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The need to apply standardization for storage management became the focus of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) in 2002 with the acceptance of a draft specification work from the private effort known as the PDP (Partner Development Process). With the acceptance of the specification work, the SNIA created the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) to focus the breadth of the SNIA resources on further developing the technical work and providing education, and program development support for the standard known as SMI-S. The SNIA, a vendor-neutral organization, has access to people with the right skills, experience and expertise to execute this to assist industry vendors in addressing the needs of the IT Community.
The charter for the Storage Management Initiative is to unify the storage industry on an extensible, open and highly functional interface for storage management.
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