Storage Networking Industry
Organizations and Standards
Compliance
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 |
General
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How much information is
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Industry Organizations
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American Statement on Auditing
Standards No. 70, Service Organizations |
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American National
Standards Institute (ANSI) ·
InterNational
Committee for IT Standards (INCITS) ·
A National
Resource for Global Standards (NSSN)
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ARMA |
http://www.arma.org/ (Records Management) |
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Association
for Information and Image Management (AIIM)
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http://www.aiim.org/ (Enterprise Content Management) |
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Association of Storage
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ASTM International
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Business Continuity
Management Institute |
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BCM and DR Glossaries |
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Business Continuity
Management (BCM) Standards |
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Business Continuity
Standards and Requirements |
http://www.avalution.com/Perspectives/Standards/Pages/default.aspx |
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Blade Systems |
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Business Process
Management Initiative (BPMI) Workflow Management
Coalition (WfMC) Merger of BPMI and WfMC |
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=69106D65-6F84-4589-A29A-5DAA876D0B29 |
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Consortium for Service
Innovation |
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Information Systems Audit and Control Organization
(ISACA) Control Objectives for
Information and related Technology (COBIT) |
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Creative Commons |
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Cyber Security Industry |
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Distributed Management Task Force
(DMTF)
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Electronic Industries |
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European Computer
Manufacturers Association (ECMA)
Office Open XML Document
Interchange Specification |
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-366.pdf |
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Form Factors.org |
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Free Standards Group ·
Linux Standard
Base |
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Global
Grid Forum (GGF)
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http://www.ggf.org/L_WG/News/OGSA%20Flyer_v31.pdf |
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Project
MegaGrid |
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HiPC
(international conference on high performance computing) |
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InfiniBand
Trade Association |
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Information
Security Forum (ISF) The
Standard of Good Practice for Info Security |
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Information Storage Industry
Consortium (INSIC was formerly called NSIC - the National
Storage Industry Consortium) |
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Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE) Get IEEE 802 |
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Institute for
Interconnecting and Packaging of Electronic Circuits (IPS) |
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International Council on
Archives (ICA) |
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International Disk Drive
Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA) |
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Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF)
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International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) |
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International Standards
Organization (ISO) ·
ISO 639-2
(Language Codes) |
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Information Technology
Association of America (ITAA) |
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IT Infrastructure Library
(ITIL) IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) The Office of Government
Commerce (OGC) British Standards
Institute ·
BS 15000 |
http://www.itil-itsm-world.com/ |
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ITIL Glossaries and
Acronyms |
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IT Services Marketing Association
(ITSMA) |
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Japanese Industrial
Standards Committee (JISC) |
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Japanese Standards
Association (JSA) |
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Java
Community Process (JCP) |
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JEDEC Solid
State Technology Association (once known as the Joint Electron Device
Engineering Council) |
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Joint Technical Committee
-1 (JTC -1) |
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Moving Picture Experts
Group (MPEG) |
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National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) |
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National Information
Standards Organization (NISO) |
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National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) |
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Network Centric Operations
Industry Consortium |
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NDMP Initiative |
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Open Archival Information Systems Reference
Model (OAIS) |
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OAIS Web
Site |
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http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/grand-challenge/papers/oaisBriefing.pdf |
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Object Management Group
(OMG) |
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Organization
for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) ·
Web
Services Infrastructure Standards, including WSDM (“Wisdom”) ·
Data
Center Markup Language (DCML) ·
Service
Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) ·
Extensible
Access Control Markup Language (XACML) ·
Security
Assertion Markup Language (SAML) ·
Directory
Services Markup Language (DSML) (XML representation of LDAP) ·
Universal
Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) |
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=ws http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-09-29-a.html |
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The Open Group ·
Jerico
(security) |
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Trusted Computing Group
(TSC) (successor to the Trusted
Computing Platform Alliance) |
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System Administration, Networking and Security
(SANS) Institute |
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Service Availability Forum (SAF) ·
Systems Management
Specification (SMS) |
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Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) ·
Dictionary of Storage
Networking Terminology ·
Storage Management Initiative ·
Common RAID Disk Data Format ·
HBA API |
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Interoperability Laboratory at the University
of New Hampshire (INH IoL) |
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Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering
at the University of Minnesota (LCSE) |
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X.org
(worldwide consortium for X Window System technology and standards) |
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Academic Projects
University of California at Santa Cruz
(UCSC)
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Storage Systems Research Center
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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Joseph Murray
Publications (includes disk drive reliability papers)
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Information Storage
Industry Center
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Digital Technology Center Intelligent
Storage Consortium (DISC)
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Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Forum
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Cluster-On-Demand (COD) (Jeff Chase)
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Secure Highly
Available Resource Peering (SHARP) and here
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Service-On-Demand
Architecture (SODA) (Dongyan
Xu and Xuxian Jiang)
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Center for High Performance Software
Research (HiPerSoft)
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Grid Application Development
Software (GrADS)
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Data Center
Markup Language (DCML)
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Special
Libraries Association, Engineering Society Standards Web Site
Standards-related
Bus Technologies
General information (includes
ISA, EISA, VL Bus, Micro Channel, IrDA, VME, CAN bus, etc.)
