Cloud Storage Initiative

About CSI

CSI is promoting the adoption of cloud storage as a new delivery model, that provides elastic, on-demand storage billed only for what is used.

Whether you are interested in public clouds or private clouds, or even hybrids in between, the CSI is interested in hearing from you.

The simplicity of the cloud means that some long held dreams of information management are finally coming true. The emphasis has moved from managing your storage to managing your data in the cloud:
What are the data requirements?
How do I express those requirements?
Will my cloud storage provider be able to meet them?

Enter the new Cloud Storage standard called CDMI (Cloud Data Management Interface). CDMI lets you tag your data with special metadata (data system metadata) that tells the cloud storage provider what data services to provide that data (backup, archive, encryption, etc). These data services all add value to the data you store in the cloud and by implementing a standard interface such as CDMI, you are free to move your data from cloud vendor to cloud vendor without the pain of recoding to different interfaces.

CSI MEMBER COMPANIES:

Asigra
Basho Technologies
CA Technologies
Cisco
Cleversafe
CoreVault
EMC
HP
Hitachi Data Systems
Huawei
IBM
LSI Corporation
Mezeo Software
NetApp
Oracle Corporation
Scality
Sepaton
SpectraLogic
SwiftTest
Symantec
Terremark
XIOtech Corporation
Xyratex
ZTE Corporation

(updated 16 May, 2012)

2012 CSI Governing Board

Kingman Tang, NetApp - Co-Chair
Mark Carlson, Oracle - Co-Chair
Wayne Adams, EMC - Treasurer
Frank Murphy, EMC - Marketing Chair (non-voting)
Alex McDonald, NetApp - Education Chair (non-voting)
David Slik, NetApp - Cloud TWG Co-Chair (non-voting)

The mission of the SNIA CSI is to foster the growth and success of the market for what is generally referred as cloud storage and more generally the use of data storage resources and services in the cloud.

The CSI will Advocate and Support (adopt) work items of the Cloud Storage TWG, including: providing external advocacy and support of the Cloud Storage TWG; elevating the collaboration and underwriting of certain technical resources for the Cloud Storage TWG and performing interoperability plug-fests (cloud fests) as necessary in support of standards development

To get involved with the Cloud Storage Initiative as a member, please complete the membership form.