What is the benefit of developing products against the SMI-S standard?
When widely adopted, SMI-S will streamline the way the entire storage industry deals with management. Management application developers no longer will have to integrate incompatible, feature-poor interfaces into their products. Component developers no longer will have to “push” their unique interface functionality at application developers. Instead, both will be better able to concentrate on developing features and functions that have value to end-users. Faced with reduced costs for management, end users will adopt storage-networking technology faster and build larger more powerful networks.
