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In order to better utilize cloud computing and its resources, the SNIA Cloud Storage TWG is in the process of defining a Cloud Data Management Interface Specification (CDMI) in which the objective is to expose standardized methodologies using a RESTful architecture and leverage existing standards such as SMI-S and XAM to manage capabilities of storage, objects and metadata. SNIA has also announced the public review of the draft CDMI specification, http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer2009.

The overall goal of Olocity is to initially create a Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) reference implementation that will coexist with the open source StorageIM™ storage management application and leverage existing standards such as SMI-S. This reference implementation will utilize the SMI-S standards to assemble containers for primordial pools, concrete pools and storage volumes as well as define reference CDMI capabilities.

Technology and Documentation

Cloud Data Management Interface Specification: http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/publicreview

StorageIM: Open source monitoring and reporting tool for storage systems and storage networks built around SMI-S, DASH and SMASH standards.
http://www.olocity.com

SMI-S: SMI is a membership-based initiative created by the SNIA to develop and standardize interoperable storage management technologies and promote them to the storage, networking and end-user communities.
http://www.snia.org

Jersey (JAX-RS): Jersey is an open source, JAX-RS(JSR 311) production quality implementation for building RESTful web services.
https://jersey.dev.java.net/

Read the document and results

Download /View the StorageIM CDMI Reference Implmentation Code

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CDMI by Kurt Krems