Adam Gray

SNIA has created a collaborative Cloud Object Storage (COS) industry community to drive multi-vendor heterogeneous interoperability test events (Plugfests), and participants identified an obvious pain point in the industry - the need to develop automated COS interoperability test tools.  SNIA COS community efforts help empower developers to share best practice around latest challenges, gain consensus on resolution and find bugs before customers find them.  Discussions and presentations enable developers to grow their peer network, expand awareness on usage and gain access to expertise, as well as participate in community consensus defining common baseline level API support.  With this community, SNIA member companies intend to create and publish compatibility test software suites that help automate protocol compatibility testing of widely popular industry Cloud Object Storage APIs, wire-protocols and services.  These experts will discuss the real-world need for COS heterogeneous multi-vendor interoperability test tools, and progress to date from the initial stages of SNIA member feedback and calls to action.

Adam Gray

Principal Software Engineer -- Cloud Object Storage (COS) Test Tools Provisional TWG Chair

IBM -- SNIA

Michael Hoard

Chair for Cloud Storage Technologies (CST) community

SNIA