| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| JEDEC |
JEDEC is the leading developer
of standards for the semiconductor industry. |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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| 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).
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Small
Form Factor Special Interest Group |
SFF-SIG is an international
organization that leads a broad industry effort to create and promote standards
for small form factor computers, controller boards and I/O modules. |
| SNIA |
Storage
Industry Networking Association |
| SSD Alliance |
founded in Q4 2007 to develop
compatibility standards for
flash SSDs. |
| 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. |
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| 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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