Released Versions of SMI-S

SMI-S

The SNIA Storage Management Initiative (SMI) exists to unify the storage industry on an extensible, interoperable, open, and highly functional interface for storage management. With the resources of the SNIA, the SMI delivers this interface, called SMI-S, short for the Storage Management Initiative Specification. Learn more about SMI-S.

The latest publicly released version of SMI-S is the SMI-S V1.5 SNIA Technical Position.

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View a list of SMI-S Technical Work Groups contributing to the SMI specification.

For more information on SMI-S, contact Tom Mancuso, Senior Program Manager, SMI.

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What's New

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage Gateway supports SMI-S.
Read B2C article.
SCVMM 2012 uses SMI-S to interoperate with large number of arrays.
Read Microsoft blog.

Upcoming in 2012:

SMI-Lab Plugfest #2: March 26-29 (revised date)
Storage Management Track, Spring SNW: April 2-5.
View Storage Management tutorials, Fall 2011 SNW.