SNIA’s Journey Continues…

SNIA’s Decade

SNIA is a non commercial industry organization formed in 1997. A small group of industry leaders and companies came together to form a consortium to advance the storage industry. Currently SNIA has a breadth of 400 member companies and more than 7000 individuals under its wing. The mission of the SNIA is to develop various standards and technologies to promote and unite the storage industry.

SNIA has made a remarkable journey to bring up and unite the storage industry in the last ten years. Here are few things to share from my knowledge.

Mile Stones

Here is a list of few major mile stones that are reached in this decade by SNIA.

1. The development of Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).

2. Accredition of SMI-S from International Standards Organization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

3. Certifying more than 10000 Professionals and 300 Products

4. Launching of Standard Storage Management Framework

5. Development of eXtensible Access Method (XAM) API Specification

6. Creating the regional affiliates in Europe, India, China, Japan, South Asia, Australia and few more countries.

7. Common RAID Disk Data Format Specification

 

Key Active areas

SNIA will concentrate on Management Framework, XAM apart from its regular activities on SMI-S. There are lot of key initiatives are coming up and few note worthies are;

1. Green Storage Initiative (http://www.snia.org/forums/green/)

2. Data – Deduplication and Space Reduction Special Interest Group. (http://www.snia-dmf.org/dpi/DDSR-SIG.shtml)

3. Storage Security forum (http://www.snia.org/forums/ssif/)

To know more about SNIA and its activities, visit www.snia.org