Q&A Podcast for From Data to Decisions: Understanding How AI Models Learn SNIAVideo 2026-09-21 | Q&A Podcast for From Data to Decisions: Understanding How AI Models Learn
Why SAS Is a Gold Mine for Crypto SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | Just as with mining in the real world, the people who mine cryptocurrency use powerful equipment to increase their chance of finding valuable resources. But all that power comes at a cost: namely, massive energy consumption. However, next generation blockchains such as the Chia Network could change all that. Unlike other cryptocurrencies, you don't mine Chia with a processor, graphics card, or an ASIC miner. Instead, you farm Chia with storage space, which is where hard drives and solid-state drives come in, using the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) infrastructure to connect them.In this webinar, Jonmichael Hands, vice president, Storage Business Development, Chia Network, will explain the “proof of space and time” (storage capacity) concept that is the foundation of the Chia network, and why SAS is a great technology for farming Chia. He will also discuss the difference between Chia plotting and farming and how they are carried out with the use of storage devices.The webinar will be moderated by Cameron Brett (SNIA STA Forum). SAS is the leading storage interface used in enterprise servers and storage deployments in data centers.Learn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
Storage Trends in 2023 and Beyond SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | Which storage trends are continuing, growing, or emerging for 2023 and beyond? Learn from this discussion between:• Don Jeanette, TRENDFOCUS, a leading storage market analyst;• Patrick Kennedy, ServeTheHome, a prominent storage & server market influencer; and• Rick Kutcipal, SCSI Trade Association & Broadcom, a storage industry veteran expert.We will be talking about trends in the storage market specifically around hyperscale environment platforms, EDSFF, data protection, the role of DPUs, security, and more. Hear about applications driving those trends, and market data supporting the idea exchange.Learn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
Storage Trends in 2021 and Beyond SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | Rick Kutcipal (SNIA STA Forum; Jeff Janukowicz, Research VP, IDC; Chris Preimesberger, EIC, eWeek)enjoy a roundtable talk where you'll have the unique opportunity to see and hear a leading marketing analyst, an editor-in-chief of a prominent trade publication, and a data storage expert discuss prominent data storage technologies shaping the market. With the massive growth in digital data volume that's led to an increased demand for secure, reliable, and cost-efficient storage infrastructure, it's critical to understand the key technologies influencing the market. From SSDs and HDDs to storage interfaces and All-Flash Arrays, get the latest information you need to shape key strategic directions and remain competitive. Reserve your spot today!Learn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SAS vs. NVMe Interface Smackdown SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | Let’s get ready to rumble!In one corner, we have Cameron Brett (Chair, SNIA STA Forum) representing Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). The 30-year market incumbent, SAS is the dominant storage interface used in enterprise servers and storage deployments in data centers.In the other corner, we have Jonmichael Hands (NVM Express™ Marketing Workgroup co-chair) representing the NVM Express interface. NVMe is a high-performance and latency-optimized protocol built from the ground up for non-volatile memories deployed on a PCI Express® bus. NVMe SSDs are the up-and-coming challenger for data center dominance.Refereed by Don Jeanette, Vice President, TRENDFOCUS, this lively discussion will cover an overview of each interface and punch down into the benefits and features of each. Is there enough room in the data center for both? Or can there be only one?Learn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
Tiered Storage Deployments with 24G SAS SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is the only storage interface that embraces both high performance and high reliability, as well as providing native compatibility with low-cost per gigabyte SATA drives. This capability allows SAS to span a variety of storage environments, including tiered storage solutions. Large-scale data infrastructures utilize tens of thousands of HDDs and SSDs, compounded by recent capacity demand via storage-based cryptocurrency initiatives such as the Chia blockchain.Hyperscale companies need to be able to carefully manage their storage infrastructure from a global perspective in a cost-effective way. During this presentation, Jeremiah Tussey (Vice Chair, SNIA STA Forum) will review the benefits of tiered storage and how the latest features standardized in 24G SAS storage interface technology is helping enterprises store and move data across a range of storage media with different characteristics, such as performance, cost and capacity.Learn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SAS in 60 Seconds: Explanation of Serial Attached SCSI Throughputs and Baud Rates SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | Rick Kutcipal (SNIA STA Forum director) explains how throughput is calculated for 12Gb/s SAS and 24G SAS. This is part of the SCSI Trade Association's "SAS in 60 Seconds" video series.Learn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SAS 201: An Introduction to Enterprise Features SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | As a follow-on to our popular "SAS 101: The Most Widely Deployed Storage Interface" video, we’re excited to present a deeper look into Serial Attached SCSI (SAS); a scalable serial interconnect that moves data to, from, and within, storage devices and systems.Expert presenters Rick Kutcipal and Tim Symons, with decades of experience in the storage industry, will discuss the benefits of SAS and the recent enhancements designed to reach new application performance levels. No one can deny that SAS has set the bar with its inherent scalability and flexibility in modern data center, server and storage topologies.In this webcast you will learn about recent evolutions in SAS enterprise features including 24G SAS and what they mean to system designers:• 2.4 GB/s effective single-lane bandwidth (22.5 Gbaud rate)• Unmatched Scalability and Reach• 20-bit Forward Error Correction for more robust reliability• Enhanced transmitter training algorithm for better signal integrity• System-level manageability• Fairness enhancements for performance consistency across protocoltopologiesLearn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SAS In 60 Seconds: Why is 24G SAS called 24G SAS? SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | A brief video featuring Cameron T. Brett (Chair, SNIA STA Forum) explaining the naming logic for the latest version of Serial Attached SCSI.Learn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
