Cloud Storage - Discussion and review of the storage industry opportunities by SNIA - SNIA Symposium (1/20-23, San Jose, CA) - www.snia.org
Vincent Franceschini
Industry colleagues,
Although I have not actively participated in posted discussions so far, I have enjoyed many of the tracks on cloud-related googlegroups. I wanted to share with you an opportunity brought forward by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
There is no doubt that the topic of Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services or Cloud Storage, just to name a few variations, has the attention of many IT professionals, developers, marketeers, press and analysts. Why? Simply because it is rightly or wrongly perceived as a major shift in IT trends. The ability to remotely “borrow” for a fee various IT components, hardware or software, virtualized or real, through a specialized or open interface, is attracting many IT professionals, simple IT users, large corporations or SMB/SME. One can easily foresee the kind of impact it can have on more traditional IT operations in terms of resource management, adaptability and possibly on the benefits for the overall IT spending – but there’s no consensus about what the real benefits are. Storage is amongst the early services proposed by existing Cloud players, services providers and could technology providers, small and very large companies. Many questions already exist about Cloud Storage and other types of Cloud regarding the Enterprise readiness of such solutions, the co-existence of cloud resources with existing assets in the Enterprise, the management of SLA across multiple providers or the integration of different cloud services in a single production environment.
Since our inception in 1997, the SNIA has been addressing some of the hottest storage resource and data management challenges through the development of best practices, educational programs, software and industry standards. At our next Symposium in San Jose, CA (January 20-23 - http://www.snia.org/events/wintersymp2009 ), representatives of the Storage industry and of the Cloud industry will meet to discuss and identify key IT industry developments to make Cloud Storage successful in the Enterprise and in other business segments. Major industry players will be helping to set the agenda in this new market so don’t miss the opportunity to be one of the early contributors of innovative industry work for Cloud Storage.
Whether you simply want to attend the Symposium meetings or to actively participate in our sessions and deliver important messages and view points, please register on our website for the Symposium (http://www.snia.org/events/winsym2009) and contact us at cl...@snia.org.
We look forward to seeing you in San Jose in January!
Happy holidays!
Vincent Franceschini
Vice-Chairman, Board of Directors
Chairman Emeritus
SNIA
T: +1 408 970 7995 (US+Int'l)