The storage software of XAM mounting the EMC and others 4 corporations announcement - - 4, executing the interoperation demonstration of the fix conte

October 16th, the conference "Storage Networking World which is in the midst of holding in the American Texas state Dallas (SNW) Fall 2007" (October 15th -18 day) with, "eXtensible Access Method (XAM)" demonstration of the storage software which is mounted was done. As for XAM the fix contents (the constant digital contents) with information of reference and API in order to stipulate the stowage space, 4 EMC and others vendors participated in demonstration.

As for the purpose of XAM, there are times when access expedient to the fix contents which are housed in the storage system of vendor each company is standardized. As for XAM standardization job starts as a joint project of 2004 October, IBM and EMC. SNIA which is the standardization group of storage industry (Storage Networking Industry Association) it is submitted to 2005 September after that approximately 1 year.

According to SNIA, you aim toward the spread enlargement of XAM, you say that in "XAM Initiative" presently, the independent group software vendor and the application developer -, 45 corporations such as storage vendor have joined. It is the schedule where the review where XAM the American Standard Association (ANSI) is submitted by the beginning in next year, directs to international standard standard is done.

As for the storage software which mounts XAM being announced, latest SNW is unprecedented. Other than EMC, HP, Sun Microsystems and Vignette participated in the demonstration of 16 days.

XAM, OS and various contents applications (function does) with, with the management software which such as E-mail is accessed the contents and file/database archive product as an abstract layer, even between application and the storage which differ tries to be able to search the data with the same procedure.