SNIA 2015 ANNUAL MEMBERS’ MEETING
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8, 2015
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2015 Annual Members’ Meeting Agenda
Greetings and Roll Call (for Quorum) - Leo Leger, Executive Director
Welcoming Comments and Agenda – David Dale, 2015 Chairman
Motion to Approve 2014 Meeting Minutes – David Dale, substituting for
Jim Pappas, 2015 Secretary
Announcement of 2016 Board and Technical Council Election Results, and
2016 Board and TC Members - Leo Leger, Executive Director
SNIA Overview and 2015 Annual Update – David Dale
Fiscal Report (2014 Annual Report) - Allan Zmyslowski, 2015 Treasurer
Questions and Answers - Members and SNIA Board Members
Adjourn
Roll Call and Approval of 2014 Minutes
Roll Call of Voting Member Companies
Primary Representatives of Voting Member Companies, please identify
yourselves during Roll Call
If you work for a Voting Member Company and do not hear your primary
representative, please identify yourself during roll call – Proxy
representation is Acceptable
Motion for a Vote to approve 2014 Meeting Minutes will take place if
quorum is met – if not, we will do a Roll Call again at end of meeting.
Otherwise, minutes will be later approved via e-Mail Ballot.
Roll Call: Roster of Voting Companies
And Primary / Voting Representatives
J Metz, Cisco
Matt Smith, Computerworld
Tim Hudson, Cryptsoft
Hakan Axtellus, Cygate AB
Molly Rector, DataDirect Networks
Bill Dawkins, Dell Computer Corp.
Wayne Adams, EMC Corporation
Mark Jones, Emulex Corporation (Avago)
Camberley Bates, Evaluator Group
Al Zmyslowski, Fujitsu America Inc.
Doug Voigt, HP
Eric Hibbard, Hitachi Data Systems
Yolanda Fang, Huawei Technologies
Dave Gimpl, IBM
Jim Pappas, Intel Corporation
Xuyun Song, MacroSAN
Rob Peglar, Micron
SW Worth, Microsoft Corporation
David Dale, NetApp
Ron Emerick, Oracle Corporation
Lou Lydiksen, Pure Storage
Craig Carlson, QLogic
Bill Martin, Samsung SSI
Mark Carlson, Toshiba
Quorum Number Requirement is 13 of 24
Announcing 2015-2016 Board of Directors
Wayne Adams – EMC *
David Dale – NetApp *
J Metz – Cisco
Rupin Mohan – HP
Jim Pappas – Intel *
Molly Rector – DataDirect Networks
Thomas Rivera – Hitachi Data Systems *
Jim Williams – Oracle *
Rob Peglar – Micron **
SW Worth – Microsoft
Al Zmyslowski – Fujitsu
Non-Voting Board Members:
Leo Leger – SNIA Executive Director
2015-2016 Technical Council Chair (TBD)
* Members elected to a new 2-Year Term as Voting Members.
** Serving Year-2 of Term in Appointed Seat
Please note that the SNIA Officer elections take place October 13th.
Two (2) Appointed Seats on Board of Directors are Available.
Announcing 2015-2016 Technical Council
Craig Carlson – QLogic
Mark Carlson – Toshiba
Fred Knight – NetApp
Bill Martin – Samsung SSI *
Peter Murray – Load DynamiX **
Leah Schoeb – Intel
Doug Voigt – HP
Alan Yoder – Individual
2015 Non-Voting Technical Council Members ***
Alex McDonald, NetApp
Chin-Fah Heoh, Storage Networking Academy
Yukinori Sakashita, Hitachi, Ltd
Udayan Singh, Tata Consultancy Services
David Thiel, Dave Thiel Consultant, LLC
Steve Wilson, Brocade
Arnold Jones, SNIA, TC Managing Director
* Member elected for a new 2-year Term as Voting Member. Officer elections take place October 13th
** Appointed Voting Member with Term through 2016
*** Technical Council currently has Seven (7) Non-Voting Members who require New Appointments for 2016.
Technical Council has One (1) Voting Member Appointed Seat Available unless otherwise requested of/approved by the Board for additional.
