Anyone who follows technology knows that it is a fast-paced world with rapid changes and constant innovations. SNIA, together with its members, technical work groups, Forums, and Initiatives, continues to embrace, educate, and develop standards to make technology more available and better understood. At the SNIA Networking Storage Forum, we’ve been at the forefront of diving into technology topics that extend beyond traditional networked storage, providing education on AI, edge, acceleration and offloads, hyperconverged infrastructure, programming frameworks, and more. We still care about and spend a lot of time on networked storage and storage protocols, but we felt it was time that the name of the group better reflected the broad range of timely topics we’re covering. We are excited to announce our new name: SNIA Data, Networking & Storage Forum (DNSF). This group name aligns with SNIA’s data-centric focus and summarizes our belief that data is the center of networking and storage. In the same way that storage solutions have moved beyond silos to deliver an array of data services, so are we embracing a range of extended, but interrelated data technologies. We've also updated our charter to include the breadth of topics we cover that extend beyond traditional networked storage. Our Charter: The SNIA Data, Networking & Storage Forum (DNSF) educates and provides insights and leadership for applying technologies to a broad spectrum of end-to-end solutions. The DNSF mission is to:

• Educate the industry and end users about technologies, standards and implementations in storage, networking, and data
• Promote a broad range of solutions, including storage area networks (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS), software-defined storage (SDS), disaggregated and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
• Improve understanding of the impacts and opportunities of a wide variety of emerging technologies and use cases by leveraging cross industry expertise and collaboration

We hope you’ve had an opportunity to attend some of the educational webinars we’ve produced. We’re proud of the vast webinar library we’ve built and the positive feedback we get from our attendees. They know they can count on us to tackle technologies in a vendor-neutral way. It can be challenging to do that, but it really is a key tenet that sets SNIA apart. Our webinars in the past few years have ranged from storage networking security, storage performance metrics, and SAN basics to accelerating generative AI, NVMe/TCP and data center sustainability. In addition to our robust and highly-rated webinar program, our members also author and publish white papers, contributed articles, and blogs. We are excited about our new name and expanded charter! We have many great initiatives planned for 2024. Want to join us? Our DNSF members are highly committed and active at our weekly meetings, and we welcome new insights and expertise. Join one of our meetings to see what it’s all about!  Learn more about joining us here. Or email us if you have questions or would like an invite to a meeting. We hope you’ll give consideration to joining our team!