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Handy Resources
Free Storage Publications
Upcoming Conferences and Events
- InfoStor Storage Conference Calendar
- Cambridge Computer Free Lecture & Seminar Schedule, Waltham, MA
- DISKCON USA 2006: 13-14 September, Santa Clara, CA
- Storage Developer Conference: 18-21 September, San Jose, CA
- Storage World Conference Fall: 19-21 September, Boston, MA
- Media-Tech Showcase & Conference: 10-11 October, Long Beach, CA
- Streaming Media West: 31 October-2 November, San Jose, CA
Upcoming Meetings of Standards Organizations
Tutorials: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Tutorials: iSCSI/IP Storage
Tutorial: InfiniBand
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Interesting Stuff
Storage News, Reviews and GuidesBiscu: Web File Storage System
BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services 3 (EDD-3) Standard will address key new technologies such as InfiniBand, PCI Express and HyperTransport
Removable Cartridge Drives: Products, Reviews, Prices
emedialive: Digital Video products and news
searchStorage.com: Storage-Specific Search Engine
Storage Search: Links to Numerous Storage Technologies
Gary Field's SCSI Info Central/SCSI FAQ
SCSI Explorer: SCSI Links and Info
NASD Technology Background: Talks and Papers
Storage Universe News
The Storage Review
Tom's Hardware Guide: The Storage Guide
OpenITx Storage Listservers
Server Blade Summit 2005: Tutorial T2A: Getting the Most from Your Blade Servers (22 March 05, 1330-1700)
- Brian A. Berg, Berg Software Design: Tutorial Chair
- Adam Grummitt, Metron Technology: Virtualization, Consolidation, Grids, Utility Computing, ITIL, and Other Ghosties
- Ron Sheen, Fujitsu Siemens Computers: Adaptive Server Farms for the Data Center
- Christine Ewing, Altiris: Discover the Hidden Benefits of Server Consolidation
- Eric Horschman, VMware: Optimizing Blade Deployment with Virtual Infrastructure
- Jerry Melnick, Marathon Technologies: Achieving Continuous Availability: Configuring Server Blades for Fault and Disaster Tolerance
Server Blade Summit 2005: Session 105: Interfaces (23 March 05, 1600-1730)
Server Blade Summit 2005: Session 103: Storage Issues (23 March 05, 1400-1530)
Server Blade Summit 2004: Blade Standards Birds of a Feather Session (9 March 04)
Server Blade Summit 2004: Workshop B2: Storage Architectures (11 March 04)
SAN West 2002: Session 105 - Storage Management (14 May 02)
SAN West 2002: BOF Session - iSCSI (14 May 02)
- Brian A. Berg, Berg Software Design, BOF Session Chair
- S.W. Worth, Crossroads Systems, Inc.: IP Storage at SNW Spring 2002
- Joe Gervais, Alacritech: TOE as the Catalyst for NAS/SAN Convergence
- Kevin Deierling, Mellanox Technologies: iSCSI and InfiniBand
- Patrick McGilloway, DataPeer: More Bang for Your DR Buck via iSCSI
- Wayne Lam, FalconStor Software: Beyond iSCSI Connectivity: The Whole-Product Approach
- Gary Orenstein, Nishan Systems: Getting to ISCSI: Implementing an IP Storage Fabric
- Herman Chao, QLogic: iSCSI: Crossing the Chasm
- Jim Bernard, Adaptec: What GigE Line Speed Does for iSCSI
- Michael Mesnier, Intel Labs: iSCSI and Object-Based Storage Devices
- Zophar Sante, SANRAD: Building an IP-based SAN Using Existing Systems
FCTC 2001: 4th Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: Session 203 - Storage Management Software (17 Oct 01)
FCTC 2001: 4th Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: BOF Session - SAN File Systems (17 Oct 01)
SAN Conference 2001: Session 103 - Storage over Ethernet and IP (6 June 01)
SAN Conference 2001: BOF Session - Storage over Ethernet and IP (5 June 01)
- Brian A. Berg, Berg Software Design, BOF Session Chair
