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NEW DELHI: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has announced that its membership has voted and approved a change to the organization's bylaws to define the scope of its software development projects.
This vote was approved to help the SNIA formalize its existing software activities as well as strengthen the development and adoption of the association's standards.
"As the SNIA continues to seek new ways to deliver value to the industry, we are formally extending our charter to be able to include the development of software projects," said Wayne M. Adams, chair of the SNIA Board of Directors. "For example, we believe that the development of software for the Management Framework specifications, that complement SMI-S, will help vendors focus on advanced management functionality instead of redundant basic programming around widely implemented standards. Consistent implementations of standards reduce vendor interoperability work, accelerating the delivery standards as part of commercial solutions into end user operations."
The development of software projects within the SNIA will follow the association's vendor-neutral requirements and processes. Several existing and future projects will benefit from this expansion of the associations and bylaws:
SMI-S: By developing new software to complement SMI-S, software developers can focus on enhancements and advanced features versus the need to build them from scratch. By delivering fundamental, vendor-neutral software with SMI-S, the SNIA will help speed adoption and increase deployment SMI-S-based storage.
XAM: Within the planned development of the SNIA's eXtensible Access Method (XAM), the SNIA will develop reference implementations of the specification. This will provide software and application vendors a standards-based example of how to implement XAM and further develop their own IP on top of the specification.
CIM Protocol Tester: This software-based test, which will be improved and expanded, saves development time by reducing the testing lifecycle of a vendor's SMI-S conformant product and increases the "out of the box" interoperability between various vendor products that include the SMI-S standard. This test was made available to vendors participating in the SMI-Lab 7 earlier this year.
"This change of organization's bylaws to define the scope of its software development projects is simply to help the SNIA formalize its existing software activities as well as strengthen the development and adoption of the association's standards. We are committed to expand and improve our stringent, high-quality educational opportunities through activities like the SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program (SNCP), SNIA Certifications and Hands-On-Labs, as well as events such as Storage Developer's Conference," said P K Gupta, chairman, SNIA India.
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