The Storage Networking Industry Association will be having their “SNIA ANZ Storage Academy 2008” on the 26th of March at the Langham Hotel in Auckland.

Seems that this year, the focus will be on virtualisation technologies. Now virtualisation although somewhat a ‘fad’ term amongst vendors recently in NZ, it is a term that has been around since the mainframe days of old. In its purest form, i suppose you can summise virtualisation as the hiding of detail. In the context of Storage sub-systems, vendors these days perhaps use this term rather loosely? So should the term Storage Virtualisation only be applied to sub-systems (/devices) that abstract all layers in the storage software and hardware stack?

SNIA is a vendor neutral and standards driven organisation … so it will be interesting to listen to the presentations delivered around this topic.

Entrance to this event is free (and I hear that lunch and refreshments are included). So if you do decide to attend, come on over and stop me for a chat. I’ll try keep my tweets updated as to my whereabouts.