Accelerated Graphics Port Implementors Forum
(AGP-IF)
Philips I2C Bus Specification,
Tutorial
IEEE
1394 (FireWire, i-LINK), P1394B (Gigabit 1394)
Peripheral Component Interconnect Special
Interest Group (PCI-SIG)
FAQ, Specifications (PCI, PCI-X, 3GIO)
PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group
(PICMG)
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FAQ, Specifications (CompactPCI)
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Advanced Telecom
Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA)
Rapid I/O Trade Association (RTA)
Universal
Serial Bus Implementers Forum (USB-IF)
VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA)
VMEbus (IEEE 1014) FAQ, Specifications (VME64,
BusNet, PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC))
Processors / PC Design
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
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ACPI evolves
Advanced Power Management (APM) APIs, PNPBIOS APIs, and Multiprocessor
specification (MPS) tables into an open specification for OS-directed
configuration and Power Management (OSPM)
PC Industry
Specifications (BIOS, IrDA, SMBus)
Direct Memory Access (IEEE 1212.1)
Chipsets
Silicon
Integrated Systems Corporation (SiS)
Memory Technologies
CompactFlash Association (CFA)
Memory Stick
Personal Computer Memory Card International
Association (PCMCIA)
FAQ, Specifications (16-bit PC Card,
CardBus, CardBay, Miniature Card, SmartMedia Card)
Random Access Memory
Information
Clustering
Technologies
Direct Access Transport (DAT)
Collaborative
Gigabyte System Network (HIPPI-6400) and Scheduled Transfer Protocol
High
Performance Networking Forum
Emulex GigaNet Cluster LAN
(cLAN HBA and Switch support VI on Linux)
Scalable Coherent Interface
(SCI) (IEEE
1596)
Virtual Interface (VI) Architecture Developer Forum
(VIDF)
Message Passing Interface (MPI) Forum
MPI (Message Passing Interface)
Parallel Virtual Machines (PVM)
High Speed Interconnect project at
CERN
Graphics
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Reference |
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Comparison of Video
Standards |
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Video_Standards.png |
Telephones
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Categories |
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Telephones |
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Cordless |
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Mobile |
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Access Techniques |
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Frequency Division
Multiple Access (FDMA) – used by AMPS, DECT |
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Time Division Multiple
Access (TDMA) – used by GSM, DECT |
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Code Division Multiple
Access (CDMA) – used by CDMA2000 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMA (developed by Qualcomm) |
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Wideband Code Division
Multiple Access (W-CDMA) – used by UMTS |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-CDMA (developed by NTT DoCoMo) |
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Duplex (applies to TDD,
FDD) |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_%28telecommunications%29 |
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Digital Enhanced Cordless
Telecommunications (DECT) – 3G |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECT (1.9GHz) |
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1G |
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Advanced Mobile Phone
System (AMPS) – Analog |
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Global System for Mobile communications (GSM – 2G) |
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General Packet Radio
Service (GPRS) – 2G |
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Enhanced Data rates for GSM
Evolution (EDGE/EGPRS) – 2.75G |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Data_Rates_for_GSM_Evolution |
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High Speed Downlink Packet
Access (HSDPA) – 3G |
(AT&T, T-Mobile) |
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High Speed OFDM Packet
Access (HSOPA/Super 3G) – 4G |
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Interim Standard 95
(cdmaOne) – 2G |
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Radio Transmission
Technology (1xRTT) – 2.5G |
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Evolution-Data Optimized
(EV-DO) – 3G |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVDO (Sprint Nextel, Verizon
Wireless) |
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Ultra Mobile Broadband
(UMB) – 4G |
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Network Technologies
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Reference |
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Data Rates |
