This
page lists storage industry trade associations which have been mentioned in
StorageSearch.com's news
pages.
See also:-
storage history |
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Storage focused trade
associations & sites |
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| Xccela Consortium |
Working to promote the Xccela Bus as an
open-standard digital interconnect and data communications bus suitable for
volatile and nonvolatile memories as well as other types of ICs. |
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| 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.
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| ASNP |
Association of Storage Networking Professionals |
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| Blu-ray Disc Association |
Supports high capacity
(up to 50GB) optical disks. |
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| CE-ATA |
Consumer Electronics
ATA standards group developing an interface for handheld disk market with
software compatibility to ATA. Founded Sep 2004. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| DISK/TREND |
Legacy storage market research data from 1977
through 1999 |
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| DVD Forum
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Trade association focused
on DVD |
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| 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. |
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| Gen-Z
Consortium |
Gen-Z was formed in 2016 to develop an open
standard interconnect for high-speed, low latency, memory-semantic access to
data and devices. This has applications in memory fabrics and DIMM wars. |
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| 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. |
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| HDSA
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The High Density Storage Association's charter
is to promote storage technologies that incorporate electro-mechanical
automation, multi-drive connectivity and multi-media availability. |
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| 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. |
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| IDEMA |
International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials
Association |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| MSP
Partners |
is a vendor alliance
formed to provide solution providers a comprehensive source of Managed Service
Provider education |
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| NAID |
National Association for Information Destruction
is an international trade association for companies providing information
destruction services. |
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| 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. |
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| NVM
Express |
The NVM Express specifications (first released
on March 1, 2011) provide a standard framework for
PCIe-based SSDs with
headroom for the next decade. |
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| ONFI |
Open NAND Flash Interface
- working group |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| SNIA |
Storage Industry
Networking Association |
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| SSD Alliance |
founded in Q4 2007 to develop compatibility
standards for
flash SSDs. |
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| the
SSD Form Factor Working Group |
Editor:- October 28, 2010 - there's another new
ORG for SSD form factors .
Among
other things - it will make over
2.5" SSDs with
PCIe interfaces.
Perhaps it should have been called - the "we think
OCZ is a jumped up upstart"
group. Because OCZ started talking about this idea publicly first - but it's
not part of the club (yet). |
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| 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. |
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| Storage Products Association |
founded 2013 to ensure the interests of rotating magnetic storage drive
makers under threat from SSDs |
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| the
Storage Systems Research Center |
at the University of California, Santa Cruz has
research projects in archival storage, and reliability in file and storage
systems. |
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| StorageSearch.com |
"leading the way to
the new storage frontier" since 1998. |
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| StorageNetworking.org |
This includes an
international list of user groups. |
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| 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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