SNIA India turns self-governing regional affiliate

BANGALORE: The Storage Networking Industry Association on Thursday announced that SNIA-India has become a self-governing regional affiliate.

For the past two years, India was coming under SNIA South-Asia forum programme. SNIA in India currently has a membership of more than 60 storage vendors, channel members, end-users, institutions and individuals.

Chairman of SNIA, Wayne M Adams, said with the continued globalisation of IT operations and high-tech development and customer care investments in India, SNIA will deliver increased value through formal affiliation of SNIA-India for the organisation as a whole.

SNIA-India officials said it will continue to work to advance the adoption of storage networks in the country.

SNIA-India Chairman P K Gupta said the Indian market for storage is growing faster than most other markets.

"We see a formal relationship with the SNIA as the best way to promote storage networking education, advance the SNIA's technical working groups and drive membership in the organisation", Gupta said.