Technology Communities

Analytics and Big Data
Cloud Storage
Conformance Testing Program
Data Protection
Ethernet Storage
Green Storage
Solid State Storage
Storage Management SMI
Storage Security

Storage Management Education

Learn about storage management and how storage management solutions are being employed to solve business problems.

SNIA Storage Management Tutorials

These presentations, which are prepared by SNIA members and change frequently, often focus on specific aspects of SMI.

View Spring SNW 2012 Storage Management tutorials. (presented at Spring 2012 Storage Networking World)
View Fall SNW 2011 Storage Management tutorials
View Fall SNW 2010 tutorials.

SMI-S Developers Group

Click here to access this Yahoo group, which provides information to assist developers working with the SNIA's SMI-S standard.

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.