Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)

Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)

Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
SNIAs mission is to Lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and educational services that facilitate the efficient management, movement, and security of information.

Samsung is actively participating in the SNIA in many areas. One of the most active areas currently in the SNIA is the area of Computational Storage where the Computational Storage Architecture specification and the Computational Storage API specification are being developed. Samsung has contributed the API specification and is editor of both specifications. Samsung is involved in defining Storage Management for Ethernet attached SSDs and Direct attached NVMe-oF™ SSDs. Samsung has a leadership role ibn the SNIA Security Technical Work Group (TWG) where security for all aspects of storage is discussed and the Transport Layer Security (TLS) specification is developed with the latest revision TLS Specification for Storage Systems v2.0 being published in February 2021.

Samsung is also involved in the various marketing activities of the SNIA and the leadership of SNIA with a representative as an advisor to the SNIA Board of Directors and co-chair of the SNIA Technical Council which determines the technical direction of the SNIA.

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