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci214198,00.html |
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Device Bandwidths |
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3G vs LAN speeds |
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802 Standards |
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/portfolio.html?agree=ACCEPT |
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Ethernet |
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Wireless LAN (Local Area
Network) |
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Wireless PAN (Personal
Area Network) |
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Wireless MAN (Metropolitan
Area Network) |
WiMax (802.16) |
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TCP |
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TCP/IP Tutorial |
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IP |
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IPv6 |
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IPv6 Sockets |
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IPv6 Basic Sockets |
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IPv6 Advanced Sockets |
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UDP |
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ICMP |
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OSPF v2 |
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Sockets Direct Protocol
(SDP) |
InfiniBand Specification,
Volume 1, Annex A4, Version 1.1 |
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iSCSI Extensions for RDMA
(iSER) |
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Datamover Architecture for
iSCSI (DA) |
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iWARP (Verbs, RDMAP, DDP, MPA) |
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Other |
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National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL) |
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Open Power Line Communaications (PLC) European Research Alliance (OPERA) |
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Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA) |
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HDMI / HDCP / DVI /
DisplayPort
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Digital Visual Interface (DVI) |
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DVI Gear (DVI and HDMI) |
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High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) |
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Digital Content Protection |
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High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) |
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HDMI Licensing (incl. tutorial) |
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Other Resources |
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Simplay Labs
(interoperability) |
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rAVe HomeAV and rAVe ProAV |
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Music, Movies, Photos Magazines |
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DisplayPort |
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Video Electronics
Standards Association (VESA) |
http://vesa.sharedwork.com
email=dport, password=port24 |
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HDMI vs DisplayPort |
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Optical Disc Storage
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Compact Disc (CD) |
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CD-R FAQ |
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Colored/Rainbow
books: ·
CD=Red ·
CD-ROM=Yellow ·
CD-R/RW=Orange ·
VCD=White ·
CD-i=Green ·
E-CD=Blue ·
SACD=Scarlet ·
DDCD=Purple |
http://www.disctronics.co.uk/technology/cdbasics/cd_books.htm |
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DivX |
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Optical Storage Technology
Association |
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Universal Disk Format
(UDF) |
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Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) |
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DVD
Demystified |
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DVD
Forum |
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DVD
Format Logo Licensing Corp. |
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DVD+RW
Alliance |
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ECMA
International TC44 |
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DVD
Regions |
1.
North America 2.
Western Europe, Middle East, South Africa, Japan 3.
South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia 4.
Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America 5.
Eastern Europe, Africa, and India 6.
China 7.
Reserved 8.
