The "institute" is a subsidiary of Toigo's new consulting firm, Toigo Partners International LLC. He asserts that other analysis and research companies in this space tend to favor vendors, whereas his new firm, like the "institute," aims to help the underserved consumer group. [Ed. note: Apparently, only Toigo has enough integrity to keep his hands clean.]
The consulting firm will offer training programs for storage managers and administrators and will also serve as a test lab for storage technology, he says. It will also offer data managers the opportunity to certify their skills on a "vendor-agnostic" basis at an affordable price, he says. Members will be charged $995 a track, he says.
"DMI is its own certification body," he says. "I don't care if vendors recognize it or not... It's not tied to any specific vendor's products." It's worth nothing that one of the industry's main SAN training and certification organizations, Infinity I/O Inc., is affiliated with SNIA.
Toigo Partners International, which is a joint venture between Toigo's independent consulting practice, Toigo Productions, and a number of peer organizations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S., has vowed not to accept money from any vendors. Instead, it will survive on investments from the consumers themselves, and is targeting especially Fortune 1000 end users for financing.
The question, of course, is how many end users will line up to pump money into Toigo's new ventures. He says the firm has already received $2.5 million in initial funding from private investors, and that he has received overwhelming feedback from storage consumers saying that this is something they're interested in.
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