SNIA Europe has announced the recipients of the 2012 Volunteer Awards.
Industry Impact Award
Roberto Salucci (HDS)
Red Gloves Award
Christine Schmidt (Brocade)
White Arrow Award
Alex McDonald (NetApp)
Gold Star Award
Christian Bandulet (Oracle)
Glyn Bowden (Lucr)
15 May 2013
Standards organizations and open source communities join forces to promote standardscompliant interoperable cloud solutions at first Cloud Interoperability Week
02 April 2013
April 2, 2013. (Orlando, FL) The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced that it has scheduled several new technical plugfests that will take place throughout the year. These include six Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMIS) plugfests at the SNIA Technology Center, four Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) plugfests at various global event venues, and its annual SMB/SMB2/SMB3 (Server Message Block) plugfest at the SNIA Storage Developers Conference. The multiday plugfests are cooperative, indepth engineering testing efforts among multiple vendor and open source software projects. Customers benefit from products and solutions with increased interoperability and demonstrated specification conformance.
25 March 2013
By Alex McDonald, SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative Chair (NetApp)
First published in SNS Europe - March 2013
BYOD. If that acronym doesnt strike fear into the heart of every chief exec or finance director, it should. Short for Bring Your Own Device, theres been a proliferation of new technology thats take the business world by storm; the tablet. More portable than a laptop, more connected than a mobile phone, these cross-over devices are incredibly popular, and rightly so. The flexibility they provide is truly amazing. Give a presentation, take photographs, jot down notes on the move, browse the internet, use business email and make calls, all from one easily transported device.
28 - 29 May 2013
Extremely Large Database (XLDB) Europe 2013 will bring together key experts from data-intensive sciences in Europe for a discussion of real-world petabyte-scale data management and analysis use cases with the aim to foster exchange among the many emerging "big data" communities.
4 Jun 2013
- Walk away with an understanding of the specific CDMI features, such as a standard cloud interchange format, that enable interoperable cloud storage.
- Gain a deeper understanding of the outstanding issues of cloud storage interoperability and how the standard helps ease this pain.
- Now that the standard is being implemented, understand what to put in an RFP for cloud storage that prevents vendor lock-in.
6 Jun 2013
A SNIA Europe conference for Information and Data Management professionals who plan, implement, manage and support information infrastructures.
The Information Infrastructure Conference (IIC) takes place on the 6th of June and is aimed at IT professionals, decision makers and influencers who need to understand not just the important elements of today's Information Infrastructure, but the "big picture" of how to assemble the elements into cost effective solutions that support the latest applications and services.
The IIC focuses on opportunities, challenges, and advances associated with information infrastructure as it relates to big data and analytics, cloud services, storage and data management and protection, infrastructure convergence, data centre networking, security and all aspects of IT virtualisation. The event is designed to educate and inform delegates while providing the opportunity to meet and network with many of the leading technology manufactures, software vendors, and solutions providers in an open multi-vendor environment.
The IIC has been specifically designed to appeal to those with a strategic focus on delivering information infrastructure services and solutions for their internal and external customers and users.
10 - 12 Jun 2013
NEW event from SNIA targeting "hardcore" storage development and data engineering experts..
SNIA Europe advances the interests of the storage industry by driving the evolution and adoption of storage technologies and standards, educating the market and influencing relevant EU and national polices. As a Regional Affiliate of SNIA Worldwide, we represent storage product and solutions manufacturers and the channel community across EMEA.