iVivity® - Delivering The Unified Network

	Standards Organizations In early 2001, iVivity led the industry in developing the Virtualization Acceleration API (VAAPI) initiative, which for the first time proposed a way for independent software vendors (ISVs) to take advantage of intelligence in the storage infrastructure at wire speed performance. This initiative received significant mind share with OEMs and ISVs and has contributed to the development of programs like the Veritas Powered™ program and the T11.5 Storage Management Workgroup's Fabric Application Interface Standard (FAIS) effort. With the development of the software emulator and the FPGA platform, iVivity has been able to engage OEMs in product dialogue at an early stage. It has successfully leveraged its technology leadership position into a series of formal and informal alliances with major silicon vendors in the storage and networking space as well as ISVs. iVivity is recognized in the industry as an innovator and is a frequent contributor to standards bodies like IETF and T.11 as well as a speaker at public forums and conferences
	T11.5 FAIS Technical Committee T11.5 is the Task Group within Technical Committee T11 responsible for Storage Management Interfaces. T11 is the committee within INCITS responsible for Device Level Interfaces. T11 (previously known as X3T9.3) has been producing interface standards for high-performance and mass storage applications since the 1970s.
	Storage Networking Industry Association SNIA's vision is one of "ensuring that storage networks become complete and trusted solutions across the IT community". SNIA promotes storage networking in a variety of ways including hosting conferences and educational forums, promoting the formulation of industry standards, and working towards industry interoperability. ·
	The Internet Engineering Task Force iVivity is proud to be a participant in the IP Storage Working Group (IPSWG) of the IETF. The mandate of the IPSWG is to pursue using IP-based networks to transport block storage traffic. The IPSWG is responsible for authorship of the iSCSI protocol standard and other important storage networking standards.
	Fibre Channel Industry Association The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) is a mutual benefit non-profit international organization of manufacturers, system integrators, developers, vendors, industry professionals and end users. The FCIA is committed to delivering a broad base of Fibre Channel infrastructure technology to support a wide array of applications within the mass storage and IT-based arenas. FCIA working groups and committees focus on specific aspects of the technology, targeting both vertical and horizontal markets including data storage, video, networking and storage area networking (SAN) management.