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SNIA

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 March 2009 - SNIA's SSD articles were indepently mentioned in our SSD Bookmarks Series by Woody Hutsell, President Texas Memory Systems and also by Gary Drossel, VP of Product Planning, SiliconSystems.
  
  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.

SNIA Europe

SNIA Europe is dedicated to high-level knowledge exchange, thought-leadership and to promotion of the acceptance, deployment and confidence in open storage-related architectures, systems, services and technologies, across the IT and business community. To achieve this, SNIA Europe runs a coordinated series of activities at both pan-European and country-level to provide a central source of unbiased information on storage networking technologies. It is the voice of authority that delivers education and information on networked storage and associated technologies across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. SNIA Europe is a non-profit, vendor-neutral organisation run by its members, which include over 100 vendors, channel partners and end users.

For further information you can email euroinfo@snia.org, contact +44 (0) 20 8334 8068, or visit www.snia-europe.org.