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SNIA Technical Work

SNIA’s members share a common goal to advance and standardize both established and emerging technologies that facilitate and improve data movement, security, management, storage, and performance.

SNIA occasionally makes available public review draft copies of some of the technical work being developed.

If you are interested in participating in any of the following projects and your company is already a SNIA Member, then just sign up for your free login account.  If your company is not a SNIA Member please see about joining so that you can start participating.  To find out additional information about a particular project contact Arnold Jones, SNIA Technical Council Managing Director at tcmd@snia.org.

SNIA Standards, Software, and Technical White Papers

Technology Area

Standards, Software, and White Papers

Technical Work Group
Cloud Storage Technologies Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) Cloud Storage TWG
Cloud Data Management Interface Reference Implementation Cloud Storage TWG
Hyperscaler Storage White Paper SNIA Technical Council
Computational Storage

Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model

 Computational Storage TWG

Computational Storage API

 Computational Storage TWG
Data Governance & Security Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Format Specification  
LTFS Bulk Transfer Standard  
Applications of LTFS for
Cloud Storage Use Cases White Paper		  
TLS Specification for Storage Systems Security TWG
SNIA Storage Security: Storage Management Security White Paper Security TWG
SNIA Storage Security: Fibre Channel Security White Paper Security TWG
SNIA Storage Security: Encryption and Key Management White Paper Security TWG
SNIA Sanitization Technical White Paper Security TWG
Networked Storage Requirements for Cross-Industry Alliances  
Persistent Memory NVM Programming Model (NPM)  
Persistent Memory Hardware Threat Model  
Non-volatile Persistent Memory Remote Access for High Availability White Paper  
Persistent Memory Atomics and Transactions White Paper  
Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) Specification SDXI TWG
Physical Storage Native NVMe-oF™ Drive Specification Object Drive TWG
IP-Based Drive Management Specification Object Drive TWG
Object Drive Key Value API Specification Object Drive TWG
Simple IP Based Drive Mockup-4 Object Drive TWG
IP Based Drive Array Mockup-2 Object Drive TWG
Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification Solid State Storage TWG
Real World Storage Workload IO Capture & Test Specification for Datacenter Storage Solid State Storage TWG
Physical Connectors and Transceiver Standards SFF Technology Affiliate TWG
Power Efficiency Measurement SNIA Emerald™ Power Efficiency Measurement Specification Green Storage TWG
Storage Management Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)  
Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API Scalable Storage Management (SSM) TWG
Software Defined Storage White Paper SNIA Technical Council
Completed Technical Work Architectural Model for Data Integrity White Paper
Common RAID Disk Data Format (DDF)
Hypervisor Storage Interfaces for Storage Optimization White Paper
iSCSI Management API (IMA)
Multipath Management API (MMA)
NDMP V4 Software
Self-contained Information Retention Format (SIRF)
eXtensible Access Method (XAM)
XAM Software Development Kit (XAM SDK)

All of the technical work listed in the above table is led by SNIA’s Technical Council and developed by SNIA’s Technical Work Groups (TWG), volunteer participants from SNIA’s member companies. All employees from member companies have the opportunity to participate in SNIA TWGs.  There are many benefits to participating in Technical Work Groups, including gaining in-depth expert knowledge of the standards in development.