The Fibre Channel (FC) industry introduced Fabric Notifications as a key resiliency mechanism for storage networks in 2021 to combat congestion, link integrity, and delivery errors. Since then, numerous manufacturers of FC SAN solutions have implemented Fabric Notifications and enhanced the overall user experience when deploying FC SANs. On August 27, 2024, the SNIA Data, Networking & Storage Forum is hosting a live webinar, “The Evolution of Congestion Management in Fibre Channel,” for a deep dive into Fibre Channel congestion management. We’ve convened a stellar, multi-vendor group of Fibre Channel experts with extensive Fibre Channel knowedge and different technology viewpoints to explore the evolution of Fabric Notifications and the available solutions of this exciting new technology. You’ll learn:

• The state of Fabric Notifications as defined by the Fibre Channel standards.
• The mechanisms and techniques for implementing Fabric Notifications.
• The currently available solutions deploying Fabric Notifications.

Register today and bring your questions for our experts. We hope you’ll join us on August 27^th.

The Fibre Channel (FC) industry introduced Fabric Notifications as a key resiliency mechanism for storage networks in 2021 to combat congestion, link integrity, and delivery errors. Since then, numerous manufacturers of FC SAN solutions have implemented Fabric Notifications and enhanced the overall user experience when deploying FC SANs. On August 27, 2024, the SNIA Data, Networking & Storage Forum is hosting a live webinar, “The Evolution of Congestion Management in Fibre Channel,” for a deep dive into Fibre Channel congestion management. We’ve convened a stellar, multi-vendor group of Fibre Channel experts with extensive Fibre Channel knowedge and different technology viewpoints to explore the evolution of Fabric Notifications and the available solutions of this exciting new technology. You’ll learn:

• The state of Fabric Notifications as defined by the Fibre Channel standards.
• The mechanisms and techniques for implementing Fabric Notifications.
• The currently available solutions deploying Fabric Notifications.

Register today and bring your questions for our experts. We hope you’ll join us on August 27^th. The post The Evolution of Congestion Management in Fibre Channel first appeared on SNIA on Data, Networking & Storage.

Anyone who follows technology knows that it is a fast-paced world with rapid changes and constant innovations. SNIA, together with its members, technical work groups, Forums, and Initiatives, continues to embrace, educate, and develop standards to make technology more available and better understood. At the SNIA Networking Storage Forum, we’ve been at the forefront of diving into technology topics that extend beyond traditional networked storage, providing education on AI, edge, acceleration and offloads, hyperconverged infrastructure, programming frameworks, and more. We still care about and spend a lot of time on networked storage and storage protocols, but we felt it was time that the name of the group better reflected the broad range of timely topics we’re covering. We are excited to announce our new name: SNIA Data, Networking & Storage Forum (DNSF). This group name aligns with SNIA’s data-centric focus and summarizes our belief that data is the center of networking and storage. In the same way that storage solutions have moved beyond silos to deliver an array of data services, so are we embracing a range of extended, but interrelated data technologies. We've also updated our charter to include the breadth of topics we cover that extend beyond traditional networked storage. Our Charter: The SNIA Data, Networking & Storage Forum (DNSF) educates and provides insights and leadership for applying technologies to a broad spectrum of end-to-end solutions. The DNSF mission is to:

• Educate the industry and end users about technologies, standards and implementations in storage, networking, and data
• Promote a broad range of solutions, including storage area networks (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS), software-defined storage (SDS), disaggregated and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
• Improve understanding of the impacts and opportunities of a wide variety of emerging technologies and use cases by leveraging cross industry expertise and collaboration

We hope you’ve had an opportunity to attend some of the educational webinars we’ve produced. We’re proud of the vast webinar library we’ve built and the positive feedback we get from our attendees. They know they can count on us to tackle technologies in a vendor-neutral way. It can be challenging to do that, but it really is a key tenet that sets SNIA apart. Our webinars in the past few years have ranged from storage networking security, storage performance metrics, and SAN basics to accelerating generative AI, NVMe/TCP and data center sustainability. In addition to our robust and highly-rated webinar program, our members also author and publish white papers, contributed articles, and blogs. We are excited about our new name and expanded charter! We have many great initiatives planned for 2024. Want to join us? Our DNSF members are highly committed and active at our weekly meetings, and we welcome new insights and expertise. Join one of our meetings to see what it’s all about!  Learn more about joining us here. Or email us if you have questions or would like an invite to a meeting. We hope you’ll give consideration to joining our team!

