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Storage Management initiative – Knowledge Center

One goal of the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) is to promote standardized interoperable storage management technologies to the storage, networking and end-user communities.

Key Programs
SMI Spec (SMI-S)
SMI-Lab Program
Conformance Testing

Check out your area of interest:

Download SMI's brochure: "Customer-Driven SMI-S" for Storage Vendors

View Storage Management tutorials presented at Spring 2011 SNW (Storage Networking World).

The SNIA U.S. Technology Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, hosts many SMI-related technical activities.

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What's New

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage Gateway supports SMI-S.
Read B2C article.
SCVMM 2012 uses SMI-S to interoperate with large number of arrays.
Read Microsoft blog.

Upcoming in 2012:

SMI-Lab Plugfest #2: March 26-29 (revised date)
Storage Management Track, Spring SNW: April 2-5.
View Storage Management tutorials, Fall 2011 SNW.