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The SMI-Lab program is an industry-wide collaborative program that helps companies accelerate the development and implementation of SMI-S based Client and Provider products from SNIA member companies. ► Check out our SMI-Lab Program flyer. |
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The program has been successful in providing an environment that manages and coordinates vendors' development efforts to deliver SMI-S compliant products to market. Since April, 2004, SMI-Lab has enabled numerous companies to pass the SMI-S CTP tests to get hundreds of products certified.
The SNIA's Storage Management Initiative (SMI) was created by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to develop and standardize interoperable storage management technologies and aggressively promote them to the storage, networking and end user communities. The SMI is developing a highly functional and interoperable management interface for multi-vendor storage networking products and will drive the following activities within the SNIA organization:
- Technology Development via the Storage Management Specification (SMI-S)
- Testing of products utilizing the work being done in the Conformance Test Programs (CTP) area
- Outbound marketing, education and training managed by the SMI Marketing Subcommittee
- Structured SMI-Lab Plugfests
SMI plugfests are held several times a year at the SNIA US Technology Center in Colorado Springs to test interoperability across SMI-S implementations, validate CTP test updates, and create proof-of-concept implementations of proposals for inclusion in the SMI-S standard. In addition, plugfests provide an opportunity to meet with peer developers and folks supporting commonly used CIMOMs.
SMI-Lab 10 Plugfest #3 is scheduled for August16-20, 2010. >>> Register to attend!
SMI-Lab 10 Plugfests planned at the SNIA US Technology Center:
- Plugfest #1 February 22–26, 2010 -- View Plugfest #1 Report.
- Plugfest #2 May 24–28, 2010 -- View Plugfest #2 Report.
- Plugfest #3 August 16–20, 2010
- Plugfest #4 October 25–29, 2010
Visit The SMI Developers Group is a technical discussion group (Google Group) that provides information to assist developers working with the SNIA's SMI-S standard.
The SMI Developers Group
SMI-Lab Member companies include:
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Contacts:
Tom Mancuso, Senior Program Manager, SMI