Taxonomy

The SNIA Emerald™ taxonomy divides the spectrum of storage products into a number of product complexity levels, represented as rows in the following chart. It also separates them by functional aspect, as shown in the columns. Note the shaded areas are not covered by the currently released version of the Specification. Columns for Networking and Adjunct equipment are also grayed out in the Spec at present.

Taxonomy Overview

More detail on the functional areas may be found by following the links below.

Taxonomy	Online	Near Online	Removable Media Libraries	Virtual Media Libraries