The SNIA Storage Developer Conference (SDC) is coming up September 24-27, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara CA. The agenda is now live!
SNIA on Storage is teaming up with the SNIA Technical Council to dive into major themes of the 2018 conference. The SNIA Technical Council takes a leadership role to develop the content for each SDC, so SNIA on Storage spoke with Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Co-Chair and Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba Memory America, to understand why SDC is bringing Orchestration to conference attendees.
SNIA On Storage (SOS): When I think of “orchestration”, my first vision is of a conductor with a magnificent symphony. Am I on the right track in thinking this way?
Mark Carlson (MC): If you think of the conductor as the “automator” of the symphony, you’re right on! Orchestration for computing is the automated arrangement, coordination, and management of computer systems, middleware, and services. For example, cloud orchestration technology helps to manage the interconnections and interactions among public and private cloud infrastructure workloads.
SOS: What are some examples of orchestration? Read More
The SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) has had a rebrand; we’ve added a T for Technologies into our name, and we’re now officially the Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI).
That doesn’t seem like a significant change, but there’s a good reason. Our old name reflected the push to getting acceptance of cloud storage, and that specific cloud storage debate has been won, and big time. One relatively small cloud service provider is currently storing 400PB of clients’ data. Twitter alone consumes 300PB of data on Google’s cloud offering. Facebook, Amazon, AliBaba, Tencent – all have huge data storage numbers.
Enterprises of every size are storing data in the cloud. That’s why we added the word “technologies.” The expanded charter and new name reflect the need to support the evolving cloud business models and architectures such as OpenStack, software defined storage, Kubernetes and object storage.