SNIA Announces Storage.AI
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 4, 2025 -- SNIA, a not-for-profit global organization for technologies related to handling and optimizing data, today announced Storage.AI, an open standards project for efficient data services related to AI workloads. Storage.AI will focus on industry-standard, non-proprietary, and neutral approaches to solving AI-related data problems to optimize the performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of AI workloads.
Initial industry leaders who have signed on to Storage.AI include AMD, Cisco, DDN, Dell, IBM, Intel, KIOXIA, Microchip, Micron, NetApp, Pure Storage, Samsung, Seagate, Solidigm, and WEKA. In addition to SNIA’s substantial membership, the project will work to build broad ecosystem support with SNIA’s partners, including UEC, NVM Express, OCP, OFA, DMTF, SPEC, and others.
AI workloads are extraordinarily complex and constrained by issues related to latency, space, power and cooling, memory, and cost. Addressing these problems through an open industry initiative is the fastest path to optimization and adoption. SNIA’s 25+ year track record of developing industry standards, together with its technical accomplishments to accelerate, store, unify, and optimize the compute, movement, and performance of data, makes it uniquely positioned to lead the SNIA Storage.AI data project.
"The unprecedented demands of AI require a holistic view of the data pipeline, from storage and memory to networking and processing,” said Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair. “No single company can solve these challenges alone. SNIA’s Storage.AI provides the essential, vendor-neutral framework for the industry to coordinate a wide range of data services, building the efficient, non-proprietary solutions needed to accelerate AI for everyone."
The Storage.AI project will create an open ecosystem for efficient data services to address the most difficult challenges related to AI workloads, closing current gaps in processing and accessing data. The founding members share common goals. For more information, visit snia.ai.
“The enterprise technologies powering today’s most demanding AI workloads are only as effective as the data they can access,” said Robert Hormuth, corporate vice president, Data Center Solutions Group, AMD. “As a member of Storage.AI, we’re excited to collaborate with other leaders to give the industry a neutral, open path to fix data bottlenecks and unlock true AI performance.”
"As AI continues to reshape every industry, the demand for open, scalable, and intelligent data infrastructure has never been greater,” said Santosh Erram, VP of Public Cloud Alliances at DDN. “At DDN, we’re proud to support SNIA’s Storage.AI initiative—an important step toward fostering collaboration, driving interoperability, and setting open standards that enable the AI ecosystem to thrive. By working together, we can unlock faster innovation and more meaningful outcomes for customers and partners across the AI landscape."
Join Storage.AI
The power and impact of industry cooperation in developing open standards are proven. Technical work is beginning now. Companies and industry organizations interested in participating in the groundbreaking project should contact [email protected].
About SNIA
SNIA is a not-for-profit global organization made up of corporations, universities, startups, and individuals. The members collaborate to develop and promote vendor-neutral architectures as well as international standards and specifications. SNIA promotes technologies related to the storage, transport, optimization of infrastructure, acceleration, format, and protection of data.
Source: SNIA
