Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) Spec Released for Public Review

At this week’s Storage Developer Conference SNIA announced the release of the (version 0.8) draft CDMI Spec for public review – just 5 months after the creation of a technical working group to work on it.  The spec is available for review and feedback from: http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/publicreview.

 As I mentioned when I blogged about Cloud Storage standards in April and in June, the pace at which this work is progressing is unprecedented in SNIA, and maybe in the industry. As with any standard, a clear area of applicability, customer-relevant use cases, and broad-based adoption are essential.  The release of the spec covers the first two of these requirements.  The third will depend of relevance to vendor plans. If your company has not been involved, you really should check it out and make sure it works for you.

 For more details, check out the SNIA Insider blog and William Vambenepe’s blog.