Applications Driving 24G SAS in the Data Center SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) has been the storage technology of choice for business-critical applications in data centers for nearly 15 years, starting with 3.0 Gb/s SAS in 2004, then doubling in effective bandwidth with each new generation. The next generation in development is 24G SAS, with end-user products anticipated in late 2020. Optimized for both solid state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs), 24G SAS is backward compatible with existing tried-and-true SAS ecosystems. The end result is unmatched by other storage technology: a highly scalable and flexible technology, offering the fastest per lane performance with the most reliable device management of any drive technology available. 24G SAS will be the technology of choice for all-flash deployments, as well as tiered or cached systems supporting both HDD and SSD devices.Learn from Dennis Martin (Senior Analyst, Principled Technologies) and Cameron T. Brett (Chair SNIA SCSI Trade Association Forum) about how 24G SAS technology can satisfy the performance, scalability and capacity required by today’s video streaming, big data, analytics and other business applications. SAS technology can be deployed across multiple storage tiers and supports SSDs with varied endurance and performance levels, as well as low-cost capacity storage.Learn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SAS In 60 Seconds: Where is Serial Attached SCSI Used? SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | In this installment of our "SAS in 60 Seconds" video series, learn from Paul Coddington (SCSI Trade Association member representative, and mechanical engineer at Amphenol) where Serial Attached SCSI is deployed.Learn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SAS 101: The Most Widely-Deployed Storage Interface SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a scalable serial interconnect that moves data to, from, and within storage devices and systems. It continues to be the backbone of enterprise storage deployments and evolve by adding new features, capabilities, and performance enhancements.Jeremiah Tussey, STA Forum VP and Jeff Mason, STA Board Member will discuss the definition and benefits of SAS and the deployments that are best-suited to take advantage of the fast, flexible, and reliable data access that SAS provides.In this video you will learn:• What are SAS and SCSI• Primary deployments for SAS• SAS ecosystem, including connectivity solutions• Storage leaders involved in the development of SAS standards• SAS benefits and economics• Comparison of storage protocols: SAS, NVMe, and SATA• Where SAS is headed: the roadmapLearn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
24G SAS Whats New How to Test SNIAVideo 2023-07-12 | If your position requires you to stay up on the latest trends in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology used in data storage interconnect, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to hear from Mike Micheletti, a member of the STA Forum. During this presentation, Mike will discuss 24G SAS, including a concise summary of changes in SAS4 and tips on how to test these new features.There’s not a lot of technical information available on 24G SAS, other than reading the specification (which is never easy so reserve your spot today. You be rewarded with a large ‘return-on-investment’ of your valuable time, including the opportunity to ask questions in the chat box, which will be answered live on the webinar.Mike will cover what’s new in 24G SAS, and how to test it, including:-“Packet-Mode” Structures- Forward Error Correction (FEC)- Active Phy Transmitter Adjustment (APTA)- Persistent ConnectionsLearn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/librarySCSI Trade Association (STA Forum): snia.org/sta-forumTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
Data Fabric: Connecting the Dots between Structured and Unstructured Data SNIAVideo 2023-06-28 | Data Fabric is an architecture, set of services and platform that standardizes and integrates data across the enterprise regardless of data location (On-Prem, Cloud, Multi Cloud, Hybrid Cloud), enabling self-service data access to support various applications, analytics, and use cases. The data fabric leaves data where it lives and applies intelligent automation to govern, secure and bring AI to your data. This session will discuss:• Different types of data sources for data fabric integration• Unification of structured and unstructured data sources into the data fabric• How to simplify data access by virtually connecting data end points across a hybrid cloud landscape• Providing automatic enrichment leveraging AI to contextualize data with semantics and knowledge• Apply global and automated data governance and data privacy policy enforcement for increased data protection and qualityPresented by Joseph Dain, IBM; Michael Hoard, IntelLearn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSI Webinar: Persistent Memory, CXL, and Memory Tiering - June 2023 SNIAVideo 2023-06-27 | Join Jim Handy of Objective Analysis as he moderates a panel featuring Andy Rudoff and Bhushan Chitlur from Intel, David McIntyre from Samsung, and Sudhir Balasubramanian and Arvind Jagannath from VMware as they discuss Persistent Memory , Compute Express Link™ (CXL™), and Memory Tiering; and how the eco-system is working together to provide solutions for memory tiering using CXL for customer use cases.
