SNIA Releases new Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) for public review

[Mark A. Carlson]

SNIA Releases new Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) for public review Santa Clara , California -  September 14th, 2009  The Storage Networking Industry Association at this week's Storage Developer Conference (http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer2009)  announced the public review of a draft Cloud Data Managment Interface specification.  The Cloud Data Management Interface defines the functional interface that applications will use to create, retrieve, update and delete data elements from the Cloud. As part of this interface the client will be able to discover the capabilities of the cloud storage offering and use this interface to manage containers and the data that is placed in them. In addition, metadata can be set on containers and their contained data elements through this interface. This interface is also used by administrative and management applications to manage containers, accounts, security access and monitoring/billing information, even for storage that is accessible by other protocols. The capabilities of the underlying storage and data services are exposed so that clients can understand the offering. Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), Version 0.8 is avalable for  review and feedback from: http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/publicreview Please submit feedback and suggested changes to the document via the SNIA feedback portal: http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/feedback The specification will be the focus of the tutorial session titled: "Introducing the New Cloud Data Management Interface" at the conference today. snia.org | © 2009 Storage Networking Industry Association