Special international venues (such as cruise ships and airplanes) |
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High-Definition DVD |
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Blu-ray Disc Association
(BDA) Blu-ray is dead – heckuva job,
Sony! |
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Blu-ray Disc-Java (BD-J)
Mode |
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BD, HD DVD, DVD
Compatibility |
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Enhanced Versatile Disk
(EVD) |
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HD-DVD
(previously AOD) |
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HD
DVD Interactivity Standard for HD Disc Formats (HDi, was iHD) |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDi_Interactive_Format (based on ECMAscript) |
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HD
DVD Promotion Group |
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New
Medium Enterprise Versatile Multilayer Disc (HD VMD) |
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Windows
Media Video (WMV HD) High-Definition on DVD-ROM |
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Holographic Data Storage |
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Dow Corning (DCE Aprilis) |
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Colossal Storage Corp. |
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Holographic
Versatile Disc (HVD) Alliance |
(Optware, CMC Magnetics Corp., Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd.,
Nippon Paint Co. Ltd., Pulstec Industrial Co. Ltd., Toagosei Co. Ltd., et
al.) |
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IBM Holographic Data
Storage |
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InPhase Technologies |
http://www.inphase-technologies.com/news/terabyte_benchmark.html |
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Iomega
U.S. Patent 6879556 ·
Articulated
Optical Digital Versatile Disc (AO-DVD)
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Mempile
TeraDisc Technnology |
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Motley
Fool commentary |
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PowerFile DVD Archive |
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Magnetic Disk Storage
Extensible Firmware
Interface (EFI)
S.M.A.R.T. (Smart Monitoring
and Reporting Technology)
Margalla
Communications White Papers
ANSI
InterNational Committee for IT Standards (INCITS) T10 Technical Committee
Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA)
ANSI
InterNational Committee for IT Standards (INCITS) T11 Technical Committee
ANSI
InterNational Committee for IT Standards (INCITS) T13 Technical Committee
Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) Transport Area IP Storage
Working Group (ips)
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iSCSI
Definitions of Managed Objects
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Datamover
Architecture (DA) (iWARP)
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iSNS
Definitions of Managed Objects
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iFCP
Definitions of Managed Objects
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FCIP with SLPv2
(RFC 3822)
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FCIP
Definitions of Managed Objects
IEEE Storage Systems Standards Committee
Information Versatile Disk for
Removable Storage (iVDR) Consortium
SSSWG (OpenVault, Media
Management System)
Network Data Management
Protocol (NDMP)
Tape Technologies
Advanced
Intelligent Tape (AIT) Technology Forum
Digital
Data Storage (DDS) FAQ
Digital
Instrumentation Recorders (DIR) ANSI
NCITS 175-1999
Digital
Linear Tape (DLTtape, Super DLTtape)
Digital
Tape Format (DTF) ECMA 248 ECMA 315
Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium
(Accelis withdrawn)
Linear
Tape Open (LTO) - SCSI Common Command Set Advisory Document (AU1-SCSI)
Quarter-Inch
Cartridge (QIC) Drive Standards, Inc. (Standards)
Travan (QIC minicartridge with 0.315 in.
wide tape)
File Systems
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Local (co-located with application, single host)
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Microsoft
Windows: FAT, NTFS,
WinFS
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IBM AIX: Journaled File
System (JFS)
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Sun Solaris : Storage and Archive
Manager FS (SAM-FS), Unix FS (UFS)
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Linux: ext2,
ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, XFS, and JFS
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HP HP-UX: JFS,
OnlineJFS, AdvFS
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Multi-platform: VERITAS
File System (VxFS) / FreeVxFS
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OES (NetWare): NSS,
NetWare
Traditional FS
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Optical Disk: UDF (based on ECMA-167/ISO 13346;
supercedes CDFS/ISO-9660)
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Flash: JFFS2, NVFS,
YAFFS
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Floppy Disk: OFS
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Shared (co-located with application, multiple hosts)
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Quantum
(ADIC) StorNext FS (CentraVision FS)
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DataDirect
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EMC
Celerra HighRoad Multi-Path FS
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FibreJet
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HP DirectNFS,
CalSoft xNFS,
Terasoft Fibrenet
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SGI CXFS
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Sun QFS,
Pirus Data Services Platform (6920)
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VERITAS SANPoint
Direct (EOL)
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HP Scalable
File Share (SFS), TruCluster
CFS, CalSoft Monster
FS
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IBM General
Parallel File System (GPFS)
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Lustre
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Red Hat (Sistina) Global File
System (GFS)
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SGI XFS
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Distributed
(remote file services)
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Other (put in
above classifications)
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Microsoft
Distributed File System (DFS)
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IBM zFS
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Oracle OMF
(still need FS but no LVM)
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Intransa
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WEBFS
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Permabit
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Mountain View
Data
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Network Storage
Corp. (acquired Network Storage Solutions)
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StorAD
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Twin Peaks
Software
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Coalsere
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Panasas
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Procom
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Z-Force
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1Vision
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DeepFile
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NuView
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EMC (Rainfinity)