Why Web 3 0 is Important to Enterprise Storage SNIAVideo 2023-06-01 | Explore the exciting and rapidly evolving world of decentralized storage and how it is bridging the gap between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0In this webinar, we will provide an overview of the importance of enterprise decentralized storage and why it is more relevant now than ever before. We will delve into the benefits and demand of decentralized storage and discuss the evolution of on-premises to cloud to decentralized storage (cloud 2.0). We will explore decentralized storage use cases, including its role in data privacy and security and the potential for decentralized applications (dApps) and blockchain technology.Presented by Stefaan Vervaet, Protocol Labs; Rafal Szczesniak, Dell; Joseph White, Dell; Shawn Flynn, The Silicon Valley PodcastLearn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
Casting the Net: Scaling Management of Storage and Fabrics SNIAVideo 2023-05-17 | Composable disaggregated infrastructures provide a promising solution to addressing the provisioning and computational efficiency limitations, as well as hardware and operating costs, of integrated, siloed systems. But how do we solve these problems in an open, standards-based way?DMTF, SNIA, the OFA, and the CXL™ Consortium are working together to provide elements of the overall solution, with Redfish® and SNIA Swordfish™ manageability providing the standards-based interface. OFA is developing an OpenFabrics Management Framework (OFMF) designed for configuring fabric interconnects and managing composable disaggregated resources in dynamic High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures using client-friendly abstractions.In this webinar, attendees will understand how use cases for scaling management of storage and fabrics and beyond are addressed in these architectures, and the applicability to additional technologies.Presented by Richelle Ahlvers, Vice Chair, SNIA Board of Directors, Intel; Phil Cayton, OpenFabrics Alliance Vice Chair, IntelLearn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
Why Storage Management Standards Matter in Complex Virtualized Environments SNIAVideo 2023-05-09 | opportunities for optimization. Adding additional virtualization and acceleration technologies presents more flexibility and options to build a custom configuration but doing so increases the management challenges exponentially. With the proliferation of different technologies and multiple vendors, standards-based management is more critical than ever to successfully develop, integrate, deploy, and manage systems and storage at scale. This session will provide an overview of:- The latest technologies in storage for virtualization, acceleration, and fabrics- The organizations delivering standards-based management- A discussion of open-source projects delivering value-add using standards-based managementPresented by Richelle Ahlvers, Vice Chair, SNIA Board of Directors & Chair, SNIA Storage Management InitiativeLearn More:SNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - UCIe : An Open Standard for Innovations at the Package Level SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | High-performance workloads demand on-package integration of heterogeneous processing units, on-package memory, and communication infrastructure to meet the demands of the emerging compute landscape. Applications such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, 5G, automotive, and high-performance computing are driving these demands to meet the needs of cloud computing, intelligent edge, and client computing infrastructure. On-package interconnects are a critical component to deliver the power-efficient performance with the right feature set in this evolving landscape.UCIe is an open industry standard with a fully specified stack that comprehends plug-and-play interoperability of chiplets on a package; similar to the seamless interoperability on board with well-established and successful off-package interconnect standards such PCI Express®, Universal Serial Bus (USB)®, and Compute Express Link (CXL)®. In this talk, we will discuss the usages and key metrics associated with different technology choices. We will also delve into the different layers as well as the software model along with the compliance and interoperability mechanisms.Presented by Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, UCIe ConsortiumLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - A Big-Disk Computational Storage Array for High Performance Data Analytics SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | High-performance workloads demand on-package integration of heterogeneous processing units, on-package memory, and communication infrastructure to meet the demands of the emerging compute landscape. Applications such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, 5G, automotive, and high-performance computing are driving these demands to meet the needs of cloud computing, intelligent edge, and client computing infrastructure. On-package interconnects are a critical component to deliver the power-efficient performance with the right feature set in this evolving landscape.UCIe is an open industry standard with a fully specified stack that comprehends plug-and-play interoperability of chiplets on a package; similar to the seamless interoperability on board with well-established and successful off-package interconnect standards such PCI Express®, Universal Serial Bus (USB)®, and Compute Express Link (CXL)®. In this talk, we will discuss the usages and key metrics associated with different technology choices. We will also delve into the different layers as well as the software model along with the compliance and interoperability mechanisms.Presented by Stephen Bates, HuaweiLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Persistent Memory Trends Panel SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Where do companies see the industry going with regard