Anyone who follows technology knows that it is a fast-paced world with rapid changes and constant innovations. SNIA, together with its members, technical work groups, Forums, and Initiatives, continues to embrace, educate, and develop standards to make technology more available and better understood. At the SNIA Networking Storage Forum, we’ve been at the forefront of diving into technology topics that extend beyond traditional networked storage, providing education on AI, edge, acceleration and offloads, hyperconverged infrastructure, programming frameworks, and more. We still care about and spend a lot of time on networked storage and storage protocols, but we felt it was time that the name of the group better reflected the broad range of timely topics we’re covering. We are excited to announce our new name: SNIA Data, Networking & Storage Forum (DNSF). This group name aligns with SNIA’s data-centric focus and summarizes our belief that data is the center of networking and storage. In the same way that storage solutions have moved beyond silos to deliver an array of data services, so are we embracing a range of extended, but interrelated data technologies. We’ve also updated our charter to include the breadth of topics we cover that extend beyond traditional networked storage. Our Charter: The SNIA Data, Networking & Storage Forum (DNSF) educates, provides insights, and leadership for applying technologies to a broad spectrum of end-to-end solutions. The DNSF mission is to:

• Educate the industry and end users about technologies, standards and implementations in storage, networking, and data
• Promote a broad range of solutions, including storage area networks (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS), software-defined storage (SDS), disaggregated and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
• Improve understanding of the impacts and opportunities of a wide variety of emerging technologies and use cases by leveraging cross industry expertise and collaboration

We hope you’ve had an opportunity to attend some of the educational webinars we’ve produced. We’re proud of the vast webinar library we’ve built and the positive feedback we get from our attendees. They know they can count on us to tackle technologies in a vendor-neutral way. It can be challenging to do that, but it really is a key tenet that sets SNIA apart. Our webinars in the past few years have ranged from storage networking security, storage performance metrics, and SAN basics to accelerating generative AI, NVMe/TCP and data center sustainability. In addition to our robust and highly-rated webinar program, our members also author and publish white papers, contributed articles, and blogs. We are excited about our new name and expanded charter! We have many great initiatives planned for 2024. Want to join us? Our DNSF members are highly committed and active at our weekly meetings, and we welcome new insights and expertise. Join one of our meetings to see what it’s all about!  Learn more about joining us here. Or email us if you have questions or would like an invite to a meeting. We hope you’ll give consideration to joining our team! The post SNIA Networking Storage Forum – New Name, Expanded Charter first appeared on SNIA on Data, Networking & Storage.

Any discussion about storage systems is incomplete without the mention of Throughput, IOPs, and Latency. But what exactly do these terms mean, and why are they important? To answer these questions, the SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) is bringing back our popular webinar series, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Storage, But Were Too Proud to Ask.” Collectively, these three terms are often referred to as storage performance metrics. Performance can be defined as the effectiveness of a storage system to address I/O needs of an application or workload. Different application workloads have different I/O patterns, and with that arises different bottlenecks, so there is no “one-size fits all” in storage systems. These storage performance metrics help with storage solution design and selection based on application/workload demands. Join us on February 7, 2024, for “Everything You Wanted to Know About Throughput, IOPS, and Latency, But Were Too Proud to Ask.” In this webinar, we’ll cover:

• What storage performance metrics mean – understanding key terminology nuances
• Why users/storage administrators should care about them
• How these metrics impact application performance
• Real-world use cases

It’s a live event and our experts will be available to answer any questions you may have. I hope you’ll register today. If you are not familiar with our “Too Proud to Ask” series, I encourage you to check out these 11 great on-demand webinars that provide 101 lessons on a wide range of storage terminology.

Any discussion about storage systems is incomplete without the mention of Throughput, IOPs, and Latency. But what exactly do these terms mean, and why are they important? To answer these questions, the SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) is bringing back our popular webinar series, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Storage, But Were Too Proud to Ask.” Collectively, these three terms are often referred to as storage performance metrics. Performance can be defined as the effectiveness of a storage system to address I/O needs of an application or workload. Different application workloads have different I/O patterns, and with that arises different bottlenecks, so there is no “one-size fits all” in storage systems. These storage performance metrics help with storage solution design and selection based on application/workload demands. Join us on February 7, 2024, for “Everything You Wanted to Know About Throughput, IOPS, and Latency, But Were Too Proud to Ask.” In this webinar, we’ll cover:

• What storage performance metrics mean – understanding key terminology nuances
• Why users/storage administrators should care about them
• How these metrics impact application performance
• Real-world use cases

It’s a live event and our experts will be available to answer any questions you may have. I hope you’ll register today. If you are not familiar with our “Too Proud to Ask” series, I encourage you to check out these 11 great on-demand webinars that provide 101 lessons on a wide range of storage terminology. The post Here’s Everything You Wanted to Know About Throughput, IOPs, and Latency first appeared on SNIA on Network Storage.

