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April 26, 2024
Storage Trends: Your Questions Answered
At our recent SNIA SCSI Trade Association Forum webinar, “
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January 2, 2024
Power Efficiency Measurement – Our Experts Make It Clear – Part 1
Measuring power efficiency in datacenter storage is a complex ende
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June 14, 2023
Connector and Cable differences: SAS-3 vs. SAS-4
By: David Einhorn, SCSI Trade Association
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April 17, 2023
Questions & Answers from our January 2023 Webcast: Storage Trends in 2023 and Beyond
These questions were asked and mostly answere
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April 17, 2023
24G SAS: an Overview of the Technology & Products
Hyperscale and enterprise data centers contin
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May 6, 2022
Dynamic Speakers on Tap for the 2022 SNIA Persistent Memory + Computational Storage Summit
Our 10th annual Persistent Memory + Computational Storage S
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March 2, 2022
Understanding How Data Privacy, Data Governance, and Data Security Differ
Ever wonder what’s the difference between data privacy, data governanc
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February 15, 2022
Multi-cloud Use Has Become the Norm
Multiple clouds within an organization have become the norm.
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December 8, 2021
A Q&A on Big Data in the Cloud
The title of our recent live
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November 22, 2021
Why Use Multiple Clouds?
As storing data in the cloud has become ubiquitous and mature, many or
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October 4, 2021
Q&A (Part 2) from “Storage Trends for 2021 and Beyond” Webcast
Questions from “Storage Trends for 2021 and Beyond” Webcast Answer
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August 24, 2021
Q&A (Part 1) from “Storage Trends for 2021 and Beyond” Webcast
Questions
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July 6, 2021
An Easy Path to Confidential Computing
To counter the ever-increasing likelihood of catastrophic disruption a
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June 25, 2021
Confidential Computing FAQ
Recently, the SNIA Cloud St
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March 10, 2021
Q&A from “SAS 201: An Introduction to Enterprise Features” Webcast
Questions from SAS 201 Webinar Answered In an effort to provi
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March 9, 2021
Q&A from “SAS 101: The Most Widely-Deployed Storage Interface” Webcast
Questions from SAS 101 Webcast Answered In an effort to provi
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October 21, 2020
A SNIA Superpower: PAS submitter to ISO
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June 25, 2020
Understanding the Power of SNIA’s Storage Management Initiative
By Don Deel, SNIA SMI Governing Board Chair
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May 19, 2020
Everyone Wants Their Java to Persist
In this time of lockdown, I’m sure we’re all
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May 6, 2020
SNIA Exhibits at OCP Virtual Summit May 12-15, 2020 – SFF Standards featured in Thursday Sessions
All SNIA members and colleagues are welcome to register to attend the
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April 29, 2020
What’s New with SNIA Swordfish™?
If you haven’t caught the new wave in storage
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April 14, 2020
Share Your Experiences in Programming PM!
by Jim Fister, SNIA Director of Persistent Memory Enabling
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February 18, 2020
Wish You Knew More About Storage? Geek Out with SNIA
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December 12, 2019
24G SAS Feature Focus: Inherent Scalability and Flexibility
[Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of blog posts discussing
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November 22, 2019
SAS Lives On and Here’s Why
By: Rohit Gupta, Enterprise Segment Management, Western Digital In th
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November 12, 2019
24G SAS Feature Focus: Active PHY Transmitter Adjustment
[Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of upcoming blog posts di
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October 21, 2019
24G SAS Feature Focus: Forward Error Correction
[Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of upcoming blog pos
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October 4, 2019
Show Your Persistent Stuff
Persistent Memory software development has been a source of server dev
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July 23, 2019
Join SNIA at Pure//Accelerate 2019: Austin, September 15-18
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July 9, 2019
SNIA’s Self-contained Information Retention Format (SIRF) v1.0 Published as an ISO Standard
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July 8, 2019
SNIA at Flash Memory Summit 2019 – Your Guide Here!
SNIA technical work and education advances will play a prominent role
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July 1, 2019
SNIA LTFS Format – New Version with Improved Capacity Efficiency
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June 4, 2019
Storage Management – Standards Matter
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May 14, 2019
New Conference Seeking PIRLs of Wisdom
UCSD Computer Science and Engineering, the Non-Volatile Systems Labora
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December 11, 2018
Take the Leap to SMI-S 1.8 v3 for Streamlined Storage Management
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December 11, 2018
Take the Leap to SMI-S 1.8 v3 for Streamlined Storage Management
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October 1, 2018
An Introduction: What is Swordfish?
