STORAGE MANAGEMENT for CUSTOMERS AND END USERS
This section of the website is dedicated to providing customers and end users with information focused on Storage Management technology and implementation.
The Storage Management Initiative (SMI) was created by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to develop and standardize interoperable storage management technologies:
- To enable and streamline the integration of multi-vendor storage networks
- To leverage the development of powerful management application
- To encourage management consolation
- To provide a common interface for storage vendors to incorporate in the development of new product for the industry
Why SMI-S for Storage End Users?
End users implementing products that conform to the SMI Specification (SMI-S) will see benefits that include: increased reliability, security and manageability that will result in lowering the total cost of ownership. Efficiently managing multi-vendor storage networks and its resources is a key concern for both end users and integrators. The central value proposition for networked storage is its ability to integrate multi-vendor, enterprise resources that can be shared and more efficiently utilized.
- Increased Flexibility/Freedom of Choice
- Clients can manage multi-vendor environment
- No need to purchase individual management clients for each array
- Enables active management of multi-vendor arrays
- Manage snaps/replication of multi-vendor products
- Reduced complexity
- Auto-discovery, topology mapping
- Normalized management of multi-vendor resources
- Single CIM-defined user interface for managing multi-vendor devices
- No need to train admins on multiple interfaces
- Reduced administration/increased productivity from using one user interface
- Minimizes agent proliferation
- No need to maintain/upgrade agents
- Provide agent-less discovery/monitoring
Have a question? Ask an SMI expert by sending an email.
The SNIA and WBEM Solutions Announce SMI-S Training. SNIA and WBEM Solutions have joined together to offer world-wide SMI-S training.
These courses are specifically designed for:
- Software Engineers/Architects responsible for Designing SMI Enabled solutions
- SMI Developers of Providers or Instrumentation
- SMI Developers of Client Applications
- Engineering Managers responsible for SMI Enabled products
- Test Engineers and Support Engineers responsible for testing SMI Enabled products
For further information visit: http://wbemsolutions.com
The EUC was created to aggregate and amplify the voice of the end user in the storage networking community. All end users of storage networking solutions not involved with the sales, marketing, engineering, or manufacturing of storage networking products are invited to join!
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