In this podcast episode, Chris Evans discusses Storage.AI, a new initiative from the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) with Chair, Dr J Metz. Dr J works for AMD as a Technical Director but is also on several industry committees, acting as Chair for SNIA and the Ultra Ethernet Consortium.
The adoption of AI raises many issues for data processing and data management, resulting in potential inefficiencies across infrastructure. Storage.AI is an initiative aimed at bringing the storage industry together to use existing and new standards to make the processing of data for AI efficient and as fast as possible.
This conversation focuses on why standards are required, particularly to bring vendors and developers in line with a common goal. Dr J starts by outlining the unique issues relating to AI and HPC type workloads in general, before explaining how SNIA aims to bring the industry together to solve the problems.
During the conversation, Dr J discusses the SNIA Developer Conference, which can be found here – SNIA Developer Conference. Additionally, the Storage.AI website, not at the obvious address but can be found under SNIA.AI here – Storage.AI.
Elapsed Time: 00:41:19
Timeline
- 00:00:00 – Intros
- 00:00:16 – Dr J Metz, SNIA Chair and AMD Technical Director for Advanced Networking
- 00:01:09 – What is the Storage.AI initiative?
- 00:04:10 – There are lots of existing initiatives that can be combined to help data services issues for AI
- 00:05:30 – AI has technical and efficiency challenges that need to be overcome for growth
- 00:10:29 – What new AI-related issues have surfaced?
- 00:11:53 – SDXI is a good example of repurposable technology
- 00:15:16 – What is the long-term goal of the Storage.AI initiative?
- 00:16:53 – The industry has changed over the last decade
- 00:18:33 – How does SNIA get the big vendors onboard?
- 00:22:26 – NVM Express is a great example of advancements made in the industry
- 00:24:46 – How is SNIA itself evolving to address customer needs more?
- 00:30:53 – The SNIA Developers Conference will be an opportunity to share more ideas
- 00:34:31 – How can proprietary standards be shared more equally?
- 00:36:34 – Open standards generally work better than closed ones
- 00:39:25 – Wrap Up
Related Content
Copyright (c) 2016-2025 Brookend Ltd. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #pn14
Podcast: Play in new window | Download