Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA)

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Lea Schwartz
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San Francisco, March 15, 2004 - The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA), the storage industry's authority on Fibre Channel (FC) technology and standards, today announced that four new members have been appointed to the 2004/2005 Board of Directors. They are Werner Glinka, Hitachi GST, Harry Mason, LSI Logic Corp., Bill Schilling, Seagate Technology and Steve Wilson, Brocade Communications. The new members are filling vacancies on the Board and all four have accepted their appointments.

2004/2005 FCIA Board of Directors Roster

Chair: Arthur B. Edmonds, Jr.; Sr. Director, Data Networking Technologies, Hitachi Data Systems
Treasurer: Tom Hammond-Doel; Director, Technical Marketing, Emulex Corp.
Secretary: Bob Williamsen; Sr. Director, Strategic Marketing, McDATA Corp.

Members at large:
Yuichi Arai; Vice President and Executive Officer, Storage Networking Division, Netmarks, Inc.,
FCIA-J representative on the FCIA Board
Werner Glinka; Hitachi GST
Skip Jones; Director of Technology and Planning, QLogic Corp.
Harry Mason; Director, Strategic Worldwide Marketing, LSI Logic Corp.
Rich Ramos; Director, Systems Architecture, Xyratex International
Bill Schilling; Director, Global Product Marketing, Enterprise Storage Group, Seagate Technology

"During Fibre Channel's tenth anniversary as a standard, FCIA has seen the successful expansion of services to the storage industry and the Fibre Channel technology user," said Art Edmonds, Chair of FCIA. "From its continued support for Fibre Channel standards development, its flagship SANmark" test program, which grants registration to products that pass the SANmark badge of quality, its contributions to the expansion of industry research and knowledge, to its standards compliance and interoperability plugfests, FCIA is providing a point of excellence in the storage industry."

A recent press announcement made by FCIA was on the SANmark Qualified Test Provider Program, whereby third party test houses can qualify to provide SANmark testing to member and non-member company's Fibre Channel products.

The North American FCIA membership currently stands at 54 companies. In addition, the FCIA affiliate in Japan, FCIA-J, has 25 member companies, totaling approximately 80 companies worldwide.

About FCIA
The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) is a nonprofit international organization of manufacturers, systems integrators, developers, systems vendors, industry professionals and end users. With 80 member companies and FCIA affiliates in the United States and Japan, FCIA is committed to delivering a broad base of Fibre Channel infrastructure to support a wide array of industry applications within the mass storage and IT-based arenas. FCIA working groups focus on specific aspects of the technology, targeting both vertical and horizontal markets including storage, video, networking and SAN management. For more information on FCIA, please visit our web site:www.fibrechannel.org, contact us:info@fibrechannel.org or call 1-415-561-6270.

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