Industry Links
Below is a list of industry links that can provide you with additional information.
Associations
| AFCOM www.afcom.com |
AFCOM is a leading association for Datacenter professionals, providing Datacenter managers with the latest information and technology through annual conferences, published magazines, research and hotline services, industry alliances and more. | |
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| American Moving and Storage Association (AMSA) www.promover.org |
A trade association whose mission is to enhance the domestic and international moving and storage industry. | |
| American National Standards Institute (ANSI) www.ansi.org |
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) coordinates the development and use of voluntary consensus standards in the United States, and represents the needs and views of U.S. stakeholders in standardization forums around the globe. The Institute oversees the creation, promulgation and use of thousands of norms and guidelines that directly impact businesses in nearly every sector— from acoustical devices to construction equipment, from dairy and livestock production to energy distribution. ANSI is also actively engaged in accrediting programs that assess conformance to standards, including globally recognized cross sector programs such as the ISO 9000 (quality) and ISO 14000 (environmental) management systems. | |
| Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) www.aiim.org |
Enterprise Content Management is the technology used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. | |
| Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) www.itmweb.com |
AITP offers opportunities for Information Technology (IT) leadership and education through partnerships with industry, government and academia. Providing information on relevant IT issues and forums for networking with experienced peers and other IT professionals. | |
| Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) www.arma.org |
ARMA International is a nonprofit association and the leading authority on managing records and information — both paper and electronic. | |
| Data Management Institute www.datainstitute.org |
The Data Management Institute is an online community dedicated to meeting the professional development needs of those who manage and protect corporate data assets. | |
| The DLT Tape Site www.dlt.com |
The official Website for information on DLT tape and SDLT tape formats. | |
| The Green Grid www.thegreengrid.org |
The Green Grid is a consortium of information technology companies and professionals seeking to lower the overall consumption of power in Datacenters around the globe. The organization is chartered to develop meaningful, platform-neutral standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve energy efficient performance of global Datacenters. | |
| Information Management Forum (IMF) www.theimf.com |
IMF is a members-only, peer-driven, knowledge-sharing organization for senior IT and IT Human Resources executives. We provide our member organizations the invaluable opportunity to share ideas, insights and solutions with other IT and IT HR executives in an open and candid environment. | |
| Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) www.itil.co.uk |
The ITIL is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management in the world. ITIL provides a cohesive set of best practices, drawn from the public and private sectors internationally. | |
| International Committee for Information Technology Standards www.incits.org |
INCITS is the primary U.S. focus of standardization in the field of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), encompassing storage, processing, transfer, display, management, organization and retrieval of information. | |
| Information Technology Personnel Resource Center (ITPRC) www.itprc.com |
The ITPRC was originally created in March of 1999 to provide a “one-stop shop” for IT professionals to find technical information relating to data networking. As well as providing links to a vast collection of networking-related information available on the Internet, the ITPRC provides routes to career management information and forums for IT professionals. We also provide a growing catalog of on-site information and data covering the whole field. |
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| The LTO Forum www.lto-technology.com |
The Forum's mission is to promote open linear tape solutions by facilitating technology development, enforcing ongoing compliance verification standards, and supporting the LTO and Ultrium brands through marketing activities. It seeks to attain these goals through the creation of a self-perpetuating organization of licensees. | |
| National Electrical Manufacturers Association www.nema.org |
NEMA provides a forum for the standardization of electrical equipment, enabling consumers to select from a range of safe, effective and compatible electrical products. | |
| Professional Records and Information Management (PRISM International) www.prismintl.org |
PRISM International is the nonprofit trade association for the commercial information management industry. This industry is made up of outsourcing partners that provide their clients with physical and digital information protection, access, retention, storage and disposal. | |
| The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) www.snia.org |
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is dedicated to driving future storage industry standards, providing thought leadership and best practices, and developing comprehensive educational offerings throughout the world. | |
| The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) http://www.tiaonline.org |
TIA is the leading trade association for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. TIA represents the communications sector of the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA). The engineering committee TR42 is producing a cabling standard for Datacenters, to be published as TIA/EIA-942, “Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers.” | |
| The Uptime Institute www.uptimeinstitute.org |
The Uptime Institute is a pioneer in the research and education of best practices for Datacenter uptime reliability and improving uptime management in Datacenter facilities and Information Technology (IT) organizations. The Institute's Site Uptime Network is a member community of Fortune 500 companies that learn from one another and facilitates meetings, tours, research, benchmarking best practices, uptime metrics and the reporting of abnormal incidents. | |
Publications and Online Resources
| Business Week | www.businessweek.com | |
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| CIO Decisions | searchcio.techtarget.com | |
| CIO Magazine | www.cio.com | |
| Computer Manager Magazine | www.compumgr.com | |
| Computer World | www.computerworld.com | |
| Data Center Management Magazine | www.afcom.com | |
| DM Review | www.dmreview.com | |
| EWeek | www.eweek.com | |
| Forbes | www.forbes.com | |
| Information Week Magazine | www.informationweek.com | |
| Info World Magazine | www.infoworld.com | |
| Information Executive | www.aitp.com | |
| Information Management | www.idea-group.com | |
| Information Security Magazine | www.infosecuritymag.com | |
| Information Storage and Security | www.isjournal.com | |
| Inside Self Storage | www.insideselfstorage.com | |
| Integrated Solutions Magazine | www.integratedsolutions.com | |
| Intelligent Enterprise | www.intelligententerprise.com | |
| ISSA Journal | www.issa.org | |
| IT Architect Magazine | www.itarchitect.com | |
| IT Professional | www.computer.org | |
| IT Security | www.itsecurity.com | |
| Information Systems Security Magazine | www.infosectoday.com | |
| Knowledge Storm | www.knowledgestorm.com | |
| More RFID | www.morerfid.com | |
| Network World | www.networkworld.com | |
| Newsfactor Network | www.newsfactor.com | |
| Optimize Magazine | www.optimizemag.com | |
| Office World News | www.officeworldnews.com | |
| PC World | www.pcworld.com | |
| RFID Journal | www.rfidjournal.com | |
| RFID Gazette | www.rfidgazette.org | |
| SC Magazine | www.scmagazine.com | |
| Secure Enterprise Magazine | www.darkreading.com | |
| Storage | www.storagemagazine.com | |
| Storage Pipeline Magazine | www.darkreading.com | |
| TapeDisc Business | www.tapediscbusiness.com | |
| Tech Republic | www.techrepublic.com | |
| TechWeb | www.techweb.com | |
| The Data Center Journal | www.datacenterjournal.com | |
| Thomas Directory | www.thomasnet.com | |
| User RFID | www.usingrfid.com | |
| Wall Street Journal | www.wsj.com | |
| Websters Online | www.webstersonline.com | |
2007 Industry Events:
| CIO Decisions Conference | http://ciodecisionsconference.techtarget.com | |
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| Datacenter Decisions Conference | http://datacenterdecisions.techtarget.com | |
| Information Security Decisions Conference | http://infosecurityconference.techtarget.com | |
| Storage Decisions Conference | http://storagedecisions.techtarget.com | |
General Information:
| Webopedia www.webopedia.com |
The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology definitions. | |
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| Availability Network www.availability.com |
This resource for business-continuity planning and analysis produces and aggregates content relevant to optimizing business availability, offering the broadest coverage of business-continuity topics and addressing four layers of availability : Information Technology, People, Process and Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure (NCPI). | |
