American Megatrends Inc. Joins SNIA as a Voting Member.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001 Editorial Summary -- SNIA's members are dedicated to ensuring that storage networks become complete and trusted solutions across the IT community American Megatrends American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is a Georgia, USA based hardware company that creates PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by the current chairman and president, S. Shankar. Inc. (AMI), the leader in storage and computing innovations worldwide, today announced it has become a voting member of the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ). "AMI is excited to join SNIA as a voting member," said Tracy Yang, Server Management Program Manager. "Our new SNIA voting membership status secures our presence as a key influence in the decision-making process to guide the direction of the storage networking industry." AMI is granted full work group and committee participation. This access will give AMI a valuable voice, as a leader in the Host Bus Adapter See host adapter. market, (RAID) to be shared with Association Members. SNIA, incorporated in December 1997, is a registered 501-C6 non-profit trade association. The goal of SNIA members is to ensure that storage networks become complete and trusted solutions across the IT community. To achieve this goal, SNIA forms and sponsors technical work groups by producing (with its strategic partner Computerworld) the Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. Conference series. It also maintains a vendor neutral Technology Center in Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. that promotes activities to expand the breadth and quality of the storage networking market. More information on SNIA can be found at www.snia.org. As a member of SNIA, AMI will present its latest technologies at Storage Networking World at the Marriott Desert Springs Resort in Palm Desert, Calif., April 9 through April 11, 2001. About AMI Founded in 1985, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) has dedicated its resources to providing OEMs, resellers and systems integrators with leading edge computer technologies. This privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , best known for its Basic Input/Output Systems (operating system) Basic Input/Output System - (BIOS, ROM BIOS) The part of the system software of the IBM PC and compatibles that provides the lowest level interface to peripheral devices and controls the first stage of the bootstrap process, including installing the operating or BIOS, supplies state-of-the-art hardware, software, utilities and RAID controllers to over 55 percent of today's high-tech manufacturers. Headquartered in Atlanta, AMI has locations in the U.S. and throughout the world including London, Madras, Munich, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo to better serve our customers. AMI is a voting member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). For more information on AMI, its products, services or reseller opportunities, call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI or visit www.ami.com. All registered trademarks are property of their respected companies. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion