Join SNIA & Get Involved!
SNIA’s mission is to lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting vendor neutral architectures, standards, and educational services that facilitate the efficient management, movement, and security of information. As a member of SNIA, you can contribute to a far-reaching variety of activities.
Today, our 2,500 active contributing members from 170 industry leading organizations contribute to:
- Standards Development and Adoption
- Interoperability Assurance
- Technology Acceleration and Promotion
- Global Vendor-Neutral Education
Questions? Contact us at membership@snia.org
Why Join SNIA?
Influence
- Influence storage technologies important to the marketplace
- Amplify your vendor storage expertise and reputation
- Participate in the development of international standards
Collaborate
- Participate in multi-vendor interoperability activities
- Gain Insight into disruptive industry trends
- Form strategic alliance partnerships
- Develop relationships throughout industry
Lead the Industry
- Educate on all things storage
- Drive standards development and adoption
- Align strategic business objectives with worldwide standards
Testimonial
Intel Corporation
SNIA Board of Directors
Membership Structure and Fees
(effective December 1, 2018)
Download the SNIA Membership Brochure.
Member
A Member is in the business of manufacturing, licensing, servicing, consulting, designing, researching/publishing, using or selling software, specifications, architecture, hardware or services related to storage or storage networking systems or technologies.
| CATEGORY | Yearly Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voting | Non-Voting | |||
| Member revenue greater than $600M | $42,000 | $18,000 | ||
| Member revenue >$150M - $600M | $25,000 | $12,000 | ||
| Member revenue >$20M - $150M | $18,000 | $9,000 | ||
| Member revenue $0 - $20M | $9,000 | $4,000 | ||
| Startup - revenue is less than $10M/year AND in business less than 4 years | N/A | $1,000 | ||
Associate
An Associate is an enterprise (e.g. End-User company that otherwise would not be categorized as a Member, as defined above) that is the ultimate final consumer of a product or service, and is typically represented by the IT department of an organization.
| CATEGORY | Yearly Fee | |
|---|---|---|
| Non-Voting | ||
| Associate | $1,000 | |
Individual
Individual interested in storage and storage networking systems or technologies. Individual must not be employed by a SNIA member company, or company developing, manufacturing, or otherwise involved in the business of computer storage-related hardware or software products or services. Individual may not be an employee of a SNIA member company that falls into other SNIA membership categories, except Associate membership category.
| CATEGORY | Yearly Fee | |
|---|---|---|
| Non-Voting | ||
| Individual | $300 | |
Educational Institution
The SNIA grants complimentary access to qualified Educational Institutions. An “Educational Institution” is defined as any accredited higher-learning institution. Candidate for an Educational Institution participant may not be an employee of a SNIA member company or a company that falls into other SNIA membership categories, without disclosing corresponding relationship/status to SNIA Membership and following strict guidelines pertaining to disclosure of representation at beginning of all SNIA technical meetings. Please contact membership@snia.org for consideration.
| CATEGORY | Yearly Fee | |
|---|---|---|
| Non-Voting | ||
| Eduational Institution | $0 | |
Technology Affiliate
A Technology Affiliate member is a restricted voting membership specific to a technology domain, focused on technical specifications and interoperability. A Technology Affiliate member does not need to be a full member of SNIA.
| CATEGORY | Yearly Fee | |
|---|---|---|
| Non-Voting | ||
| SFF TA TWG | $1,800 | |