to persistent memory? With the improvement of SSD and DRAM I/O over CXL, the overlap of CXL and NVMe, high density persistent memory, and memory-semantic SSDs, there is a lot to talk about! Our moderator and panel of experts from Intel, Samsung, and SMART Modular will widen the lens on persistent memory, take a system level approach, and see how the persistent memory landscape is being redefinedWhere do companies see the industry going with regard to persistent memory? With the improvement of SSD and DRAM I/O over CXL, the overlap of CXL and NVMe, high density persistent memory, and memory-semantic SSDs, there is a lot to talk about! Our moderator and panel of experts from Intel, Samsung, and SMART Modular will widen the lens on persistent memory, take a system level approach, and see how the persistent memory landscape is being redefined.Moderated by Dave Eggleston, Intuitive Cognition ConsultingPanelsts: Andy Mills, SMART Modular; Pekon Gupta, Intel; David McIntyre, SamsungLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Accelerating Encryption for Solid State Storage Drives SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | A hardware accelerator to improve the throughput and power efficiency of encryption and decryption of solid state drive (SSD) based storage systems is presented. The accelerator interface takes advantage of the open source RISC-V ISA, which allows it to be attached to a RISC-V based microcontroller system-on-chip (SOC) in 2 different configurations, based on design time configuration. The accelerator presents a management interface which can be used to configure, start and stop operation, a completion interface which supports firmware polling or interrupts, and a memory interface through which it initiates I/O and memory accesses. The accelerator can be attached inside a CPU in the tightly attached configuration, allowing firmware to use special register reads and writes for the management interface, polling or interrupts for the completion interface, and the CPU’s coherent memory subsystem for I/O or memory accesses. No additional RISC-V instructions are needed to operate the accelerator, only custom special register addresses. Alternatively, the accelerator can be attached to the SOC interconnect in the closely attached configuration, which allows it to participate in a coherency protocol, such as AXI or CHI, as a non-caching node. Memory mapped register reads and writes are used to configure the management interface, and I/O or memory read and write requests are initiated, and data fills and responses received via the memory interface. The accelerator adds support for separate processing threads, each of which can be allocated to separate storage devices, by providing a special register bank per thread which can be accessed via the management interface. Both design and run time configurability of the number of compute pipes associated with a thread are provided to allow reallocation of resources in a dynamic runtime environment. The number of channels in the memory interface is design time configurable to allow tuning of memory versus compute bandwidth for a particular system.The design is currently in development using Verilog, and is fully synthesizable to support soft IP integration into an SOC, or mapping to an FPGA. The goal is to support the most commonly used cryptographic protocols from TLS 1.3 including AES-128/256, SHA-256/512 as well as AES-GCM 128/256. The hardware accelerator can be used to improve throughput and power efficiency relative to firmware based solutions, which may be using the RISC-V crypto instruction set extensions (ISEs), running on the microcontroller.Presented by Kelvin Goveas, Azimuth TechnologyLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Providing Capacity and TCO to Applications SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | This session will walk the audience through the various CXL use-cases and then provide a software tiering use-case using a real-world database workload.Presented by Sudhir Balasubramanian, VMware and Arvind Jagannath, VMwareLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Python with Computational Storage SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Computational storage devices bring compute to the storage subsystem and help offload data processing within the device thus promising faster data processing. Samsung is helping standardize industry efforts towards Computational Storage in the NVMe SNIA standards workgroups and also developing SmartSSD, an NVMe based Computational Storage Drive (CSD). As majority of industry applications in the AI/ML space are implemented through fourth generation programming languages (such as python), there arises the need of a readily usable ecosystem to adapt this technology. We have developed a CS Python Library Framework that exposes SNIA CS-APIs to Python users. This library enables users to test the functionality of a CSD/CSx and allows Python applications to easily integrate with Computational Storage. This also helps enable Computational Storage in industry applications with minimal changes. In this talk, we will be detailing the design aspects of CS Python Library and demonstrate the use case of a geo-locator application that offloads computation to Samsung SmartSSD.Presented by Jayasankar OP, Samsung Electronics and Arun V Pillai, Samsung ElectronicsLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Exploring Performance Paradigm of HMB NVMe SSDs SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Presented by Pradeep SR, Samsung Semiconductor BangaloreLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - A Host-Assisted Computational Storage Architecture SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Integrating data compression capability into SSDs has demonstrated great potential to improve the utilization and lifetime of the storage device and also the performance of the entire system. It is advocated to add a hardware engine into the SSD for