San Francisco, Calif. (December 5, 2007) - The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced a new Technical Work Group (TWG) to create SNIA software to implement version 4.0 of the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) standard. This software will help accelerate the already widespread adoption of the NDMP standard by storage vendors and Information Technology (IT) users in all markets worldwide. NDMP addresses the challenges associated with backing up multivendor network attached storage systems with backup solutions.

San Francisco, Calif. (November 5, 2007) The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is pleased to announce its 2008 Technical Council responsible for providing guidance and direction on the varied 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 2007 conference.

DATA CENTER DECISIONS - October 22, 2007 SANpulse Technologies Inc., a leading Storage Area Network (SAN) optimization company and Align Communications Inc., a global information technology (IT) solutions company have joined forces to present customers with a complete, end-to-end storage and server migration solution that offers seamless physical equipment relocation and logical data migrations.

Jersey City, NJ October 25, 2007 SANpulse Technologies Inc, provider of the industry's first SAN Service Delivery Platform, was chosen as a featured speaker at Data Center Decisions 2007 Emerging Technology Showcase. At the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, on October 22, SANpulse Technologies presented their SAN Decision Support System's capabilities to an exclusive group of highly qualified IT professionals and industry analysts.

PHOENIX (Oct. 12, 2009) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is pleased to announce its 2010 Board of Directors and Technical Council during the Storage Networking World Fall 2009 conference being held in Phoenix, Arizona. The SNIA’s membership elected the Board of Directors, and the Board elected their Executive Committee officers. The SNIA Board is charged with oversight of the association's vision and mission and ensuring that tangible value accrues to member companies.

PHOENIX (Oct. 12, 2009) — The Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) released an important new Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator that analyzes enterprise solid state storage ownership costs by application at Storage Networking World (SNW), being held October 12 – 15, 2009, in Phoenix, Arizona. Simultaneously, the SSSI announced a supporting TCO tutorial, TCO white paper, and TCO hands–on–lab (HOL) to explain how to use this powerful new analysis tool.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (September 14, 2009) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), today announced the effort to produce Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) Software has culminated in the membership approval for its public release. At the 2009 Storage Developer Conference, the Association has also detailed its significant progress with the eXtensible Access Method (XAM) Software Development Kit (SDK) and the new Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) software effort for cloud storage.

San Francisco, Calif. (August 26, 2009) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), today released the list of keynote presenters as well as a new consumer, small and home office storage plugfest for the upcoming 2009 Storage Developer Conference (SDC 2009).

Orlando, FL (April 6, 2009) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), through its Technical Council (TC), today announced the creation of the Cloud Storage Technical Work Group (TWG) aimed at developing SNIA Architectures and best practices related to cloud storage technology.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and SINGAPORE (February, 25, 2010) - The Storage Networking Industry Association for South Asia (SNIA SA) today announced that they have formed a new chapter of their organization to represent Malaysia.