| Storage focused trade
associations & sites |
| AIT Forum |
Advanced
Intelligent Tape Forum is an industry consortium of hardware and software
vendors that was formed in 1999 to advance the adoption of AIT drive and format
technology as a premiere industry standard. |
| ASNP |
Association of
Storage Networking Professionals |
| Blu-ray Disc Association |
Supports high
capacity (up to 50GB) optical disks. |
| CE-ATA |
Consumer
Electronics ATA standards group developing an interface for handheld disk
market with software compatibility to ATA. Founded Sep 2004. |
| CompactFlash Association |
The CFA is a
non-profit, mutual-benefit corporation that maintains and promotes the
CompactFlash™ and CF+™ specification as a worldwide, small form
factor, removable card standard. |
| DAFS
Collaborative |
A group of
companies that have joined together to create, review, and submit a proposal for
the new Direct Access File System (DAFS) protocol specification.
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| Data Management Institute |
Was created to
establish a new discipline within the IT field: Data Management. |
| DAT Manufacturers Group |
DDS/DAT tape
alliance. |
| DISK/TREND |
Legacy storage
market research data from 1977 through 1999 |
| DVD Forum
|
Trade
association focused on DVD |
| DVD+RW Alliance |
seeks to
develop and promote a universally compatible, rewritable DVD format.
|
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| Fibre Channel Industry Association |
Trade
association focused on Fibre Channel. |
| Green Data Project |
Launched Sep
28, 2007 - is focused on managing electronic data in order to reduce electrical
power demands in corporate IT.
|
| Green Grid |
Launched Feb
2007 - is a consortium of information technology companies and professionals
seeking to lower the overall consumption of power in data centers around the
globe. |
| HDSA
|
The High
Density Storage Association's charter is to promote storage technologies that
incorporate electro-mechanical automation, multi-drive connectivity and
multi-media availability.
|
| Hybrid Storage Alliance |
The Hybrid
Storage Alliance is an international group dedicated to communicating the
benefits of hybrid hard
drive / flash
technology to computer makers and end users. |
| IDEMA |
International
Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association |
| International Recording Media Association |
The
International Recording Media Association is the advocate for all recording
media and is the industry forum on worldwide trends and innovations.
|
| iVDR |
Information
Versatile Disk for Removable usage. The
SATA connected
modules include a standard content protection system. |
| LTO |
Linear
Tape-Open (LTO) technology was developed jointly by HP, IBM and Seagate to
provide a clear and viable choice in an increasingly complex array of tape
storage options.
|
| Memory Stick |
The Memory
Stick platform Web site allows users to learn more about connectivity with
Memory Stick media, its technology and the available compatible products on the
market. |
| MMCA |
The
MultiMediaCard Association is the open standard memory card organization,
promoting worldwide adoption of a postage-stamp size, removable storage card
designed especially for mobile phones and digital imaging. |
| MSP Partners |
is a vendor
alliance formed to provide solution providers a comprehensive source of Managed
Service Provider education |
| National Data Awareness Project |
The NDAP will
help businesses of all sizes develop a systematic approach to evaluating their
current data protection and DR capabilities, look for weak spots in those
existing plans and choose the optimal data protection products, technologies and
services to minimize or eliminate their exposure to potential data loss. |
| ONFI |
Open NAND
Flash Interface - working group |
| OpenFabrics Alliance |
a
not-for-profit organization dedicated to expanding and accelerating the adoption
of RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) technologies for server and storage
connectivity. |
| OSTA |
OSTA (Optical
Storage Technology Association) is an international trade association dedicated
to promoting use of writable optical technology for storing computer data and
images.
|
| PASIG |
Preservation
and Archiving Special Interest Group launched Oct 2007 to look at permanent
archiving technologies for libraries and government. |
|
| QBM
Alliance |
Is an
international alliance of companies aimed at positioning Quad Band Memory (QBM)
technology as an industry standard to succeed DDR (Double Data Rate).
|
| RAID
Advisory Board |
Trade
association focused on RAID. |
| Recordable DVD Council |
RDVDC
objectives are industry outreach at major trade shows, information exchanges and
discussions among Council members about technology, market, key devices, etc. in
order to expand the recordable DVD products which comply with the recordable DVD
standards (DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW) specified by the DVD Forum.
|
| SCSI Trade Association |
Trade
association focused on SCSI. |
| Serial
Attached SCSI Working Group |
aim is to
lead the industry in defining a new serial point-to-point enterprise device
attach interface, leveraging the SCSI protocol set. |
| SATA-IO |
Formed in
September 2004, SATA-IO is the International Organization that owns and
manages Serial ATA specifications as open industry standards.
Evolved
from the Serial ATA Working Group with this agenda... The Group's companies are
cooperating to develop the Serial ATA storage interface specification for the
next-generation computing platform as a replacement for today's Parallel ATA
physical interface. |
| SigmaRAM Consortium |
Founded in
July 1999, the SigmaRAM Consortium is an industry group of leading SRAM
suppliers who joined together to set open standards for a new breed of
synchronous SRAM targeted primarily at the networking and telecom markets.
|
| SNIA |
Storage
Industry Networking Association |
| Storage Performance Council |
The SPC is the
only industry standards organisation that defines and promotes storage
benchmarks as well as disseminates objective, relevant and verifiable
performance data and related test tools to the computer industry and its
customers. |
|
| Storage Bridge Bay Working Group |
Founded March
2006 by Dell, EMC, Intel and LSI Logic. |
| STORAGEsearch |
Enterprise
storage focused web directory - "leading the way to the new storage
frontier" since 1998. |
| StorageNetworking.org |
This includes
an international list of user groups. |
| XFPMSA.org |
Founded in
March 2002, the 10-Gigabit Small Form-factor Pluggable (XFP) Module Group is an
industry association dedicated to technology and standards development for
ultra-small form factor, 10 Gb/s communications modules for 10 G Fibre Channel,
10 G Ethernet etc. |
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