Stories about: Storage Networking Industry Association

Jonathan Snyder's five-person team at Dreambuilder Investments isn't your typical IT organization. Or is it?

Soon it will seem like every storage vendor with a name will have a clustered storage box. Why? In a word: Web 2.0. It would appear that your father's RAID array just doesn't cut it anymore with the purveyors of Facebooks, YouTubes, and SmugMugs. Your father's RAID can't scale, it's too slow, and it's decidedly not sexy anymore, even after a vial of Viagra and a trip to The Hair Club for Men.

Aaron Martin likes to plan ahead. One year ago, the IT manager at Loro Piano, an Italian luxury goods manufacturer with US operations in New York, plunked down US$30,000 for a 10Gbit/sec Ethernet storage array from Nimbus Data Systems. At the time, it was one of the only iSCSI-based storage systems available that took advantage of 10G bit/sec Ethernet speeds, with most systems supporting 1Gbit/sec Ethernet.

Rising energy costs and the need to consolidate IT infrastructure will force business managers to re-evaluate data retention policies and learn how much power every device in their datacentre consumes, said IT executives today on a panel at Computerworld's Storage Networking World conference.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced that it has completed version 1.0 of the Extensible Access Method (XAM), a specification for the way organizations store metadata that describes fixed content, such as e-mails, medical records and financial data.

A senior technology executive from the National Australia Bank (NAB), Graham Rothwell, has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).

Australia will have its very own Storage Academy in 2008 providing vendor neutral education to end user communities in the region.

US Navy servicemen and women don their blues, whites or khakis, depending on the occasion and task at hand. For systems engineers at the Navy's Surface Combat Systems Center, however, the color of choice these days is green.

A specification meant to bring together storage device management under one umbrella instead continues to be criticized for its innate inability to enable interoperable functionality.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today unveiled an expanded mission to lead industry in the development of standards, technologies and educational services.

Vendors such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Vignette will demonstrate this week their software interfaces for a new specification that offers a universal way for users to store and access unchanging or fixed data regardless of the application that created it.