Skip navigation United States: Change Communities Login Contact Us Products Solutions Services & Support Partners Company How to Buy Home Company Thought Leadership Industry Standards & Associations Industry Standards and Associations +1 877 263 8277 Contact Sales E-mail twitter facebook linkedin google-plus NetApp participates in standards bodies and industry associations to drive strategic industry technology directions. We accomplish this through active leadership and participation in various organizations, driving key industry technology directions to ensure that emerging standards meet our business and architectural requirements, while demonstrating our commitment to interoperability and open-systems infrastructures. NetApp has played a major role in advancing industry standards such as Network File System (NFS), Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Storage Management Interface Specification (SMI-S), Simple Public-Key GSS-API Mechanism (SPKM), Encryption Key Management Interchange Protocol (KMIP), and Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI). We continue to be active in the foundational storage standards of Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), Fibre Channel (FC), and Serial ATA (SATA). At the same time, we are driving new and emerging standards in cybersecurity, solid-state storage, non-volatile memory, power efficiency, virtualization, cloud computing, high-performance computing, and open-source initiatives. NetApp Industry Participation Follow the links below for information about the specifics of NetApp’s leadership and participation in various standards bodies and industry associations: Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Ethernet Alliance Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Linux Foundation OpenStack Foundation Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) oVirt Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Here are other organizations in which NetApp participates: Cloud Security Alliance Compact Flash Association Green Grid High Performance Computing Advisory Council International Disk Drive Equipment & Materials Association (IDEMA) International Standards Organization (ISO) Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) InfiniBand Trade Association JEDEC NVMexpress Working Group Open Data Center Alliance Open Fabrics Alliance OpenSFS Open Virtualization Alliance PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) SCSI Trade Association Storage Bridge Bay Working Group Trusted Computing Group Also visit our CTO Office Communities page to see more information about our Standards and Industry Associations activities (requires registration), Twitter activity, and our standards-related blogs: Standards Watch, Absolute Evangelist, and Objects in Context. Our Story NetApp At a Glance Fact Sheet NetApp History of Innovation Highlights Thought Leadership Suppliers Analyst Reports Global Trade Compliance Culture of Innovation Drives Customer and Partner Success, Lands NetApp on Forbes’s List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies How You'll Go Further NetApp Launches 9th Annual Innovation Awards Customers Use Agile Data Infrastructures to Fuel Business Success Customers Respond Faster to Business, Enable Nondisruptive Operations, and Grow Without Limits with an Agile Data Infrastructure Let's Interact Dave's Blog Tom Talks Blog NetApp 360 Blog: Celebrating Cultures of Innovation Standards and Industry Associations Community CTO Office Communities Standards Watch Absolute Evangelist Objects in Context Go further, faster® Follow Us communities twitter facebook linkedin youtube slideshare Contact Us How To Buy Feedback Careers Site Map Subscriptions Legal Privacy Policy © 2013 NetApp