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The Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) has recently released an important new Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator that analyzes enterprise solid state storage ownership costs by application. To download the calculator, click here http://www.snia.org/forums/sssi/programs /TCOcalc.
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New SNIA Software Now Available
SNIA has released the NDMP Software for NAS File Servers and Appliances. NDMP is a standard protocol for managing backup and restore of Network Attached Storage (NAS) file servers and appliances. The SNIA NDMP Software implements the Version 4 NDMP industry standard for network-based bac...kup of file servers. The software can be downloaded from www.snia.org/software, for free.

SNIA The SNIA "All Member Tutorial Review" is currently open and available to all SNIA members. This review is for the SNIA tutorials that will be presented at SNW Fall in Phoenix, AZ this October. Visit https://www.snia.org/members/tutorials for more information.
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SNIA The Early Bird Registration discount for SDC 2009 has been extended until September 8th. If you are planning on attending, register now so that you don't miss the $300 savings.

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SDC 2009 Plugfest Update: Announcing SDC SOHOCON 2009 - The first-ever plugfest for Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) and/or Consumer storage devices, SOHOCON. Read more about it here:
http://www.snia.org/events/storage-devel oper2009/plugfest
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The latest edition of SNIA's FarSighted newsletter was published this week. Read about managing Cloud Storage, Ethernet Storage as it gains momentum, new views of encryption and key management, and much more.
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SDC 2009 Agenda Update: Featured Speaker Dhruba Borthakur will present "Hadoop File System Architecture and its Usage at Facebook." See the description of his talk here:
http://www.snia.org/events/storage-devel oper2009/agenda2009

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SNIA is participating in the upcoming Online Summit “Next Generation Data Center" this Thursday, July 30th. Click here to register for free: http://www.brighttalk.com/webcasts/5266/ attend
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Many disk technologies, both old and new, are being used to augment tried and true backup and data protection methodologies to deliver better information and application restoration performance. These ...

SNIA The SNIA July 2009 Technical Symposium kicks off today with the EPA ENERGY STAR Enterprise Storage Stakeholder meeting in San Jose.

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Register for SNIA's next free Webcast:
"Why & How SSDs are Economical"
July 22, 2009, 1:00 pm EST
Presented by Jim Handy, Industry Analyst, Objective Analysis
Duration: 60 minutes
You can view all of the SNIA Webcasts here: http://www.snia.org/about/socialmedia/
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Welcome to SNIA's Community Page, providingeasy access to new and existing SNIA resources. View our webcasts, visit a SNIA Developer's Group, sign up for RSS feeds, watch our videos...

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We have added a new panel discussion to the SDC agenda - "Cloud Storage – Silver Lining or Lead Balloon?" with invited participants from Amazon, EMC, Google, Microsoft, SNIA, and Sun Microsystems. Wednesday, September 16th.
http://www.snia.org/events/storage-devel oper2009/agenda2009

SNIA The 2009 SDC Agenda is now available online. www.storage-developer.org
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