SMI News

SMI-related Media Coverage   

April 2, 2013: SNIA Standards and Technology Plugfests improve interoperability. Read press release.

October 16, 2012: SNIA announces SMI-S Conformance Test enhancements. Read press release.

July 5, 2012 Blog: "Getting started with SMI-S on Windows Server 2012." Jeff Goldner, Microsoft, provides instructions. "With the upcoming Windows Server 2012, SMI-S support will be available to all of our server customers."

June, 2012 Blog: "Introduction to SMI-S." Jeff Goldner, Microsoft, explains the basics of SMI-S and reports "What Microsoft is doing with SMI-S." Learn why "Microsoft has become an active participant in the SNIA technical working groups and also in the SMI-Lab plugfests." 

October, 2011 Blog: Windows Server 8: Standards-Based Storage Management.  Jeffrey Snover, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Windows Server, describes how "SCVMM 2012 uses SMI-S to interoperate with a large number of arrays..."

May, 2011  Microsoft hopes storage spec gets a boost under SCVMM 2012. "System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 will use the (SMI-S) standard for integration with data storage infrastructure in private clouds."

October, 2010  SMI-S: Managing storage through a single console, an independent assessment by Alan Radding, Technology Writer.  

May 17, 2010  Enhanced Online News   PMC-Sierra Introduces Industry’s First Multi-Core, Multi-Threaded RAID Platform for x86 Servers  "Management utilities conform to current SNIA, SMI-S and DMTF industry standards."

April 12, 2010  InfoStor.com  SNIA enhances SMI-S CTP for users. Read about user-friendly enhancements to the SMI-S Conformance Testing Program.

September, 2009  ComputerWeekly.com:  SMI-S storage standard breaks supplier lock-in. Read how "the Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SMI-S) standard promises best-of-breed storage systems" and is delivering on that promise.

SMI-Related News

Standards news
SMI-S V.1.1 was published as an ISO/IEC standard in February, 2011: ISO/IEC 24775:2011.
SMI-S v1.3 was designated an ANSI standard in February, 2011: INCITS 388-2011.

SMI-Lab has scheduled six plugfests for 2012.

October 13, 2009  SNIA Announces SMI-S Conformance Test Enhancements in Version 1.4. Read how "Enhancements Help End Users Better Evaluate Storage Options."

SMI-S V1.1.1 was accepted as an ANSI standard, ANSI INCITS 388-2008, Information Technology - Storage Management.