Data Focus Areas
SNIA's Data-Centric Focus
For over 25 years, SNIA has been committed to its mission of worldwide leadership developing and promoting architectures, standards, education and vendor-neutral collaboration. Our focus is on the transport, storage, acceleration, format, protection, and optimization of infrastructure for data.
Accelerate: Move processing to the data
Technologies that move processing closer to the data, enabling improvements in application performance and/or infrastructure efficiency through the integration of compute resources (outside of the traditional compute & memory architecture) either directly with storage or between the host and the storage.
Areas of Interest:
Protect: Secure and protect data
Security is concerned with securing data storage systems and ecosystems and the data that resides on these systems. Storage security represents the convergence of the storage, networking, and security disciplines, technologies, and methodologies for the purpose of protecting and securing digital assets.
Data protection is the process of safeguarding important data from corruption, compromise or loss and providing the capability to restore the data to a functional state should something happen to render the data inaccessible or unusable.
Areas of Interest:
- Storage Security
- SNIA TLS (Transport Layer Security) for Storage Systems
- Encryption and Key Management
- Data Sanitization
- Data Privacy
- Storage Management Security
- Fibre Channel Security
Optimize Infrastructure: Optimize how data environments are configured and managed
Optimize Infrastructure for configuration, management, and monitoring of data environments to reduce the consumption of space, power, and other resources required.
Areas of Interest:
- Storage Management
- SNIA Swordfish®
- iSCSI Management
- SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative Specification)
- IP Based Drive & Management
- Green Storage
- SNIA Emerald™
- Power Efficiency Containers
- IoT
- Software Defined Storage
- Performance
- RWSW (Real World Storage Workloads)
- IO Capture and Test
- IOTTA (I/O Traces, Tools, Analysis) Repository
Store: Representation of data on storage media
Data Storage is a function that records data and supports retrieval, enabling technologies for the storage of data and supporting representation of data on various types of storage media.
Areas of Interest:
Transport: Move data between physical locations
Data Transport is concerned with the specification of mechanisms and technologies
that define how data can be moved between physical locations, such as via connectors, cables, transceivers, and protocols.
Areas of Interest:
- Physical Connections and Transceiver Standards
- Networked Storage Technologies
- Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, SMB3
- SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
Format: Different formats to access stored data
Data Formats cover different formats for the format and structure of data, together with its associated metadata.
Areas of Interest:
- SNIA LTFS (Linear Tape File System) Format Specification
- Filesystems
- SNIA CDMI™ (Cloud Data Management Interface) Reference Implementation
- SNIA SIRF (Self-contained Information Retention Format)
- SNIA DDF (Common RAID Disk Data Format)