Workloads using generative artificial intelligence trained on large language models are frequently throttled by insufficient resources (e.g., memory, storage, compute or network dataflow bottlenecks). If not identified and addressed, these dataflow bottlenecks can constrain Gen AI application performance well below optimal levels. Given the compelling uses across natural language processing (NLP), video analytics, document resource development, image processing, image generation, and text generation, being able to run these workloads efficiently has become critical to many IT and industry segments. The resources that contribute to generative AI performance and efficiency include CPUs, DPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, plus memory and storage controllers. On January 24, 2024, the SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) is convening a panel of experts for a discussion on how to tackle Gen AI challenges at our live webinar, “Accelerating Generative AI – Options for Conquering the Dataflow Bottlenecks,” where a broad cross-section of industry veterans will provide insight into the following:

• Defining the Gen AI dataflow bottlenecks
• Tools and methods for identifying acceleration options
• Matchmaking the right xPU solution to the target Gen AI workload(s)
• Optimizing the network to support acceleration options
• Moving data closer to processing, or processing closer to data
• The role of the software stack in determining Gen AI performance

This is a session you don’t want to miss! Register today to save your spot. The post Accelerating Generative AI first appeared on SNIA on Network Storage.

NVMe®/TCP has gained a lot of attention over the last several years due to its great performance characteristics and relatively low cost. Since its ratification in 2018, the NVMe/TCP protocol has been enhanced to add features such as Discovery Automation, Authentication and Secure Channels that make it more suitable for use in enterprise environments. Now as organizations evaluate their options and consider adopting NVMe/TCP for use in their environment, many find they need a bit more information before deciding how to move forward. That’s why the SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) is hosting a live webinar on July 19, 2023 “NVMe/TCP: Performance, Deployment and Automation” where we will provide an overview of deployment considerations and options, and answer questions such as:

• How does NVMe/TCP stack up against my existing block storage protocol of choice in terms of performance?
• Should I use a dedicated storage network when deploying NVMe/TCP or is a converged network ok?
• How can I automate interaction with my IP-Based SAN?

Register today for an open discussion on these questions as well as answers to questions that you may have about your environment. We look forward to seeing you on July 19^th.

NVMe®/TCP has gained a lot of attention over the last several years due to its great performance characteristics and relatively low cost. Since its ratification in 2018, the NVMe/TCP protocol has been enhanced to add features such as Discovery Automation, Authentication and Secure Channels that make it more suitable for use in enterprise environments. Now as organizations evaluate their options and consider adopting NVMe/TCP for use in their environment, many find they need a bit more information before deciding how to move forward. That’s why the SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) is hosting a live webinar on July 19, 2023 “NVMe/TCP: Performance, Deployment and Automation” where we will provide an overview of deployment considerations and options, and answer questions such as:

• How does NVMe/TCP stack up against my existing block storage protocol of choice in terms of performance?
• Should I use a dedicated storage network when deploying NVMe/TCP or is a converged network ok?
• How can I automate interaction with my IP-Based SAN?

Register today for an open discussion on these questions as well as answers to questions that you may have about your environment. We look forward to seeing you on July 19^th. The post Considerations and Options for NVMe/TCP Deployment first appeared on SNIA on Network Storage.

Decentralized storage is bridging the gap between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, and its impact on enterprise storage is significant. The topic of decentralized storage and Web 3.0 will be the focus of an expert panel discussion the SNIA Networking Storage Forum is hosting on June 1, 2023, “Why Web 3.0 is Important to Enterprise Storage.” In this webinar, we will provide an overview of enterprise decentralized storage and explain why it is more relevant now than ever before. We will delve into the benefits and demands of decentralized storage and discuss the evolution of on-premises, to cloud, to decentralized storage (cloud 2.0). We will also explore various use cases of decentralized storage, including its role in data privacy and security and the potential for decentralized applications (dApps) and blockchain technology. As part of this webinar, we will introduce you to the Decentralized Storage Alliance, a group of like-minded individuals and organizations committed to advancing the adoption of decentralized storage. We will provide insights into the members of the Alliance and the working groups that are driving innovation and progress in this exciting field and answer questions such as:

• Why is enterprise decentralized storage important?
• What are the benefits, the demand, and why now?
• How will on-premises, to cloud, to decentralized storage evolve?
• What are the use cases for decentralized storage?
• Who are the members and working groups of the Decentralized Storage Alliance?

Join us on June 1^st to gain valuable insights into the future of decentralized storage and discover how you can be part of this game-changing technology.