Join the Storage Management Initiative (SMI)

Qualified SNIA members may apply to join SMI or the SMI-Lab Program. Not a SNIA member yet? Learn more about SNIA membership.

Promote Interoperability and Contribute to standards

Member-driven and vendor-neutral, the SMI is chartered to promote multi-vendor storage management Interoperability for the products created by member companies through consensus building. Through its committees and programs, like SMI-Lab and the Conformance Test Program (CTP), SMI is directing the movement to create standards for storage networking management. Based on SMI's research and roadmap, SMI Technical Work Groups cooperatively develop the Storage Management Technical Specification known as SMI-S.

Quick Links: SMI SMI-Lab CTP

Join the SMI

When you join the SMI you will collaborate with leaders to define the direction of storage standards and interact with specialists across the industry working in harmony to solve customer problems. You will develop relationships with key industry media and analysts around industry direction, and you will have an opportunity to have dialog with IT professionals and determine their storage management concerns. You will also be presented with opportunities to serve as an industry leader yourself! View SMI Member companies.

Become an SMI member now! Click here for fees & application form.

SMI Membership Categories

Strategic Member

Large Company [Revenue Greater than $500M US per year]
Medium Company [Revenue between $10M US and $500M US per year]
Small Company [Revenue between $1M US and $10M US]
Start-up Company [Revenue less than $1M US - Two (2) year limit and/or for one (1) year after initial CTP attempt]

Associate Member

Storage Integrator Company
Storage Consulting Company
Storage End User Company

Non-Profit Institutional Member

For additional information contact:
Tom Mancuso
Senior Program Manager, SMI
(719) 884-8909

SMI Membership Benefit	SMI Strategic Member	SMI Associate Member	SMI Non-Profit Member
CTP Discounts	*
SMI Member Votes (1)	*
Approve SMI Annual Budget	*
Approve Statements of Work	*
Eligible to Run for SMI Governing Board	*
Prominent Logo visibility on SMI Website Home Page	*
Prominent Logo Placement on select SMI Collateral	*
Product of the Month Highlight on SMI-S Website Homepage (Limit two months per year)	*
Briefing Opportunity on SMI-S Website Homepage or End User landing Page	*
Participate in Market Requirements Process	*	*	*
Eligible to run for SMI Subcommittee Chair or Co-Chair	*	*	*
Attend Initiative, Subcommittee and project Meetings (2)	*	*	*
Access to SMI reflector groups (2)	*	*	*
Participate in building the SMI Roadmap	*	*
Inclusion in all SMI-S Press Releases where applicable	*		*
Access to Market Research and Survey Data conducted by SMI	*	*	*
Inclusion in all SMI Program Press Releases where applicable	*	*	*

(1) On selected votes, such as the SMI Budget and Governing Board Elections. Includes election of SMI Governing Board members and any SMI (initiative wide) ballots and SMI Committees. If your company joins the SMI Governing Board roster, your company will be able to vote on any SMI Governing Board ballot.
(2) Except SMI-Lab meetings and reflectors which require enrollment in the SMI-Lab program

Participate in the SMI-Lab

When you participate in the SMI's SMI-Lab Program you will become a key player in an ideal environment and network created exclusively for Client and Provider vendors to collaborate on SMI-S Interoperability issues.

You will have 24/7 online access to several million dollars worth of lab equipment, and you will be amongst the first vendors to exercise pre-release versions of the SMI-S conformance tests. You will have the ability to leap ahead of your non-participating competitors by learning about and resolving issues in the SMI-Lab. And, by participating in scheduled SMI-Lab face-to-face plugfests throughout the year, you will add to the integrity of the Specification and Conformance Tests by offering valuable feedback to SMI-S Authors and CTP Test Designers.

Join the SMI-Lab Program now! Click here for fees & application form

For additional information visit the SMI-Lab home page or contact:
Tom Mancuso
Senior Program Manager, SMI
(719) 884-8909

SMI-Lab Program Participant Benefit	Participant
Access to CTP Test Suite revisions as they are released for unofficial testing	*
Ability to participate in Plugfests at the SNIA Technology Center	*
Learn from the professionals at Plugfests as you develop your Provider support	*
VPN access to SMI equipment in the SNIA Technology Center for testing client support of vendor products	*
Direct Access to Developers	*
Access to pre-release versions of servers and clients	*
Access to SMI-Lab reflectors and conference calls where bugs are discussed and handled (bug calls)	*
Inclusion in all SMI-Lab Program Press Releases where applicable	*

Apply for a Conformance Test

By applying for and passing the appropriate conformance test, your company will earn the right to display the SMI-S CTP "mark" and have your conforming product(s) listed on the CTP web pages. This will let your customers know whether or not your product conforms to a particular version of the SMI-S. The SNIA can provide an impartial validation of a storage management software product or affirm that a item of storage networking infrastructure conforms to a version of SMI-S.

The Conformance Test Program for SMI-S is available to any company with a product ready to test. CTP Applicants do not have to be members of the SMI, SMI-Lab, or even the SNIA to be eligible to apply for an official conformance test.

Apply for Conformance Testing. Click here for fees and links to obtain application forms

For additional information visit the CTP home page or contact:
James Rigger
CTP Program Manager
(719) 884-8901

Conformance Test Program Benefit (1)	CTP Applicant
Access to the Final CTP Test for a Release (2)	*
An SMI Webpage for the applicant with reference to CTP Conforming products (3)	*
Links to your provider pages on your site (Provider Install Portals) (3)	*
Inclusion in all SMI-S CTP Press Releases where applicable (3)	*

(1) Any company with a product may apply for CTP conformance (do not have to be a member of SMI or the SNIA or participate in any other SMI program).
(2) Requires payment of the appropriate CTP Fee
(3) Requires passing the CTP Tests for a release. The results from all CTP testing will remain confidential. Applicants have the option of making their results available to the general public via the CTP web pages.

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