What Is...?
SNIA experts are frequently asked ‘What Is?”. The below list are links to specific “What Is” pages by technology focus areas. These one-page definitions provide a clear and concise, vendor-neutral definition, and a description of what they are and how each of these technologies work.
Learn more about fundamental storage networking topics:
Cloud Storage Technologies
What is Cloud Storage?
Data Governance, Privacy, and Security
What is Erasure Coding?
What is Ransomware?
What is Data Protection?
What is Storage Security?
What is Blockchain Storage?
What is Data Privacy?
What is Linear Tape File System (LTFS)?
What is Mirroring?
Persistent Memory
What is Persistent Memory?
What is NVMe?
Physical Storage
What is an SSD?
Storage Management
What is the SNIA Swordfish™ Standard?
Computational Storage
What is Computational Storage?
Networked Storage
What is a Storage Area Network (SAN)?
What is Network Attached Storage (NAS)?
What is iSCSI?
What is Fibre Channel?
What is Object Storage?
What is NVMe over Fabrics?
Power Efficiency Measurement
What is SNIA Emerald™?
What is Green Storage?
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