- Peter Dixon, SANcastle: SAN Infrastructure: A Systems Level Approach
- Sandy Helton, SAN Valley Systems: Implementing SAN Extension
- Eyal Felstaine, SANRAD: IP Storage: Revisiting the Performance Paradigm
- Peter Aylaian, Adaptec, Inc.: iSCSI Implementations
- Randy Haagens, Hewlett-Packard Co.: IP Storage Requirements and Architecture
- Kevin Deierling, Mellanox Technologies, Inc.: InfiniBand Storage: Building on IP and Beyond
- Jonathan Hubert, NetConvergence, Inc.: IP Storage - Market Hype vs. Reality
- Randy Fardal, Nishan Systems: IP Storage Networking
- Danny Shavit, Intelligent Information Systems: SWAT iSCSI Test Software
FCTC 2000: 3rd Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: Session 103 - Relationships with SCSI (11 Oct 00)
SAN Conference 2000: Session 203 - Storage Management Software (1 June 00)
FCTC '99: 2nd Fibre Channel Technologies Conference: Session 103 - Relationships with SCSI (3 Nov 99)Brian A. Berg, Berg Software Design: Session 103 Introduction
Mike Befeler, Benchmark Tape Systems Corp.: Tape Automation and the Migration from SCSI to Fibre Channel
Mike Smith, Emulex Corp.: Fibre Channel Moves to Center Stage
Skip Jones, QLogic Corp.: Fibre Channel - Multiple Protocols on One Wire
Tracy Crowe, JNI: Management of SCSI Drives from a Fibre Channel Controller
Dr. Mahmoud Jibbe, LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc.: Stability Test Matrices for Fibre Channel Components
Storage Talks, Conference Archives and White Papers
Parallel SCSI Interface
iSCSI (Internet SCSI)/SCSI over IP/FC over IP/iFCPAdaptec ships iSCSI host adapters (Infostor article)
IP Storage Working Group (ips WG) Charter and Current IETF Documents
ips WG links: (document links are stale)
RFC 3347: iSCSI Requirements and Design Considerations (July 2002)
Julian Satran's IPS Archive: iSCSI drafts, IETF meeting minutes, etc.
iSCSI draft Rev. 20 of 19-Jan-03 (.pdf)
iSCSI draft Rev. 20 of 19-Jan-03 (text)
FCIP draft Rev. 12 of August 2002
iFCP draft Rev. 14 of December 2002
Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) draft Rev. 22 of February 2004
Fibre Channel Frame Encapsulation draft Rev. 8 of May 2002
Cisco's Linux iSCSI driver and daemon
SourceForge Project: linux-iscsi
SCSI/TCP Mailing List (Unofficial) Archive at eGroups
IP Storage Mailing List FTP Archive
Ultra320 SCSI
Parallel SCSI Documents
Extended Copy (XCOPY) SCSI Command for SAN Serverless Backup
Bridges/Routers: Fibre Channel to Parallel SCSI
Bridges/Converters for SCSI, IDE/ATA/ATAPI, 1394 and USB
New Approaches to SCSI and Storage
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
SCSI Socket Services (SSS)
IDE/ATA/ATAPI Parallel Interface (see also Optical Storage)
- IDE/EIDE/Ultra DMA-33,66,100/ATA/ATAPI (T13)
- T13 Projects Overview
- T13 Listserver Email Archive
- T13 2004 Documents: ftp access
- T13 2003 Documents: ftp access
- T13 2002 Documents: ftp access
- ATA/ATAPI: Hale Landis' Mega-Info Site
- ATA/ATAPI: How It Works documents
- ATA goes beyond the desktop: InfoStor article
- Technology Paper: ATA thru Ultra ATA-66
- ATA/ATAPI-7 draft Rev. 4a of 31-Mar-03 (includes Ultra DMA-133, longer cables, 4KB physical sectors, long LBAs, multiple LBAs/physical sector, multiple physical sectors/LBA): Volume 1 (command layer), Volume 2 (physical+data link+transport layers), Volume 3 (Serial ATA)
- Ultra DMA 100 Presentation Rev. 0 of 21-Jun-00
- ATA/ATAPI-6 Final Draft (includes Ultra DMA-100, 48-bit LBA)
- ATA/ATAPI-5 Final Draft (includes Ultra DMA-66)
- ATA/ATAPI-4 Final Draft
- ATA-3 Final Draft
- ATA-2 Final Draft
- ATA-1 Final Draft
- Programming Interface for Bus Master IDE Controller, Rev. 1.0, 16-May-94
- PCI IDE Controller Specification, Rev. 1.0, 4-Mar-94
