AC3 JOINS SNIA ANZ BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The addition of AC3 is a recognition of the growth in Cloud Storage Services and the Board’s desire to ensure that the SNIA and its strategic programs remain representative of all sections of the data storage community.

Craig Scroggie, Chairman of SNIA ANZ, says “The addition of AC3 to our membership and Board demonstrates our continued commitment to represent every aspect of the storage community, and has the added benefit of bringing another key industry leader to our strategic programs.

“We look forward to working with the AC3 team in extending our value proposition. Oureducation programs benefit from having members with key expertise that enhance our role asindustry evangelists. Having Richard Walsh on our Board, with his knowledge of the Cloud Storage market will help us to deliver on this commitment," said Scroggie.

"AC3 fully supports SNIA’s mission to develop and promote standards, technology and education throughout Australia and New Zealand," said Richard Walsh, CTO, AC3. “We see a lot of benefits in accessing SNIA’s standards groups, and particularly in helping establish a range of educational programs around the SNIA CDMI Cloud standard”.

Richard Walsh is the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect for AC3 and has responsibility for AC3 data centres and AC3 architecture and technology direction. In his new role as a Board member of SNIA ANZ, Richard will focus on evangelising emerging Cloud architectures andstandards and act as an advocate for DaaS (Data Storage as a Service) solutions.

About the SNIA

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit global organisation made up of some 400 member companies plus their worldwide affiliates and 4,100 active individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share the common goal of leading the worldwide storage industry in developing and promoting standards, technologies, and educational services toempower organisations in the management of information. SNIA has a corporate mission to:

Be the trusted advisor across all business segments and the recognised authority in storagetechnologies in support of information management.

Be the catalyst for the development of information technologies and storage standards.

Establish a strong international presence to address the needs and requirements of the localstorage and information management marketplace.

SNIA ANZ is the affiliate responsible for the regional activities. SNIA ANZ is also a not-for-profitorganisation registered in Australia
and is governed bya Board of Directors elected by themembership each year to represent the Association. For additional information, visit the web site at www.snia.org or in ANZ visit www.snia.org.au

About AC3

AC3 is a private company jointly owned by the NSW Government and eight NSW universities.

AC3 provides professional management services for computing and networking equipment to best practice standards. All equipment is housed in secure, reliable data centres at the AustralianTechnology Park in Eveleigh, NSW and at Global Switch in Sydney’s Darling Harbour.

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