Committees

The SNIA's Committees are focused on providing value to IT professionals and members by increasing awareness of the direction and evolution of the storage industry. Committees are chartered with directing and managing the many activities of the organization that are not exclusively engaged in developing technical work. These activities include:

• Producing educational events and conferences
• Demonstrating the state of the industry through interoperability and product shows
• Developing multi-company exhibitions and demonstrations of current and future storage products and technologies
• Creating an extensive list of educational resources and information about Storage Networking

Data Protection and Capacity Optimization Committee (DPCO)

The SNIA Data Protection and Capacity Optimization Committee was created to foster the growth and success of the market for data protection and capacity optimization technologies. Data protection means assurance that data is usable and accessible for authorized purposes only, with acceptable performance, and in compliance with applicable requirements. Capacity optimization refers to methods which reduce the consumption of space required to store a data set and its scope and is not limited to secondary storage.

The goals of the DPCO are:

• Educate the vendor and user communities about data protection and efficient data storage technologies
• Perform market outreach that highlights the benefits of relevant technologies and document implementation considerations and best practices
• Advocacy and support of technical work associated with data protection and capacity optimization

Chairs
Gene Nagle - Chair
Thomas Rivera - Vice Chair

Education Committee

The mission of the SNIA Education Committee is to accelerate the adoption of storage networking by increasing the level of knowledge about storage networking among end users.

Chair
Jim Blue

International SNIA Council

The International Committee coordinates international activities to ensure that SNIA's vision, mission, and strategy are consistent world-wide. While there are many commonalities, different regions of the world do have different requirements, e.g., legal, packaging, marketing, and communications requirements. SNIA's International Committee translates the commonalities across geographies.

Chair
Clive Gold

Interoperability Committee

The SNIA Interoperability Committee will facilitate standards-based interoperability through the following means:

• To establish and implement guidelines for consistent interoperability testing
• Create SNIA interoperability certification for proven compliance with SNIA-approved interoperability testing
• Help SNIA Work Groups define and execute interoperability tests, including those required for certification
• Prioritize test suite development efforts to resolve key inhibitors to the adoption of storage networking
• Provide interoperability demos for SNIA events
• Participate in interoperability activity with other storage industry organizations
• Solicit customer requirements for both infrastructure and application-level interoperability

Chair
Ed Von Adelung

Standards Committee

The standards committee is responsible for all standardization activities within the SNIA.  The standards committees oversees that policies and procedures associated with SNIA approve architectures as they follow the standardization process to become an ANSI and ISO standard. 

Chairs
Arnold Jones