A vendor-neutral environment can complicate the discussion of open standards given the pressure provided by de facto and vendor standards. Fortunately, the Open Source community provides a wealth of popular, vendor-neutral yet often vendor-adopted technologies that compliment the indispensable SNIA Dictionary. This talk is inspired by work on the SNIA Dictionary and aims to strengthen SNIA community discourse by providing a wealth of Open Source reference implementations for established and emerging technologies.

The emerging Persistent Memory technology with its promise for enormous capacity, memory-like speed and non-volatility is a real game changer for in-memory database systems like SAP HANA. In this talk, we will discuss the tangible benefits that we expect this technology will bring to SAP HANA as we move from standard DRAM to Persistent Memory NVDIMMs, specifically enabling large customer data sizes at a lower cost as well as significant improvements in database restart times. Finally, we will give a glimpse of how we are evolving the SAP HANA architecture to incorporate NVDIMMs.

Learn what all the different elements of the Swordfish distribution package are and how to use them, from the spec to the mockups, to the user’s guide. Get pointers to online resources, communities and tools, and learn how to start building a Swordfish system.

The Introduction to Swordfish is a pre-requisite to the session; it provides the background of “why Swordfish”.

Application and Storage caches in modern systems must be manually tuned and sized in response to changing application’s workload. A balance must be achieved between cost, performance and revenue loss from cache sizing mis-matches. However, caches are inherently nonlinear systems making this exercise equivalent to solving a maze in the dark.
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Using scripts and automation tools such as Ansible is common when doing repetitive management tasks and monitoring systems in the data center, but writing these scripts can be challenging when integrating with different storage system management interfaces. PyWBEM simplifies these tasks when dealing with storage systems managed by the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) standard. PyWBEM is an open source Python library that simplifies dealing with storage system discovery, security, monitoring, performance, fault reporting, and active management.

Using scripts is common when doing repetitive management tasks and monitoring systems in the data center, but writing these scripts can be challenging when integrating with different storage system management interfaces. PyWBEM simplifies these tasks when dealing with storage systems managed by the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) standard. PyWBEM is an open source Python library that simplifies dealing with storage system discovery, security, monitoring, performance, fault reporting, and active management.

In the current era there is a general transition from a human developed automation storage system to machine learning based intelligent storage system. Many storage solutions support multiple tiers of storage coming from on premise and cloud storage in a single namespace. The storage tiers can vary in various dimensions such as performance, resiliency, cost. The storage solutions also provide mechanisms to move objects from one tier to a different tier depending on various parameters, such as last access time, last modification time, access frequency, size of the object.

With the accelerated adoption of mobile, object has became a major player in the storage field. Still, many applications rely on file protocols in order to transform and analyze data. When objects and files need to interact, making sure mixed access workloads can be handled correctly by storage solutions becomes critical. The ability to obtain information after processing object users' data could represent the difference between a thriving company and failing one.

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Three leading analysts in the Persisent Memory space will share their views on current activities and futures in this exciting area.