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Academic
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Ficus
(UCLA)
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Frangipani-Petal
(Compaq)
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Global FS / Secure FS (
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Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS)
(
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Sprite/Zebra/xFS
(Berkeley)
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Acirro Acumula Global Distributed FS
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Auspex
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Storigen
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Zambeel
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Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
(FSSTND)
o
Unix SVR3 included File System Switch (FSS) and
Remote File Sharing (RFS)
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Unix SVR4 included UFS (FFS), Virtual FS (replaced
FSS), and NFS (superceded RFS)
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Specfs introduced with SVR4 is a FS that prevents other
FS from handling device I/O
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NFS v4 (RFC 3010 obsoleted by RFC 3530 errata)
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RPC v2 (RFC 1057 informational; RFC 1831 proposed standard)
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RPC v1 (RFC 1050 obsoleted by RFC 1057)
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XDR External Data
Representation (RFC 1832)
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Common Internet File System (CIFS)
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Samba (Server Message Block - Open)
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Distributed File System (DCE/DFS)
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Lustre Object Based File System (Lawrence Livermore
Lab)
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Direct Access File System (DAFS) – SNIA DAFS Implementers’ Forum
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Direct Access Transport (DAT) Collaborative
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) |
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WPA, WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected
Access) |
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http://www.wi-fi.org/OpenSection/pdf/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access_Overview.pdf |
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Guidelines for Media
Sanitation (NIST SP 800-88) |
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) |
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Protocol Operations (RFC
1905 replaced RFC 1448) and Transport Mappings (RFC
1906 replaced RFC 1449) |
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Structure and
Identification of Management Information (SMI) |
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RFC 1904 obsoletes 1444,
1903 obsoletes 1443, 1902 obsoletes 1442 |
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Management Information
Base (MIB) |
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MIB-II |
RFC 1212, MIB II - RFC 1213, STD0017 updated by 2011, 2012, 2013 obsoletes 1158 errata |
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Interfaces
MIB |
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SNMPv2
Core |
RFC 1907 obsoletes 1450 |
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Management
of SNMP |
RFCs 1447, 1446, 1445,
1353, 1352, 1351 |
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Remote Monitoring (RMON) |
RFC 3577 |
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Internet Standard
Management Framework |
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Definitions of Managed
Objects for the Fabric Element in Fibre Channel Standard (FE MIB) |
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FC Management MIB (the EMC Fibre Alliance MIB) |
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ips-fcmgmt-mib-05.txt |
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FC Name Server MIB |
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FC Fabric Access Manager
MIB |
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Cisco MIBs (Cisco
SNMP Tutorial) |
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SCSI MIB |
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ips-scsi-mib-07.txt |
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SCTP MIB |
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Definitions of Managed
Objects for InfiniBand Interface Types |
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipoib-ibif-mib-07.txt |
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Definitions of Managed
Objects for InfiniBand SMAs |
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipoib-subnet-mgmt-agent-mib-07.txt |
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Alert Standard Format
(ASF) |
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Common Diagnostic Model
(CDM) |
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Common Information Model
(CIM) |
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Desktop and mobil
Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) |
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Desktop Management
Interface (DMI) |
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Directory Enabled Network
(DEN) |
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Service Incident Exchange
Standard (SIS) |
integrated into CIM v2.5 |
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Solution Exchange Standard
(SES) |
integrated into CIM v2.5 |
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Standards for
Virtualization Management (VMAN) |
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Storage Management
Initiative Specification (SMI-S) |
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Systems Management
Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) |
http://www.dmtf.org/initiatives/smash_initiative/ |
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System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) |
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Web-Based |
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Object Management Group (OMG) |
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Common Object Request
Broker (CORBA) |
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Common Warehouse Metamodel
(CWM) and MOF |
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Interface Definition
Language (IDL) Language Mappings |
http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/idl2x_spec_catalog.htm |
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Model Driven Architecture
(MDA) |
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Object Management
Architecture (OMA) |
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Unified Modeling Language
(UML) |
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The Open Group (formed in 1996 by merging X/Open (1984) and the Open
SW Foundation (1988) |
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Distributed Computing
Environment (DCE) Portal |
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SourceForge Foundry |
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Standards Information Base |
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WBEMSource Initiative
(WBEM C Provider Interface) |
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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Service Location Protocol (SLP)
