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| Abbreviation | SNIA |
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| Formation | December 22, 1997 |
| Type | Nonprofit |
| Headquarters | 5201 Great America Parkway, Suite 320 |
| Location | Santa Clara, California, U.S. |
Chair | J Michel Metz (AMD) |
Vice Chair | Richelle Ahlvers (Intel) |
Chief Operations Officer | Michael Meleedy |
| Website | snia.org |
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is an American trade association, incorporated in December 1997. It is a registered 501(c)(6) non-profit organization. SNIA has more than 185 unique members, 2,000 active contributing members, and over 50,000 IT end users and storage professionals.
SNIA's membership community participates in the following storage-related technical working groups:
SNIA Technical Council and Technical Work
The SNIA Technical Council is a group of high-tech industry representatives that guides the organization's technical activities. The council oversees SNIA's Technical Work Groups (TWGs) and serves as the organization's technical liaison to standards organizations.
SNIA's Technical Work Groups develop vendor-neutral architectures, standards, specifications, and supporting software in areas including AI data workloads, cloud object storage, computational storage, security, solid-state storage, storage management, and DNA data storage.
The SNIA dictionary won an award for publication excellence in 2009 and 2012 from the Business Communications Report.[citation needed]
SNIA organizes the annual SNIA Developer Conference (SDC), originally known as the Storage Developer Conference. The conference was launched in 2004 and is a technical event focused on data infrastructure technologies, including storage, artificial intelligence, memory, networking, compute, security, and data management. It also features interoperability testing through SNIA Plugfests and Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions. The conference has typically been held in Santa Clara, California. SNIA also organizes one-day regional SDC conferences.
SNIA absorbed the Small Form Factor Committee in 2016.[5]
SNIA also maintains partnerships with and submits material to other industry standards organizations[6] such as ISO,[7] IEC,[8] DMTF,[9] CXL,[10] INCITS[11] T10, T11, IETF,[12] and IEEE.[13]
The Small Form Factor Committee (SFF) was an ad hoc electronics industry group formed to quickly develop interoperability specifications (as a complement to the traditional standards process). They created the Small Form-factor Pluggable network interface module format. The committee was absorbed by the Storage Networking Industry Association in 2016.[14][5]
The SFF Committee was formed in 1990 to define the emerging disk drive form factor for laptop computers. In November 1992, the members broadened the objectives to complement the formal standards process in any area of the storage industry which needed prompt attention. SFF projects are in areas not addressed by standards committees because of timing, charter, or other considerations.
The committee consisted of members that represent companies that develop, manufacture, and sell products and components for the storage industry. Its members included but were not limited to representatives from companies such as Amphenol Interconnect, Avago Technologies, Broadcom, Dell, FCI Electronics, Foxconn, Fujitsu Components America, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, LSI Corporation, Molex, Panduit, Pioneer Corporation, Samsung, Seagate Technology, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Tyco Electronics, and W. L. Gore & Associates.
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The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is an American trade association, incorporated in December 1997. It is a registered 501(c)(6) non-profit organization. SNIA has more than 185 unique members, 2,000 active contributing members, and over 50,000 IT end users and storage professionals.
Storage Networking World (SNW) is a conference for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW was held twice each year. Common locations include Orlando, Florida, Grapevine, Texas, Phoenix, Arizona and San Diego, California. The event is oriented towards manufacturers and consumers of enterprise storage equipment and software, and is often the site of product launches and announcements. These events started in the fall of 1999, and the last event was held in the fall of 2013. The event dates and locations are listed below: The corresponding conference in Europe is called SNW Europe and commonly occurs in Frankfurt, Germany. Additional conferences were held in China, Japan, and Australia.
The Storage Management Initiative Specification, commonly called SMI-S, is a computer data storage management standard developed and maintained by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). It has also been ratified as an ISO standard. SMI-S is based upon the Common Information Model and the Web-Based Enterprise Management standards defined by the Distributed Management Task Force, which define management functionality via HTTP. The most recent approved version of SMI-S is available on the SNIA website. The main objective of SMI-S is to enable broad interoperable management of heterogeneous storage vendor systems. The current version is SMI-S 1.8.0 Rev 5. Over 1,350 storage products are certified as conformant to SMI-S.
Software-defined storage (SDS) is a marketing term for computer data storage software for policy-based provisioning and management of data storage independent of the underlying hardware. Software-defined storage typically includes a form of storage virtualization to separate the storage hardware from the software that manages it. The software enabling a software-defined storage environment may also provide policy management for features such as data deduplication, replication, thin provisioning, snapshots, copy-on-write clones, tiering and backup. Software-defined storage (SDS) hardware may or may not also have abstraction, pooling, or automation software of its own. When implemented as software only in conjunction with commodity servers with internal disks, it may suggest software such as a virtual or global file system or distributed block storage. If it is software layered over sophisticated large storage arrays, it suggests software such as storage virtualization or storage resource management, categories of products that address separate and different problems. If the policy and management functions also include a form of artificial intelligence to automate protection and recovery, it can be considered as intelligent abstraction. Software-defined storage may be implemented via appliances over a traditional storage area network (SAN), or implemented as network-attached storage (NAS), or using object-based storage. In March 2014 the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) began a report on software-defined storage.
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