http://www.snia-europe.org/en/news/index.cfm/ en-uk SNIA Europe weewee.wong@pixl8.co.uk RSS Feed for Home Standards organizations and open source communities join forces to promote standards?compliant interoperable cloud solutions at first Cloud Interoperability Week http://www.snia-europe.org/en/news/index.cfm/20130515sniapr 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 (SMI?S) 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 multi?day plugfests are cooperative, in?depth engineering testing efforts among multiple vendor and open source software projects. Customers benefit from products and solutions with increased interoperability and demonstrated specification conformance. http://www.snia-europe.org/en/news/index.cfm/20130402press pemBy Alex McDonald, SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative Chair (NetApp)/em/p pFirst published in a href="http://www.snseurope.info/home" target="_blank"SNS Europe/a - March 2013 /p pBYOD. If that acronym doesn?t strike fear into the heart of every chief exec or finance director, it should. Short for ?Bring Your Own Device?, there?s been a proliferation of new technology that?s 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./p http://www.snia-europe.org/en/news/index.cfm/20130325byod