SNIA Launches New Credential Program at Storage Networking World Spring 2009.New Credential Complements 26 New 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 Tutorials to Be Delivered at SNW SNW SnowSNW Strange New Worlds (Star Trek) SNW Social Networking Website SNW Sub Networks SNW Storage Networking World SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Today 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) announced its new SNIA Qualified Storage Sales Professional (SQSSP) credential to validate storage sales and marketing professionals' comprehension of storage technology, concepts, terminology and end user solution requirements. Training and testing for the credential will take place at 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. Spring 2009, April 6-9, in Orlando, Fla. The SQSSP credential signifies the storage professional can articulate and recommend storage technologies to fulfill end user data and business needs as well as effectively team with technical storage solution engineers and storage architects. Additionally, SNIA is providing 26 new tutorials spanning security, solid state storage, green storage, cloud storage Cloud storage (also known as Cloud computing or Cloud services) is a model of networked data storage where data is stored on multiple virtual servers, generally hosted by third parties, rather than being hosted on dedicated servers. and many other timely industry topics during SNW. "This credential gives marketing and sales professionals - and their respective companies - the fundamental technical knowledge to recommend a breadth of storage solutions for their customers," said Wayne M. Adams, Chair of the SNIA. "As part of the SNIA's commitment to quality industry education, we created the SQSSP training and credential program to advance the knowledge and skills of these professionals to reduce their sales cycles and to deepen their customer relationships by becoming recognized as trusted technical advisors." Michael Moore  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , Director of Technology and Training, DataSpan, one
of the first companies to embrace the SQSSP added, "Nearly 50 of
our sales staff and management recently received the SNIA's SQSSP
credential and we were quite pleased with the process and results.
DataSpan views the credential as a valuable investment for our complete
sales force both inside and outside to help us best service our existing
customers and secure additional deals when speaking to prospects.
We've seen an immediate ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). on the credential program; based on
initial feedback from our staff, the credential has given them increased
confidence when dealing with customers, which is important not just for
their individual professional development, but for DataSpan as a whole
as we remain committed to being viewed as a trusted storage solutions
provider. The SNIA effort has also given many manufacturers and
suppliers a confidence in us and our ability to perform to their
standards and business model nationally."
During SNW, the 90-minute SQSSP exam is offered online following the classroom training sessions, giving newly trained professionals the flexibility to take it at the test site or in their hotel rooms. The training and exam spans these topics: * Defining and Identifying Storage Technology Basics * Recognizing Opportunities for iSCSI Storage Networking Solutions * Recognizing Opportunities for Fibre Channel Storage Networking Solutions * Defining Storage Virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. Concepts and Opportunities * Defining Data Management Concepts and Opportunities * Recognizing Backup/Recovery and Business Continuance The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in a court to a later date of the same or another session of the court, granted by a court in response to a motion made by a party to a lawsuit. Opportunities For more information on the SQSSP program and its study materials, visit http://www.snia.org/education/certification/qualification/. SNIA TUTORIALS TAKE SNW SPRING CENTER STAGE At SNW Spring 2009, the SNIA will once again deliver its SNIA Tutorials program, with 63 tutorial sessions being taught throughout the four-day conference. SNIA tutorials are designed with the latest technical and business (IT) topics in a vendor neutral format for professional and technical audiences ranging from CIOs to IT operations staff as well as business managers to software/hardware engineers. The SNIA Tutorials, all of which are refreshed re·fresh v. re·freshed, re·fresh·ing, re·fresh·es v.tr. 1. To revive with or as if with rest, food, or drink; give new vigor or spirit to. 2. or newly developed specifically for this conference, will be delivered across 10 topic tracks which include: Data Protection and Management, File Systems and File Management, Storage Management, Networking, Professional Development, Security, Virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. and Standards, Green Storage, Solid State Storage and Applications Infrastructure. For more information on SNIA Tutorials available at Storage Networking World Spring 2009, please visit www.snwusa.com. About the SNIA The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit global organization, made up of some 400 member companies spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA's mission is to lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting standards, technologies, and educational services to empower organizations in the management of information. To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel pro·pel tr.v. pro·pelled, pro·pel·ling, pro·pels To cause to move forward or onward. See Synonyms at push. [Middle English propellen, from Latin open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For additional information, visit the SNIA web site at www.snia.org. |
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