Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs, Second Edition

Appendix D. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)

Industry associations embody the contradiction between the competitive interests of vendors and their recognition that their own success is tied to the success of the industry as a whole. The appropriate homily for industry associations is “rising waters raise all ships,” although occasionally a gunboat will appear, the sign of a vendor's competitive drive going unhecked. An industry association may focus primarily on marketing campaigns to raise end-user awareness of the industry's technology, or it may combine marketing and technical initiatives to promote awareness and to formulate standards requirements. The Fibre Channel Industry Association, for example, has organized activities ...