PoINT Joins SNIA Europe

PoINT Software & Systems GmbH joined the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe.

SNIA Europe is a vendor-neutral non-profit organization representing manufacturers and channel partners all across Europe. Being a member of SNIA Europe, PoINT has access to the association’s comprehensive knowledge base: SNIA Europe offers insight into the evolution and application of storage solutions for data centre infrastructures with special focus on thought leadership for next-generation networking as well as virtualized and cloud environments.

"I am delighted to welcome PoINT Software & Systems to SNIA Europe," said Bob Plumridge, Chairman of the Board, SNIA Europe. "PoINT will strengthen the data/ storage management and archiving section within SNIA Europe and help to maintain a balanced and valued industry forum. Furthermore, PoINT will benefit from SNIA’s in-depth knowledge base and a range of opportunities to present their capabilities to a broad audience across Europe."

"We are happy to be part of SNIA Europe and look forward to supporting the association with our long-standing experience in optical storage and archiving," said Bernd Klee, CEO of PoINT Software & Systems GmbH. "The SNIA Europe membership will help us to foster our footprint in the tiered storage solutions business with PoINT Storage Manager as our flagship product."

For the first time ever, PoINT will exhibit at SNW Europe taking place in Frankfurt from October 26th to 27th, 2010. Realistic user scenarios are shown there by SNIA members and industry associations. The exhibitors belong mainly to the fields of data management and storage, virtualization and new data centre technologies like for example cloud services and solutions. PoINT will present the latest version of PoINT Storage Manager at SNW Europe 2010.