PRESENTATION TITLE GOES HEREThe SNIA Industry Landscape

Vincent FranceschiniChairman, SNIA Board of Directors

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SNIA in a nutshell

Founded 1997 USA Non-profit trade association – 501c6Yearly budget is $5-6 Million USDUSA team: 18 peopleWorldwide HQ is San Francisco

Global presence in A/NZ, Canada, EMEA, India, Japan, PRC, South-Asia and USA

Technology Center Activities in Colorado, Beijing, Tokyo, BangaloreFocus on Education, Specifications (standards), Industry Alliances, Best Practices, Plugfests and Conformance Tests for SNIA Specs

No focus on industry lobbying, research, product technology creationSNIA co-owns Storage Networking World event;

SNW brand used in A/NZ, China, Europe and USA Specification work based on ANSI RAND IP policySoftware development work gated community work with open-source licensingIndustry size: $50-60B USD for Hardware & Software;

Explosive data growth WW; Aggressive declining $/TB per yr; data density increase; faster access networks;

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A Market Perspective

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Storage Networking Industry Association

MissionLead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting standards, technologies, and educational services to empower organizations in the management of information

Vision StatementsBe the trusted advisor across all business segments and the recognized authority in storage technologies in support of information managementBe the catalyst for the development of information technologies and storage standardsEstablish a strong international presence to address the needs and requirements of the local storage and information management marketplace

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SNIA Organization Chart

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SNIA Specifications and Standards

SMI-S: Storage Management InterfaceV1.0 ISO; V1.1 ANSI; V1.2 Spec Complete; V1.3 drafted, V1.4 & 1.5 in Dev.

XAM: Metadata API for data archiving and securityV1.0 Spec in Development

IMA: iSCSI Management API – INCITS reviewMMA: Multi-path Management API – ISO reviewDDF: Disk Data Format – V1.2 Spec Complete; V2.0 in DevManagement Framework – V1.0 Spec in Development

SNIA INCITS(ANSI Accred.)

ISO

12 to 18 mo 12 to 15 mo 12 to 15 mo

Spec USA Std WW Std

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SNIA Expands its Focus to “Information”

Focusing on “Storage” or “Storage Networking” per se is no longer sufficient

Transition started in 2004/5

Technology alone is too abstract to map business drivers Storage Information

– Information has business value that changes over time – Information needs a managed life cycle

Server Application– Why is the information important? – How is the information used?

Network Infrastructure– including mobile resources

And add the Users!– Who uses the Information?– When and Where do they need access?

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The Bigger Picture For SNIA

Storage Service: methods for managing the storage

Storage Service Client

Storage Policies

Create, Modify, Maintain, …

Storage Policies: determine behavior of storage management

Information Policies

Create, Modify, Maintain, …

InformationInformation Policies: determine behavior of information management

Data Policies

Create, Modify, Maintain, …

Data Data Policies: determine behavior of data management

Data Service Client

Information Service Client

User Interfaces: administrate the services

Information Services

Info Service: methods for managing the information

Data Services

Data Service: methods for managing the data

Storage Services (i.e. config service)

Provision Storage: Volumes, Mirrors, Policies…

Policy “Managers”: policy runtime and execution environment

Manage Policies: control lifecycle of the policies themselves

Storage Domain

Data Domain

Information Domain

Services: where automation take place

Communication is via SMI-S over CIM-XML and

WS-Management protocols

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ILM Goal: Resource Management based on Business Requirements

Data Services

Composite Storage Service (CSS)

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It’s all about the data!

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New Development Considerations for SNIA

Some important driversPoint data management products with Proprietary Interfaces

Backup, Archive, File-systems, etc.

Driving business priorities remains a difficult manual coordination processIT users’ struggle to identify all data locationsNeed to achieve Regulatory ComplianceInformation Lifecycle ManagementInformation Assurance

Existing Elements:Backup software has “policies” for moving (copying) data - based on data protectionHSM software has policies for moving data based on time and saving costsFCAS devices have policies for retaining dataSRM software can tell you who is using data and how much of it you have

Existing standards to leverageILM - beginnings of a data mover/placement profile(s)NFSv4, (others) - extended attributes (needs common model)SMI-S – Data Policies (QoS for filesystems? pNFS profile?)File Movers

NDMP, Grid FTP, etc Instrument with ILM profiles? Future standards?

New DevelopmentsBulk metadata retrieval

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