San Francisco, CA (August 31, 2011)— The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced that Eric Baldeschwieler, CEO of Hortonworks — an Apache Hadoop company, will be included in the featured speakers line–up for the 8th annual Storage Developer Conference (SDC) 2011 , and will simultaneously deliver the opening keynote address on September 22nd for the SNIA Cloud Burst Sum

Flash Memory Summit 2011, Santa Clara, CA August 11, 2011 –The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced that the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative’s Enterprise Performance Test Specification (PTS) has been chosen by the Flash Memory Summit as a Best of Show award winner for Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application. The annual Best of Show awards is the premier opportunity for industry recognition of innovative products and solutions, and how they are being used in the marketplace.

SNW, Orlando, Florida (October 10, 2011) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Green Storage Initiative (GSI) today announced the availability of the SNIA Emerald™ Power Efficiency Measurement Specification which was developed collaboratively among more than 25 member companies. Additionally, the GSI announced the SNIA Emerald Program.

SNW, Orlando, Florida (October 11, 2011) – The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is pleased to announce its 2012 Board of Directors and Technical Council during the SNW Fall 2011 conference being held in Orlando, Florida.  SNIA's voting member company representatives elected the Board and Technical Council.  The results were announced and new terms began with the October 5^th All Members’ Annual Meeting.  Both groups convened meetings preceding SNW where officers were elected and the Executive Com

San Francisco, CA (January 6, 2012) – The Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced a project to educate users on how to use the recently published Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification (SSS PTS) to compare the performance of Solid State Drives (SSDs).

London, 23rd August 2012 – The organisers of the SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies and Virtualization World conferences have announced further details relating to the agenda of the three events taking place at Congress Frankfurt on 30th and 31st October 2012. Under the banner “Powering the Cloud”, the conferences will feature a number of leading analyst houses and independent commentators hosting a series of half-day mini-tracks addressing the key issues and topics affecting most organisations’ IT strategies and needs.

News Summary:

News Summary:

• SNIA Group will act as main technical entity to coordinate systems standards for software-enabling NVM hardware
•  SNIA Group will produce specs and will drive consistency of interface standards and messages related to NVM hardware
• SNIA NVM TWG founded by Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, NetApp, Oracle, QLogic and Symantec  

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SNW, Santa Clara, CA (October 18, 2012) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is pleased to announce its 2013 Board of Directors and Technical Council during the SNW Fall 2012 conference. The SNIA Board is charged with oversight of the Association's vision and mission as well as ensuring that tangible value accrues to member companies.

CDM Media announced today that it will collaborate with the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA), a leading not-for-profit trade organization for companies and individuals in various sectors of the storage industry, for the upcoming CIO Cloud Summit, Dec. 4-5, 2012. The event will be held at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess in Scottsdale, Ariz.