Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) India has announced a new Board and Vijay Pradhan as its new Executive Director. The Board members represent leading players of the data storage industry and include Manoj Chugh Chairman β SNIA, Rahul Gupta Vice-Chairman β SNIA, Rajesh Janey β Treasurer, Avijit Basu β Secretary SNIA, Guna Bala - Director
Education, Venktata Ramanna Thumisi β Director Technical Working Group (TWG) and Praveen Sahai β Director Marketing, amongst others.
Speaking about the industry, Manoj Chugh, Chairman, SNIA India, said, βWith information exploding in every sphere of business and life, the storage industry will continue to gain prominence within the IT infrastructure space. Therefore, our endeavour at SNIA would be to make sure that we who are the building blocks are in place for this sector to become a significant contributor to the Indian technology industry.β
The new Executive Director, SNIA, Vijay Pradhan, said, βThe storage industry is definitely one of the most exciting areas to work in within the technology industry today. I look at my role at SNIA India as an opportunity to give back to the industry, of which I have been a part for 27 years through development of this sector.β
The Storage industry is expected to record revenues of US$372 million as per IDC in 2008 with a potential to reach US$700 million in the next three years, according to industry estimates. As the volume of information grows due to trends like social networking, use of multimedia to share information and technologies such as Cloud Computing and Virtualization take hold amongst enterprises, the storage sector is expected to see an uptick in demand.
