SNIA to help IT professionals adopt information management solutions

New Delhi

October 17, 2007

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) unveiled an expanded
mission and vision to promoting standards, technologies, and educational
services to empower organizations in the management of information. Unveiled on
the association's 10th year anniversary, the SNIA also launched its new
branding, which includes a website redesign and a new logo in support of the
association's forward-looking mission and vision.

SNIA India was formally launched in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune and now
holds membership strength of over 87 members. The SNIA's mission is to lead the
storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting standards, technologies,
and educational services to empower organizations in the management of
information. This mission will build upon work already started by the
association to reach beyond the traditional storage market and into the broader
technology and IT industry. Some of the past efforts that are driving this
effort include the development of its Management Frameworks Technical Working
Group and associated Reference Architectures, the efforts of the SNIA Data
Management Forum, and the technical development of the forthcoming eXtensible
Access Method (XAM) specification.

"We have made significant strides in executing on our previous set of
strategic imperatives by developing IT standards and educational programs that
support the industry by making storage networking easier to understand and
simpler to implement. We are now looking forward to expanding on that mission by
embracing storage and information technology," said Vincent Franceschini,
Chairman of the SNIA. "Further, as we celebrate 10 years of working with
the industry to promote the acceptance, deployment, and confidence in storage
technologies, we've seen the storage industry landscape evolve to move up the
stack and play a larger, more prominent role in the overall IT industry. To
support that evolution, we are unveiling new branding that represents our
expanded mission and vision for the future. It's an exciting confluence of
events for the SNIA."