low-latency compression and decompression. However, this requires a new and long hardware product development cycle, which would prevent current storage systems from reaping the benefits of in-SSD compression. We explore a software-based in-SSD compression solution, which can be delivered to users quickly through a simple SSD firmware update. The most critical challenge is the severe performance bottleneck caused by compression and decompression, as the in-SSD embedded CPU has quite limited computing power. To tackle this challenge, we propose a host-assisted computational storage device, called HA-CSD. It employs an offline and data hotness- and compressibility-aware compression strategy to remove compression from the critical write I/O path. A novel decompression architecture is devised to utilize the powerful host CPU for fast data decompression. We implement HA-CSD in a commercial enterprise SSD. Experimental results show that HA-CSD achieves 2.1GB/s and 5.2GB/s read and write bandwidth without using a hardware accelerator. Compared with RocksDB built-in compression, HA-CSD can increase the YCSB benchmark throughput by up to 5.7×, and improve the host CPU efficiency significantly.Presented by Tao Lu, DapuStor CorporationLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - CXL™ 3.0: Expanded Capabilities for Increasing Scale &Optimizing Resource Utilization SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) is an open industry standard interconnect offering coherency and memory semantics using high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity between the host process and devices such as accelerators, memory buffers, and smart I/O devices. CXL technology is designed to support the growing high-performance computational workloads by supporting heterogeneous processing and memory systems for applications in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure, and Cloudification of Network and Edge. CXL 3.0 doubles the transfer rate to 64GT/s with no additional latency over previous generations and introduces fabric capabilities and management, improved memory sharing and memory pooling, enhanced coherency, and peer-to-peer communication. This presentation will explore the new features in the CXL 3.0 specification, highlight the enhancements to memory pooling to optimize server performance, and introduce the concept of memory sharing to enable clusters of machines to solve large problems through shared memory constructs.Presented by Andy Rudoff, IntelLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Storage Sanitization the Next Chapter SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | The need to eradicate recorded data on storage devices and media is well understood, but the technologies and methodologies to do it correctly can be elusive. With the publication of the new ISO/IEC 27040 (Storage security) and IEEE 2883 (Standard for Storage Sanitization) international standards, there is some clarity for organization as well as enhance expectations under the heading of reasonable security. However, many issues remain to be addressed. This session highlights these new standards as well as exploring some of the remaining issues, including initiatives that are underway to deal with some of the gaps.Presented by Paul Suhler, IEEE Security in Storage Work GroupLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Decomposing Compute to Grow Computational Storage SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Recent hardware trends have introduced a variety of heterogeneous compute units while also bringing network and storage bandwidths within an order of magnitude of memory subsystems. In response, developers have used increasingly exotic solutions to extract more performance from hardware; typically relying on static, design-time partitioning of their programs which cannot keep pace with storage systems that are layering compute units throughout deepening hierarchies of storage devices. We argue that dynamic, just-in-time partitioning of computation offers a solution for emerging data systems to overcome ever-growing data sizes in the face of stalled CPU performance and memory bandwidth.We are prototyping a computational storage system (CSS) that adopts a database perspective to utilize computational storage devices (CSx). We discuss our approach, "decomposable queries," for passing a portion of a query plan (sub-plan) down a hierarchy of CSx and allowing each device to dynamically determine how much of the sub-plan to propagate and execute. We briefly describe microbenchmarks used to evaluate aspects of our initial progress for a bioinformatics use case, from which we observed unexpected slowdowns on our CSDs (Seagate's research-only KV drives). We then explain how decomposable queries will allow our prototype CSS to transparently benefit from future improvements to CSx and accommodate new types of CSx, and how these are two capabilities are necessary for deployment of CSx in production.Presented by Aldrin Montana, University Of California, Santa CruzLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Explore the Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) Device Ecosystem and Usage Models - A Panel SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) maintains memory coherency between the CPU memory space and memory on CXL attached devices. CXL enables a high-speed, efficient interconnect between the CPU, platform enhancements, and workload accelerators such as GPUs, FPGAs, and other purpose-built accelerator solutions. Recently, CXL Consortium members showcased public demonstrations of CXL at industry events, proving to the industry that CXL’s vision to enable a new ecosystem of high-performance, heterogeneous computing is now a reality. There were also multi-vendor demos to illustrate interoperability between vendor solutions. As the industry sees more CXL products getting released into the market and with the completion of the CXL Consortium FYI compliance event, this