Storage Networking Industry Association 2009 Annual Report Table of Contents
STORAGE NETWORKING InDUSTRY AssOCIATION 2009 AnnUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the 2009 SNIA Chairman 1 SNIA Standards and Technology 3 SNIA Initiatives and Forums 6 SNIA International 11 SNIA Education 14 Strategic Alliances 15 SNIA and End Users 15 SNW 15 Leadership 16 Financial Statements and Report 17 Member Companies 29 LEttER FROM THE 2009 SNIA CHAirmAN Dear SNIA Members and Industry Colleagues, I am very pleased to report to you on the significant achievements of the SNIA in 2009 and share our insights for 2010. Despite the recession our global industry is enduring, we are in the midst of several profound technology and economic trends: converging data center fabrics, cost-effective solid state storage technology, petabyte data management, ON cloud computing, green IT, and data security. SNIA has remained nimble ti in these times to continue to deepen our focus and deliverables for these A trends through our technical programs, our Forums/Initiatives, our ci Regional Affiliates, and our alliances. Because of our evolving focus, SNIA Wayne M. Adams, continues to attract new members, new alliances, new programs, and Chairman, SSO SNIA Board of Directors increased volunteerism from our longstanding members. A Y I point out several highlights from across our organization, with more details available inside this tr rt Annual Report and on our Web site www.snia.org. For SNIA specifications, we have completed Disk S Data Format (DDF) V2.0, Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) V1.4, U eXtensible Access Method (XAM) V1.0 and Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) V1.0. SNIA specifications become SNIA Architecture by membership vote, and may then be submitted to the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) for American AL REPO National Standards Institute (ANSI) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) U NG IND I accreditation.
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