Robert Snively

I developed great respect for Bob?s talent, intelligence, and integrity while watching him artfully perform what was best for his beloved industry and often despite conflicting requirement from everyone including his bureaucratic superiors. It took a lot of personal sacrifice on his part to do so. I was delighted to hear him voted as one of the top three architects of SCSI on its twentieth anniversary. However, I am truly saddened at the news of his passing so soon. His lasting contributions...

When I was a teenager, Bob stayed with us with Sandy while my parents were away. It's funny to look back and realize he was merely 12 years older than me. I remember that time fondly, as he took me to see the movie "Woodstock". I guess looking back I did trust him - but then, he was under 30. Bob served as kind of a diplomat between myself and my parents, and oh my...did we need a diplomat! I am grateful for his humor and loving presence. What is remembered, lives! You will be remembered, Bob.

Bob was my IEEE sponsor many years ago at Sun before I made the transition from technical writer to engineer. I was tasked with taking very complex ideas and documenting them in a simple fashion. Bob spent a lot of time at the whiteboard with me breaking down his work into easy-to-understand chunks.

He was not only a brilliant engineer, but also gifted communicator and educator.

I am so saddened by his passing.

Thank you Bob, for your friendship, warmth and wisdom.

Bob and I worked together at Sun in Menlo Park, and he was always so kind and helpful to me and everyone for that matter. I can vividly remember the days after work when you would teach me to drive my first car, a used Honda Accord with stick shift. And, then there were many days of me sitting in your office learning about SCSI and protocol stuff.. That was only my second job out of college, and Bob, you were my friend, mentor...

I worked off and on with Bob for many years at Sun, and it was a pleasure and privilege.

The similarities in our names (Bob Snively and Rob Snevely) always caused confusion, in that Marx Bros, absurdest sort of way. I remember the first time I met Bob, back in early 1991. They had delivered 6 disk drives to his office. (Doesn't sound like a big deal until you remember that drives back then were 19 inches wide, nearly 3 feet deep, and about 18 inches tall and weighed in at over 70lbs...

I've had the great pleasure of working with Bob for ~5 years.

His vision, knowledge and enthusiasm will be sorely missed by all who knew him, and I will personally miss his great sense of humor and 'cando' spirit......

Sandy and family - Please accept my sincere condolences.

Sandy & Family, I'm so sorry to hear this. I've worked with Bob at Brocade for about two years on the T11 meetings and throughout the year. He was a kind and gentle man, always willing to talk about his many family adventures and photos on his desk. He will be missed and well remembered.

Great men leave great and lasting legacies and Bob was one of the good and great. He will be missed. God bless his family!

Sandra and the family Bob physically is no longer among us but his legacy will be with us for years to come.

I met Bob for the first time in 1994 in his quest to find commodity 1/4 speed FC optical module for the first serial attach storage array at Sun Microsystem.

Bob effort eventually help establish FC as the storage networking fabric (now known as SAN), FC I/O was extended all the way to the disk drives. The key to the success of FC SAN was borrowing low cost short...