- IDE connector: 40/44 pin breakout
- SFF-8090i v6, Rev. 0.7 of 16-Mar-05: Mt. Fuji Commands for Multimedia Devices, incl. DVD-R Dual layer disc
- SFF-8090i v5, Rev. 1.6 of 29-Sep-04: Mt. Fuji Commands for Multimedia Devices
- SFF-8090i v4, Rev. 1.00: Mt. Fuji Commands for Multimedia Devices, incl. DVD-RW
- SFF-8090v3, Rev. 1.00: Mt. Fuji Commands for Multimedia Devices, incl. CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+RW, AS-MO
- SFF-8090v2, Rev. 1.00: Mt. Fuji Commands for Multimedia Devices
- INF-8090i, Rev. 3.6: ATAPI for DVD ROM, RAM, R/W
- QIC-157: Common SCSI/ATAPI Tape Command Set
- SFF-8070, Rev. 1.3 of 5-Jul-01: ATAPI for Removable Rewritable Media
- SFF-8020i, Rev. 2.6: ATAPI for CD-ROMs (old and antiquated)
- SFF-8028: Errata for ATAPI for CD-ROMs (old and antiquated)
- Intel IDE Controller Programmer's Reference Manual
- 50-pin to 40-pin IDE Adapter for Compaq DVD-ROM (source 1 of 2)
- 50-pin to 40-pin IDE Adapter for Compaq DVD-ROM (source 2 of 2)
- CPRM perspective
- CPRM2, Tougher DMCA Sought
Serial ATA (SATA)
InfiniBand
Storage and I/O Organizations
Fibre Channel Serial InterfaceFibre Channel (T11)
T11 Document Register
Fibre Channel Industry Association
Fibre Alliance
Fibre Channel Roadmap
An Introduction to Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel Tutorial: University of New Hampshire
Fibre Channel Community (FCC) industry association
Fibre Channel homepage at CERN
2Gb Fibre Channel: Making the Transition to the Next Generation of SANs
Fibre Channel books
Fibre Channel Dictionary
SBP-2 Final Draft: Serial Bus Protocol-2
SBP-3 draft Rev. 5 of 16-Sep-03: Serial Bus Protocol-3
FCP Final Draft: FC Protocol for SCSI commands
FCP-2 draft Rev. 8 of 23-Oct-02: FC Protocol for SCSI, 2nd Version
FCP-3 draft Rev. 3f of 23-Mar-05: FC Protocol for SCSI, 3rd Version
SFF-8045: 40-pin SCA-2 FC-AL signal assignments
SFF-8067: Enclosure Services Interfaces (ESI) for 40-pin SCA-2 FC-AL Connector
Fibre Channel Support and Testing: FSI Consulting
Fibre Channel Product Testing: Medusa Labs
IEEE 1394 Serial Interface
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
SAN and NAS TopicsDictionary of Storage Networking Terminology
Storage Virtualization: Storage Networking World article
In-band vs. out-of-band virtualization: InfoStor article
Storage Virtualization: InfoStor article
SAN Buyers Guide: auto-spreadsheet creation
SANsite: Network Storage info site
SAS, NAS, SAN: Past, Present and Future
SAN and NAS: Complementary Technologies
SAN Basics: IBM Perspective
IP-based storage: The buzz on the wire (Aberdeen Group white paper)
SAN Glossary
SANergy: SAN Operating System
SAN Zoning
Software: Tools, Drivers, Managers
File Systems
IEEE 1244 / OpenVault / SmartMediaIEEE P1244: Storage System Standards Working Group (SSSWG)
IEEE Computer Society Press Release: P1244 SSSWG Standards Approved
Media Management System (MMS) standards: InfoStor article
IEEE Press Release: Groundbreaking Storage System Standards Now Approved
SGI OpenVault Interface Standards
SGI OpenVault Open Source Code
Windows/NT/Win2000/UNIX Topics
Standards BodiesANSI
ISO
JTC 1
ECMA
INCITS (formerly NCITS and ASC X3)
International standardizing bodies
Useful Information on Standards Committees
Standards: Search and AcquisitionStandards URL Cornucopia
NSSN global standards search
Global Engineering Documents (GED)
TIA/EIA Standards search
Small Form Factor (SFF) Committee Home Page
SFF Catalog of Specs
SFF Specs: ftp access
Organizations, SIGs and Developer GroupsInstitute for Information Storage Technology (includes magnetic disk recording history)
Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
I2O SIG
IDEMA: Int'l. Disk Drive Equipment Materials Assoc.
