New standard aims to ease cloud data movement
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has finalised a standard aimed at making it easier for organisations to move data among public and private storage clouds.
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has finalised a standard aimed at making it easier for organisations to move data among public and private storage clouds.
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today the formation of the Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) in order to establish a lexicon of cloud-computing terminology, publish use cases, white papers and technical specifications, and to create reference implementation models for grid-storage architectures.
A new working group will help vendors and users write standardised interfaces between applications that generate fixed content and the storage platforms that store it.