Storage Management Initiative (SMI) Leadership

The SMI is a collective Initiative of industry leaders committed to becoming the recognized authority for promoting the development and adoption of an interoperable storage management interface. The SMI leadership will coordinate and drive promotional and adoption efforts for both the vendor and end user communities, perform market outreach highlighting the benefits of deploying standards-based management tools and furthering the development of standards specific to the technology.

We appreciate our volunteers!
The SMI Board presented the 2011 SMI Outstanding Contributor Awards at the 2012 SNIA Winter Symposium.
View the 2010 SMI Awards and 2009 SMI Awards.

2012 SMI Governing Board

Chair: Don Deel, EMC Corporation
Vice Chair: Steve Quinn, Hitachi Data Systems
Secretary: Alan Yoder, NetApp
Treasurer: Doug Voigt, Hewlett-Packard
Mike Walker, Individual member
Troy Biegger, WBEM Solutions

Technology Development Committee

Chair: Don Deel, EMC Corporation

Marketing Committee

Chair: Troy Biegger, WBEM Solutions

Conformance Committee

Chair: Steve Quinn, Hitachi Data Systems

For more information on the Storage Management Initiative (SMI), contact tom.mancuso@snia.org or visit http://www.snia.org/forums/smi/

Upcoming in 2012 (SMI)

SMI-Lab 12 Plugfest #3:
May 21-24. Colorado Springs.

Conformance Program (CTP)

Test your product for SMI-S conformance.
View published test results. Published CTP results inform storage purchases.
View CTP video.

SMI in the News

Storage automation w/ System Center 2012 & IBM using SMI-S. Read IBM info.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage Gateway supports SMI-S. Read B2C article.
VMM 2012 uses SMI-S to interoperate with large number of arrays. Read blog.