IP Storage Technical Activities
There continues to be a tremendous pace of innovation around IP Storage
among storage vendors, data management software vendors, operating system
vendors, and industry standards bodies. Over the last few years iSCSI
matured rapidly with growing acceptance among SMBs and Enterprise Customers.
We've seen complete support for all of the major operating systems, a
variety of iSCSI host bus adapter (HBA) offerings, multi-pathing solutions,
cluster support, SAN boot, enterprise backup integration - such that in many
cases, solutions are at par with fiber channel based storage
solutions.
In the technical community, there is a continuous effort to innovate and
improve the iSCSI eco system. 10Gb Ethernets deployments have emerged, and
100Gb Ethernet is on the drawing board: the Ethernet transport continues to
innovate towards a unified scalable network infrastructure.
TCP offloading is opening the doors for high performance coupled with
ease of use and various standards bodies are working on RDMA, Infiniband and
iSCSI Management (Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and iSCSI Management
API), which further broaden IP Storage usage scenarios.
IP Storage Forum Technical Committee & Technical Working Group
(TWG)
The charter of this committee is to be the “technical interface” between
the IPSF and the SNIA IP TWG. the committee also tracks and provides
information about advances made by other standard organizations working on
IP Storage technology.
The IP Storage TWG is particularly focused on endpoint and data
management standards - and provides IP Storage specific input into the
SNIA's Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S) standards
activity. The IPSF Technical Committee collects any new requirements
gathered as part of IPSF marketing activities and coordinates with IP
Storage TWG on their technical merit and feasibility. It also actively
engages with other SNIA technical working groups to promote IP Storage
related content in their work.
For more information, please contact the IPSF Technical Liaison
Committe Chair at IPSFcomchairs@snia.org
