SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
SNIA Cloud Object Storage Test Tools - Foundation for Heterogeneous Multi-Vendor Interoperability
Abstract
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.
Learning Objectives
Learn how SNIA is building an expert Cloud Object Storage (COS) community to promote interoperability & portability of data stored in the cloud. Learn how the SNIA COS Test Tools effort is driving collaborative discussions among the developer peer community to gain consensus on a common API command set. Learn how SNIA is developing COS Test Tools to define best practice around protocol options and behavior changes, as well as provide automated test suites to gain more precise API interoperability results.
