SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Future Innovations in Software Defined Flash Storage
Abstract
The data center of today is almost fully software defined, from the software defined network (SDN) to virtualized and containerized computation to the software defined file system (SDFS). But there’s one important part of the stack that’s not yet software defined: flash storage itself. It’s about time to enable flash storage to be software defined, allowing flash to be tailored to the specific needs of any application. This session will center on what software defined flash capabilities are needed by storage developers and how software defined flash APIs could affect how storage applications are written and run in the future.
Learning Objectives
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- Which parts are open source?
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Future Innovations in Software Defined Flash Storage
The data center of today is almost fully software defined, from the software defined network (SDN) to virtualized and containerized computation to the software defined file system (SDFS). But there’s one important part of the stack that’s not yet software defined: flash storage itself. It’s about time to enable flash storage to be software defined, allowing flash to be tailored to the specific needs of any application. This session will center on what software defined flash capabilities are needed by storage developers and how software defined flash APIs could affect how storage applications are written and run in the future.
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