David Dale

The Storage Networking Industry Association operates as a computer storage network association. The private company is based in London, UK.

Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. is an industry standards organization that creates open manageability specifications for diverse emerging and traditional IT infrastructures including cloud, virtualization, network, servers, and storage. The non-profit company is based in Portland, OR. Member companies and alliance partners worldwide collaborate on standards to improve the interoperable management of information technologies.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a non-profit organization based in Santa Clara, CA. SNIA is a trusted authority for storage leadership, standards, and technology expertise worldwide. The private company's mission is to lead the storage industry in developing and promoting vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and educational services that facilitate the efficient management, movement, and security of information. SNIA is committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. The company provides education, best practices, and technology guides on all matters related to the protection and privacy of data. SNIA embraces open source development and standards in a variety of ways and defines recommended behavior for hardware and software that supports computational storage. The company also defines a standard interface that applications can use to perform iscsi management independent of the vendor of the iscsi hba.