With the move to cloud continuing, application modernization, and related challenges such as hybrid and multi-cloud adoption and regulatory compliance requirements, enterprises must ensure they understand the current data and storage landscape. The SODA Foundation’s annual comprehensive global survey on data and storage trends does just that, providing a comprehensive look at the intersection of cloud computing, data and storage management, the configuration of environments that end-user organizations are gravitating to, and priorities of selected capabilities over the next several years On April 13, 2023, SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) is pleased to host SODA in a live webcast “Top 12 Trends in Data and Cloud Storage” where SODA members who led this research will share key findings. I hope you will join us for a live discussion and in-depth look at this important research to hear the trends that are driving data and storage decisions, including:

• The top 12 trends in data and storage
• Data security challenges facing container deployments
• Approaches to public cloud deployment
• Challenges for storage observability
• Focus on hybrid and multi-cloud deployments
• Top use cases for cloud storage services
• The impact of open source working with data and storage

Register here and bring your questions. You will also have the opportunity to download the 42-page full report. We look forward to your joining us!      

With the move to cloud continuing, application modernization, and related challenges such as hybrid and multi-cloud adoption and regulatory compliance requirements, enterprises must ensure they understand the current data and storage landscape. The SODA Foundation’s annual comprehensive global survey on data and storage trends does just that, providing a comprehensive look at the intersection of cloud computing, data and storage management, the configuration of environments that end-user organizations are gravitating to, and priorities of selected capabilities over the next several years On April 13, 2023, SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) is pleased to host SODA in a live webcast “Top 12 Trends in Data and Cloud Storage” where SODA members who led this research will share key findings. I hope you will join us for a live discussion and in-depth look at this important research to hear the trends that are driving data and storage decisions, including:

• The top 12 trends in data and storage
• Data security challenges facing container deployments
• Approaches to public cloud deployment
• Challenges for storage observability
• Focus on hybrid and multi-cloud deployments
• Top use cases for cloud storage services
• The impact of open source working with data and storage

Register here and bring your questions. You will also have the opportunity to download the 42-page full report. We look forward to your joining us!

Multiple clouds within an organization have become the norm. This strategy enables organizations to reduce risk and dependence on a single cloud platform. The SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) discussed this topic at length at our live webcast last month “Why Use Multiple Clouds?” We polled our webcast attendees on their use of multiple clouds and here’s what we learned about the cloud platforms that comprise their multi-cloud environments:

Our expert presenters, Mark Carlson and Gregory Touretsky, also discussed the benefits of a storage abstraction layer that insulates the application from the underlying cloud provider’s interfaces, something the SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) 2.0 enables. Cost is always an issue with cloud. One of our session attendees asked: do you have an example of a cloud vendor who does not toll for egress? There may be a few vendors that don’t charge, but one we know of that is toll free on egress is Seagate’s Lyve Cloud; they only charge for used capacity. We were also challenged on the economics and increased cost due to the perceived complexity of multi-cloud specifically, security. While it’s true that there’s no standard security model for multi-cloud, there are 3^rd party security solutions that can simplify its management, something we covered in the webinar. If you missed this webinar, you can access it on-demand and get a copy of the presentation slides in the SNIA Educational Library

The almost overnight shift of resources toward remote work has introduced the need for far more flexible, dynamic and seamless end-to-end applications, putting us on a path that requires autonomous capabilities using AIOps – Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations. It’s the topic that the SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative is going to cover on August 25, 2020 at our live webcast, “IT Modernization with AIOps: The Journey.” Our AI expert, Parviz Peiravi, will provide an overview of concepts and strategies to accelerate the digitalization of critical enterprise IT resources, and help architects rethink what applications and underlying infrastructure are needed to support an agile, seamless data centric environment. This session will specifically address migration from monolithic to microservices, transition to Cloud Native services, and the platform requirements to help accelerate AIOps application delivery within our dynamic hybrid and multi-cloud world. Join this webcast to learn: • Use cases and design patterns: Data Fabrics, Cloud Native and the move from Request Driven to Event Driven •    Foundational technologies supporting observability: how to build a more consistent scalable framework for governance and orchestration •    The nature of an AI data centric enterprise: data sourcing, ingestion, processing, and distribution This webcast will be live, so please bring your questions. We hope to see you on August 25^th. Register today.

As data growth in enterprises continues to skyrocket, striking balance between cost and scalability becomes a challenge. Businesses face key decision on how to deploy their cloud service, whether on premises, in hybrid cloud or in multicloud deployments. So, what are enterprise IT organizations supposed to do, given that 'run anything anywhere' is becoming more important than ever? 

Find out on June 11, 2020, when the SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative will host a live webcast, “Storage Scalability in Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud Environments.” This webcast will help architects and consumers of hybrid cloud and multicloud storage solutions better understand:

• Trends and benefits of hybrid cloud storage and multicloud deployments
  • The range of technologies and capabilities which will help enterprise, hyperscalers and cloud service providers (CSPs) serve their customers
  • How scalability differs in block vs. file workloads
  • What are key factors to keep in mind when considering a 'run anything anywhere' objective?

