SNIA Technology Center Champions Program to support new tech center location

HP, LSI, and NetApp Provide Leadership Gifts for ArrowsWest Facility at LSI Location
"SNIA Technology Center Champion: Founders Level" Category Added

In the past three years, SNIA’s Technology Center Champions Program (TCCP) offered vendors in the data storage and networking industries the opportunity to showcase their solutions and help advance the storage industry as a whole, while simultaneously reaching their technology, marketing, and publicity goals. Since 2006, over $1.5 million in corporate contributions have been by organizations to this SNIA program.

The SNIA is announcing a new category of donations in conjunction with its facilities relocation to the ArrowsWest/LSI facility in Colorado Springs. Entitled SNIA Technology Center Champion: Founders Level, this new designation highlights the contributions made by SNIA companies to enable the deployment of  new and updated technologies at the new Tech Center.

"We're delighted to announce that HP, LSI and NetApp have already stepped up in the very infancy of this new category offering, providing much-needed gifts that will enable SNIA to launch the relocated Tech Center more effectively", said Leo Leger, Executive Director of the SNIA. "HP offered a very generous donation of whatever furniture, networking equipment, and infrastructure we were using at our present location that could be utilized at the new facility. We move in completely ready to host meetings, provide hosting and testing services, and offer hands-on certification training on Day 1."

NetApp is providing brand-new storage to support the internationally-reknown I/O Traces, Tools, and Analysis website hosted at the Technology Center. "We are thrilled that NetApp, a long-term Tech Center champion and already a supporter of the IOTTA website, has stepped up with a contribution of brand-new storage that will provision about 20TB for the IOTTA website," said Leger. "This website has end-users worldwide as regular contributors, and is the largest open-source repository of its kind in the world. This contribution allows the site to continue to grow and provide a much-utilized resource for research for a global community, and we appreciate the leadership of NetApp as a Tech Center Founder contributor."

"With respect to LSI, said Leger, "their contribution is immense. In addition to allowing SNIA to lease this facility for below-market rates, LSI is generously providing the services of a full-time project manager to coordinate all the build-out of the new facility. This gift is not only a practical help in getting our facility ready, but represents a generous gift of thousands of dollars of experienced project management support. thanks to LSI, we'll get things done right, on time, and on budget. SNIA is immensely grateful to LSI for this generous donation."

Immediate needs for the new facility include:

• High-speed Ethernet/Fibre Channel switches and infrastructure equipment
• Network storage arrays to support hosting and software development environments
• Wire management, data center equipment, and professional services in support of the new Technology Center
• New rack-mounted servers, virtualization software, other IT hardware
• Projection and display equipment

Why Become A SNIA Technology Center Founders Level Champion?

• Storage networking products used at the SNIA Technology Center create the standards and are the leaders in the development and evolution of the industry
• The SNIA Technology Center is a proving ground for testing storage networking products for interoperability and the development of standards specifications
• Contributed storage networking products used at the SNIA Technology Center are utilized by the SNIA's education and certification programs, developing the foundation of knowledge and understanding for future technologists in the industry, as well as end users who need to develop proficiency in the field
• Champions are contributing leaders in the industry, introducing the latest advancements in storage technology products and contributing solutions that solve IT challenges
• Participation in the Champions Program allows your company to reach your technology, marketing, and publicity goals through special premiums based on the retail value of your contribution

Membership Levels and Premiums
Based on a level of contribution, you will be entitled to the following:

SNIA Technology Center Champion: Founders Level
Contributions Valued Above $25,000 (MSRP), made by April 1, 2010

• Mention and prominent signage of Founders Level Champion in all SNIA press releases related to the opening of the SNIA Technology Center in its new ArrowsWest location
• Ability to host & demonstrate any contributed equipment and services during grand opening/ribbon-cutting festivities on February 10, 2010, and thereafter for the following 6 months (receptions, sales & marketing meetings, etc)
  
• Collaboration on white papers and other outward-facing marketing initiatives of donor company, consistent with SNIA's vendor-neutral position and without making a qualitative claim over and against any competing SNIA vendor product or service (project is owned and written by contributing company)
  
• Four (4) free registrations to all SNIA Technology Center events and educational activity for the calendar year following the month the contribution(s) were received
• Vendor-neutral article developed with the contributing company detailing the value and utility of the contribution to the SNIA Technology Center, including but not limited to the value of the product or service to on-going testing, training, or remote event support (project is owned and written by contributing company)
• Includes all benefits listed as an Petabyte Champion

Zettabyte Champion
Contributions Valued Above $250,000

• Mention and prominent signage of Zettabyte Champion level at all Interoperability and Solutions Demonstrations at select SNIA-sponsored events in the United States
• Four (4) free registrations to all SNIA Technology Center events and educational activity for the calendar year following the month the contribution(s) were received
• Vendor-neutral article developed with the contributing company detailing the value and utility of the contribution to the SNIA Technology Center, including but not limited to the value of the product or service to on-going testing, training, or remote event support (project is owned by contributing member company)
  
• Includes all benefits listed as an Exabyte Champion

Exabyte Champion
Contributions Valued $100,000 to $250,000

• Mention and prominent signage of Exabyte Champion level at all Interoperability and Solutions Demonstrations at select SNIA-sponsored events in the United States
• Mention and signage of Exabyte Champion level at all SNIA-sponsored Hands-On-Labs
• Includes all benefits listed as a Petabyte Champion

Petabyte Champion
Contributions Valued $10,000 to $100,000

• SNIA press release announcing contributing company’s contribution
• Listing on SNIA’s Web site
• Appreciation plaque given to contributing company
• Listing and mention on select SNIA Technology Center collateral
• Listing on Technology Champions plaque and identifying signage at the SNIA Technology Center

The SNIA recognizes contributors to the SNIA Technology Center:

Agilent Technologies ATTO Technologies Brocade Chapparel Computer Associates DataDirect Networks Dell Computer Corporation Exrix Emulex Corporation Hewlett-Packard Hitachi Data Systems IBM Corporation InRange Technology Corporation JNI Corporation LSI

McData Corporation NetApp Plasmon Corporation Procomm Corporation QLogic Corporation Quantum/ATL Simplesoft, Inc. StoreAge Sun Microsystems SystemX Texas Memory Systems Vista Solutions Vixel XioTech

Learn about the latest members of the SNIA Technology Center Champions Program.

To become a SNIA Technology Center Champion, contact:

Leo Leger
SNIA Executive Director
(978) 203-0442
leo.leger@snia.org.

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