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Advantages of SMI-S
For Storage Vendors:
The SMI provides storage vendors with the ability to target development efforts on a single standard interface. This results
in improved time-to-market, decreased product development cost, and increased quality of solutions by dramatically reducing the need to learn, develop, test and/or integrate disparate and proprietary interfaces.
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For Storage End Users:
End users purchasing products that conform to the SMI-Specification (SMI-S)
will see benefits that include increased reliability, security, and manageability
which results in lowering the total cost ownership (TCO). Efficiently managing multi-vendor storage networks and their 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.
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