Summary and conclusions

The SNIA Shared Storage Model is a simple and powerful model for describing shared storage architectures. We believe this model will be valuable to several groups:

• Vendors to place products in the space of architectures, and clarify product differences.

• Customers to understand vendor offerings better.

• The storage industry as a whole as a basis for common definitions, communication, understanding, and increased interoperability.

We hope you, too, find it useful.

Status

The SNIA Shared Storage Model is still a work in progress. The SNIA Technical Council would appreciate feedback on it, and particularly on those occasions where the model fails to cover an architecture or design, or when it could do so more elegantly. You can send us feedback via email to [e-mail], or through the SNIA technical director at [e-mail].

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