But while SNIA has thrown its weight behind the StorageNetworking.org initiative, Childs says the industry organization is not ready to take a stand on Delshad's ASNP.
The latter group is also coming out a mere five months after another industry veteran, Jon William Toigo, launched his own end user organization, the Data Management Institute (see Toigo Takes on SNIA).
Despite all the other efforts out their competing to ease user pain, Delshad claims to have taken a unique approach. SNIA is backed by the industry and Jon [Toigo] is more of a virtual organization with no user groups, he says. We have an association that covers the entire community.
Several of the ASNP's regional directors agree that the organization is different. I really like the global aspect of it, says Michael Thorson, the section head of enterprise systems and services at the Mayo Clinic, and now regional director of ASNPs Minnesota chapter. Thats fairly exciting. Things could take off faster or slower in other parts of the world. Itll be interesting to watch what other people are doing with the storage.
Thorson, who is also the president of his own storage end-user group [sigh], the Minnesota Open SAN Group, says that the problem with his and many other user-oriented organizations is their limited scope, and the amount of administrative work they burden their members with. A lot of people that came to our meeting said they were interested in something bigger, he says. Its also nice to have the organization put in the work, have people writing content for the Website. I dont have to look to see which one of our members can sponsor a room for a meeting.
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