Acknowledgments

The SNIA Shared Storage Model is a cooperative effort of the SNIA Technical Council. It brings together the perspectives of system architects from diverse backgrounds and perspectives in the storage industry. An effort of this scope could only be successful with support from each of the SNIA member organizations that sponsored the individuals, contributing their time and knowledge to the creation and review of this document. The SNIA Board of Directors would like to extend its gratitude to this dedicated group of individuals and their sponsoring companies:

Chief Author, Project Lead	John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard
Co-Author	David Black, EMC
Co-Author	Harald Skardal, Network Appliance
SNIA TC Chair, Editor & Contributor	Wayne Rickard, Gadzoox Networks
Technical Council, Contributor	Dave Anderson, Seagate Technology
Technical Council, Contributor	Jim Carlson, IBM
Technical Council, Contributor	Garth Gibson, CMU
Technical Council, Contributor	Kevin Phaup, HighGround Systems
Technical Council, Contributor	David Thiel, Compaq

The Technical Council would also like to recognize the following individuals whose special contributions to the Shared Storage Model helped make the project a success: Paul Massiglia (Veritas), Paul Borrill (Veritas), Andrea Westerinen (Cisco), and Brad Stamas (StorageTek).