We hope to see you on June 11th. Our expert presenters will all be on-hand to answer your questions. Register today

As data growth in enterprises continues to skyrocket, striking balance between cost and scalability becomes a challenge. Businesses face key decision on how to deploy their cloud service, whether on premises, in hybrid cloud or in multicloud deployments. So, what are enterprise IT organizations supposed to do, given that ‘run anything anywhere’ is becoming more important than ever?  Find out on June 11, 2020, when the SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative will host a live webcast, “Storage Scalability in Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud Environments.” This webcast will help architects and consumers of hybrid cloud and multicloud storage solutions better understand:

• Trends and benefits of hybrid cloud storage and multicloud deployments
  • The range of technologies and capabilities which will help enterprise, hyperscalers and cloud service providers (CSPs) serve their customers
  • How scalability differs in block vs. file workloads
  • What are key factors to keep in mind when considering a ‘run anything anywhere’ objective?

We hope to see you on June 11th. Our expert presenters will all be on-hand to answer your questions. Register today

As enterprises move to a hybrid multi-cloud world, they are faced with many challenges. In addition to decisions surrounding what technologies to use, they are also seeing a transformation in traditional IT roles. Storage admins are asked to be more cloud savvy while new roles of cloud admins are emerging to handle the complexities of deploying simple and efficient clouds. Meanwhile, both these roles are asked to ensure a self-service environment is architected so that application developers can get resources needed to develop cutting edge apps not in week, days or hours but in minutes.

That’s why the SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) is hosting another live webcast on Kubernetes in the Cloud (Part 2) on July 17, 2019. In part one of this three part series, we covered the high level aspects of Kubernetes. This presentation will discus key capabilities IT vendors are creating based on open source technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to build self-service infrastructure to support hybrid multi-cloud deployments. We’ll cover:

• Persistent storage and how to specify it
• Ensuring application portability between Private and Public Clouds
• Building a self-service infrastructure (Helm, Operators)
• Selecting Block, File, Object (Traditional Storage, SDS)

Register today to save your spot. And bring your questions, our experts will be on hand to answer them on the spot.

As enterprises move to a hybrid multi-cloud world, they are faced with many challenges. In addition to decisions surrounding what technologies to use, they are also seeing a transformation in traditional IT roles. Storage admins are asked to be more cloud savvy while new roles of cloud admins are emerging to handle the complexities of deploying simple and efficient clouds. Meanwhile, both these roles are asked to ensure a self-service environment is architected so that application developers can get resources needed to develop cutting edge apps not in week, days or hours but in minutes.

That’s why the SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) is hosting another live webcast on Kubernetes in the Cloud (Part 2) on July 17, 2019. In part one of this three part series, we covered the high level aspects of Kubernetes. This presentation will discus key capabilities IT vendors are creating based on open source technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to build self-service infrastructure to support hybrid multi-cloud deployments. We’ll cover:

• Persistent storage and how to specify it
• Ensuring application portability between Private and Public Clouds
• Building a self-service infrastructure (Helm, Operators)
• Selecting Block, File, Object (Traditional Storage, SDS)

Register today to save your spot. And bring your questions, our experts will be on hand to answer them on the spot.

As enterprises move to a hybrid multi-cloud world, they are faced with many challenges. In addition to decisions surrounding what technologies to use, they are also seeing a transformation in traditional IT roles. Storage admins are asked to be more cloud savvy while new roles of cloud admins are emerging to handle the complexities of deploying simple and efficient clouds. Meanwhile, both these roles are asked to ensure a self-service environment is architected so that application developers can get resources needed to develop cutting edge apps not in week, days or hours but in minutes. That’s why the SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) is hosting another live webcast on Kubernetes in the Cloud (Part 2) on July 17, 2019. In part one of this three part series, we covered the high level aspects of Kubernetes. This presentation will discus key capabilities IT vendors are creating based on open source technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to build self-service infrastructure to support hybrid multi-cloud deployments. We’ll cover:

• Persistent storage and how to specify it
• Ensuring application portability between Private and Public Clouds
• Building a self-service infrastructure (Helm, Operators)
• Selecting Block, File, Object (Traditional Storage, SDS)

Register today to save your spot. And bring your questions, our experts will be on hand to answer them on the spot.

According to research from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), IT organizations today are struggling to strike the right balance between public cloud and their on-premises infrastructure. Has hybrid cloud reached a tipping point? Find out on April 23, 2019 at our live webcast “The Hybrid Cloud Tipping Point” when the SNIA CSTI welcomes ESG senior analyst, Scott Sinclair, who will share research on current cloud trends, covering:

• Key drivers behind IT complexity
• IT spending priorities
• Multi-cloud & hybrid cloud adoption drivers
• When businesses are moving workloads from the cloud back on-premises
• Top security and cost challenges
• Future cloud projections

The research presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with Scott Sinclair and my SNIA cloud colleagues, Alex McDonald, Mike Jochimsen and Eric Lakin. We will be on-hand on the 23^rd to answer questions.

Register today. We hope to see you there.