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SNIA 2015 ANNUAL MEMBERS’ MEETING

October 8, 201510:00 a.m. PT – Teleconference

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2015 Annual Members’ Meeting Agenda

Greetings and Roll Call (for Quorum) - Leo Leger, Executive Director

Welcoming Comments and Agenda – David Dale, 2015 Chairman

Motion to Approve 2014 Meeting Minutes – David Dale, substituting for Jim Pappas, 2015 Secretary

Announcement of 2016 Board and Technical Council Election Results, and 2016 Board and TC Members - Leo Leger, Executive Director

SNIA Overview and 2015 Annual Update – David Dale

Fiscal Report (2014 Annual Report) - Allan Zmyslowski, 2015 Treasurer

Questions and Answers - Members and SNIA Board Members

Adjourn

Roll Call and Approval of 2014 Minutes

Roll Call of Voting Member Companies

Primary Representatives of Voting Member Companies, please identify yourselves during Roll Call

If you work for a Voting Member Company and do not hear your primary representative, please identify yourself during roll call – Proxy representation is Acceptable

Motion for a Vote to approve 2014 Meeting Minutes will take place if quorum is met – if not, we will do a Roll Call again at end of meeting. Otherwise, minutes will be later approved via e-Mail Ballot.

Roll Call: Roster of Voting Companies And Primary / Voting Representatives

J Metz, Cisco

Matt Smith, Computerworld

Tim Hudson, Cryptsoft

Hakan Axtellus, Cygate AB

Molly Rector, DataDirect Networks

Bill Dawkins, Dell Computer Corp.

Wayne Adams, EMC Corporation

Mark Jones, Emulex Corporation (Avago)

Camberley Bates, Evaluator Group

Al Zmyslowski, Fujitsu America Inc.

Doug Voigt, HP

Eric Hibbard, Hitachi Data Systems

Yolanda Fang, Huawei Technologies

Dave Gimpl, IBM

Jim Pappas, Intel Corporation

Xuyun Song, MacroSAN

Rob Peglar, Micron

SW Worth, Microsoft Corporation

David Dale, NetApp

Ron Emerick, Oracle Corporation

Lou Lydiksen, Pure Storage

Craig Carlson, QLogic

Bill Martin, Samsung SSI

Mark Carlson, Toshiba

Quorum Number Requirement is 13 of 24

Announcing 2015- 2016 Board of Directors

Wayne Adams – EMC *

David Dale – NetApp *

J Metz – Cisco

Rupin Mohan – HP

Jim Pappas – Intel *

Molly Rector – DataDirect Networks

Thomas Rivera – Hitachi Data Systems *

Jim Williams – Oracle *

Rob Peglar – Micron **

SW Worth – Microsoft

Al Zmyslowski – Fujitsu

Non-Voting Board Members:Leo Leger – SNIA Executive Director

2015-2016 Technical Council Chair (TBD)

* Members elected to a new 2-Year Term as Voting Members. ** Serving Year-2 of Term in Appointed Seat Please note that the SNIA Officer elections take place October 13th. Two (2) Appointed Seats on Board of Directors are Available.

Announcing 2015-2016 Technical Council

Craig Carlson – QLogic

Mark Carlson – Toshiba

Fred Knight – NetApp

Bill Martin – Samsung SSI *

Peter Murray – Load DynamiX **

Leah Schoeb – Intel

Doug Voigt – HP

Alan Yoder – Individual2015 Non-Voting Technical Council Members ***

Alex McDonald, NetApp

Chin-Fah Heoh, Storage Networking Academy

Yukinori Sakashita, Hitachi, Ltd

Udayan Singh, Tata Consultancy Services

David Thiel, Dave Thiel Consultant, LLC

Steve Wilson, Brocade

Arnold Jones, SNIA, TC Managing Director* Member elected for a new 2-year Term as Voting Member. Officer elections take place October 13th** Appointed Voting Member with Term through 2016 *** Technical Council currently has Seven (7) Non-Voting Members who require New Appointments for 2016. Technical Council has One (1) Voting Member Appointed Seat Available unless otherwise requested of/approved

by the Board for additional.

