What Is...?
SNIA experts are frequently asked ‘What Is?”. The below list are links to specific “What Is” pages by technology focus areas. These one-page definitions provide a clear and concise, vendor-neutral definition, and a description of what they are and how each of these technologies work.
Learn more about fundamental storage networking topics:
Cloud Storage Technologies
Data Governance, Privacy, and Security
- What is Ransomware?
- What is Data Protection?
- What is Storage Security?
- What is Blockchain Storage?
- What is Data Privacy?
- What is Linear Tape File System (LTFS)?
- What is Mirroring?
Persistent Memory
Physical Storage
Storage Management
Computational Storage
Networked Storage
- What is a Storage Area Network (SAN)?
- What is Network Attached Storage (NAS)?
- What is iSCSI?
- What is Fibre Channel?
- What is Object Storage?
- What is NVMe over Fabrics?
Power Efficiency Measurement
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