SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
- About
- About SNIA
About SNIA
SNIA Is a not-for-profit organization that develops international standards and specifications
SNIA promotes technologies related to the storage, transport, optimization of infrastructure, acceleration, format, and protection of data.
Vision
Be the global experts and trusted authority for technologies related to handling and optimizing data.
Mission
Develop and promote architectures, standards, and education through vendor-neutral collaboration of experts on data technologies that lead the industry worldwide.
“ How we consume, process, and protect data is intricate and involved. SNIA is at the core of the entire IT ecosystem, helping the world advance and standardize both established and emerging technologies to facilitate and improve all technologies related to data. “
Dr. J Metz,
Chair, SNIA Board of Directors
Technical
Standards
SNIA is recognized and trusted for its leadership, standards, and expertise. SNIA's technical activities are overseen by its Technical Council (TC), which is composed of industry experts who provide strategic direction and steer SNIA's technical efforts. SNIA has published over 120 vendor-neutral standards, many of which have been ratified as international standards.
25+ years
Of developing and
prompting standards
57 SFF
63 SNIA
13 ISO
The SNIA
Community
SNIA members collaborate to develop and promote vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and education.
200
Industry leading
organizations
200
Active contributing
members
50,000
IT end users & storage
pros worldwide
Value of
Participation
SNIA members collaborate to develop and promote vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and education.
SNIA Technical Work Groups (TWGs) share a common goal to advance and standardize both established and emerging technologies that facilitate and improve data movement, security, management, storage, and performance.
This goal is achieved through work in member-driven groups dedicated to a wide range of technology interests.
Influence the Industry
Drive and impact new technologies related to handling and optimizing data
Collaborate Across Boundaries
An ecosystem of sharing, knowledge transfer, and technology advancement
Demonstrate Leadership
Lead technology trends and adapt to shifts in the ever-changing industry
Education
SNIA offers opportunities to learn about storage technology from a vendor-neutral perspective.
Educational Library with over 3,200 content assets
Blogs, webinars, articles, podcasts and infographics
Peer-reviewed dictionary with over 2,000 IT definitions
Global events for technical education, training, and development
SNIA Developer Conference
SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Summit
Strong Industry
Partnerships
Strategic alliances with several industry associations that work on complementary technologies.
