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The SMI Lab Plugfest2 was a great success! Click here to download a report from Plugfest2.

SMI-S Plugfest 3 will take place 16-20 August 2010. Click here for more information and to register.

Mark the date for Plugfest 4: 25-29 October 2010.

The SNIA Storage Management Initiative (SMI) was created by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to develop and standardize interoperable storage management technologies and aggressively promote them to the storage, networking and end user communities

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.

Learn More About Storage Management....

  • SMI Lab Program & Plugfest 24 - 28 May.

    You'll see what happened at the first plugfest of the year, what is planned for the next plugfest 24-28 May, and why it is important for your company to be participating in the SMI Lab Program. Don't be left out, make sure your development team has access to the information, expertise and resources made available by the SMI Lab Program! Click here to download brochure for more information. (pdf - 110KB)

  • SMI-S storage standard breaks supplier lock-in
    September 2009