SNIA Software and XAM

In 2006, the SNIA expanded its thought leadership role in the industry by undertaking sizeable and impactful Software Initiatives in addition to their traditional storage centric role. The intent is for the SNIA to be a catalyst in the development of software standards to speed the market adoption of new technologies that benefit the end user. These benefits include vendor independence, software portability, interoperability and improved manageability. The eXtensible Access Method (XAM) is the first Software Initiative formed to oversee the development of this standardization effort between applications that generate fixed content and the storage platforms that store it in accordance to the specification developed by the Fixed Content Aware Storage (FCAS) TWG. Recently, the SNIA Technical Council approved the formation of the XAM Software Development Technical Working Group (XAM SDK TWG) to develop common software for XAM Specification(s) to support adoption, implementation and deployment of the standard. This tutorial will update you on this important new endeavor within the SNIA, how software development will be pursued and brought to market and specifically how the XAM standard access method benefits vendors, software developers and the end user community.

Learning Objectives

§ How software development will be pursued and brought to market

§ How the XAM standard access method benefits vendors, software developers and the end user community