The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is an American trade association, incorporated in December 1997. It is a registered 501(c)(6) non-profit organization. SNIA has more than 185 unique members, 2,000 active contributing members, and over 50,000 IT end users and storage professionals.
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Abbreviation | SNIA |
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Formation | December 22, 1997 |
Type | Nonprofit |
Headquarters | 5201 Great America Parkway, Suite 320 |
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Chair | J Michel Metz (AMD) |
Vice Chair | Richelle Ahlvers (Intel) |
Chief Operations Officer | Michael Meleedy |
Website | snia.org |
Description
editSNIA's membership community participates in the following storage-related technical working groups:
- Cloud Storage Technologies
- Computational Storage
- Data Management
- Data Security
- Dictionary[1]
- DNA Data Storage[2]
- Networked Storage
- Next Generation Data Center
- Persistent Memory
- Physical Storage
- Power Efficiency Measurement
- Storage Management Initiative – Specification (SMI-S)
- SNIA Swordfish® - Scalable Storage Management Specification[3][4][1]
SNIA and its technical council maintain a vendor-neutral dictionary and glossary of storage networking, data, and information management terminology.
The SNIA dictionary won an award for publication excellence in 2009 and 2012 from the Business Communications Report.[citation needed]
SNIA along with Computerworld hosted the popular Storage Networking World (SNW) Conferences from 1999 to 2013, at various venues around the world, and commonly occurred in the Spring and Fall in the USA, and in the Fall in the EU.
SNIA is also the organizer the Storage Developers Conference (SDC).
SNIA absorbed the Small Form Factor Committee in 2016.[5]
SNIA also maintains partnerships with and submits material to other industry standards organizations[6] such as ISO,[7] IEC,[8] DMTF,[9] CXL,[10] INCITS[11] T10, T11, IETF,[12] and IEEE.[13]
Small Form Factor Committee
editThe Small Form Factor Committee (SFF) was an ad hoc electronics industry group formed to quickly develop interoperability specifications (as a complement to the traditional standards process). They created the Small Form-factor Pluggable network interface module format. The committee was absorbed by the Storage Networking Industry Association in 2016.[14][5]
The SFF Committee was formed in 1990 to define the emerging disk drive form factor for laptop computers. In November 1992, the members broadened the objectives to complement the formal standards process in any area of the storage industry which needed prompt attention. SFF projects are in areas not addressed by standards committees because of timing, charter, or other considerations.
The committee consisted of members that represent companies that develop, manufacture, and sell products and components for the storage industry. Its members included but were not limited to representatives from companies such as Amphenol Interconnect, Avago Technologies, Broadcom, Dell, FCI Electronics, Foxconn, Fujitsu Components America, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, LSI Corporation, Molex, Panduit, Pioneer Corporation, Samsung, Seagate Technology, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Tyco Electronics, and W. L. Gore & Associates.
References
edit- ^ "SNIA Releases On-Line Technical Dictionary". HPCwire. 2000-08-11. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "SNIA announces DNA data storage technology affiliate". Digitalisation World. 2022-06-24. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
- ^ "Introduction". www.wbemsolutions.com. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ Koblentz, Evan (May 7, 2018). "How to get started with the Swordfish storage management standard". TechRepublic. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ a b "SFF". SNIA. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- ^ "SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface Specification Earns ISO/IEC Designation as an International Standard". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release). 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "ISO - SNIA - Storage Networking Industry". www.iso.org. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "SNIA'S SMI-S standard adopted by ISO and IEC - News & Analysis - Network Magazine India". www.networkmagazineindia.com. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "SNIA, DMTF and NVM Express Form Strategic Alliance". HPCwire. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "SNIA and CXL™ Consortium Form Strategic Alliance". 3 November 2020.
- ^ "INCITS and The SNIA Team to Standardize Storage Management Interface - INCITS". www.incits.org. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ Sankar, Krishna; Jones, Arnold (April 2011). "Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) Media Types". tools.ietf.org. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "Storage network backup: Organizational aspects". SearchITChannel. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
- ^ "SFF Committee". www.sffcommittee.org. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
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