Building Community to Tackle Cloud Object Storage Incompatibilities (Nov. 21st)
Thursday, November 21st, 2024: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
This webinar will share insights into industry best practices, explain the benefits your implementation may gain with improved compatibility, and welcome your client and server cloud object storage team to join us in building momentum.
The SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) conducted a poll early in 2024 during a live webinar 'Navigating Complexities of Object Storage Compatibility,' citing 72% of organizations have encountered incompatibility issues between various object storage implementations. These results resulted in a call to action for SNIA to create an open expert community dedicated to resolving these issues and building best practices for the industry.
Since then, SNIA CSTI partnered with the SNIA Cloud Storage Technical Working Group (TWG) and successfully organized, hosted, and completed the first SNIA Cloud Object Storage Plugfest (multi-vendor interoperability testing), co-located at SNIA Developer Conference (SDC), September 2024, in Santa Clara, CA. Participating Plugfest companies included engineers from Dell, Google, Hammerspace, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, VAST Data, and Versity Software. Three days of Plugfest testing discovered and resolved issues and included a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session to gain consensus on next steps for the industry. Plugfest contributors are now planning two 2025 Plugfest events in Denver in April and Santa Clara in September.
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