Intel Developers' Insight
MFPA: MultiFunction Products Association
NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) Task Force for network-based backup
PCI SIG
PCI books
PCMCIA
Server System Infrastructure (SSI) Initiative
SNIA: Storage Networking Industry Assoc.
SNIA SNIFs: Tom Clark interview
Storage Performance Council
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)RAB: RAID Advisory Board
RAB Publications
RAB Reports and Papers
Review: Winchester Systems FlashDisk RAID
Review: 2 RAID-based servers
RAID Performance Study
SAF-TE: SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures
SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) Final Draft: SCSI-3 command set for device enclosures
SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) Amendment 1 of 12-Jun-00
SCSI Enclosure Services-2 (SES-2) draft Rev. 11 of 12-Mar-05
Optical Storage, incl. DVD and CD (see also IDE/ATA/ATAPI)
Tape StorageLinear Tape-Open (LTO) Home Page
DLTtape Home Page
AIT Tape Home Page
Tape Resource Center
Sony AIT and Super AIT plans
Tape Technology Overview (incomplete)
Reports and ResearchWindows 2000 and NT I/O Performance Study of IDE and SCSI HDDs
Seagate Disc Technology Base: FAQs, Tech. Papers, etc.
SMART Technology Paper
Solid State File-Caching for Performance and Scalability
TRAAMS: Optical-Tape-Based Rapid Access Affordable Mass Storage
DiskSim Disk Drive Simulator Project
10 GB on a Roll of Tape
Storage Networking: Building a Better Foundation for Enterprise Data
Storage Wars: The Future of the Storage Market
UniTree HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management)
UniTree HSM: An Independent Evaluation
DISK/TREND reports, conferences and vendor links
Freeman Associates: market research, consulting, reports
Strategic Research: Market Research
Mass Storage Report
ISIS: Info. Storage and Interconnect Systems Project
Center for Magnetic Recording Research (CMRR)
Training, Education and Symposiums
- FSI Consulting: Fibre Channel
- Infinity I/O: Fibre Channel and SAN
- I/O Authority: InfiniBand
- KnowledgeTek: SCSI, Fibre Channel, SAN, 1394, IDE, ATAPI, Serial ATA, PCMCIA, HDD (PRML, MR), Tape, CD-ROM, DVD
- Medusa Labs: Fibre Channel
- Solution Technology: Fibre Channel, SCSI, TCP/IP, InfiniBand, iSCSI
MPEG and VRML
FAQs, Glossaries and Miscellaneous LinksStorage FAQ
Storage Manufacturer Links
DVD FAQ
BIOS FAQ
BIOS Bunker: InfoWorld article
Brocade SAN Glossary
IBM Hard Disk Glossary
IBM Storage Interfaces: Brief Overviews
PC Specs.: BIOS, Plug-and-Play, etc.
TINA: Telecommunications Info. Networking Architecture
TINA Consortium
LANL e-Print Archive
CoRR: Computing Research Repository
Dunstan Thomas: Software Architecture and OOAD Consulting Services
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