The Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) of Australia and New Zealand has set about adapting its relations with end users and the wider ICT community as part of its plan to "make storage sexy".
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Australia's Storage Networking User Group's (SNUG) inaugural meeting will be held on Wednesday and vendors can expect to be given a hard time over integration woes and pricing strategies.
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A fledgling user group claims plenty of storage vendors are unfairly using per terabyte pricing/licensing models for storage software, despite the explosion in data growth.
A recent survey reveals storage users are struggling to meet their companies' cost containment objectives and to justify expenditures to improve their storage infrastructures.
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