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 1, 1970, 0:59]
Storage Virtualization - Part II: 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 1, 1970, 0:59]
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 1, 1970, 0:59]
SNIA CIM Object Manager
White Papers This document is intended for both developers of the core CIM object manager technology and developers interested in implementing providers for the CIMOM. The document assumes that the audience are familiar with the CIM and WBEM technologies...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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 Network Management - Part III
White Papers This paper provides a basic grounding in the history of network management interfaces and interface definitions as a background and introduction to the work being performed by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) as part of the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Managing IBM TotalStorage DS300 / DS400 With IBM Director
White Papers SMI-S is a standard developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for storage devices. The SNIA's Storage Management Initiative (SMI) was created to develop and standardize interoperable storage management technologies and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
ISCSI: The Future Of Network Storage
White Papers Other involvement includes open software development through membership in the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA). Intel is also a key group member of the SNIA subcommittee on iSCSI. Organizations with changing data requirements...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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 Network Management - Part II
White Papers This paper provides a primer on both SNIA's Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and the technology on which it is based, the Distributed Management Task Force's Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM).
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
White Paper: Storage Management Initiative Specification SMI-S
White Papers The purpose of this white paper is to explain how the specification was developed, benefits to developers and end users as well as explain the conformance test process required to receive the SNIA CTP certification.
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