. This includes software drivers and libraries for building NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) host and target solutions. On January 9, 2020, the SNIA Networking Storage Forum is going to kick-off its 2020 webcast program by diving into this topic with a live webcast “Where Does SPDK Fit in the NVMe-oF Landscape.”
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Truly understanding storage security issues is no small task, but the SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) is taking that task on in our Storage Networking Security Webcast Series. Earlier this month, we hosted the first in this series, “Understanding Storage Security and Threats” where my SNIA colleagues and I examined the big picture of storage security, relevant terminology and key concepts. If you missed the live event, you can watch it on-demand.
Our audience asked some great questions during the live event. Here are answers to them all.
Q. If I just deploy self-encrypting drives, doesn’t that take care of all my security concerns? Read More
The SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) recently hosted a live webcast, What Software Defined Storage Means for Storage Networking where our experts, Ted Vojnovich and Fred Bower explained what makes software defined storage (SDS) different from traditional storage. If you missed the live event, you can watch it on-demand at your convenience. We had several questions at the live event and here are our experts’ answers to them all:
Q. Are there cases where SDS can still work with legacy storage so that high priority flows, online transaction processing (OLTP) can use SAN for the legacy storage while not so high priority and backup data flows utilize the SDS infrastructure? Read More
What do Hyperscalers like Facebook and Microsoft have in common? Find out in our next SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) webcast, How Facebook and Microsoft Leverage NVMe Cloud Storage, on November 19, 2019 where you’ll hear how these cloud market leaders are using NVMe SSDs in their architectures.
Our expert presenters, Ross Stenfort, Hardware System Engineer at Facebook and Lee Prewitt, Principal Hardware Program Manager, Azure CSI at Microsoft, will provide a close up look into their application requirements and challenges, why they chose NVMe flash for storage, and how they are successfully deploying NVMe to fuel their businesses. You’ll learn: Read More
Software defined storage (SDS) is growing in popularity in both cloud and enterprise accounts. But why is it appealing to some customers and what is the impact on storage networking? Find out at our SNIA Networking Storage Forum webcast on October 22, 2019 “What Software Defined Storage Means for Storage Networking” where our experts will discuss:
Register today to save your spot on Oct. 22nd. This event is live, so as always, our SNIA experts will be on-hand to answer your questions.
This series of webcasts, hosted by the SNIA Networking Storage Forum, is going to tackle an ambitious project – the scope of securing data, namely storage systems and storage networks. Obviously, many of the concepts and realities contained in this series are going to be broadly applicable to all kinds of data protection, but there are some aspects of security that have a unique impact on storage, storage systems, and storage networks.
Because of the fact that security is a holistic concern, there has to be more than “naming the parts.” It’s important to understand how the pieces fit together, because it’s where those joints exist that many of the threats become real.
Understanding Storage Security and Threats
This presentation is going to go into the broad introduction of security principles in general. Read More
The lines are blurring as new memory technologies are challenging the way we build and use storage to meet application demands. That’s why the SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) hosted a “Memory Pod” webcast is our series, “Everything You Wanted to Know about Storage, but were too Proud to Ask.” If you missed it, you can watch it on-demand here along with the presentation slides. We promised
Q. Do tools exist to do secure data overwrite for security purposes?
A. Most popular tools are cryptographic signing of the data where you can effectively erase the data by throwing away the keys. There are a number of technologies available; for example, the usual ones like BitLocker (part of Windows 10, for example) where the NVDIMM-P is tied to a specific motherboard. There are others where the data is encrypted as it is moved from NVDIMM DRAM to flash for the NVDIMM-N type. Other forms of persistent memory may offer their own solutions. SNIA is working on a security model for persistent memory, and there is a presentation on our work here. Read More
As more storage traffic traverses the network, the risk of congestion leading to higher-than-expected latencies and lower-than expected throughput has become common. That’s why the SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) hosted a live webcast earlier this month, Introduction to Incast, Head of Line Blocking, and Congestion Management. In this webcast (which is now available on-demand), our SNIA experts discussed how Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand each handles increased traffic.
The audience at the live event asked some great questions, as promised, here are answers to them all.
Q. How many IP switch vendors today support Data Center TCP (DCTCP)? Read More
Last month, the SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) hosted a webcast on how increases in networking speeds are impacting storage. If you missed the live webcast, New Landscape of Network Speeds, it’s now available on-demand. We received several interesting questions on this topic. Here are our experts’ answers:
Q. What are the cable distances for 2.5 and 5G Ethernet?
A. 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T Ethernet are designed to run on existing UTP cabling, so it should reach 100 meters on both Cat5e and Cat6 cabling. Reach of 5GBASE-T on Cat 5e may be less under some conditions, for example if many cables are bundled tightly together. Cabling guidelines and field test equipment are available to aid in the transition. Read More