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Strategic Venyu partner Asigra, Inc., recently announced that company executive Ashar Baig has been named by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) as Chairman of the new Cloud Backup and Recovery (Cloud BUR) Special Interest Group (SIG).

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. According to the announcement 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.

In his remarks Baig said, “Recognition of the Cloud Backup industry by SNIA and the active participation of other industry leaders in this project gives new momentum in establishing backup to the cloud as a more effective, affordable and flexible model of protecting critical data with improved IT efficiency.”

 The Cloud BUR SIG will fulfill 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

So, what’s this announcement mean for you?

As the obligatory “Cloud 2.0” discussion gets ramped up, anyone standing on the sidelines waiting to see what the future of cloud holds for the IT industry in general and on your environment in particular should keep track of SNIA activities, benchmarks and recommendations.  Anyone who wants to experience firsthand the value of cloud today, as online-backup-and-recovery-as-a-service, should call Venyu.

After all, with Asigra’s Chairman appointed to charter the future course of cloud computing and Venyu’s breadth of services developed specifically to support that vision, there’s simply no better an alignment or  more compelling a combination for any business ready to see their business take off for the clouds. In other words, stake your claim today and don’t be left out.

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.