New SNIA Board for 2010

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced its 2010 Board of Directors and Technical Council during the Storage Networking World Fall 2009 conference being held in Phoenix, Arizona. The SNIA’s membership elected the Board of Directors, and the Board elected their Executive Committee officers. The SNIA Board is charged with oversight of the association’s vision and mission and ensuring that tangible value accrues to member companies.

"2010 will be an exciting year for the storage industry and I’m very pleased to be serving with such an esteemed board and staff," said Wayne M. Adams, Chairman of the SNIA. "While our mission will remain unchanged, our approach and activities will continue to expand and evolve as we look to identify new ways to provide educational opportunities, expand our technical innovation in areas such as Green IT, Cloud Computing, Solid State Storage, as well as to continue to develop industry-wide best practices that all benefit the industry."

The 2010 SNIA Board of Directors, Executive Committee and their roles are:

•  Wayne Adams (EMC), Chairman and Executive Committee
• Dave Dale (NetApp), Vice Chairman and Executive Committee
• Phil Mills (IBM), Secretary and Executive Committee
• Rob Peglar (Xiotech), Treasurer and Executive Committee
• Eric Bart (Sun), Member
• Vincent Franceschini (Hitachi Data Systems), Member
• Skip Jones (QLogic), Member
• Leo Leger (SNIA), Non-Voting Member, Executive Director and Executive Committee
• Gary Phillips (Symantec), Member
• Julie Ryan (LSI), Member
• Doug Voigt (HP), Member
• SW Worth (Microsoft), Member
• Alan Yoder (NetApp), Non-Voting Member and Chair of the Technical Council
• Allan Zmyslowski (Fujitsu America), Member

Also just prior to the SNW Fall 2009 conference, the Association’s membership elected the 2010 SNIA Technical Council which is responsible for providing guidance and direction on the varied technical activities of the SNIA. The Technical Council elected its Chairman, Alan Yoder of NetApp, and its Vice-chairman, Mark Carlson of Sun.

Alan Yoder, Chairman of the SNIA Technical Council stated: "It is an honor to serve as Chair of the SNIA Technical Council for the next year. We will continue to build on the successful technical activities underway across all of our Technical Working Groups. The next year will certainly bring more technical innovation and we will work hard to ensure the SNIA’s technical activities lead the way with vendor-neutral insights and technology that helps advance the industry."

The 2010 SNIA Technical Council and their roles are:

•  Alan Yoder (NetApp), Chairman
• Mark Carlson (Sun), Vice Chairman
• Richelle Ahlvers (HP), Member
• Duane Baldwin (IBM), Member
• Don Deel (EMC), Member
• Erik Riedel (EMC), Member
• Dave Thiel, (Independent Consultant) Member
• Steve Wilson (Brocade), Member

The SNIA Technical Council is responsible for managing the development efforts of the Association and ensuring that they are on-track and on-target while looking for new opportunities like software development, cloud and green storage to expand the SNIA’s efforts and provide additional value to the industry and customers. The Council works closely with the Board of Directors and other SNIA bodies in planning and executing technical activities, governs the Technical Working Groups, reviews and approves all SNIA architectures and standards, and serves as a technical resource for all SNIA activities, including its role as technical program committee for SNIA’s standout Storage Developer Conference.