Staff and Contractors:
Supporting and Coordinating SNIA Activities
(as of September 1, 2015)
Executive Director: Leo Leger
Operations and Business Services
Michael Meleedy, Business Services and
Education Director
Kelli Martin, Business Services Coordinator
Marketing
Serena White, Online Programs and Web
Manager
Kristin Hauser, Diane Marsili, and Denise
Ridolfo, Program Consultants (Contractors)
Membership Services and Sales
Marty Foltyn, Business Development
Representative (Contractor)
Lisa Mercurio, Membership Services
Manager
SNIA Emerald and KMIP Programs
Dave Thiel, Program Director (Contractor)
Education and Global Programs
Nancy Clay, Education Program
Manager
Paul Talbut, Global Education and
Regional Affiliate Program Director
(Contractor)
Technology and Technology Center
Arnold Jones, Technical Council
Managing Director
John Malia, Technology Systems and
Support Engineer and SNIA
Technology Infrastructure Manager
Erin Weiner, Project and Operations
Manager
SMI Management and Program
Support (Includes F&I Programs)
Tom Mancuso, Senior Technology
Operations Manager
James Rigger, Conformance Testing
Program Manager
Marilyn Fausset, Senior Technical
Writer (Contractor)
Note: SNIA has Contractor Agreements with approximately 15 additional industry and subject matter experts
in various functions and Forums and Initiatives (F&I’s)
SNIA At-a-Glance
Standards
Delivering
Reaching
With
IT End Users
& Storage
Professionals
Active Member
Contributors
Unique Member
Organizations
In Brazil, China, EMEA, India, Japan,
South Asia and USA
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Cloud Data Management Interface
Storage Management Specification
Linear Tape File System
NVM Programming Model
Transport Layer Security for Storage (TLS)
Technology Acceleration &
Promotion
•Analytics/Big Data, Data Protection, Data
Recovery/Erase, Ethernet Storage, Green Storage,
Linear Tape, Object Drives, NVDIMM, Solid State
Storage, SIRF, Storage Security…
Vendor-neutral Education
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Events; Presentations
Technology Position papers
Industry Education
Interoperability Assurance
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Plugfests
Conformance testing
SNIA – Aligned with the Storage
Industry’s Hottest Trends for 2015
Widespread use of Flash in storage systems
Performance characterization for flash components and for all-flash arrays
Vibrant Solid State Storage community, including Special Interest Groups,
focused on technology promotion, market development, and end-user education
Persistent Memory on the horizon
Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) programming model in development
The NVM Programming Model influenced another Most Innovative Flash Memory
Enterprise Business Application at FMS ’15.
Storage Security
SNIA Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Storage specification
New international standard (ISO/IEC 27040) on Storage Security
Conformance test program for OASIS Key Management Interoperability Protocol
Enabling Multiple-Cloud Environments for IT
Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) now an ISO standard
SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative education materials on best practices
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SNIA’s Contribution to the Hot Storage
Industry Topics for 2015 (continued)
Software Defined Storage in the Software Defined Data Center
A new framework for IT infrastructure management and orchestration
Collaboration with Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
Software Defined Storage taxonomy, definition and use cases and tutorials
Cold Storage
New initiative, started in SNIA Japan, to define, promote and educate on the
topic of reliable, affordable storage solutions for rarely accessed data
Tape Integration in Archival and Cloud Environments
Linear Tape File System Format Spec enables integration of tape-based assets
Linear Tape File System Bulk Transfer to and from cloud environments
Object Storage
New Object Drive Technical Work Group
Cloud Storage Initiative education materials on object storage repositories
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Highlight Activities
October 2014 – September 2015
Storage Management Initiative (SMI) continues to drive storage management.
SMI-S is now incorporated into over 1,000 Storage Products. SMI-S v1.5 has
been ratified as international standard ISO/IEC 24775. SMI is working on SMI-S
1.6.1, 1.7 and beyond; SMI-Lab, CTP continues on-going efforts to promote
industry adoption of SMI-S.
Green Storage Initiative (GSI), responsible for the SNIA Emerald taxonomy,
specification, and verified tester program, continues to represent the industry for
the EPA Energy Star Enterprise Data Storage program.
CDMI (Cloud Data Management Interface) version 1.0.2 was designated an
ISO standard. CDMI 1.1 released in September 2014 is backward compatible
with V1.0.2 and includes support for other popular industry cloud offerings such
as OpenStack Swift and Amazon S3.
The Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) refocused its charter and an agreement has
been signed with Tata Consultancy Services providing a CDMI Conformance
Testing program.
Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) continued its highly successful Webcast series,
drawing on the broader range of topics encompassed by its expanded charter.
Highlight Activities
October, 2014 – September, 2015
Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) continues to have an active agenda
through its SIGs and TWGs, including the new NVDIMM SIG, Solid State
Storage System (S4) TWG, and the Data Recovery/Erase SIG.
SNIA’s Security TWG continued its important work in support of ISO IEC
27040, and worked closely with the SMI and CDMI TWGs to enable their use of
the TLS specification.