Staff and Contractors: Supporting and Coordinating SNIA Activities(as of September 1, 2015)

Executive Director: Leo Leger

Operations and Business ServicesMichael Meleedy, Business Services and Education DirectorKelli Martin, Business Services Coordinator

MarketingSerena White, Online Programs and Web Manager Kristin Hauser, Senior Marketing ManagerDiane Marsili and Denise Ridolfo, Program Consultants (Contractors)

Membership Services and SalesMarty Foltyn, Business Development Representative (Contractor)Lisa Mercurio, Membership Services Manager

SNIA Emerald and KMIP ProgramsDave Thiel, Program Director (Contractor)

Education and Global ProgramsNancy Clay, Education Program ManagerPaul Talbut, Global Education and Regional Affiliate Program Director (Contractor)

Technology and Technology CenterArnold Jones, Technical Council Managing DirectorJohn Malia, Technology Systems and Support Engineer and SNIA Technology Infrastructure ManagerErin Weiner, Project and Operations Manager

SMI Management and Program Support (Includes F&I Programs)

Tom Mancuso, Senior Technical Operations ManagerJames Rigger, Conformance Testing Programs ManagerMarilyn Fausset, Senior Technical Writer (Contractor)

Note: SNIA has Contractor Agreements with approximately 15 additional industry and subject matter experts in various functions and Forums and Initiatives (F&I’s)

SNIA At-a-Glance

Unique Member Organizations

Active Member Contributors

IT End Users & Storage Professionals

In Brazil, China, EMEA, India, Japan, South Asia and USA

Reaching

Delivering

With

Standards•Cloud Data Management Interface•Storage Management Specification•Linear Tape File System•NVM Programming Model•Transport Layer Security for Storage (TLS)

Interoperability Assurance •Plugfests •Conformance testing

Vendor-neutral Education•Events; Presentations•Technology Position papers •Industry Education

Technology Acceleration & Promotion•Analytics/Big Data, Data Protection, Data Recovery/Erase, Ethernet Storage, Green Storage, Linear Tape, Object Drives, NVDIMM, Solid State Storage, SIRF, Storage Security…

SNIA – Aligned with the Storage Industry’s Hottest Trends for 2015

Widespread use of Flash in storage systemsPerformance characterization for flash components and for all-flash arrays

Vibrant Solid State Storage community, including Special Interest Groups, focused on technology promotion, market development, and end-user education

Persistent Memory on the horizon Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) programming model in development

The NVM Programming Model influenced another Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application at FMS ’15.

Storage SecuritySNIA Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Storage specification

New international standard (ISO/IEC 27040) on Storage Security

Conformance test program for OASIS Key Management Interoperability Protocol

Enabling Multiple-Cloud Environments for ITCloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) now an ISO standard

SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative education materials on best practices10

Software Defined Storage in the Software Defined Data CenterA new framework for IT infrastructure management and orchestration

Collaboration with Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)

Software Defined Storage taxonomy, definition and use cases and tutorials

Cold StorageNew initiative, started in SNIA Japan, to define, promote and educate on the topic of reliable, affordable storage solutions for rarely accessed data

Tape Integration in Archival and Cloud EnvironmentsLinear Tape File System Format Spec enables integration of tape-based assets

Linear Tape File System Bulk Transfer to and from cloud environments

Object StorageNew Object Disk Technical Work Group

Cloud Storage Initiative education materials on object storage repositories

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SNIA’s Contribution to the Hot Storage Industry Topics for 2015 (continued)

Highlight ActivitiesOctober 2014 – September 2015

Storage Management Initiative (SMI) continues to drive storage management. SMI-S is now incorporated into over 1,000 Storage Products. SMI-S v1.5 has been ratified as international standard ISO/IEC 24775. SMI is working on SMI-S 1.6.1, 1.7 and beyond; SMI-Lab, CTP continues on-going efforts to promote industry adoption of SMI-S.

Green Storage Initiative (GSI), responsible for the SNIA Emerald taxonomy, specification, and verified tester program, continues to represent the industry for the EPA Energy Star Enterprise Data Storage program.

CDMI (Cloud Data Management Interface) version 1.0.2 was designated an ISO standard. CDMI 1.1 released in September 2014 is backward compatible with V1.0.2 and includes support for other popular industry cloud offerings such as OpenStack Swift and Amazon S3.

The Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) refocused its charter and an agreement has been signed with Tata Consultancy Services providing a CDMI Conformance Testing program.

Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) continued its highly successful Webcast series, drawing on the broader range of topics encompassed by its expanded charter.

