AppIQ Invited to Share Standards Expertise at SNIA Storage Management Summit; Vice President of Business Development Doug Cahill to Present How to Package and Productize SMI-S Interfaces.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2003 As part of its continuing efforts to promote industry standards, simplify the management of heterogeneous storage networks and offer enterprises greater data storage flexibility, AppIQ(TM), Inc. will share its experience and best practices for productizing Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S SMI-S Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SNIA) ) interfaces at the Storage Networking Industry Association's Storage Management Summit 2003 December 10 in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , CA. In a session titled "Packaging and Distribution Plans for SMI-S Interface Code" AppIQ Vice President of Business Development Doug Cahill will discuss considerations such as entitlement, licensing and pre-requisites in the context of the different types of consumers of SMI-S interfaces, including independent software vendors (ISVs), end-users and internal development teams. The talk will benefit independent hardware and software vendors who are seeking to comply with SMI-S. "AppIQ brings a great deal of experience to the table as a result of helping numerous storage vendors comply with SMI-S and having developed a storage area management solution family to fully support this important standard," said Ray Dunn Raymond Hudson Dunn (born 21 June 1910, died 26 August 1971) was a noted lawyer and football administrator with VFL/AFL club Richmond. Regardless of his short stature, Ray Dunn was one of the towering figures at Richmond who laid the foundations for the club's greatest era of , Member, 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 Board of Directors. "We're pleased to have AppIQ share those experiences and lessons learned with the Storage Management Summit attendees." AppIQ was invited to speak at the conference as a result of the company's efforts in promoting the SMI-S and Common Information Model (CIM (1) (Computer-Integrated Manufacturing) Integrating office/accounting functions with automated factory systems. Point of sale, billing, machine tool scheduling and supply ordering are part of CIM. ) standards, and the experience the company has gained helping storage vendors such as Brocade, Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , Hewlett Packard, LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic Storage Systems, McDATA Corporation, Network Appliance, Silicon Graphics, and Sun Microsystems, Inc develop SMI-S-compliant interfaces. Each of these AppIQ partners have leveraged AppIQ's CIMIQ software development platform to accelerate the development of SMI-S and CIM/WBEM-compliant products and minimize the related engineering costs. As a result, products from these vendors can be managed by any CIM-built application, including AppIQ StorageAuthority(TM) Suite, the first integrated family of SAN management, storage resource management, and storage provisioning solutions to fully comply with SMI-S and CIM. "We are pleased to share our experience developing CIM-compliant solutions and SMI-S interfaces with the broader development community," said Doug Cahill, AppIQ vice president of business development. "SMI-S is a clear win for software developers, hardware vendors, and most importantly, enterprise end users, who will benefit from increased flexibility, and greater freedom to use the technologies and devices that best meet their requirements." Session details: -- Wednesday, December 10, 10:30 - 11:15 a.m. PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there - "Packaging and Distribution Plans for SMI-S Interface Code" (Location: TBD TBD abbr. to be determined ); visit http://www.snia.org/summit2003 for more details About AppIQ AppIQ, Inc. provides comprehensive software solutions that enable enterprise IT organizations to efficiently manage data storage as an application-focused IT utility. AppIQ's storage area management solutions seamlessly integrate physical and logical storage resource discovery, provisioning, monitoring, reporting, and policy-based automation, and correlate the availability of business-critical applications such as Oracle and Microsoft Exchange with storage network capacity and performance. Customers that rely on AppIQ solutions to reduce operational costs, improve IT efficiency and ensure application availability include Boston Stock Exchange The Boston Stock Exchange (BSE) is a regional stock exchange located in Boston, Massachusetts. The third-oldest stock exchange in the United States, it was founded in 1834. On October 2nd, 2007 Nasdaq agreed to acquire BSE for $61 million. , Nielsen Media Research, and The Weather Channel. AppIQ, based in Burlington, Mass, is a privately held firm funded by Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, and other investors. For more information, visit http://www.appiq.com. |
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