Storage Networking Industry Association

The Storage Networking Industry Association, founded in 1997, is a non-profit trade association based in San Francisco. Your goal is to make as complete and trusted products in the IT area storage networks. To this end they support, technical working groups, organize the English " Storage Networking World Conference " and maintain an independent technology center in Colorado Springs in the U.S. state of Colorado.

The following points are at the SNIA in the foreground:

  • Be an authority for data and storage networks
  • Cause a reinforcing effect on the development of standards

SNIA standards:

  • DDF, a vendor-independent data format for RAID systems.
  • SMI -S, a vendor- independent standard for management of devices in storage area networks.
Colorado Springs, Colorado Disk Data Format Storage Management Initiative – Specification
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