1394 Trade Association
Trade association to promote the use of the P1394 serial interface.
AEA
American Electronics Association: Broadly based trade association for the electronics industry
AIIM/IMC International
Association for Information and Image Management International: Trade
association for firms involved in document management. AIIM and IMC
merged in late 1998.
ANSI
American National Standards Institute: Responsible for organizing and coordinating the creation of standards in the United States.
Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Laboratory
Research into parallel and distributed file systems, arrays, network attached storage.
The CD Information Center
This website has much information concerning CD and CD-ROM, with links to related organizations.
CompactFlash Association
Trade association to promote flash memory cards in the CompactFlash form factor.
CRITO
Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations at University of California, Irvine (Select AIME project)
Data
Storage Institute
Singapore based DSI performs research in magnetic recording and other data storage related areas, working with industrial and academic sponsors and partners. Associated
with National University of Singapore.
ECMA
International
ECMA is the European standards organization for information and communications systems.
EEEL at NIST
EEEL is concerned with establishing measurement standards for electronics and optoelectronics.
EIA
Electronic Industries Association: Trade association for the electronics industry. Also involved in preparation of standards.
Evaluator Group
Publishes studies and holds seminars on storage subsystems for enterprise system applications
FibreAlliance
FibreAlliance is an industry association organized to develop and
implement methods for managing heterogeneous Fibre Channel-based
networks of storage systems and computer servers (storage area
networks, or SANs). Sponsored by EMC.
Information Storage Technology Group
Attached to the University of Twente in The Netherlands, ISTG has a research program in high density magnetic and magneto-optical recording. Coverage includes media, heads and recording systems.
Information Technology Industry Council (Formerly CBEMA)
Trade association and advocacy group for information technology industry. Sponsors X3 standards committee and administers other standards activities.
IDEMA
International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association: Trade association for suppliers to
the disk drive industry
Institute for Information Recording
Attached to the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, IRI is chartered to support the establishment of the information infrastructure within the nation.
IEEE Magnetics
Society
Professional
Society concerned with engineering applications of magnetism, including magnetic heads and media.
INSIC
Information Storage Industry Consortium: Consortium of industry,
academic and government organizations. Sponsors research and technology
development to improve the competitiveness of U.S. storage.
International Recording Media Association (Formerly ITA)
Trade association promoting the use of recording tape and other forms of recording media. Previously known as International Tape Association.
ISO
International Organization for Standards: ISO coordinates and maintains standards for many industries.
Magnetic Disk Heritage Center Dedicated to preservation of the story and historic legacy of magnetic disk storage.
MultiMedia Card Association
Trade association to promote use of MultiMedia Card flash memory packaging format.
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology: NIST is concerned with measurement standards and encouragement of advanced technology. Activities include funding for advanced research and development in the field of magnetic recording technology and other areas.
Orange Forum
Trade association to promote CD-R and CD-RW.
OSTA
Optical Storage Technology Association: Trade association promoting the use of removable optical storage technology.
PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association: A trade association and standards body concerned with supporting and promoting the adoption of PC Card technology.
Prolytix
Prolytix provides web accessed financial and competetive analyses of companies making disk drives and other electronic equipment
QIC
Quarter-Inch Cartridge Drive Standards, Inc. International trade association promoting the use of quarter inch tape products, standards and technology.
Reverse
Logistics Trends
Researches and publishes data on electronic repair, customer
service, parts management, end-of-life manufacturing, returns processing and
order fulfillment.
SCSI Trade Association
Industry association promoting the use of SCSI parallel interface.
Singapore Economic Development Board
Government agency responsible for growing and monitoring Singapore's long term business environment.
SPIE
International Society for Optical Engineering: A technical association concerned with all aspects of optical device engineering, including
optical data storage
Software and Information Industry Association
Trade association of software publishers. Maintains MPC standard for CD-ROM
Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
SNIA is a consortium of storage, networking, & operating system companies focussing upon
standards and interoperability across networked storage systems.
Universal Serial Bus IF Association
Trade association promoting the use of the Universal Serial Bus.
University of Alabama MINT Center
NSF sponsored research center for materials used in information processing technology.
University of California at Berkeley RAID Project (FTP archive)
Technical reports and papers from the Berkeley RAID project, dating from 1993 or earlier.
University of California at San Diego Center for Magnetic Recording Research
Cooperative industry/university research center specializing in magnetic recording.
University of Minnesota Micromagnetics and Information Technology Center (MINT)
Research center for magnetic recording technology.