San Francisco, Calif. (February 24, 2009) – Today the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced that industry support and demand for SNIA storage certifications has continued to gain momentum. The SNIA has recently added vendor partners Brocade and LSI Corporation to the SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program (SNCP) and three of the association’s certifications have increased in value for students according to a recent report by Foote Partners, LLC.

London, UK, 2nd March 2009 - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe
today announced the appointment of NetApp's Denise Ridolfo to its Board of Directors. Ridolfo,
who is based in the USA and France, is NetApp's Industry & Standards Operations Manager,
reporting into the CTO Office, and represents the company in various industry associations
including the SNIA, the Fibre Channel Industry Association and the Ethernet Alliance. Ridolfo has

San Francisco (July 21, 2010) - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced the formation of its Cloud Backup and Recovery Special Interest Group (Cloud BUR SIG) to further the Cloud BUR industry by educating the marketplace and driving demand for Cloud BUR solutions and services.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- 07/12/10 -- The Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced the availability of the Solid State Storage (SSS) Performance Test Specification (PTS) (version 0.9) for public review. The SNIA SSS Performance Test Specification defines a suite of tests and test methodologies necessary to enable comparative testing of individual SSS device performance to facilitate broader market adoption of solid state storage technology within both the client and enterprise computing environments.

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San Francisco, CA (May 26, 2011) — The Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced that the Enterprise Solid State Storage (SSS) Performance Test Specification (PTS) has been released to the public.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), today announced that Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author, will be included in the line-up of keynote speakers for the 7th annual Storage Developer Conference (SDC) 2010, and will simultaneously present the opening keynote address on September 23rd to the SNIA Cloud Burst Summit attendees.

San Francisco, Calif. (September 27, 2010) — The Storage Networking Industry Association’s (SNIA) Green Storage Initiative (GSI) today announced that it has publicly released the second draft Storage Power Efficiency Measurement Specification. The Storage Power Efficiency Measurement Specification is the follow–on draft of the SNIA Green Storage Power Measurement Technical Specification released in January 2009.

DALLAS (October 11, 2010) - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is pleased to announce its 2011 Board of Directors and Technical Council during the Storage Networking World Fall 2010 conference being held in Dallas, Texas. SNIA's voting members elected the Board of Directors, and the Board elected their Executive Committee officers. Terms of these responsibilities were effective October 10, 2010. The SNIA Board is charged with oversight of the association's vision and mission and ensuring that tangible value accrues to member companies.

STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD, Dallas, Texas (October 11, 2010) - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced it has expanded its educational offerings with 12 new Storage Networking World (SNW) October 2010 tutorials and a Storage Networking Sales Professional Training e-Course.