San Francisco, Calif. (March 23, 2009) — Today the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced its new SNIA Qualified Storage Sales Professional (SQSSP) credential to validate storage sales and marketing professionals’ comprehension of storage technology, concepts, terminology and end user solution requirements. Training and testing for the credential will take place at Storage Networking World Spring 2009, April 6–9, in Orlando, Fla.

STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD, Dallas, Texas (October 11, 2010) - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Green Storage Initiative (GSI) today announced the availability of a new website to support the GSI's SNIA Emerald program. The website is presently in Beta form to allow vendors and interested parties time to prepare for the forthcoming public release of the SNIA Emerald Power Efficiency Measurement Specification.

San Francisco, CA, (December 3, 2008) - The End User Council (EUC) of the Storage Networking Industry Association today announced the formation of the Storage Technology Online Community (StorTOC). Located at www.stortoc.org, StorTOC is the only online site both built and managed by end users as a solely end user collaborative community for networked storage.

Dallas (October 13, 2008) - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is pleased to announce its 2009 Board of Directors responsible for the SNIA worldwide. The SNIA's membership elected the Board of Directors, and the Board elected their Executive Committee officers at the Storage Networking World Fall 2008 conference being held in Dallas, Texas.

The 2009 SNIA Board of Directors and their roles are:

• Wayne Adams (EMC), Chairman
• Vincent Franceschini (Hitachi Data Systems), Vice Chairman

Dallas (October 13, 2008) The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today the availability of the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) version 1.3. SMI-S version 1.3 provides new support for storage virtualization, adding support for virtual tape libraries and NAS file servers, management of Storage Area Network (SAN) security and support for Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) controller cards.

Dallas (October 13, 2008) - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is pleased to announce its 2009 Technical Council responsible for providing guidance and direction on the numerous technical activities of the SNIA. The SNIA's membership elects seven Technical Council members and the SNIA Board of Directors appoints up to two additional members. The Technical Council leaders are the Chairman and Vice-Chairman. They were elected by the Technical Council members at the Storage Networking World Fall 2008 conference.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (Sept. 22, 2008) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today at the SNIA 2008 Storage Developer Conference the formation of the Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI), which will serve to foster the growth and success of the market for solid state storage in both commercial and consumer environments.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (July 22, 2008) – The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced today at the SNIA 2008 Summer Symposium that it has approved the eXtensible Access Method (XAM) version 1.0 specification and released a working draft of the associated XAM Software Development Kit (SDK). The XAM specification is now being prepared for ANSI and ISO accreditation and is expected to be integrated into storage products by Fall 2008 and into applications by early 2009.

San Francisco, CA (July 8, 2008) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced its agenda and speaker line-up for the 2008 Storage Developer Conference. Keynote speakers will represent companies including Amazon, Linux Foundation, NetApp, Samba Team, Sun Microsystems and VMware.

Sydney, 23rd April 2008 - The Storage Networking Industry Association for Australia and New Zealand today announced a strategic collaboration to host a new Data Security Village (DSV) at the forthcoming Security 2008 - Australia's largest and most respected Security exhibition and conference.