presentation will feature a panel of experts that will discuss the type of CXL product devices that are currently available today and the CXL devices we expect to see in the next year. The panelists will also examine the new features in the CXL 3.0 specification and the usage models it will enable.Presented by Kurtis Bowman, CXL ConsortiumLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS - Thinking Memory SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Compute Express Link (CXL) based memory devices are expected alleviate the ever increasing demand for memory in datacenter applications. CXL devices can be used as memory expansion as well as memory bandwidth expansion when the socket cannot hold enough memory for the applications. Memory pooling devices can reduce the overall need for DRAM, and thereby cost. In addition to providing additional memory to hosts, it is also possible to offload compute tasks to CXL memory devices and free up the CPU for other operations. In this presentation we will take a look at how we can add compute capability to CXL memory devices. We will look at offloading operations like data analytics, and also telemetry functions like hotness tracking.Presented by Mats Öberg, MarvellLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - NVMe Computational Storage Standardization SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Learn what is happening in NVMe to support Computational Storage devices. Computational Storage requires two new command sets: The Computational Programs Command Set and the Subsystem Local Memory Command Set. We will introduce you to how these two command sets work together, the details of each command set, and how they fit within the NVMe I/O Command Set architecture.Presented by Bill Martin, Samsung Semiconductor and Kim Malone, Intel CorporationLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS2023 - An Overview of Zero Trust Architecture SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Zero Trust is a security framework requiring user and entities to be authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated before being granted or continuing access to applications, systems, and data. The U.S. Government is spearheading adoption of zero trust security, which is having an impact on the offerings from the security vendor community. Private organizations are beginning to transition proof of concept implementations into their mainstream operations.This session highlights the primary focus areas for Zero Trust activities and provides an overview of key lessons learned from early adopters of zero trust security.Presented by Chris WillmanLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Fine Grain Encryption Using Key Per I/O SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Presented by Festus Hategekimana, TCG Storage WGLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Computational SSD for Semantic Image Retrieval SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Abstract Multiple deep learning approaches collect analytics for semantic image retrieval in different formats. Some approaches may just collect the analytics in form of tag, some might collect the analytics in form of caption and recently a few sophisticated scene graph generation algorithms are collecting the analytics in form of triplets (Subject- Verb- Object). The lack of uniformity in the analytics format leads to usage of multiple types of schemas and databases to retrieve the images using unstructured user queries. For example, a tag-based search uses a Key Value DB, Scene graph-based retrieval uses a graph DB.Having dependency on a database increases the computational requirements for searching images on low compute storage devices like SSDs. Further Since every database uses its own query language, the performance of the image retrieval framework is highly dependent on how efficient these queries are written.Learn how to design an embedded machine learning standard framework inside SSD using an advanced transformer model to convert analytics from various deep learning approaches to uniform embedding format suitable for fast and accurate image retrieval. Any form of analytics (tag, sentence, paragraph, triplets) will be converted into a N-dimensional vector. For faster lookup on SSD, the framework stores the extracted N-dimensional vectors as an index tree and processes the user queries also as a N-dimensional vector by feeding the user input to SBERT transformer model.Learn framework more as in how to design an interface to capture the intent behind a user query using clustering techniques. For ex. “woman riding a bike” and “Girl driving a scooter” have the same intent, the intent based interface increases image search accuracy with low number of false positives.Presented by Vishwas Saxena, Western DigitalLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Cyber Recovery and Resilience SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | Cyber and ransomware attacks continue to plague organizations around the world and the size of the victim organizations is no longer a predictor of attacks (i.e., individuals, small business, non-profits, Fortune 500 enterprises, and governments are being hit). Surviving a ransomware attack is often dependent on the entity’s cyber resiliency and ability to quickly recover critical data in a timely manner.The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) introduced the concept of cyber recovery in NIST SP 800-209 as something distinct from more traditional data protection mechanisms like backups. This session explores key aspects of cyber recovery solutions and outlines scenarios where they can be most effective.Presented by Jim Shook, DellLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Fabric Attached Memory – Hardware and Software Architecture SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | HPC architectures increasingly handle workloads where the working data set cannot be easily partitioned or is