SMI Tutorial > Introduction > Executive Summary
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Executive Summary |
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The 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.
Recognizing that improved management technologies are key to addressing customer needs to growing storage requirements, the SNIA developed the SMI to help meet and ease the user's demand for storage networking management.
Some of the key objectives to support the adoption of this initiative within the Storage and Networking industries, are:
- To enable and streamline the integration of multi-vendor storage networks
- To leverage existing management technologies
- To encourage standards-based management and
- To provide a common interface for storage vendors to incorporate in the development of new product(s)
The Storage Management Initiative (SMI) is supported by many groups within the SNIA organization such as: the Storage Management Forum (SMF), SNIA's Technical Working Groups (TWG) and the Conformance Test Programs (CTP). The SMI will drive SNIA activities in the following areas:
- Technology development
- Conformance testing of products
- Outbound marketing, education and training
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