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The Storage Networking Industry Association operates as a computer storage network association. The private company is based in London, UK.

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.

CumuLogic, Inc. develops and deploys platform solutions enabling enterprises and Cloud Providers to build AWS-compatible cloud services on public, private and hybrid clouds. It enables enterprises and Cloud Providers to deploy Database-as-a-Service functionality on any infrastructure – cloud environments, VM pools and bare metal. The firm’s DBaaS software platform empowers developers and DBAs with self-service database deployment and operations, while enabling IT Ops to retain control of the underlying infrastructure for data governance and security. The company was founded by Sandeep Patni, Rajesh Ramchandani and Laura Ventura in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the apache community of open-source software projects. The firm's projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license. The company founded by Brian Behlendorf in June, 1999 and is headquartered in Forest Hill, MD.