Ten Years of SMI-S

Time to Celebrate! 2012 marks ten years since SNIA began development of the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). Oldies but Goodies! View newly rediscovered videos, circa 2002.

Ten Highlights of Ten Years...
 

1. 2002  "Bluefin" was donated to the SNIA by a small consortium of storage industry leaders. SNIA publicly announced it as SMI-S V1.0.
2. 2002  SMI-Lab plugfests were scheduled (CIM SAN 1 & 2 and SMI-Lab 3).
3. 2003  SMI launched formal industry-wide specification development, interoperability testing, and conformance testing (CTP).
4. 2004  SMI-S V1.0.2 became an ANSI standard. Development of SMI-S V1.1.0 started. 
5. 2006  SMI-S V1.0.3 was accepted as an ISO standard. The SNIA Technical Position of SMI-S V1.1.0 was released.
6. 2007-2010   SNIA published SNIA Technical Positions of SMI-S V1.2.0, V1.3.0, V1.4.0, and V1.5.0, divided into eight parts.
7. 2008, 2011  SMI-S V1.1.1 was published as an ANSI standard in 2008 and an ISO standard, Storage Management, ISO/IEC 24775, in 2011. 
8. 2011  SMI-S V1.3.0 was published as an ANSI standard: INCITS 388-2011.
9. 2012  SMI-S V1.6.0 became a SNIA Technical Position; SMI-S V1.5.0 was submitted for acceptance as an ISO standard. The SMI technical work groups started work on SMI-S V2.0.
10. 2012  Microsoft adopted SMI-S in SCVMM 2012 & Windows 2012 and invited the SNIA SMI to highlight SMI-S at a booth at MMS in Las Vegas. Microsoft hosted the July SMI-Lab plugfest at their Redmond campus.

*** 10 years young and going strong! ***

Download "10 Years of SMI-S" flyer.

At SDC 2012, we toasted SMI-S at the Tuesday evening reception.