Storage Networking Industry Association
trade association formed to develop standards for storage area networks
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.
Description
SNIA's membership community participates in the following storage-related technical working groups:
Cloud Storage Technologies
Computational Storage
Data Management
Data Security
Dictionary
DNA Data Storage
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[1]
SNIA Technical Council and Technical Work
The SNIA Technical Council is a group of high-tech industry representatives that guides the organization's technical activities. The council oversees SNIA's Technical Work Groups (TWGs) and serves as the organization's technical liaison to standards organizations.
SNIA's Technical Work Groups develop vendor-neutral architectures, standards, specifications, and supporting software in areas including AI data workloads, cloud object storage, computational storage, security, solid-state storage, storage management, and DNA data storage.
The SNIA dictionary won an award for publication excellence in 2009 and 2012 from the Business Communications Report.
SNIA organizes the annual SNIA Developer Conference (SDC), originally known as the Storage Developer Conference. The conference was launched in 2004 and is a technical event focused on data infrastructure technologies, including storage, artificial intelligence, memory, networking, compute, security, and data management. It also features interoperability testing through SNIA Plugfests and Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions.
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