Author: Christine McMonigal

SNIA Networking Storage Forum – New Name, Expanded Charter

Christine McMonigal
Anyone who follows technology knows that it is a fast-paced world with rapid changes and constant innovations. SNIA, together with its members, technical work groups, Forums, and Initiatives, continues to embrace, educate, and develop standards to make technology more available and better understood. At the SNIA Networking Storage Forum, we’ve been at the forefront of diving into technology topics that extend beyond traditional networked storage, providing education on AI, edge, acceleration and offloads, hyperconverged infrastructure, programming frameworks, and more. We still care about and spend a lot of time on networked storage and storage protocols, but we felt it was time that the name of the group better reflected the broad range of timely topics we’re covering. Read More

Object Storage: Got Questions?

Christine McMonigal
Over 900 people (and counting) have watched ourSNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) webcast, “Object Storage: Trends, Use Cases” where our expert panelist had a lively discussion on object storage characteristics, use cases and performance acceleration. If you have not seen this session yet, we encourage you to check it out on-demand. The conversation included several interesting questions related to object storage. As promised, here are answers to them: Q: Today object storage allows many new capabilities but also new challenges, such as the need for geographic and local load balancers in a distributed scale out infrastructure that at the same time do not become the bottleneck of the object services at an unsustainable cost. Are there any solutions available today that have these features built in? A: Some object storage solutions have features such as load balancing and geographic distribution built into the software, though often the storage administrator must manually configure parts of these features at the network and/or server level. Most object storage cloud (StaaS) implementations include a distributed, scale-out infrastructure (including load balancing) in their implementation. Read More

Keeping Pace with Object Storage Trends & Use Cases

Christine McMonigal
Object storage has been among the most popular topics we’ve covered in the SNIA Networking Storage Forum. On November 16, 2021, we will take this topic on again at our live webcast “Object Storage: Trends, Use Cases.” Moving beyond the mechanics of object storage, our experts panel will focus on recent object storage trends, problems object storage can solve, and real-world use cases including ransomware protection. So, what’s new? Object storage has traditionally been seen as an archival storage platform, and is now being employed as a platform for primary data. In this webcast, we’ll highlight how this is happening and discuss: Read More