Company and Use Profiles of XAM Implementations

• ByCast
• CommVault
• EMC
• Hewlett-Packard
• Informatica
• OpenText
• Penn State Univ
• RainStor
• SAND Technology
• StorageSwitch
• Sun Microsystems

ByCast: [www.bycast.com]

• Bycast is the leading provider of advanced storage virtualization software for large-scale digital archives and storage clouds. For organizations whose business depends on access to vital data, Bycast protects and preserves digital assets over their lifetime. Bycast StorageGRID® software simplifies the management of massive fixed-content storage systems and enables organizations to optimize their storage infrastructure and ensure the integrity and availability of their valuable data assets. StorageGRID also enables the formation of archives that can scale to petabytes of data across hundreds of sites.

• XAM Documents:

CASPAR: [http://www.casparpreserves.eu/]

• CASPAR - Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval - an Integrated Project co-financed by the European Union within the Sixth Framework Programme (Priority IST-2005-2.5.10, "Access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources"), that started on 1 April 2006. CASPAR will research, implement, and disseminate innovative solutions for digital preservation based on the OAIS reference model (ISO:14721:2003).
• XAM Documents: "CASPAR Integration with External Systems" [CASPAR-D3201-RP-0101-1_0.pdf]
  
  CommVault: [www.commvault.com]
• CommVault is a rapidly growing, publicly-held software company that is dedicated 100 percent to comprehensive data and information management solutions. Our company develops and distributes proven software and services for high- performance data protection, information discovery and availability, and simplified management of data on complex storage networks. Building upon its heritage as a backup and recovery leader, CommVault today helps businesses, the public sector and service providers to protect, manage and access information throughout their organizations with a suite of Backup, Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities. Designed to work together seam- lessly from the ground up, sharing a single code and common function set, CommVault® Simpana® software is unique in how each module works together to make data management more efficient, affordable and manageable. This single platform approach transforms the way companies manage and discover information, and is proven to reduce total cost-of-ownership, enhance operational efficiency, increase data recoverability and mitigate risk.

• XAM Documents: "CommVault Puts Database Archives on Enterprise Dashboards" [http://commvault.dciginc.com/2009/12/commvault-puts-database-archiv.html]

EMC: [www.emc.com]

• Profile

• XAM Documents: Centera Developer's Community [https://community.emc.com/community/edn/centera?view=overview]

Hewlett-Packard: [hp.com]

• Profile

• XAM Documents:

Informatica: [link to informatica.com]

• Informatica Corporation provides data integration software and services that empower your organization to access, integrate, and trust all its information assets, giving your organization a competitive advantage in today's global information economy. As the independent data integration leader, Informatica has a proven track record of success helping the world's leading companies leverage all their information assets to grow revenues, improve profitability, and increase customer loyalty. That is why Informatica is known as the data integration company.

• XAM Documents: "CommVault Puts Database Archives on Enterprise Dashboards" [http://commvault.dciginc.com/2009/12/commvault-puts-database-archiv.html]

OpenText: [link to www.opentext.com]

• Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.

• XAM Documents:

Penn State University: [http://its.psu.edu/]

• The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a land-grant, space-grant public research university located in University Park, Pa., USA, and is surrounded by State College Borough and College Township. The University has 24 campuses throughout the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including a virtual World Campus. Enrollment at Penn State's University Park campus is nearly 44,000; total enrollment across all of the University's campuses is above 94,300, placing it among the largest public universities in the United States. Penn State offers more than 160 majors and administers a $1.3 billion (USD) endowment.

• XAM Documents: "PSU XAM Prototype_Final_Report", Penn State and XAM, http://news.its.psu.edu/story-1110

RainStor: [www.rainstor.com]

• RainStor™ is a technology pioneer in online information preservation. The company's specialized data repository significantly reduces the total cost of preserving information through extreme data compression, simplified data management, and near-perfect scalability on commodity hardware. RainStor enables partners to deliver online data retention solutions that reduce the cost and complexity of preserving information in the enterprise and the cloud. RainStor is the optimal data management and storage technology for application archiving, application retirement, SaaS Data Escrow™, and log and security event management solutions.

• XAM Documents:

SAND Technologies: [http://www.sand.com/solutions/]

• SAND Technology provides Data Management Software and Best Practices for storing, accessing, and analyzing large amounts of data on-demand while lowering TCO, leveraging existing infrastructure and improving operational performance. SAND/DNA solutions include CRM analytics, and specialized applications for SAP, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAS, and other business solutions.

• XAM Documents: "SAND Technology Centera Integration.pdf"

StorageSwitch: [http://www.storageswitch.com/products.html]

• StorageSwitch is a privately held limited liability company (LLC) headquartered in Lyons, Colorado. Founded in 2002, we have customers internationally. Our products are distributed and supported by our reseller and OEM channels. We have evolved from a single product vendor with only the Centera File System Gateway, to a technology provider for the fixed content data storage market with a multitude of gateway and utility products and services.

• XAM Documents: "StgSwitch_XAMFS-GW.pdf"

Oracle: [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/]

• Oracle Sun develops products and services for the network economy. It provides network computing infrastructure product and service solutions worldwide under brands including Java technology platform, MySQL open source database, Solaris operating system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and the UltraSPARC processor. The company also provides solutions for various business and technical activities, such as software development, mechanical design, financial analysis, graphics, visualization, simulation, and education, as well as develops and sells silicon-based chips that facilitate networking, cryptography, and high-performance computing. In addition, it offers enterprise infrastructure software systems, software desktop systems, developer software, and infrastructure management software; data storage products and services, including tape storage products, such as libraries, drives, virtualization systems, media, and software; and disk system product line consisting of data center disks, network attached storage, enterprise archive system, midrange disks, workgroups disks, a boot disk, and disk device software.

• XAM Documents: Storage Standards Supported by the Solaris OS [ http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/solaris_storage_standards.html] and Sun XAM Resource link [http://wikis.sun.com/display/StorageDev/XAM]