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SNIA Appoints Peter Murray of Load DynamiX to Technical Council
[December 04, 2014]

SNIA Appoints Peter Murray of Load DynamiX to Technical Council


Load DynamiX, the leader in storage infrastructure performance validation, today announced that Peter Murray, the company's product evangelist for workload modeling and performance validation, has been appointed to the Technical Council of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) effective immediately for the 2015 term.

SNIA is a not-for-profit organization responsible for storage solution specifications, technologies, standards, and education for all IT professionals. It is comprised of some 400 member companies spanning the global storage market. SNIA connects the IT industry with end-to-end storage and information management solutions.

Mr. Murray is also the Interim Co-chair of the SNIA technical working group on Solid State Storage System Performance Measurement. With the appointment to the Technical Council, he will work with the other Technical Council members to guide the direction of storage networking technical work, and assist the storage industry in developing and promoting global standards.

"We are delighted that Peter was selected to be on the board of SNIA, the premier storage networking standards organizaion," said Philippe Vincent, chief executive officer of Load DynamiX. "We are certain that Peter's participation in SNIA will be a benefit to the industry as he brings tremendous experience in storage systems, networks, and protocols."



Mr. Murray has over 30 years of experience in the technology industry. He has been with Load DynamiX in for nearly six years in both product management and system engineering roles focused on meeting the needs of both storage technology vendors and enterprise IT organizations. Previously he held technical marketing positions with F5, Spirent (News - Alert) Communications, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks and SynOptics Communications.

"Peter has been both an extremely competent and energetic participant in SNIA events and programs for many years," stated Bill Martin, SNIA Technical Council Chair. "We look forward to Peter's contributions and leadership in advancing the storage networking industry as it embraces solid state storage and other leading-edge storage solutions."


See all members of the SNIA Technical Council at: http://www.snia.org/about/organization/tech_council.

About Load DynamiX

As the leader in storage infrastructure performance validation, Load DynamiX empowers storage professionals with the insight needed to make intelligent decisions regarding networked storage. By accurately characterizing and emulating real-world application behavior, Load DynamiX optimizes the overall performance, availability, and cost of storage infrastructure. The combination of advanced workload analytics and modeling software with extreme load-generating appliances give IT professionals the ability to cost-effectively validate and stress today's most complex physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure to its limits.


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