Highlight ActivitiesOctober, 2014 – September, 2015

Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) continues to have an active agenda through its SIGs and TWGs, including the new NVDIMM SIG, Solid State Storage System (S4) TWG, and the Data Recovery/Erase SIG.

SNIA’s Security TWG continued its important work in support of ISO IEC 27040, and worked closely with the SMI and CDMI TWGs to enable their use of the TLS specification.

Storage Security Industry Forum (SSIF) program for KMIP (an OASIS technical specification) Conformance Testing at SNIA Colorado Springs Technology Center is active with companies such as HP having completed product testing.

Data Protection and Capacity Optimization Committee (DPCO) released a 2015 edition of their DPCO Product Selection Guide

The Analytics and Big Data Committee (ABDC) continued with its outreach

Linear Tape File Systems (LTFS) TWG is making good progress

Long term Retention (LTR) TWG continues with SIRF

Highlight ActivitiesOctober 2014 – September 2015

SNIA Certification e-Courses remain available online or through iPad or Android apps. SNIA and CompTIA announced the ending (in January of 2016) of its relationship and availability of Storage+ credential. SNIA completing a refreshed Storage Foundations (110) examination and credential for early 2016.

SNIA Tutorials continue to be popular at industry events with many being video-recorded and available on Website repository and SNIA BrightTALK channel.

SNIA 2015 Dictionary continues as industry resource and popular event hand-out. SNIA Japan also published local language version.

SNIA’s Marketing Steering Committee maintains messaging program to better communicate SNIA’s technical agenda and value proposition.

SNIA’s Global Steering Committee continues to support regional affiliates with best practices, networking opportunities, improved information flow and biannual F2F meeting opportunities (at DSI and Cloud Expo Europe - Frankfurt).

Highlight ActivitiesOctober, 2014 – September, 2015

New taskforces launched on Software Defined Storage, Open Source and Cold Storage

SNIA’s Events Program

Annual Members’Symposium featured Member Recognition Programs (January)

Inaugural SDC India ‘15 (May) met attendance (175) goals and will be repeated in 2016

Second Non-Volatile Memory Summit took place during the Annual Members’ Symposium with over 150 attendees – many analysts and media (January)

Inaugural Data Storage Innovation (DSI) Conference (April) produced by SNIA met key metrics and was attended by nearly 400 - many seeking an alternative to SNW.

Successful 18th Annual Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara and exceeded its attendance (460) goals and includes successful SMB3 and Cloud Interoperability Plugfests (September)

Inaugural Data Storage Security Summit co-located with SDC and drew 165 attendees

SNIA Experts Participated in a Host of Industry EventsCloud Expo Europe ‘14; Storage Visions; USENIX FAST; Dell User Forum; IBM Edge; Flash Memory Summit; OSCON, and Intel Developer Forum

Highlight ActivitiesOctober, 2014 – September, 2015

SNIA Continues to Manage its Finances Carefully and remains well-positioned for the future…

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SNIA Fiscal Report: 2014

17* Note – 2011 - 2014 P/L numbers include allowances for bad debt and vacation accrual not included in

prior years. For details, refer to our 2014 annual report at: http://snia.org/about/corporate_info/documents

Summary

2014 through 2015 were years of continued financial prudence and performance after near break-even financial result 2010 through 2013 and extraordinary expenses (repayable to our Reserve) for the build-out and move to the new Colorado Springs facility. 2015 projects to another near break-even budget performance.

Despite ongoing industry mergers and acquisitions, SNIA has been able to maintain a steady stream of membership revenue based on renewals from our loyal base of members, new/replacement members and added Forum and Initiative activity.

2015 has been a strong year that has us well positioned for the future. We broadened our technical agenda and established support programs such as the Technology Center and three Conformance Testing Programs (SMI, KMIP, and CDMI)

In 2015 we invested in a focused messaging function to improve our ability to communicate our value to the industry, and delivered new as well as proven programs in our events agenda

We are well-positioned for success in 2016 – we continue to have the momentum, funding and expertise to maintain the organization’s relevance in a fast-changing and demanding industry

Acknowledgement

We could not do the work of the SNIA without our passionate and dedicated volunteers, you are consistently our greatest asset

Feedback on how we can improve is always welcomed

The support and loyalty of all SNIA Members, Volunteers your Companies and our SNIA Staff and Contractors is deeply appreciated

THANK YOU

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