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The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit global organisation, made up of some 400 member companies and 7,000 individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA's mission is to lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting standards, technologies, and educational services to empower organisations in the management of information. To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For additional information, visit the SNIA web site at www.snia.org.

See also:- SNIA - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

• editor's comments:- in September 2008 - SNIA announced the formation of its Solid State Storage Initiative. Unlike the SSD Alliance , which was launched in 2007, founding members of SNIA's SSSI include manufacturers of RAM SSDs and flash SSDs.
  
  In April 2009 - SNIA published a new white paper - "NAND Flash Solid State Storage for the Enterprise - an in-depth Look at Reliability." (pdf) It's co-authored by:- Jonathan Thatcher Fusion-io, Tom Coughlin Coughlin Associates, Jim Handy Objective Analysis and Neal Ekker Texas Memory Systems. The article contains the best integrated explanation I've seen of the design trade-offs for error correction schemes and how they affect bit error rates compared to the raw uncorrected results.
  
  In July 2010 - SNIA announced the availability of its Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification (version 0.9) for public review. 2 years earlier StorageSearch.com published an article called - Can you trust flash SSD specs & benchmarks? - because it had been obvious to me for some time that oems and magazines which did benchmark testing of SSDs often didn't know about what I called the "halo effect" which could make some SSDs look better than they really were