Denise Ridolfo Director of the Board at SNIA Europe

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe announced the appointment of NetApp’s Denise Ridolfo to its Board of Directors.

Ridolfo, who is based in the USA and France, is NetApp’s Industry & Standards Operations Manager, reporting into the CTO Office, and represents the company in various industry associations including the SNIA, the Fibre Channel Industry Association and the Ethernet Alliance. Ridolfo has spent over 15 years in the IT and storage networking industry, and is broadly recognised as an industry marketing expert; she will take an active role as the Strategic Alliance Chair and in SNIA Europe’s Marketing Committee, supporting the development of educational content for the European technology initiatives through her strong links with the SNIA Worldwide Forums and Initiatives.

“SNIA Europe offers IT professionals a broad range of educational tools and I am keen to leverage my experience to further enhance the profile and appeal of these programmes across EMEA”, said Ridolfo. “As a vendor-independent industry body SNIA Europe encourages end users to deploy open storage technologies as key elements of their IT strategies. I am looking forward to working with the Board and committees to develop educational resources on new and innovative technologies such as Solid State Storage and FCoE.”