Kazuhiko Furuya

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a non-profit organization based in Santa Clara, CA. SNIA is a trusted authority for storage leadership, standards, and technology expertise worldwide. The private company's mission is to lead the storage industry in developing and promoting vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and educational services that facilitate the efficient management, movement, and security of information. SNIA is committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. The company provides education, best practices, and technology guides on all matters related to the protection and privacy of data. SNIA embraces open source development and standards in a variety of ways and defines recommended behavior for hardware and software that supports computational storage. The company also defines a standard interface that applications can use to perform iscsi management independent of the vendor of the iscsi hba.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Resona Card Co., Ltd. engages in credit card and loan assurance business. It offers corporate card and merchant services in the various needs of customers. The company was founded in February 1983 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Part of AKIBA Holdings Co., Ltd., Akiba Device KK operates as an internet IT and computer systems shopping site. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Master Mind Computing Technology Co., Ltd. delivers computer products to international customers. Its products include embedded PC solution, rackmount server, motherboard and boxcluster solution. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in New Taipei, Taiwan.

Tryumph21 Co., Ltd. engages in provision of web purchasing agency system service. The company was founded on February 1, 2002 and is headquartered in Yokohama, Japan.