too large to fit into node local memory. We have defined a system architecture and a software stack to enable large data sets to be held in fabric-attached memory (FAM) that is accessible to all compute nodes across a Slingshot-connected HPC cluster, thus providing a new approach to handling large data sets. Emerging AI and data analytics workloads are increasingly becoming important for HPC architectures because HPC clusters provide computation capabilities needed at scale; however a divide still exists between traditional HPC, AI, and data analytics applications, because the three communities use very different programming models. The architecture leverages emerging hardware capabilities such as CXL along with ideas from both HPC and high performance data analytics software to support AI and data analytics on HPC clusters. This presentation will cover the architecture, the software stack and its value using a use case: an Arkouda-based proxy application for real-time data analytics. Presented by Clarete Riana Crasta, Hewlett Packard EnterpriseLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Introduction to Fabrics in CXL 3.0 SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | This session will introduce CXL Fabrics, a new multi-level switch architecture introduced in CXL 3.x. CXL Fabrics are not restricted to tree-based topologies and can scale to 4,096 nodes, offering substantial scale and flexibility. The presentation will cover the transport level details, routing model, and management architecture.Presented by Vince Hache, RambusLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Efficiency of Data Centric Computing SNIAVideo 2023-05-01 | In today's data-driven world, the rapid growth of large datasets presents a significant challenge for many applications. At the same time, AI workloads are becoming increasingly dominant in various aspects, exhibiting growth not only in data size but also in throughput, latency requirements, and more. Moving computation closer to data storage is more efficient than transferring large amounts of data, as federated data processing allows for better system efficiency, reduced network traffic, and lower latency, ultimately resulting in improved total cost of ownership (TCO).Focusing on data-centric computing, we will discuss the need to integrate compute, data, and I/O acceleration closely with storage systems and data nodes. This approach can provide a highly efficient engine for data-heavy applications, such as training large language models, supporting the metaverse in next-generation data centers, and enabling edge computing. By addressing the requirements for low latency and high bandwidth services, this strategy helps tackle the coexistence of "big" and "fast" data challenges.Steven Yuan, Founder and CEO, StorageX.aiLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Standardizing Computational Storage SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | Computational Storage standards are under active development at both SNIA and NVMe. The CS TWG in SNIA continues to work on enhancements to the Architecture and Programming Model after the successful release of the 1.0 revision of the standard in August 2022. The CS TWG also continues to refine the CS API, which was released for public review in July 2022, to ensure alignment and compatibility with NVMe. Many of the same companies are engaged with the SNIA CS work and the NVMe CS work and strive to ensure compatibility and cohesion between the SNIA and NVMe CS standards. This presentation will discuss the current state of the SNIA CS Architecture and Programming Model, the current state of the CS API, and explain how these standards align with and support the NVMe CS efforts. Part of the discussion will include a lexicon of terminology from both standards and a decoder ring to translate between the slightly different terminology utilized between the two standards organizations.Presented by Bill Martin, Samsung Semiconductor and Jason Molgaard, SolidigmLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Computational Storage APIs SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | Computational Storage is a new field that is addressing performance and scaling issues for compute with traditional server architectures. This is an active area of innovation in the industry where multiple device and solution providers are collaborating in defining this architecture while actively working to create new and exciting solutions. The SNIA Computational Storage TWG is leading the way with new interface definitions with Computational Storage APIs that work across different hardware architectures. Learn how these APIs may be applied and what types of problems they can help solve.Presented by Oscar Pinto, Samsung SemiconductorLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Server fabrics and the evolution to CXL 3.0 SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | The increasing resource requirements for applications and algorithms in a heterogeneous compute environment are driving the need for more efficient approaches to managing memory and resources. With the advent of CXL, systems architecture is undergoing a transformation to meet these challenges. We explore the functionalities of CXL 1.1, CXL 2.0, and CXL 3.0 and the improved efficiency that can be realized with a PCIe and CXL-enabled switch. A switch SoC (SSoC) leveraging CXL provides the required features to efficiently manage resources, allowing for memory expansion in the box, memory pooling, and resource pooling in a disaggregated rack. These new usage models are about more than just connectivity, they demonstrate the revolutionary system-level performance improvements that are possible with CXL switching.Presented by Shreyas Shah, Elastics.CloudLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - The Key Foundations and Future of Memory Industry Standards SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | Presented by Jonathan