Several solid state disk (SSD) and networking vendors have demonstrated ways to connect SSDs directly to an Ethernet network. They propose that deploying Ethernet SSDs will be more scalable, easier to manage, higher performance, and/or lower cost than traditional storage networking solutions that use a storage controller (or hyperconverged node) between the SSDs and the network.
Who would want to attach SSDs directly to the network? Are these vendors brilliant or simply trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist? What are the different solutions that could benefit from Ethernet SSDs? Which protocols would one use to access them? How will orchestration be used to enable applications to find assigned Ethernet SSDs? How will Ethernet SSDs affect server subsystems such as Ethernet RAID/mirroring and affect solution management such as Ethernet SAN orchestration? And how do Ethernet SSDs relate to computational storage?
Find out on March 17, 2020 when the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum presents a live webcast, “Ethernet-attached SSDs—Brilliant Idea or Storage Silliness? In this webcast, SNIA experts will discuss:
- Appropriate use cases for Ethernet SSDs
- Why Ethernet SSDs could be cost-effective and efficient
- How Ethernet SSDs compare to other forms of storage networking
- Different ways Ethernet SSDs can be accessed, such as JBOF/NBOF, NVMe-oF, and Key Value
- How Ethernet-attached SSDs enable composable infrastructures
Register now for what is sure to be an interesting discussion and debate on this technology.