25 Years of SNIA

• SNIA founded by network storage visionaries.
• Network storage emerges in reaction to customer demands(1Gb/s Fibre Channel).

• Organization grows to 89 members.
• Fibre channel networks adopted in data centers.

• SNIA technical council created.
• SNIA partners with IDG’s computerworld to co-own Storage Networking World(SNW).
• 1st CIM-based resource management demonstrations.
• 1st Fibre Channel switch (1Gb/s).

• 1st interoperability demonstrations held at SNW.
• SNIA Shared Storage Model introduced.
• 1st standard for fabric interoperability emerge.
• SNIA Dictionary launched.

• SNIA expands its international outreach with the launch of Regional Forums in Europe and Japan.
• SNIA Technology Center opens in Colorado Springs.
• IP Storage emerges as an alternative to Fibre Channel.
• SNIA Tutorial Program launched.

• SMI-S program launched based on the Bluefin contribution.
• Storage Security and Storage Management forums created.
• Storage Virtualization emerges as a new technology.

• Data Management forum launched.
• SNIA Certification Program begins.
• Emergence of disk-based backup/restore solutions.

• SMI-S Conformance testing Program launched at the SNIA Technology Center.
• 10Gb/s inter-switch links for Fibre Channel.
• Storage Developer Conference launched.

• eXtensible Access Method (XAM) Architecture comes to SNIA.
• Information Lifecycle Management emerges in response to data management challenges.

• Software development enabling the adoption of standardized architectures is added as a major activity of SNIA.
• 10Gb/s Ethernet emerges.

• SMI-S Receives ISO/IEC Approval-SNIA’s first ISO Standards.
• XAM and Green Storage Initiatives launched.
• For its 10th anniversary, SNIA rebrands with new logo and new website.
• IT Industry begins focusing on power and cooling costs: the “Greening” of IT.

• New SNIA Groups form for Long-Term retention(LTR) and Data Deduplication and Space Reduction (DDSR).
• SNIA End-User Council launches.
• Storage Technology Online Community (StorTOC).
• Solid State Storage Initiative(SSSI) formed.
• SNIA Brazil formed.

• SNIA creates Software Developer Kits (SDKs).
• SNIA Malaysia formed.
• New qualification test developed for Data Protection and Virtualization.

• SNIA relocates Technology Center within LSI Facility in Colorado Springs.

• Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) Launched.
• SNIA Emerald program launched.
• Analytics and Big Data Committee (ABDC) launched.

• New Certification exam in conjunction with CompTIA launched.
• Storage Developer Conference exceeds 400 attendees.
• New Technical Work Group with Non-volatile Memory (NVM) and Linear Tape File System (LTFS) launched.

• SNIA closes HQ office in San Francisco and opens new Headquarters and Technology center in Colorado Springs.
• The Non-Volatile Memory Technical Work Group launches a well-attended summit.
• SNIA Emerald advances cross-industry planning with national bodies including the EPA for Energy efficient programs that include SNIA-hosted training.

• Data Storage Innovation Conference (DSI) launched.
• SNIA Emerald launches Recognized Tester Program.
• KMIP Test Program launched, meeting the demand for encryption key management conformance testing.

• Scalable Storage Management (SSM) TWG formed.
• SNIA Foundation Certification re-launched.
• Data Storage Security Summit launched.

• First Working draft and technical positions of SNIA Swordfish Specification published.
• SNIA absorbed the organizational stewardship o the SFF Technology Affiliate.
• SNIA Certification Program names “ Top Storage Certification for IT Pros” by Network World.

• Launched 100-year Archive Survey.
• 20th anniversary celebrated at SDC September.

• Computational Storage Technical Work Group Launched.
• SDC grows as a global brand, with conferences in Tel Aviv and Bangalore.
• Server System Infrastructure Forum (SSI) assigned specification copyright to SNIA.

• Persistent Memory Summit grows to over 300 attendees.
• SNIA Educational Library launched with over 2,300 vendor-neutral assets.
• SNIA online Dictionary is relaunched with improved search capabilities.

• SNIA Certification Program discontinued.
• IOTTA Technical Working Group announce the deployment of a new mirror site in South Korea.
• Geek out on Storage campaign starts.

• SNIA Marketing Alliance formed with SODA.
• SNIA forms Zoned Storage TWG.

• DNA Data Storage Technology Alliance joins SNIA to jumpstart DNA Data Storage standards development.
• SNIA celebrates 25th Anniversary at SDC’22.
• Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) Specification v1 published.

• STA (SCSI Trade Association) joins SNIA.
• SNIA Computational Storage API v1 published.
• SNIA Experts on Data Podcast series launched.
• SNIA Wins Most Innovative Memory Technology Award at FMS 2023.
• SNIA updates mission to reflect a data-centric focus.

• New simplified SNIA membership model announced.
• Regional SDC premiers in Austin, TX.
• First SNIA Cloud Object Storage Plugfest.