New Members at SNIA France

The SNIA Europe French Committee held the latest round of elections and welcomed industry experts Philippe Reynier (Bull) to the position of Technical Committee Chair, and Laurent Bartoletti (Sun) and Philippe Nicolas (Brocade) to the positions of Vice Chair and Chair respectively. In addition, the committee welcomes its three newest member companies: Active Circle, Atempo and Bull.

The newly elected leadership team are already working to develop a compelling program for the next SNIA Europe Academy in Paris on March 17, 2009.

In France, a mature market in terms of technology adoption, SNIA France sees the same unstoppable evolution of the data centre towards maximum efficiency, performance and security as is being experienced in many other countries. Among the most interesting technologies, some of them already available on the market, are data de-duplication, security through encryption, virtualisation, thin provisioning associated with advanced file storage (particularly parallel storage), Ethernet (e.g. FCoE), cloud computing/storage, and of course the development of the green practices. The SNIA Europe Academy in Paris will be the perfect opportunity to meet with industry experts to discuss these and other hot topics such as storage resource optimisation, data de-duplication, and long-term data retention and preservation with references to XAM (eXtensible Access Method).

SNIA Europe Academy will be in Paris on March 17, 2009