-Chair of the Summit.  “We invited our SNIA Alliance Partners Compute Express Link™ and Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™ to contribute to a holistic view of application requirements and the infrastructure resources that are required to support them,” McIntyre continued.  “Their panel on the CXL device ecosystem and usage models and presentation on UCIe innovations at the package level along with three other sessions on CXL added great value to the event.” Read More

50 Speakers Featured at the 2023 SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit

SNIA’s Compute+Memory+Storage Summit is where architectures, solutions, and community come together. Our 2023 Summit – taking place virtually on April 11-12, 2023 – is the best example to date, featuring a stellar lineup of 50 speakers in 40 sessions covering topics including computational storage real-world applications, the future of memory, critical storage security issues, and the latest on SSD form factors, CXL™, and UCIe™. “We’re excited to welcome executives, architects, developers, implementers, and users to our 11th annual Summit,” said David McIntyre, C+M+S Summit Co-Chair, and member of the SNIA Board of Directors.  “We’ve gathered the technology leaders to bring us the latest developments in compute, memory, storage, and security in our free online event.  We hope you will watch live to ask questions of our experts as they present, and check out those sessions you miss on-demand.” Read More

“Year of the Summit” Kicks Off with Live and Virtual Events

For 11 years, SNIA Compute, Memory and Storage Initiative (CMSI) has presented a Summit featuring industry leaders speaking on the key topics of the day.  In the early years, it was persistent memory-focused, educating audiences on the benefits and uses of persistent memory.  In 2020 it expanded to a Persistent Memory+Computational Storage Summit, examining that new technology, its architecture, and use cases. Now in 2023, the Summit is expanding again to focus on compute, memory, and storage. Read More

Is EDSFF Taking Center Stage? We Answer Your Questions!

Enterprise and Data Center Form Factor (EDSFF) technologies have come a long way since our 2020 SNIA CMSI webinar on the topic. While that webinar still provides an outstanding framework for understanding – and SNIA’s popular SSD Form Factors page gives the latest on the E1 and E3 specifications – SNIA Solid State Drive Special Interest Group co-chairs Cameron Brett and Jonmichael Hands joined to provide the latest updates at our live webcast: EDSFF Taking Center Stage in the Data Center.  We had some great questions from our live audience, so our experts have taken the time to answer them in this this blog. Q: What does the EDSFF roadmap look like? When will we see PCIe® Gen5 NVMe™, 1.2, 2.0 CXL ™ cx devices? Read More

Is the Data Really Gone? A Q&A

In our recent webcast Is the Data Really Gone? A Primer on the Sanitization of Storage Devices, our presenters Jonmichael Hands (Chia Network), Jim Hatfield (Seagate), and John Geldman (KIOXIA) took an in-depth look at exactly what sanitization is, what the standards are, and where sanitization is being practiced today.  If you missed it, you can watch on-demand their recommendations for the verification of sanitization to ensure that devices are meeting stringent requirements – and access the presentation slides at the SNIA Educational Library.  Here, in our Q&A blog, our experts answer more of your questions on data sanitization. Read More

Join Us as We Return Live to FMS!

SNIA is pleased to be part of the Flash Memory Summit 2022 agenda August 1-4, 2022 at the Santa Clara CA Convention Center, with our volunteer leadership demonstrating solutions, chairing and speaking in sessions, and networking with FMS attendees at a variety of venues during the conference. The ever-popular SNIA Reception at FMS features the SNIA groups Storage Management Initiative, Compute Memory and Storage Initiative, and Green Storage Initiative, along with SNIA alliance partners CXL Consortium, NVM Express, and OpenFabrics Alliance.  Stop by B-203/204 at the Convention Center from 5:30 – 7:00 pm Monday August 1 for refreshments and networking with colleagues to kick off the week! Read More

See You – Virtually – at SDC 2021

SNIA Storage Developer Conference goes virtual September 28-29 2021, and compute, memory, and storage are important topics.  SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative is a sponsor of SDC 2021 – so visit our booth for the latest information and a chance to chat with our experts.  With over 120 sessions available to watch live during the event and later on-demand, live Birds of a Feather chats, and a Persistent Memory Bootcamp and Hackathon accessing new systems in the cloud, we want to make sure you don’t miss anything!  Register here to see sessions live – or on demand to your schedule. Agenda highlights include: Read More