SNIA Expands Scope, Adds Three New Board Positions, Two New Working Groups, Approves Two Permanent Director Positions
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 1999--
Board Vows Organization Will "Move at the Speed of Industry," to
Lead the Open Storage Networking Revolution
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has formed two new programs to accelerate the development, evolution and acceptance of multi-vendor storage network standards. With the strong public endorsement and commitment of resources from 12 leading manufacturers of storage solutions, which was announced by an independent group of manufacturers on April 6, the SNIA Board of Directors also approved three new board positions and two new permanent director positions at its meeting on April 8.
"In the past year SNIA has grown to 98 member companies and individuals," said Dr. Paul Borrill, chairman of SNIA. "With broad industry support, including all major manufacturers, committed to using SNIA to develop new standards, and to implementing those standards in products, SNIA is now the acknowledged center for the open storage industry."
"With the support of our members behind us, we are focusing the SNIA to move at the speed of the industry," Borrill said. "As companies contribute expertise, funding, and equipment to support our efforts, we see a new era of cooperation that will accelerate our vision of building shareable multi-vendor storage area network (SAN) subsystems that reliably interoperate. With a strong, well supported standards body, manufacturers will be able to bring products to market faster and more efficiently, customers will have access to compatible products, and the entire industry will grow more rapidly: This is the ultimate win-win."
The Board voted to add several new working groups and a guiding council, each of which has a board-appointed interim chair until permanent chairs are elected by the groups. *T
- A Technical Architecture Council to oversee standards
development, with Brad Stamas, consulting analyst for the
corporate architecture group, Storage Technology Corporation, as
interim chair.
- Two new technical working groups: - Storage Network Component Architecture, with Howard Alt, technology officer, Network Storage, Sun Microsystems, as
interim chair.
- Storage Container Architecture, with Dr. Karl Schubert, director, Architecture & Advanced Technologies Storage
Division, Enterprise Systems Group, Dell Corporation, as
interim chair.
- A team to establish a Multi-vendor Compatibility Testing & Certification Lab, with Roger Reich, manager of network storage
strategy, Compaq Computer Corp., as interim chair.
The Board also approved several new board and director positions.
- Four new Board-of-Director Members, to fill three new at-large
board positions, and one open position: - Howard Alt, Sun Microsystems.
- Dr. Karl Schubert, Dell Corporation.
- Clive Surfleet, manager, strategic business development, Enterprise Storage Business Unit, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Dennis Talluto, chairman, Fibre Channel Association.
- The open board position was created when Bob Brown, formerly
of Seagate Corporation resigned to take on new
responsibilities as president and COO of Contigo Software.
Brown will continue to lead the association's marketing
efforts, including the associations Spring Conference
scheduled for next month in San Diego.
- A permanent Marketing Director, Dr. Mary Ann Peters, managing
director of McGillicuddy & Peters.
- A permanent Technical Director position to drive standards
development activities, with a search committee chaired by Clod
Barrera, director of storage systems, IBM Corporation.
SNIA is a not-for-profit organization, made up of 98 companies and individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share a common goal, to ensure that storage networks become efficient, complete, and trusted solutions across the IT community. To this end, SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. SNIA currently has multiple technical efforts under way including:
- A MIB standard for Fibre Channel Switch and Hub devices.
- A CIM definition for network storage component management.
- A SCSI specification extension that is the backbone for 3rd party
copy capability.
- An architectural model for disk resource management.
- A complete set of definitions for network storage terminology.
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SNIA is sponsoring its second annual conference: Storage Networking '99: "Getting Connected" in San Diego next month. This conference will focus on connecting storage networking industry manufacturers, industry analysts, and high-level IT managers. See www.SNIA.org for details.
Voting members of the SNIA include:
3Com Corporation, ADIC, Amdahl, Ancor Communications, Axis Communications, BMC Software, Chaparral Technologies, CMD Technologies, CommVault Systems, Compaq Computer Corporation, Computer Associates Int'l, Computer Network Technology, ConvergeNet Technologies, Cope AG, Creative Design Solutions, Crossroads Systems, DataCore Software, Data General, Dell Computer Corporation, EMC Corporation, Emulex Corporation, Exabyte Corporation, Fujitsu Computer Products, G2 Networks, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Integrix, Intel Corporation, Intelliguard Software, Legato Systems, LSI Logic, McDATA Corporation, Mercury Computer Systems, Meridian Data, Inc., MTI Technology Corp., Mylex Corporation, Novell, Inc., Overland Data Inc., Pathlight Technology, Inc., Programmed Logic, Quantum Corporation, Seagate Technology, Storage Area Networks Ltd., Storage Computer Corporation, Storage Technology Corporation, Sun Microsystems, TeraStor Corporation, Tricord Systems, VERITAS Software and Vixel Corporation.
For additional information on the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) or to join the organization contact:
Robin Glasgow, SNIA Executive Director El Camino Real, Suite 304 Mountain View, CA 94040 650-949-6750
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Robin Glasgow, 650/949-6720
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