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HGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), develops innovative, advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data. HGST addresses customers’ rapidly changing storage needs by delivering intelligent storage devices that tightly integrate hardware and software to maximize solution performance. Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, HGST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise, Cloud, Data Center, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage. HGST was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California.

STEC, Inc. manufactures network, storage and connectivity devices. The company was founded by Manouch Moshayedi in March 1990 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, CA.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a non-profit organization based in Santa Clara, CA. SNIA is a trusted authority for storage leadership, standards, and technology expertise worldwide. The private company's mission is to lead the storage industry in developing and promoting vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and educational services that facilitate the efficient management, movement, and security of information. SNIA is committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. The company provides education, best practices, and technology guides on all matters related to the protection and privacy of data. SNIA embraces open source development and standards in a variety of ways and defines recommended behavior for hardware and software that supports computational storage. The company also defines a standard interface that applications can use to perform iscsi management independent of the vendor of the iscsi hba.