SNIA Technology Groups [CLONE]
SNIA Technology Groups
At SNIA, members collaborate through two primary types of groups: Technical Work Groups (TWGs) and Communities. Both support SNIA’s mission to advance and standardize technologies, but each plays a distinct and complementary role.
Technical Work Groups (TWGs)
SNIA Technical Work Groups are where technical development happens. TWGs collaborate to create and evolve vendor-neutral architectures, standards, specifications, and supporting software related to storage and handling and optimizing infrastructure for data.
SNIA Communities
SNIA Communities are focused on education, outreach, and technology awareness. Communities develop and deliver vendor-neutral webinars, podcasts, blogs, events, speaking engagements, and industry content around specific technology areas. They help evangelize technical work into practical knowledge shared broadly across the industry.
Get to Know the SNIA TWGs and Communities
SNIA Technical Work Groups | ||
Group | Description | Current Work |
| Accelerated Object I/O TWG | Object storage has matured, requiring data transport mechanisms with less overhead and more efficient use of resources. The SNIA Accelerated Object I/O TWG provides a forum for industry experts to develop specifications and/or software to advance object s | • Accelerated Object I/O Specification Development |
| • S3 over RDMA Architecture | ||
| • AI and Data-Intensive Workload Optimization | ||
| • Interoperability and Ecosystem Alignment | ||
| • Industry Collaboration and Education | ||
| Cloud Object Storage Test Tools TWG | ||
| Cloud Storage TWG | ||
| Computational Storage TWG | ||
| Cloud Storage TWG | ||
| DNA Data Storage TWG | ||
| Green Storage TWG | ||
| I/O Traces, Tools & Analysis TWG | ||
| Green Storage TWGInformal Power supply efficiency measurement | ||
| Swordfish | Develops and maintains the Swordfish Storage Management Specification enabling standards-based management of server- attached, external, NVMe/NVMe-oF, cloud, and enterprise storage. | • Version 1.2.9 posted released Jan 2026 |
| • Open source tools and repositories: github.com/SNIA; watch for new tools and updates | ||
| • New functionality to support NVMe and NVMe-oF configurations | ||
| • Expanding documentation with new white papers | ||
| • Developing standard management model for DNA Data Storage; includes object storage additions | ||
| Security TWG | ||
SNIA Communities | ||
Group | Description | Current Work |
| Cloud Storage Technologies | ||
| Compute, Memory, and Storage | ||
| Data, Storage & Networking | ||
| DNA Data Storage Alliance | ||
| Green Storage | ||
| SFF | ||
| STA: SCSI Trade Association | ||
| Storage Management | ||