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.

Happy Birthday, SMI-S!

SMI: Most Outstanding Achievements of a Forum or Initiative in 2012

Upcoming in 2013 (SMI)

SMI-Lab Plugfest #3
May 20-23, SNIA Tech Center
SPDEcon: "SMI-S: Manage all the Things," Chris Lionetti
June 10-12, Santa Clara, CA

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

SNIA Standards & Plugfests improve interoperability.
Read press release.
SNIA announces SMI-S Conformance Test enhancements.
Read press release.
SNIA Technology Center re-opened after evacuation during Waldo Canyon Fire. Read article.
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.