Greening the Datacentre
Juergen Arnold, Chair, SNIA Europe and European Liaison to SNIA Green Storage Initiative, gsi-europe-liaison@snia.org

Over the past year, the green wave has continued to wash unabated over industries, consumers and governments; there are few groups that are currently not under pressure to become (more) environmentally friendly. From factories, to datacentres via transport operators, business professionals are looking to reduce their organisations’ carbon footprint by cutting back on the amount of power and fuel they use. Consumers the world over are being encouraged ... read full article

XAM - The Next-Generation API for Cloud Storage?
Frank Bunn, Chair, SNIA Europe Director and Liaison to the SNIA XAM initiative, XAM-europe-liaison@snia.org

On 6 April 2009, the SNIA Cloud Storage Technical Work Group (TWG) was launched at SNW Orlando. The aim of this group is the definition, development and market introduction of standardised interfaces for the interaction of data and storage services in a cloud environment. Thanks to the relevant work carried out in recent years by the SNIA security, storage, and data management working groups, the Cloud Storage TWG ... read full article

Letter from the SNIA Europe Chair
Juergen Arnold, Chair, SNIA Europe, eurochair@snia.org

Halfway through 2009 and it has already been a very exciting year, with emerging technologies consolidating their positions in the industry, new delivery models attracting lots of attention and of course the unveiling of 2 new events, Virtualization World and Datacenter Technologies co-located with SNW Europe bringing you ... read full article

Managing Recovery – Why do we still have problems?
Tony Lock, Programme Director, Freeform Dynamics, www.freeformdynamics.com

Over the course of the last few months I have spent a lot of time speaking with end users and vendors about backup and recovery systems and their associated work processes. In fact, just this week, I gave a presentation on some research data that we have generated over the last year or so on the whole area of managing data protection and information management. Talking with end users, one thing is still abundantly clear - despite the fact ... read full article

SMI-S 1.3 and Beyond
Frank Bunn, SNIA Europe Director and European Chair, Storage Management Initiative, smi-europe-chair@snia.org

Back in Q4 last year the SNIA made version 1.3 of the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) available for public review. Since then, several vendors have tested implementations with the latest conformance tests. SMI-S 1.3 provides new support for storage virtualisation, adding support for virtual tape libraries (VTLs) and NAS file servers, management of Storage Area Network (SAN) security and support for Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) controller cards. First introduced in version ... read full article

Nordics Launches Certification Training/Webinar Series
Bjarne Madsen, SNIA Europe Nordics Committee Chair, nordicschair@snia.org

On behalf of the SNIA Europe Nordics Committee I am pleased to provide you with an update on our recent activities and what’s in the pipeline.

In March we hosted the SNIA Europe Academy in Stockholm and Copenhagen. This year, the agenda was heavily influenced by local IT professionals, who were polled by the program team to find out the topics of major interest to the local audience. More than 40% of registered delegates ... read full article

Industry Events

2009

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