| Abbreviation: | SNIA |
| Founders: | --> |
| Type: | Nonprofit |
| Vat Id: | (for European organizations) --> |
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| Headquarters: | 5201 Great America Parkway, Suite 320 |
| Location City: | Santa Clara, California |
| Location Country: | U.S. |
| Leader Title: | Chair |
| Leader Name: | J Michel Metz (AMD) |
| Leader Title2: | Vice Chair |
| Leader Name2: | Richelle Ahlvers (Intel) |
| Leader Title3: | Chief Operations Officer |
| Leader Name3: | Michael Meleedy |
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is an American trade association, incorporated in December 1997. It is a registered 501(c)(6) non-profit organization. SNIA has more than 185 unique members, 2,000 active contributing members, and over 50,000 IT end users and storage professionals.
SNIA's membership community participates in the following storage-related technical working groups:
SNIA and its technical council maintain a vendor-neutral dictionary and glossary of storage networking, data, and information management terminology.
The SNIA dictionary won an award for publication excellence in 2009 and 2012 from the Business Communications Report.
SNIA along with Computerworld hosted the popular Storage Networking World (SNW) Conferences from 1999 to 2013, at various venues around the world, and commonly occurred in the Spring and Fall in the USA, and in the Fall in the EU.
SNIA is also the organizer the Storage Developers Conference (SDC).
SNIA absorbed the Small Form Factor Committee.
SNIA also maintains partnerships with and submits material to other industry standards organizations[5] such as ISO,[6] IEC,[7] DMTF,[8] CXL,[9] INCITS[10] T10, T11, IETF,[11] and IEEE.[12]