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The Cloud BUR SIG is a project of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) that promotes the adoption of cloud storage as a new delivery model providing elastic, on-demand storage billed only for what is used. Baig will lead the group’s efforts in educating the market about Cloud BUR benefits through use cases and in defining requirements for standards that are part of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative. The new group will create best practices and conduct surveys to enlighten the industry through collaboration with end users, the channel, analysts and Cloud BUR vendors.

The Cloud BUR SIG will fulfil its mission by:

· Defining and promoting standards around Cloud BUR

· Promoting the value of Cloud BUR to the industry and adopters

· Promoting industry’s implementation of Cloud BUR standards through the sharing of real use cases

· Conducting and promoting interoperability demonstrations and plugfests

· Leveraging SNIA and CSI committees and events to educate end-users

· Advocating customer needs and reflecting user concerns and issues back into the Cloud BUR SIG members

· Promoting Cloud BUR as an application extension of the CSI and the CDMI standard

SNIA’s Cloud Backup and Recovery SIG will consist of standing committees on marketing, education, end-user liaison, channel relations, international relations and more. In addition to its educational mission, the group is charged with defining the requirements for standards around Cloud BUR and promoting Cloud BUR as an application extension of the CSI and the SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard. Along with Asigra, founding members of the SNIA Cloud Backup and Recovery SIG include EMC, NetApp, i365, Iron Mountain, CoreVault, TeraSky, EVS, Terremark Worldwide, HMK and Recovery Networks.

For more information on SNIA’s Cloud Storage activities, please visit www.snia.org/cloud or get involved in the conversation at www.twitter.com/SNIACloud or http://groups.google.com/group/cloudstorage.