SNIA Creates SSD Working Group

By Greg McNevin

January 9, 2009: At this week’s Storage Visions 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has formed a new Solid State Storage Technical Work Group (SSS TWG) to create a reference SNIA architecture and foster consistent industry standards for the burgeoning technology.

Through its Technical Council (TC), SNIA announced the creation of the SSS TWG as a means to facilitate industry-wide adoption of common requirements, methods, and specifications in related standards organisations.

Furthermore, the association’s Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) also released its first technical paper providing an overview and outlook for solid state technologies, and will be delivering three unique demonstrations covering both enterprise and consumer solid state storage during the conference.

“The 35 members of SSS TWG will work closely with the SSSI on the development, education and promotion of standards and solutions based on solid state storage to help define the new market sector created by this disruptive technology,” says Wayne Adams, Chair of the SNIA.

“These two groups are off to a very productive start and are already breaking new ground in helping the industry understand and harness solid state storage.”

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