"I am delighted to welcome PoINT Software & Systems to SNIA Europe," said Bob Plumridge, Chairman of the Board, SNIA Europe. "PoINT will strengthen the data/ storage management and archiving section within SNIA Europe and help to maintain a balanced and valued industry forum. Furthermore, PoINT will benefit from SNIA's indepth knowledge base and a range of opportunities to present their capabilities to a broad audience across Europe."
"We are happy to be part of SNIA Europe and look forward to supporting the association with our longstanding experience in optical storage and archiving," said Bernd Klee, CEO of PoINT Software & Systems GmbH. "The SNIA Europe membership will help us to foster our footprint in the tiered storage solutions business with PoINT Storage Manager as our flagship product."
For the first time ever, PoINT will exhibit at SNW Europe taking place in Frankfurt from October 26th to 27th, 2010. Realistic user scenarios are shown there by SNIA members and leading industry associations. The exhibitors belong mainly to the fields of data management and storage, virtualization and new data centre technologies like for example cloud services and solutions. PoINT will present the latest version of PoINT Storage Manager at SNW Europe 2010.
About SNIA Europe
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe is dedicated to educate the market on the evolution and application of storage infrastructure solutions for the data centre by providing thought leadership and industry education focused on storage technologies and business value. The association is the voice of authority for networked storage and associated technologies across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. SNIA Europe is a nonprofit, vendorneutral organisation run by its members, which include approximately 70 vendors, channel partners and individuals. For further information you can email euroinfo[at]snia[dot]org, contact +44 (0) 20 8785 5555, or visit www.snia-europe.org.