Organizations Speak Out In Support of SNIA Technology Center

Colorado Springs Regional Economic Development Corporation:
"SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association, has been an important player in Colorado Springs for the past several years. The Technology Center has served as a world-renowned research and development laboratory providing the data storage industry with modern, innovative solutions to the ever increasing demands of consumers. We are pleased and excited that SNIA will continue its relationship with our community. This lab plays an important role in Colorado Spring's further economic development as an innovation leader, as prescribed by the Operation 6035 study."
-- Mike Kazmierski, President and CEO, The Colorado Springs Regional Economic Development Corporation

Regis University:
"Our long, multifaceted association with the SNIA has benefited our students, faculty and school because our classroom and online students have access to not only advanced hardware but association with the people of SNIA and the storage industry. Access to the latest developments in Green storage, protection of private information, standards and practices has had good influence on our programs and we believe the ongoing access to the technology in this facility really delivers value to our students. At the end of the day, it's all about the students."
-- Dan Likarish, Assistant Professor, Regis University

Demartek:
"As a long time supporter of the storage industry, member of the SNIA and active participant in test labs, the SNIA Technology Center delivers something that no other facility around the world does - a home for vendor-neutral training, testing and standards development. As the sheer amount of data created by consumers and businesses around the globe continues to increase significantly, the storage industry is quickly adapting and increasing in terms of importance on several levels. It will be essential for this Technology Center to continue to deliver best practices that help users around the world."
-- Dennis Martin, President, Demartek

SAIC:
"The SNIA Lab provided an isolated, secure lab facility for our engineers and enabled access to the vendors' engineers. The fact that the SNIA Technology Center provides a comprehensive infrastructure and support services has allowed the engineers to maintain momentum throughout the engagement."
-- Daniel Klute, the technical lead for SAIC

Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA):
"The FCIA has been a long time partner of SNIA and once again we look forward to supporting the opening of the SNIA Technology Center. The opening of the SNIA technology Center supports both FCIA and SNIA's mission to help vendors and end-users collaborate to exchange knowledge and impart experience around current and emerging data center technologies."
-- Skip Jones, Chairman FCIA

iPERMS (Interactive Personnel Electronic Records Management System):
"iPERMS has generated tremendous cost avoidances and efficiency increases for Army Active Duty, National Guard, and Reserve forces. The system eliminates the need to store paper military personnel records, and we no longer have independent silos of personnel information scattered across the Total Force."
-- Mr. Jim Riggs, iPERMS Program Manager and U.S. Army General

Xiotech Corporation:
"The SNIA Technology Center does the storage industry a great service by providing a facility and an impetus for storage vendors to physically come together, along with their latest products, to do the unglamorous but absolutely essential work of standards development and compatibility testing, so that corporate data centers can deploy storage networks that 'just work'."
-- Richard Lary, Corporate Fellow, Xiotech Corporation

Dan La Russo
Ogilvy Public Relations for the SNIA
Phone:303-634-2632
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