FalconStor Software Sponsors the ISIC's StorageNetworking.org Initiative; UCSD-Based Program Addressing the Educational Needs of Data Storage Professionals.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. -- The Information Storage Industry Center (ISIC ISIC International Student Identity Card ISIC Information Storage Industry Center ISIC International Standard Industrial Classification ISIC International Symposium on Intelligent Control (IEEE) ISIC Immediate Superior In Command ) at the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. (UCSD UCSD University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) UCSD User Centered System Design UCSD Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District (Illinois) UCSD Ultra Cool Sexy Dudes ) announced today that FalconStor Software, a leading developer of adaptive data protection solutions that optimize data center efficiency and business continuity for all IT infrastructures, is now a sponsor of the ISIC's StorageNetworking.org Initiative. StorageNetworking.org is a university-based, non-profit initiative whose mission is to address the educational needs of data storage technology users. The initiative is currently stimulating the creation of local and regional storage networking user groups (or SNUGs), so that data management professionals can exchange information with their peers and other knowledge experts. The initiative also manages an online resource portal to provide access to industry-specific educational opportunities and advocates the expansion of university-based educational offerings focused on data storage topics. "FalconStor is excited to be a StorageNetworking.org Initiative sponsor," says Donald Mead, FalconStor's Vice President Marketing. "StorageNetworking.org provides a great service in educating the end user community on the latest advances in storage technology. FalconStor has already provided subject matter experts and sponsored numerous SNUG meetings throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . We look forward to continuing our support of the StorageNetworking.org mission of creating a smarter and more capable storage workforce." "FalconStor Software's support of StorageNetworking.org is extremely positive," says ISIC Industry Relations Director Ron Durbin. "Their contributions enable us to further support the storage users that are the backbone of our SNUGs and to involve even more universities and affiliate organizations. We are grateful to FalconStor for giving back to the industry in such a positive way, and we look forward to ensuring that their gift is a meaningful one." The ISIC is one of 25 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic non-profit organization in the United States. It was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., then-President and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Industry Centers at leading universities across the country. The StorageNetworking.org Initiative is funded through foundation grants and charitable gifts to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Current sponsors include FalconStor Software, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 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 ), Hewlett-Packard, McDATA, Computer Associates, Symantec, EMC Corporation, Trainer Communications, Servergraph, NeoPath Networks, Diogenes Labs, Storage magazine, InfoStor magazine, and Byte and Switch. |
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