Storage Management

SMI Lab: 2012 Dates / Latest Reports

The 2012 Plugfest dates have now been announced.  

SMI Lab 2011 #5 report is now available.

Why SMI is important for the Storage Industry?

The SMI provides storage vendors with the ability to target development efforts on a single standard interface. This results in improved time-to-market, delivery of product, and increased quality of solutions by dramatically reducing the need to develop and/or integrate disparate and proprietary interfaces.

End users implementing products that conform to the SMI Specification (SMI-S) will see benefits that include: increased reliability, security, and manageability that will result in lowering the total cost ownership. Efficiently managing multi-vendor storage networks and tis resources is a key concern for both end users and integrators. The central value proposition for networked storage is its ability to integrate multi-vendor, enterprise resources that can be shared and more efficiently utilized.

Public Review Release:  SMI-S v1.6 rev 3 DRAFT

SMI-S v1.6r3 draft

SMI-S defines a method for the interoperable management of a heterogeneous Storage Area Network (SAN), and describes the information available to a WBEM Client from an SMI-S compliant CIM Server and an object-oriented, XML-based, messaging-based interface designed to support the specific requirements of managing devices in and through SANs.

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New! Video Tutorial on Storage Management

iSCSI SANs: Ideal Applications, Large and Small

Current IT trends in Technologies such as server virtulization are offering additional reasons to deploy shared storage. Yet, nearly 50% of storage deployed is still DAS.This presentation will outline reasons to move to shared storage and will focus on how iSCSI offers an ideal solution for SANs both large and small.