December 6, 2012
Participate in SNIA’s Volunteer Recognition Program
Without the contributions, effort, time, and commitment of the SNIA volunteers, the vast majority of our organizational programs could not take root and flourish. Therefore, SNIA once again needs your help to recognize its active volunteers with our annual recognition program.
This is simple and will only take a moment. Please follow the link here to anonymously recommend those individuals or groups that you believe should be recognized. Honorees will be announced at SNIA’s Winter Symposium in San Jose, evening of January 29th and then subsequently featured on www.snia.org/about/awards.
Save the Date: SNIA Winter Symposium 2013
Attend SNIA’s Winter Symposium on January 28 – 31, 2013 in San Jose and join your colleagues for networking, working group meetings, keynote presentations from industry leading analysts, and other valuable workshops and sessions.
SNIA leaders and chairs are finalizing plans for workgroup, forum and initiative, and committee meetings, and the agenda will be released for your review shortly. In the meantime, registration is now open so confirm your plans!
SNIA Europe Launches NFS Webcast Series
The SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) has launched a 4–part Webcast series on NFS (Network File System) for European audiences. The NFSv4 protocol undergoes a repeated lifecycle of definition and implementation. This Webcast series highlights how NFSv4.1 is being implemented, the differences between NFSv3 and NFSv4.1, pNFS, FedFS, understanding the NFS protocol and its application to modern datacenter workloads, and offers a preview into proposed features in NFSv4.2
The first Webcast, 4 Reasons to Start Working with NFSv4.1 Now is available on demand here.
Register for the next 3 Webcasts:
New SNIA Videos of Technical Sessions from Recent Events Now Available
In an effort to make it even easier to take advantage of SNIA’s educational content, we have been video recording a variety of the sessions at our events including Storage Developer Conference, the Analytics and Big Data Summit and SNW. Many of these videos are now posted on our website and available for you to view. Browse the event videos here. SNW Fall 2012 videos will be posted soon, so check back here regularly.
Carry the Momentum into 2013!
Renew Your SNIA Membership – or Join for the First Time!
As a new SNIA fiscal year begins, SNIA Business Development and Membership Services would like to express our sincere thanks to all SNIA members for making 2012 a great success. Through your efforts, SNIA achieved key milestones, including:
Read more here.
New Training Class for CompTIA Storage+ Powered by SNIA Certification Available in Europe
SNIA Europe works with training partners to deliver classroom training for the CompTIA Storage+ Powered by SNIA (ST002) certification. They recently announced a new training class offered by qSkills in Nuemberg, Germany that was held on November 26–30, 2012. Learn more about this class and future classes.
To learn more about SNIA Europe Training and Certification visit www.snia–europe.org.
New Committees and Programs Highlight SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative Activities
Focusing on solid state storage standards and education, the SNIA SSSI recently launched several activities for its members and for the community at large.
- SSSI’s PCIe SSD Subcommittee focuses on PCIe SSD standards, education and market development, specifications and product architectures. All SSSI members can participate in the committee, which meets every other Monday by conference call. Participants hear guest speakers on the latest developments in the technology and engage in committee work. For more information on the PCIe SSD Subcommittee, visit www.snia.org/forums/sssi/pcie.
- To enable the community to better understand their unique SSD I/O patterns, SSSI’s TechDev Subcommittee has just launched the Workload I/O Capture Program (WIOCP), a simple tool to capture software applications’ I/O operation activity that provides statistics on workloads at the user level. Specifically designed to be safely downloaded and used with corporate PCs, the WIOCP answers the question of what kind of traffic software is generating.
Both Subcommittee activities will be highlighted in the SSSI booth at the Storage Visions Conference, January 6–7, 2012 in Las Vegas, NV.
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Cloud Plugfest 2012
December 10 – 12, 2012
Raleigh, NC
The next Cloud Plugfest will be held December 10–12, 2012. The Cloud Plugfest Series was originated by the Open Grid Forum (OGF) and SNIA in 2011. This event is the 7th plugfest in that series and is proudly co–organised by OGF, the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) and ETSI. Co-hosting this event are the SNIA CSI and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in the US and Europe, respectively.
Webcast: NFS Mini-Series Part 2: Advances in NSF – NFSv4.1 and pNFS
January 8, 2013
Join this live Webcast to learn the many new features of NFSv4.1 and hear how careful planning can result in a migration that does not require modification to applications, and that utilizes existing operational infrastructure in its deployment. Discover why users should be evaluating and using NFSv4.1 in 2012.
SMI–Lab 13 Plugfest #1
January 21 – 24, 2013
Colorado Springs, CO
SNIA Technology Center
SMI plugfests are held several times a year, usually at the SNIA US Technology Center in Colorado Springs, to test interoperability across SMI-S implementations, validate CTP test updates, and create proof–of–concept implementations of proposals for inclusion in the SMI-S standard. In addition, plugfests provide an opportunity to meet with peer developers and folks supporting commonly used CIMOMs.
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IT Roadmap
December 6, 2012
Washington, D.C
SNIA is pleased to participate with our partners at IDG that co-own SNW with us in another of their multi-city IT Roadmap events. Join us as IT leaders from the DC. area are heading to get actionable information on today’s technology trends and to network. Introduce yourself to Michael Meleedy who will be representing SNIA there.
Lisa ‘12
December 9 – 14, 2012
San Diego, CA
The annual LISA conference is the meeting place of choice for system and network administrators and engineers; it is the crossroads of Web operations, DevOps, enterprise computing, educational computing, and research computing. The conference serves as a venue for a lively, diverse, and rich mix of technologists of all specialties and levels of expertise.
Storage Visions Conference
January 6 – 7, 2013
Las Vegas, NV
Storage Visions 2013 explores the convergent needs of digital storage to support cloud content distribution and sharing, user generated content capture and use and professional media and entertainment applications.
SNIA 2013 Winter Symposium
January 28 – 31, 2013
San Jose, CA
Don’t miss our Winter Symposium where you and your colleagues can join together for networking, working group meetings, informative keynote sessions, and other unique programs designed for SNIA members.
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