Networked Storage

Updates from SNIA Forum, Initiative, and Committee Chairs

• Data Protection & Privacy Committee
• Networking Storage Forum
• Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative
• Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative
• Green Storage Initiative
• Storage Management Initiative
• Regional Updates

Updates from SNIA Technical Work Group Chairs (

• Blockchain Storage TWG
• Cloud Storage TWG
• Computational Storage TWG
• Green Storage TWG
• I/O Traces, Tools and Analysis (IOTTA) TWG
• Linear Tape File System (LTFS) TWG
• Object Drive TWG
• Scaleable Storage Management (SSM) TWG
• Security TWG
• SFF TA TWG
• Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) TWG
• Solid State Storage TWG
• Zoned Storage TWG

Over the past few years a number of new protocols have been devised to coherently connect the various memories in a computing system: OpenCAPI, CXL, and GenZ. In some cases these efforts have spawned other new ideas like OMI. What are all of these? How did they come into being? Why do they make sense? And how do they compare against one another?