News Summary:

San Francisco, CA (February 24, 2014) — The Storage Security Industry Forum (SSIF), a special interest community within the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), today announced the official launch of the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) Test Program. The KMIP Test Program and its test suites and protocols provide for conformance testing based on KMIP usage profiles and interoperable, secure solutions.

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 3, 2012 – HP today announced that HP Storage Director of Product Management Peter Manning has been appointed to the Storage Networking Industry Association(SNIA) board of directors.

San Francisco, CA (April 22, 2008) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is pleased to announce the addition of Eric Bart of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Rob Peglar of Xiotech to its Board of Directors.

SNIA ANZ, the regional chapter of the world-wide Storage Networking Industry Association, headquartered in the US, is looking for a way to better service the business and customer needs in New Zealand.

April 15, 2008: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for Australia and New Zealand has announced its board of directors for 2008/09.

The new appointments include Kate Walker, CEO of the Records Management Association of Australia (RMAA) who has been appointed to the board in an advisory capacity. SNIA has been strengthening ties with the RMAA and the latest appointment shows just how far this co-operation has come.

ORLANDO, Fla. (April 7, 2008) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today that it has formed an alliance with The Green Grid. The SNIA and its Green Storage Initiative (GSI) plan to work with The Green Grid in developing and promoting standards, measurement methods, processes and technologies to improve overall data center energy efficiencies.

ORLANDO, Fla. (April 7, 2008) - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today that the eXtensible Access Method (XAM) specification and Software Development Kit (SDK) are on-track for mid-2008 public availability and are driving software collaboration across the industry enabling the development of a single standard. XAM provides a framework for standards-based information independence for applications and storage systems.

ORLANDO, Fla. (April 7, 2008) ) Building on the results of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Data Management Forum's (DMF) 100 Year Archive Requirements Survey the Association has taken several steps to help storage and information managing professionals improve their long-term information retention and preservation practices.