Hinkle, MicronLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - NVMe as a Cloud Interface SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | NVMe as an interface has been used for lots of things, from flash to computational storage. It’s a natural choice for a hardware interface for cloud storage, too, but using it that way comes with scaling challenges. Jake Oshins from Microsoft will discuss the issues that come from moving from providing storage to a single physical machine, to multiple virtual machines on a host to thousands of containers running on that host. After that, he’ll cover work going on in the Scalable IOV working group of the Open Compute Project and how that might map onto the NVMe specification.Presented by Jake Oshins, MicrosoftLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Computational Storage: Detecting Ransomware SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | We are in the midst of another pandemic in the world, this time caused by cyber criminals in the form of Ransomware. The incidents have risen spectacularly and point to the urgency that all parts of the stack do everything possible to identify and recover from these attacks. Effective security measures are to be implemented in the application, OS, hypervisor, FS, host system management, network and in the storage arrays. Computational storage provides a useful mechanism to offload key statistical indicators to the SSD closer to where the data resides. This presentation will highlight the latest ransomware detection assistance mechanisms by IBM within IBM’s computational storage Flash Control Modules (FCMs).Presented by Andy Walls, IBM CorporationLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Optimizing Complex Memory and Storage Systems Using Simulations SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | Modern storage and content delivery systems are built out of a myriad of components providing a dizzying set of variables used to optimize their performance. By modularly simulating the components into building blocks, we show how you can now quickly try many different sets of variables. This modularity also allows plugging in of proprietary components to measure their difference in the system. These simulations can be built in days or weeks, instead of the months to years needed to build the actual system. This session runs you through a demonstration of simulating a storage system and running a series of sample data sets on it. Wrap this up with a success story of using these simulations, and you won't want to miss this session.Presented by Andy Banta, MagnitionLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Watch Out - Memorys Changing! SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | Memory today consists of two giants: DRAM and NAND flash, and a broad range of lesser alternatives all vying for the designer’s attention, including established technologies like SRAM, NOR flash, and EEPROM as well as emerging technologies like MRAM, ReRAM, PCM, and FRAM. The newer technologies are all hoping that their superior performance and scalability will allow them to steal market share from the leading technologies. Meanwhile CXL and UCIe are poised to completely change the rules by which the memory game is played. This presentation will review all of these technologies to show how they interact and to draw some surprising conclusions about the likely outcomes of these changes, leading into what SNIA members and others must do to keep their edge during this important era of change.Presented by Jim Handy, Objective Analysis and Tom Coughlin, Coughlin AssociatesLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - 2023 Cybersecurity & Privacy Landscape SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | Presented by Eric Hibbard, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.Learn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 Baker Deploying SSDs with Computational Storage The Promise Reality SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | We’ve been hearing about Computational Storage for several years now. But, how is it playing out in the field? What applications benefit from CS? How are users deploying CS? What challenges, changes, and integrations do they deal with to reap the rewards from CS? Join us to hear about a few examples of Computational Storage Drive deployments and use cases to improve efficiency, TCO, and uptime.Presented by JB Baker, ScaleFluxLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - Storage Security – Past, Present, and Future SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | Storage security emerged in the early 2000s with the SNIA publication on Storage Networking Security. Since then, multiple international standards related to storage security have been published as well as having it included in key security frameworks (e.g., ISO/IEC 27000-series and NIST SP 800-series). As attacks against data increase (e.g., data breaches and ransomware), storage systems and ecosystems are becoming a last line of defense. New forms of data at-rest encryption (Key Per I/O and homomorphic encryption), trustworthiness mechanism, and communications security are being incorporated into storage. Looking to the future, more security mechanisms are anticipated at the component level to protect data while they are in-use.Presented by Eric Hibbard, Samsung Semiconductor Inc.Learn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
SNIA CMSS23 - C+M+S Summit Day 1 SNIAVideo 2023-04-30 | Join David McIntyre, Co-Chair of the SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit, as he discusses the new direction of the 11th annual Summit, and provides an overview of speakers and topics for Day 1.Presented by David McIntyre, Samsung CorporationLearn More:SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit: snia.org/cms-summitSNIA Website: snia.orgSNIA Educational Library: snia.org/libraryTwitter: twitter.com/SNIALinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/snia
