SNIAVideo Courses

Drive Regeneration in Action - Enhancing Fault Tolerance in Datacenters

Explore innovative HDD Drive Regeneration technology that keeps drives operational despite defects, enhancing datacenter fault tolerance and storage availability while reducing replacements.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Simulating CXL.mem for Fun and Profit

Explore CXL.mem simulation techniques to understand memory sharing, coherency overheads, and optimize task scheduling across large-scale deployments using Python-based tools.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Taming the Multi-Protocol Jungle

Explore VAST Data's protocol-agnostic approach to unified data access across NFS, SMB, and S3, ensuring consistent permissions and security for modern AI/ML workflows.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Compute Express Link (CXL) as Scalable and Highly Cost Effective Memory Architecture

Explore CXL technology's revolutionary approach to memory scaling challenges, featuring real-world experiments showing 5x capacity increases in distributed databases.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

War Stories from the Storage Trenches

Uncover 15 years of hard-learned lessons from enterprise data migration failures, exploring technical pitfalls in NFS, SMB, and S3 that consistently derail storage projects.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Command Duration Limits (CDL) - Improving IOPS per TB in HDDs

Explore Command Duration Limits (CDL), a QoS protocol for HDDs that optimizes command execution through traffic classes and duration policies to improve IOPS per TB performance.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

New Transports in Samba - SMB over QUIC and SMB-Direct Development

Explore Samba's evolution beyond TCP with SMB over QUIC for secure file sharing and SMB-Direct RDMA for high-performance data center environments.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Accelerating Object Storage for AI/ML with S3 RDMA

Discover how S3 RDMA revolutionizes object storage for AI/ML by bypassing HTTP, enabling zero-copy data transfers and optimized GPU utilization for high-performance workloads.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Activating Tier 0 Storage Within GPU and CPU-based Compute Clusters

Discover how to activate underutilized local NVMe storage in GPU/CPU clusters as high-performance Tier 0 storage, reducing AI workload costs and latency through standards-based approaches.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

MEXT Radical Reduction in Computing Costs - AI-Powered Predictive Memory for Data Centers

Discover how AI-powered predictive memory technology can slash data center costs by optimizing DRAM utilization and bringing Flash into the memory tier.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Why Should We Have Yet Another Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor for SSDs

Discover the motivation behind EDSFF E2 form factor creation, its specific dimensions, and why existing SSD standards couldn't meet enterprise datacenter needs.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OCP Storage Project Update

Discover the latest developments in OCP Storage Project activities, including SSD and HDD initiatives, presented by Meta's Ross Stenfort at SNIA SDC 2025.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Enabling Standard Block Protocols on a Distributed Cloud-Native Platform

Explore how Microsoft Azure Storage implements iSCSI and NVMe-oF protocols on a distributed cloud platform, covering protocol termination, lifecycle management, and multi-tenancy.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Always-On Diagnostics - eBPF-Based Tools for Linux SMB and NFS Client Monitoring

Discover eBPF-based tools for Linux SMB/NFS client debugging. Learn Always-On Diagnostics daemon architecture, anomaly detection, and automated log capture for troubleshooting performance issues.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

HDD Innovations for Hyperscale - Command Duration Limits, Drive Depopulation, and Shingled Magnetic Recording

Explore cutting-edge HDD technologies like CDLs, SMR, and drive depopulation designed for hyperscale storage, plus Linux kernel support and vendor collaboration strategies.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video