On April 28-30, SNIA Storage Management (SM) hosted a Swordfish Plugfest in conjunction with Regional SDC Denver. The three-day event was a great opportunity for client users to get hands-on access to SNIA Swordfish® systems, as well as DMTF Redfish® systems, in the SNIA Innovations Lab and receive live assistance and feedback from Swordfish developers.

The participants were able to test their storage management solutions against multiple Swordfish and Redfish implementations. The success of the event was due to in-person feedback from Swordfish experts in a collaborative environment and real-time troubleshooting. Participants ranged from public sector employees to private company representatives and those interested in learning more about Swordfish technology.

“The plugfest generated great engagement with participants who are implementing Swordfish in their storage environments,” said Richelle Ahlvers, SNIA SM Governing Board Chair. “The SNIA Storage Management Interoperability Lab provided a fantastic infrastructure. Participants received access to multi-vendor Swordfish implementations that they would not be able to access otherwise.”

"The Swordfish plugfest was a great opportunity for Data Storage Science to validate our work on infrastructure management tools that take advantage of the Swordfish standard to reduce the amount of effort required to build those tools," said Dan Pollack, CTO, Data Storage Science. "Managing diverse populations of IT systems requires extensive data collection tooling, and Swordfish simplifies the development of that tooling by unifying the interfaces and data outputs. The plugfest gave Data Storage Science hands-on access to systems for testing while collaborating with other Swordfish developers. Plugfest attendance is time well spent for our development team."

Swordfish Plugfests are offered throughout the year to test Swordfish client and service implementations, validate Swordfish CTP test updates, and create mockups of potential changes to the standards. Plugfests also provide attendees with the opportunity to meet with peer developers and others supporting commonly used tools. Plugfest events are under NDA so participants can be open and free with testing and interaction.

Attend the Next Swordfish Plugfest at SDC

Interested in attending an upcoming Swordfish Plugfest to accelerate the development of your storage solutions? Building on the success of the April Plugfest, SNIA Storage Management is planning the next Swordfish Plugfest co-located with SDC 2025 on Sept. 15-17 in Santa Clara, CA.

Look for details and registration at sniadeveloper.org.