Storage Security Industry Forum (SSIF) program for KMIP (an OASIS
technical specification) Conformance Testing at SNIA Colorado Springs
Technology Center is active with companies such as HP having completed
product testing.
Data Protection and Capacity Optimization Committee (DPCO) released a
2015 edition of their DPCO Product Selection Guide
The Analytics and Big Data Committee (ABDC) continued with its outreach
Linear Tape File Systems (LTFS) TWG is making good progress
Long term Retention (LTR) TWG continues with SIRF
Highlight Activities
October 2014 – September 2015
SNIA Certification e-Courses remain available online or through iPad or
Android apps. SNIA and CompTIA announced the ending (in January of 2016) of
its relationship and availability of Storage+ credential. SNIA completing a
refreshed Storage Foundations (110) examination and credential for early 2016.
SNIA Tutorials continue to be popular at industry events with many being videorecorded and available on Website repository and SNIA BrightTALK channel.
SNIA 2015 Dictionary continues as industry resource and popular event handout. SNIA Japan also published local language version.
SNIA’s Marketing Steering Committee maintains messaging program to better
communicate SNIA’s technical agenda and value proposition.
SNIA’s Global Steering Committee continues to support regional affiliates with
best practices, networking opportunities, improved information flow and biannual
F2F meeting opportunities (at DSI and Cloud Expo Europe - Frankfurt).
Highlight Activities
October, 2014 – September, 2015
New taskforces launched on Software Defined Storage, Open Source and Cold Storage
SNIA’s Events Program
Annual Members’Symposium featured Member Recognition Programs (January)
Inaugural SDC India ‘15 (May) met attendance (175) goals and will be repeated in 2016
Second Non-Volatile Memory Summit took place during the Annual Members’
Symposium with over 150 attendees – many analysts and media (January)
Inaugural Data Storage Innovation (DSI) Conference (April) produced by SNIA met key
metrics and was attended by nearly 400 - many seeking an alternative to SNW.
Successful 18th Annual Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara and exceeded its
attendance (460) goals and includes successful SMB3 and Cloud Interoperability
Plugfests (September)
Inaugural Data Storage Security Summit co-located with SDC and drew 165 attendees
SNIA Experts Participated in a Host of Industry Events
Cloud Expo Europe ‘14; Storage Visions; USENIX FAST; Dell User Forum; IBM Edge;
Flash Memory Summit; OSCON, and Intel Developer Forum
Highlight Activities
October, 2014 – September, 2015
SNIA Continues to Manage its Finances Carefully and remains
well-positioned for the future…
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SNIA Fiscal Report: 2014
1000’s
Net Assets, Annual Revenue, P/L (in $1,000’s)
$4,000
$3,500
$3,000
$2,500
$2,000
$1,500
$1,000
$500
$$(500)
$(1,000)
2009
Annual Revenue $3,358
Net Assets
$2,617
P/L
$(600)
2010
2011
$3,530
$3,120
$2,566
$2,362
$(5) * $(109)
2012
2013
$3,201
$2,974
$2,280
$2,161
* $(82) * $(119)
2014
$2,925
$1,831
* $(330)
* Note – 2011 - 2014 P/L
numbers include allowances for bad debt and vacation accrual not included in
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prior years. For details, refer to our 2014 annual report at: http://snia.org/about/corporate_info/documents
Summary
2014 through 2015 were years of continued financial prudence and
performance after near break-even financial result 2010 through 2013
and extraordinary expenses (repayable to our Reserve) for the build-out
and move to the new Colorado Springs facility. 2015 projects to
another near break-even budget performance.
Despite ongoing industry mergers and acquisitions, SNIA has been
able to maintain a steady stream of membership revenue based on
renewals from our loyal base of members, new/replacement members
and added Forum and Initiative activity.
2015 has been a strong year that has us well positioned for the future.
We broadened our technical agenda and established support programs
such as the Technology Center and three Conformance Testing
Programs (SMI, KMIP, and CDMI)
In 2015 we invested in a focused messaging function to improve our
ability to communicate our value to the industry, and delivered new as
well as proven programs in our events agenda
We are well-positioned for success in 2016 – we continue to have the
momentum, funding and expertise to maintain the organization’s
relevance in a fast-changing and demanding industry
Acknowledgement
We could not do the work of the SNIA without our
passionate and dedicated volunteers, you are
consistently our greatest asset
Feedback on how we can improve is always welcomed
The support and loyalty of all SNIA Members, Volunteers
your Companies and our SNIA Staff and Contractors is
deeply appreciated
THANK YOU
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