Storage Networking Standards: Recent Developments David Black, Senior Technologist, EMC Corporation Interoperability standards play a vital role in customer adoption and advancement of storage networking technologies and systems. Storage networking is based on a broad spectrum of standards (developed by multiple standards organizations) in areas such as Fibre Channel (INCITS T11), SCSI (INCITS T10), iSCSI (IETF), and storage management (SNIA, DMTF, IETF). The current state and future direction of standards development can provide useful insights into technology developments. This tutorial covers storage networking standards and the role that the resulting standardized interfaces/functionality play in networked storage infrastructure. The presenter is a member of the SNIA Technical Council who is actively involved in development of many storage networking standards, including those listed in this abstract. Learning Objectives Identify the important classes of storage networking standards, using specific examples to explain the functional role of each class. Describe recent developments in important storage networking standards, and explain some of their implications for storage networking infrastructure. Identify organizations responsible for specific areas of storage networking standardization. [ close this window ]