SNIA pushes for open storage standards
News The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has formalised its alliance with the Eclipse Aperi open-source project, to increase its collaboration around open-storage-management standards. SNIA and Aperi officially teamed up in September 2006...
[April 18, 2007, 15:59]
Storage Networking Security - Part I: A SNIA Technical Tutorial
White Papers This paper series presents one of three Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) booklet tutorials and is reproduced hereunder special arrangement and the expressed permission of SNIA. This series provides an introduction to storage...
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Storage Virtualization - Part IV: A SNIA Technical Tutorial
White Papers This paper series presents one of three Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) booklet tutorials and is reproduced hereunder special arrangement and the expressed permission of SNIA. This fourth and final paper in the series discusses...
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Top 10 storage pain points
News The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) recently revealed results of a survey in which Storage Networking World conference attendees voiced their concerns and frustrations with implementing storage technologies in their organisations.
[January 20, 2005, 17:20]
EMC promises bullish growth as rivals gather
Talkback The reason I say this is that The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) (www.snia.org/home), has yet to agree on what ILM actually is and how it can be achieved. The area was discussed in detail at last year's SNIA ILM conference in Long...
[August 11, 2005, 12:02]
Storage Virtualization - Part IV
White Papers Acting in its role as an educator, SNIA has undertaken to offer clearer definitions and terminology in general, and to convey them to both vendors and users. This fourth and final paper in the series discusses Storage Virtualization and the SNIA...
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
Aperi project gains Eclipse approval
News Aperi — which is backed by Cisco Systems, IBM and Novell, among others — seeks to develop a standardised open source code for storage management systems according to specifications established by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
[September 11, 2006, 12:40]
Storage Management Initiative rebooted
News SMI-S, the brainchild of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), evolved from earlier programs like Bluefin, which was also supported by the five companies. Some SNIA members are also backers of a group called Aperi, founded last...
[June 23, 2006, 9:05]
Storage products pass standard's test
News The specification and the testing program come out of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). This is a monumental achievement for the industry and end users," Ray Dunn, chairman of the SNIA Storage Management Forum, said in a statement.
[April 7, 2004, 9:20]
IT giants form open source storage group
News Aperi's formation, however, may also lead to confusion in the marketplace, given that Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) efforts are already under way to create a standard for storage management software.
[October 26, 2005, 9:00]
Hitachi releases high-end storage device
News Developing heterogeneous replication and virtualisation has been made possible by the SNIA storage standard. It is all contingent on SNIA," said Plumridge. Plumridge said that it is not worried about compatibility issues as, since the introduction...
[September 7, 2004, 17:25]
Storage firms expand offerings
News We're sceptical of anyone claiming SMI-S compliance, given the fact that the testing criteria for the standard has yet to be ratified by SNIA (the Storage Networking Industry Association)," an HP representative said.
[February 6, 2004, 8:00]
Storage Virtualization - Part I
White Papers Acting in its role as an educator, SNIA has undertaken to offer clearer definitions and terminology in general, and to convey them to both vendors and users. In order to provide a common frame of reference for discussions about storage technology...
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
Fibre channel competitor wins approval
News Ratification of the standard means that end users can move forward with solutions with more confidence," said Bryce Mackin, marketing chair of the IP Storage Forum of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and a product line manager...
[February 13, 2003, 13:11]
Storage Virtualization - Part II
White Papers Acting in its role as an educator, SNIA has undertaken to offer clearer definitions and terminology in general, and to convey them to both vendors and users. "Storage virtualization" has become the buzzword in the storage industry, especially with...
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
Storage Network Management - Part I
White Papers These difficulties caused several members of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to meet in private session in 2000 to discuss ways to obviate this bottleneck. Storage networks have now become so pervasive, and their configurations...
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
ManageEngine OpStor
Downloads OpStor discovers san devices using management interfaces such as SNMP, CLI, SNIA SMI-S. ManageEngine OpStor is a multi-vendor storage networks manager offering unified Inventory, Fault and Performance management for Storage Arrays, Fabric Switches...
[April 3, 2009, 11:28]
Storage technology clears key hurdle
News The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) subgroup that led the creation of the technology, called iSCSI, has completed a final round of comments on the technology, the group said Wednesday. A technology that promises to bridge the worlds...
[September 6, 2002, 9:05]
Wednesday
Blog SANs, NASs, SMIS, SNIA, the list is endless.and, what's this, Microsoft has got virtual storage in Server 2K3? Wednesday 2/04/2003 A long time ago, I mentioned to the editor of the magazine for which I worked that I had some experience of...
[April 4, 2003, 12:24]
Hitachi's storage launch undeterred by HP
News In all this, HDS has promised to obey standards, in particular the Common Information Model (CIM) and the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), both of which have been endorsed by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and which HDS...
[May 9, 2002, 10:03]