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August 3, 2018
SNIA Swordfish™ - Your Questions Answered
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August 3, 2018
SNIA Swordfish™ - Your Questions Answered
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April 18, 2018
Data Security is an Integral Part of any Business Endeavor
In the wake of all the
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February 21, 2018
Marketing Your New Website From the Cloud
Launching a new website is an exciting venture, but it’s crucial to ha
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May 31, 2017
Managing Your Computing Ecosystem Part Two
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April 12, 2017
Managing Your Computing Ecosystem
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September 19, 2016
New SNIA Swordfish™ Specification Enables Scalable Storage Management - A Conversation with the SNIA Technical Work Group Development Team
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September 19, 2016
New SNIA Swordfish Specification Enables Scalable Storage Management - A Conversation with the SNIA Technical Work Group Development Team
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August 29, 2016
Innovate Here - Storage Developer Conference Returns September 19-22 in Santa Clara CA
The change of seasons is almost upon us, and what better activity to s
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May 6, 2016
Out and About with SNIA
SNIA welcomes their friends and colleagues to join them at one or more
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April 25, 2016
A Topical, Timely, and Tuned Agenda - It's Time for Data Storage Innovation 2016
There is a sense of anticipation that awaits the unveiling of SNIA's D
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April 22, 2016
Break Out of the Mold at Interop 2016
From SNIA Event Partner, Interop Leadership isn't jut for managers an
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April 18, 2016
Explore Interop’s Storage Track
From SNIA Event Partner, Interop The skyrocketing increase in data, a
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December 23, 2015
Implementing Stored Data Encryption - Learn the Latest at SNIA Education Day at Storage Visions Conference
by Marty Foltyn SNIA on Storage continues its preview of SNI
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December 22, 2015
How "Fog" Computing Delivers a Superior IOT User Experience - Learn More at SNIA Education Day at Storage Visions Conference
by Marty Foltyn SNIA on Storage continues its preview of SNI
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December 21, 2015
Massively Scalable File Storage Key to IOT - Learn More at SNIA Tutorial at Storage Visions Conference
by Marty Foltyn SNIA on Storage continues its preview of SNI
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December 18, 2015
Cache Optimization the Focus of Tutorial at SNIA Education Day at Storage Visions Conference
by Marty Foltyn SNIA on Storage co
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December 17, 2015
Privacy vs. Data Protection Tutorial Kicks Off SNIA Education Day at Storage Visions Conference
SNIA is a proud sponsor of the Storage Visions Conference, a partner p
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September 15, 2015
SNIA Leads the Way with 16 Sessions on "Disruptive Technologies" at SDC!
Posted by Marty Foltyn In the two weeks leading up to the 20
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September 14, 2015
"New Thinking" Track Delivers the Best of Academic Research and Industry Work to SNIA's Storage Developer Conference Attendees
Posted by Marty Foltyn In the two weeks leading up to the 20
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September 11, 2015
Simple, Modern, Secure Management Can Be Yours with these Sessions at SNIA's Storage Developer Conference
Posted by Marty Foltyn For the next two weeks leading up to
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July 30, 2015
SNIA Emerald™ Specification is now widely utilized by many vendors as part of the EPA EnergyStar Data Center Storage Program
Since the release of SNIA Emerald measurement test specification v2.0.
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July 9, 2015
Save the Date: SNIA Emerald Training Webinar July 20-21
The SNIA Green TWG (Technical Work Group) and
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May 4, 2015
Four Ways Disaster Recovery is Simplified with Storage Management Standards
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is a growing a
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May 22, 2013
How Many IOPS Is Enough?
SNIA's SSSI channel webcast of "How Many IOPS Is Enough?" was a smash
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December 1, 2012
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
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June 4, 2012
Full Steam Ahead for SNIA SSSI PCIe Task Force - It's Not Too Late to Participate!
SSSI’s PCIe SSD Task Force has covered a lot of ground since the inaug
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January 25, 2012
Solid State Storage Contributors Honored at SNIA Symposium
Passionate and dedicated volunteers are vital to the success of SNIA a
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May 11, 2010
Join SNIA Cloud at Standards Webcast
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May 10, 2010
Gluecon Cloud Conference
As the “cloud” becomes a common platform, web applications still li
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April 12, 2010
Cloud Device Giveaway
An
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April 6, 2010
Join the CSI at SNW - April 12-15 in Orlando FL
Take advantage of educational SNIA Tutorials on Cloud, a Pavilion devo
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March 13, 2010
Cloud Storage for Cloud Computing
Gary Mazzaferro and I have created a whitepaper that discusses the coo
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March 12, 2010
Hello world!
Welcome to the SNIA Cloud Weblog.
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