DDN, Guardant, IBM, Loophole Labs, and Industry Partners Unite to Develop Cross-Platform Data Management Standard

BOSTON, MA, 19 May 2026 — OASIS Open, the global open source and standards organization, announced the launch of the Single Name Space Technical Committee (SNS TC), bringing together a cross-industry alliance to address one of the most persistent challenges in enterprise computing: universal data access across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 

The TC plans to develop a compatibility standard that enables seamless data access across all computational locations, from on-premises high-performance computing (HPC) systems to cloud-hosted services, without requiring data migration between vendor platforms.

“Fragmented data systems remain one of the most persistent challenges in workloads requiring exascale and larger data sets including research, healthcare, and artificial intelligence,” said William Baird, SNS TC co-chair. “The Single Name Space standard will establish cross-compatibility between file systems, object stores, orchestrators, and the broader storage ecosystem. By creating an open standard, we will be eliminating costly migrations, strengthening data stewardship, and unlocking innovation. Once everything is everywhere, anything can be run anywhere and with an open standard, innovation in storage can blossom from any source.”

“Interoperability standards between big data storage vendors are long overdue as we scale toward multi-petabyte and multi-exabyte datastores spanning the globe,” said Jeremy Franzen, SNS TC co-chair. “I am incredibly proud of the team we have built to develop a framework that empowers multi-vendor architectures while simultaneously minimizing operational risk and guaranteeing seamless compatibility.”

This initiative will address critical pain points faced by researchers, system administrators, data scientists, compliance officers, and others who struggle with fragmented data storage across multiple tiers, remote locations, and cloud services. By standardizing interactions, formats, behaviors, APIs, and protocols, the specification will enable vendors to create interoperable solutions where components can be swapped without data migration.

Participation is open to storage vendors, cloud service providers, HPC system manufacturers, enterprise software companies, research institutions, and anyone seeking to implement single namespace solutions. To learn more about how to get involved in this collaborative effort, contact [email protected].

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