Dallas, Texas (October 12, 2010) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) announced today at SNW that leading cloud computing vendors and managed service providers CA Technologies, Cisco, CoreVault, Iron Mountain, Recovery Networks and Terremark Worldwide have joined the CSI, bringing its membership to 23 companies worldwide.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - December 14, 2010) - The Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced that Version 1.0 of the Enterprise Solid State Storage (SSS) Performance Test Specification (PTS) is on target to be released to the public in Q1 2011. The SNIA Enterprise 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 sol

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 11, 2011)- The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today that the eXtensible Access Method (XAM) version 1.0.1 specification has been approved and published as the "ANSI standard INCITS 464-2010, Information Technology - eXtensible Access Method" and is available at http://www.incits.org/new_incits_stds.htm. The XAM specification is now being prepared for ISO accreditation and is expected to be an ISO standard by end of 2011.

San Francisco, Calif. (March 30, 2011) - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced several important activities reinforcing its ongoing commitment to providing contemporary, industry-specific education offerings to information storage professionals around the world.

Santa Clara, Calif. (April 4th, 2011) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI), today announced that the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), released as an official SNIA Architecture one year ago, continues to make significant steps toward broad acceptance.

ORLANDO, Fla. (April 12, 2010) - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today the first vendors passing the Conformance Testing Program (SNIA-CTP) provider suite for the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) version 1.4. This version of the test suite introduces test results, reporting enhancements and expanded storage functionality tests.

Orlando, Fla. (Apr. 12, 2010) - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today at SNW Spring 2010, the formal approval of the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) as a SNIA Architecture standard. This milestone marks the first industry-developed open standard for cloud computing and will allow for interoperable cloud storage implementations from cloud service providers and storage vendors.

Orlando, FL (April 13th 2010) - The Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Green Storage Initiative (GSI) today announced significant progress and has built momentum in support of several additional Green initiatives.

SiliconSystems, Inc., a world leader in advanced storage technology, today announced that it has become a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and is a founding member in the Solid-State Storage Initiative (SSSI) launched on September 22, 2008 by the Association. SSSI brings together industry leaders who have the goal of accelerating solid-state storage market growth and success in both the enterprise and consumer markets.

San Francisco, Calif. (March 3, 2009) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced its first XAM Coding Challenge, an event specifically designed for software programmers who are interested in creating innovative applications with the eXtensible Access Method (XAM) specification. The challenge will offer SNIA XAM tools and training to assist contestants with their content submissions. SNIA is partnering with TopCoder, the world’s largest competitive software development community, on the challenge.