SNIA Swordfish 10-Year Anniversary

Get Ready to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Swordfish! For the past decade, the SNIA Swordfish® open standard API has helped to provide a unified approach for the management of storage and servers in hyperscale and cloud infrastructure environments. First released in 2016 to extend the DMTF Redfish® protocol and schema to manage storage equipment and services in modern data centers, Swordfish has evolved to meet the needs of enterprise storage, cloud, HPC, and AI environments. SNIA Storage Management is gearing up to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Swordfish in September. Read the blog, “SNIA Swordfish: Swimming for 10 Years” for a timeline of Swordfish milestones over the past 10 years.

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Upcoming Webinar Deconstructing the Storage Software Stack: From Legacy Silos to AI-Scale Architecture

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How Agentic AI Transforms the Role of Storage

Agentic AI is progressing at an incredibly rapid pace, moving into real-world deployments. At our recent SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies webinar, “How Agentic AI Transforms the Role of Storage,” our SNIA experts examined how Agentic AI operates in, on, with, and for storage systems—transforming them from passive data repositories into active participants in decision-making and workflow execution.

Meet the Members: Molex

Intelligent Data Management: Shaping the Future for AI Workloads Q&A

Breaking Barriers: Transport Technologies and Storage Innovations

Explore the collaborative efforts and expertise of SNIA in advancing data transport technologies. Hear from industry experts, Bill Martin, Craig Carlson, Fred Knight, and Anthony Constantine as they discuss the rise of NVMe, innovations like CXL, Fibre Channel's ongoing significance, and the role of standards in creating efficient data solutions.

DNA: The Future of Data Storage

Data Protection in a Ransomware Era: Strategies and Insights

AI Model Inferencing and Deployment Options

This webinar explains the process of model inferencing and deployment options. We discuss how trained models are used to make predictions and the considerations for deploying models.

Reduce Your Risk of Data Loss

Introduction to AI and Machine Learning

SNIA SDC 2025 - CXL Ecosystem Innovation Leveraging QEMU-based Emulation

This talk introduces the current major CXL features that QEMU can emulate and walk you through how to set up a Linux + QEMU CXL environment to enable testing and developing new CXL features.

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SNIA SDC 2025 - Total Cost and Performance of SSDs

SNIA SDC 2025 - Navigating NVMe-oF Authentication